Please read this and share. In one sense, it should not matter whether animals are like us or not. In other words, whether animals are capable of the same range of emotions or the same abilities as humans has nothing to do with whether they have a right to live and the right to be treated compassionately. However, groups like PETA claim animals do not have the "right to life" and maintain the fiction that they are promoting their "welfare" in killing animals by preventing potential future suffering. That this is a logical contradiction is not hard to see (harming animals now to prevent possible future harm), but given the science, killing an animal can no longer be rationalized by the false and convenient cover of "animal welfare." Killing itself robs an animal of something they value, and that is incompatible not only with animal rights, but animal welfare, too, another reason why "animal welfare" without animal rights is impossible: where there is no respect for life, there is no regard for welfare.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:16 +0000
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