The Rights Of Animals

The day I become a Vegetarian / Vegan is the day they take my guns away! 80% of the meat I put on my dinner table for my wife and child is wild; moose, deer, rabbit, partridge, woodcock, turkey, duck. NO hormones, chemicals, free range and organic. This is one more reason I moved back to my home state, Maine, "The way life should be" from California.

Dear Peta and Vegans:

I think you shouldn't eat vegetables because you are hurting the plants. Talk about a real crime going unnoticed. They have the right for you to not pick at them. Who is going to stand up for their rights? I don't think its fair to them to always have you putting fertilizer on them to ensure growth, for your selfish needs. What kind of people are you vegans anyways huh, hurting poor defenseless plants. Vegans are a bunch of lawless people, abushing plants. You know all plants help provide us with clean air, right? Whats going to happen when you vegans try to eat up all of our crops? You talk about making a difference in the world protecting animals, but all you want to do is destroy the earth with your uncontrolable desire for vegetables. Well I hope you happy. You need to think long and hard about the feelings and rights of plants. You plant hater!

Please people not everyone who is vegan or cares about animals are members or supporters of PETA. Also let me say that when people are confronted with the concept of non human animals having the right not to be exploited or treated as if their lives were worth nothing only the immature people respond with plant rights jokes. If you really believe that plants have rights you would stop eating animals because more plants are fed to the 13 billion farm animals killed every year in this country for food. If humans switched to a plant based diet we still would never consume as much plant foods as are being processed through animals raised and killed for food today.
Maybe you should try the plant verses animal test? Put a live puppy and a live head of lettuce on the dinner table at your next dinner party and ask the guests to go ahead and start carving up slices and see what the reaction is.

Dear Eurotrash,
You should put your time and effort into making things better for humans. You do your work and I'll do mine-helping animals by speaking up for them and by not eating them. If you want to make a real difference in the world Go Vegan and stop complaining.

These PETA people are probally the same liberals who are also pro-choice. So in their minds its okay to kill a fetus, but not okay to kill a cow so your family can eat. hmmm I also would be willing to bet that the PETA people at some point want to make it legal to marry animals. These far left crazies make me ill. I guess that's whats great about american, even the stupid people have to right to voice their opinion.

I am in favor of organic farming and meat products because it is just plain healthier for you too eat. I think most people would prefer eating food that wasn't pumped full of chemicals.

Mr. Singer what about the rights of innocent plant life to exist in harmony with humans and animals?

As an aside, if we stopped using chickens, cows, etc, as resources, how long would they last as a species? My guess is until, say, next Tuesday. Between habitat concerns (try finding space for 20,000,000 cows to live wild, for example) and the fact that we've spent 8,000 years breeding them to be stupid, they'd be toast.

Thank God this is finally happening. If factory farming is not evil, then nothing is evil. And, yes, I know that I am borrowing from a famous quote about slavery. It is past time for us, as a society, to deal with this poisonous issue. What possible argument can there be against trying to remove elements of torture and terror from the animals that give their lives for our comfort? I am not a willing vegetarian but I can no longer enjoy food that comes from the sources referred to in this article. Too much knowledge has destroyed my ability to enjoy meat and I used to love the taste of a good steak.

i can't understand why in California they have more respect for animal rights than gay rights. i mean, i do support animal rights too.... but it's also important that gays have equal rights with the other citizens too.
some things just are beyond my comprehension...

I am not a vegan or vegetarian. You have an obligation to include with the article pictures or videos because most Americans have no idea how millions of animals are tortured. This is a dirty little secret and it is inhumane, pollutes the land, causes the e-coli outbreaks, etc. No one has to give up meat. We probably couldn't buy a 16oz steak for $9.99, because productivity would go down, if humane treatment and pumping them full of drugs to grow faster and more fatty were banned. That means we wouldn't gorge ourselves with meat, we would have meat that was not filled with chemicals and less likely to be tainted - gosh - we might actually end up healthier if such changes were made in America.

sentient: ???adjective. having the power of perception by the senses; conscious. Anyone who has ever met an animal can tell you it is obvious they have senses, are conscious and can feel pain, love, joy, sadness and other emotions. Human animals are not unique in this way.

Rights are things that those in power grant to those who are not in power. I prefer to think in terms of personal responsibility. We all have a personal responsibility to treat other feeling beings as we would want to be treated. It's basic ethics, not rocket science.

This discussion makes me sick. Those cali hippies/ PETA people need to keep their ideas to themselves. yes animals need to be treated well no one better ever tell me what type of food I can eat.

Liberals have to much time on their hands and perhaps do too many drugs.

A technical malfunction prevented my saying below that people who work in chicken and turkey breeder houses blame the hens for being "mean" for fighting with their beaks to prevent their eggs from being taken away. It is totally false that hens don't mind removal of their eggs. And "humane" free range is a myth, a lie. And how can animals have "rights" when we won't even allow them to have and protect their own families?

One of the Greek philosophers said "a society can be judged by the way it treats animals". Bravo for speaking out against these crimes committed against fellow creatures.