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  • Since we all inhabit the earth all of us are considered earthlings

  • There is no sexism no racism or speciesism in the term earthling

  • It encompasses each and every one of us, warm or cold blooded mammal

  • vertebrae or invertebrate, bird, reptile,

  • Amphibian fish and human alike

  • Humans therefore being not the only species on the planet share this world with millions of other living creatures as we all evolve here together

  • However it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth

  • oftentimes treating other fellow Earthlings and living beings as mere objects

  • This is what is meant by speciesism

  • By analogy with racism and sexism, the term speciesism

  • Is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and

  • against those of members of other species

  • If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration

  • No matter what the nature of the being the principle of equality requires that one's suffering can be counted equally with the like suffering

  • of any other being

  • Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race

  • When there's a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race?

  • Sexist violate the principle of equality by favouring the interests of their own sex

  • Similarly speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species

  • In each case the pattern is identical

  • Among the numbers of the human family we recognize the moral imperative of respect

  • Every human is a somebody out of something

  • morally disrespectful treatment occurs when those who stand at the power end of a power relationship treat

  • The less powerful as if they were mere objects

  • The rapist does this to the victim of rape the child invested to the child molested the master to the slave

  • In each in all such cases humans who have power exploit those who lack it

  • Might the same be true of how humans treat other animals or other earthlings

  • Undoubtedly there are differences since humans and animals are not the same in all respects

  • But the question of sameness wears another face

  • Granted these animals do not have all the desires we humans have granted

  • They do not comprehend everything we humans comprehend

  • Nevertheless we and they do have some of the same desires and do comprehend some of the same things

  • The desires for food and water shelter and companionship

  • freedom of movement and avoidance of pain these desires are shared by non-human animals and human beings

  • As for comprehension like humans many non-human animals understand the world in which they live and move

  • Otherwise they could not survive

  • So beneath the many differences there is sameness

  • Like us these animals embody the mystery and wonder of consciousness like

  • Us they are not only in the world they are aware of it

  • Like us. They are the psychological centers of a life that is uniquely their own

  • In these fundamental respects humans stand on all fours so to speak with hogs and cows chickens and turkeys

  • What these animals are do from us how we morally ought to treat them are questions whose answer begins with the recognition of our psychological

  • kinship with them

  • So the following film demonstrates in five ways just how animals have come to serve mankind at least we forget

  • Nobel prize-winner Isaac Bashevis singer wrote in his best-selling novel enemies a love story the following

  • As often as Herman who witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish he always had the same thought in

  • Their behavior toward creatures all men were Nazis the smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased

  • exemplified the most extreme racist theories

  • The principle of might is right

  • The comparison here to the Holocaust is both intentional and obvious

  • one group of living beings anguishes beneath the hands of another

  • Though some well argued the suffering of animals cannot possibly compare with that of former Jews or slaves. There is in fact a parallel and

  • For the prisoners and victims of this mass murder

  • their Holocaust is far from over

  • In his book the outermost House author Henry Beston wrote

  • We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals

  • Remote from Universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man

  • in Civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and

  • the whole image and Distortion

  • We patronize them for their incompleteness for

  • their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves

  • and

  • Therein we err and greatly err

  • For the animals shall not be measured by man

  • In a world older and more complete than ours. They move finished and complete gifted

  • With extensions of the senses we have lost or never tamed

  • Living By Voices we shall never hear

  • They are not brethren they're not underlings

  • There are other nations

  • Caught with ourselves in the net of life and time

  • Fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth

  • For most of us our relationship with animals involves the owning of a pet or two

  • So where do our pets come from

  • Of course one of the most obvious ways animals serve man is as companions

  • For these pets it starts with a breeder

  • Then not all breeders are considered professional

  • In fact in this profession just about anyone and everyone can be a breeder

  • For pet stores most of their animals are acquired from puppy mills even if they may not know it

  • Puppy mills are low-budget commercial enterprises that breed dogs for sale to pet shops and other buyers

  • They are often backyard operations that expose animals to filthy overcrowded conditions with no veterinary care or socialization

  • Dogs from puppy mills often exhibit physical and psychological problems as they grow up

  • Strays if they are lucky

  • Will be picked up and taken to a shelter or pound

  • Where they can only hope to find a new home again?

  • An estimated 25 million animals become homeless every year

  • And as many as 27% of purebred dogs are among the homeless

  • Of these 25 million homeless animals an average of 9 million die on the streets from disease starvation

  • Exposure

  • Injury or some other hazard of street life

  • many others are strays some of whom were presumably dumped in the streets by their caretakers the

  • Remaining 16 million die in pounds or shelters that have no room for them and are forced to kill them

  • Sadly on top of all this almost 50% of the animals brought to shelters are turned in by their caretakers

  • Many people claim they don't visit shelters because it's depressing for them

  • But the reason animals are crowded in such dreary places these is because of people's refusal to spay or neuter their pets

  • Several pet owners feel particularly men for some reason that neutering a pet emasculates the owner somehow

  • Or they may just want their children to someday experience the miracle of life so to speak

  • Another case pet owners like these unknowingly take part in the euthanasia of over 60,000 animals per day

  • Euthanasia generally

  • Defined as the act of killing painlessly for reasons of Mercy

  • Is usually administered by an injection in the leg for dogs and?

  • sometimes in the stomach for cats

  • It is a quick and painless procedure for the animals and by far the most humane

  • But not always the most affordable

  • Due to the increase of euthanasia in shelters and the growing constant demand for drugs like youth - saw

  • Some shelters with budget constraints are forced to use gas chambers instead

  • In a gas chamber animals are packed very tightly and to take as long as 20 minutes to die

  • It is by far less merciful

  • more traumatic and painful, but

  • The procedure is less expensive

  • Perhaps some of the tough questions, we should ask ourselves about animals that we keep as companions are

  • Can we keep animals as companions and still address their needs is?

  • Our keeping companion animals in their best interest, or are we exploiting them?

  • The answers to these questions may lie in the attitudes of the human caretakers and their abilities to provide suitable environments for companion animals

  • Most human beings are speciesists

  • This film shows that ordinary human beings not a few exceptionally cruel or heartless humans, but the overwhelming

  • majority of people take an active part

  • acquiesce in and allow their taxes to pay for practices that require the sacrifice of the most important interests of members of other species in

  • Order to promote the most trivial interests of our own species

  • The hope for the animals of tomorrow is to be found in the human culture, which learns to feel beyond itself

  • We must learn empathy

  • We must learn to seed the eyes of an animal and feel that their life has value because they are alive

  • What happens in slaughterhouses is a variation on the theme of the exploitation of the weak path a strong

  • More than 10,000 times a minute in excess of six billion times a year just in the United States

  • Life is literally drained from so-called food animals

  • Having the greater power humans decide when these animals will die where they will die and how they will die

  • The interests of these animals themselves play no role whatsoever in the determination of their fate

  • Killing an animal is in itself a troubling Act

  • It has been said that if we had to kill our own meat. We would all be vegetarians

  • Certainly very few people ever visit a slaughterhouse and films of slaughterhouse operations are not popular on television

  • People might hope that the meat that they buy came from an animal who died without pain

  • But they don't really want to know about it

  • Yet those who by their purchases

  • Require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy

  • So where does our food come from

  • For those of us living on a meat diet the process these animals undergoes as follows

  • For beef the animals are all branded in this instance on the face

  • Dehorning usually follows never with anesthetic, but rather a large pair of pliers

  • In transportation animals are packed so tightly into trucks. They are practically on top of one another

  • Heap freezing temperatures fatigue trauma and health conditions will kill some of these animals in route to the slaughterhouses

  • Milking cows are kept chained to their stalls all day long receiving no exercise

  • Pesticides and antibiotics are also used to increase their milk productivity

  • Eventually milking cows like this one collapse from exhaustion

  • Normally cows can live as long as 20 years

  • But milking cows generally die within 4

  • At which point their meat is used for fast-food restaurants

  • At this slaughterhouse the branded and dehorned cattle are brought into a stall

  • The captive bolt gun which was designed to reduce animals unconscious without causing pain

  • Fires a steel bolt that is powered by compressed air or a blank cartridge right into the animals brain

  • The various methods of slaughter are used in this Massachusetts facility the cattle is hoisted up and his or her throat is slit

  • Along with the meat their blood will be used as well

  • Though the animal has received a captive bolt to the head which is supposed to have rendered him or her senseless as

  • You can see the animal is still conscious

  • This is not uncommon

  • Sometimes they are still alive even after they have been bled and are well on their way down the assembly line to be butchered

  • This is the largest Glatt Kosher meat plant in the United States

  • Glatt the Yiddish word for smooth means the highest standard of cleanliness

  • And the rules for kosher butchering require minimal suffering

  • The use of electric prods on immobilized animals is a violation

  • Converting frightened animals for the slaughterers convenience is also a violation

  • The inversion process causes cattle to aspirate blood or breathe it in after incision

  • Ripping the trachea and esophagi from their throats is another egregious violation since kosher animals are not to be touched

  • until bleeding stops

  • And by dumping struggling and dying steers through metal chutes onto blood soaked floors

  • With their breathing tubes and gullets dangling out

  • This sacred task is neither clean or compassionate

  • Shackling and hoisting is ruled yet another violation nor does it correspond to the kosher way of treating animals

  • If this was kosher death was neither quick nor merciful

  • Veal taken from their mothers within two days of birth are tied at the neck and kept restricted to keep muscles from developing

  • Fed an iron-deficient liquid diet denied bedding Water and light

  • After four months of this miserable existence they are slaughtered

  • Thousand factory farms are breeding machines kept continually pregnant by means of artificial insemination

  • Large pig market factories will manufacture as they like to call it between 50,000 and 600,000 pigs a year each

  • Tail docking is a practice derived from the lack of space and stressful living conditions

  • So as to keep pigs from biting each other's tails off

  • This is done without anesthetic

  • Ear clipping is a similar procedure also administered without anesthetic

  • As well as teeth cutting

  • Castration is also done without painkillers or anesthetic and will supposedly produce a more fatty grade of meat

  • The elected prods are used for obvious reasons handling

  • Electrocution is another method of slaughter as seen here

  • Throat slitting however is still the least expensive way to kill an animal

  • After knife sticking pigs are shackled suspended on a bleed whale and immersed in scalding tanks to remove their bristle

  • Many are still struggling as they are dunked upside down in tanks of steaming water, but they are submerged and drowned

  • In regard to poultry

  • Americans currently consume as much chicken in a single day as they did in an entire year in 1930

  • The largest broiler companies in the world now slaughter more than eight point five million birds in a single week

  • Debeaking prevents feather pecking and cannibalism in frustrated chickens

  • Caused by overcrowding in single areas where they are unable to establish a social order

  • Today done with infant chicks the procedure is carried out very quickly about 15 Birds a minute

  • Such haste means the temperature and sharpness of the blade varies resulting in sloppy cutting and serious injury to the bird

  • As for their living conditions anywhere from sixty to ninety thousand birds can be crowded together in a single building

  • The suffering for these animals is unrelenting

  • as a way of life

  • Although their beaks are severed they attempt to peck each other

  • For hens they live in a laying warehouse crammed inside so-called battery cages

  • Many lose their feathers and develop sores from rubbing against the wire cage

  • Crowding prevents them from spreading their wings and the hens cannot even fulfill minimal natural instincts

  • During transportation all animals suffer and many die

  • And they suffocate when other animals pile on top of them in overcrowded poorly loaded cages

  • Chickens are slaughtered in numerous ways some may be clubbed to death or have their heads cut off

  • The most are brought through the assembly lines of factory farms

  • Dangled upside down on a conveyor belt the throats are slit, and they're left to bleed to death

  • Others may be placed headfirst in tubes to restrict their movement while they slowly bleed to death

  • Surely if slaughterhouses had glass walls would not all of us be vegetarians

  • Our houses do not have glass walls

  • The architecture of slaughter is opaque

  • Designed the interest of tonight to ensure that we will not see even if we want to work

  • And he wants to look younger

  • It was Emerson who observed more than a hundred years ago you

  • Have dined and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles there?

  • is complicity

  • And for those who think eating seafood is healthier than land animals

  • Just remember how much irretrievable waste and contaminated sediments are dumped into our oceans?

  • In the past oil nuclear and chemical industries have done little for the protection of marine environments

  • And jumping on or under the seabed has always proved a convenient place to dispose of

  • inconvenient wastes

  • Today's commercial fishers intensify this situation on massive scales

  • They use vast factory trawlers the size of football fields and advanced electronic equipment to track and catch fish

  • Huge Nets stretch across the ocean swallowing up everything in their path

  • These factory trawlers coupled with our increased appetites for seafood

  • Are emptying the oceans of sea life at an alarming pace?

  • Already 13 of the 17 major global fisheries are depleted or in serious decline

  • The other four overexploited or fully exploited

  • The recent outbreak of Pfiesteria a microorganism

  • 1000 times more potent than cyanide

  • spawned from millions of gallons of raw hog feces and urine

  • Poured into rivers lakes and oceans turning their ecosystems into unflushed toilets is proving the most alarming

  • Threatening sea life and humans alike Pfiesteria

  • Has killed over 1 billion fish?

  • the Southeast's largest fish kill on record and

  • It's spreading

  • Traces of feisty rhea have already been found from Long Island to the Florida Gulf at distances of up to 1,000 miles in

  • Fact this water-based Pfiesteria invasion stands as one of the worst outbreaks of a virulent microorganism in US history

  • It is a level three biohazard

  • Ebola is a for AIDS is a two

  • And this book mutated as a direct result of our mass consumption of animals particularly pork

  • With hog farms fattening millions of pigs for slaughter grain goes in and waste comes out

  • This waste finds its way to our oceans and water-supply systems contaminating

  • the animals that live in it as well as those who eat from

  • Finally whaling

  • the the International Whaling Commission prohibited commercial whaling in 1985

  • Many countries continue to kill whales for the so-called exotic meat

  • These are Pune's

  • Firearms blunt hooks even explosives

  • Or drive them into authorized whaling Bay's where they are made to beach and can be killed with knives in the shallows

  • But as though cruelty toward animals raised for food wasn't enough

  • We've also found ways of making use of them for all our clothes

  • Jackets shoes belts

  • Gloves pants wallets purses and so on the next question is obviously where do our clothes come from?

  • The demand for leather comes primarily from the United States Germany in the UK

  • Just about everybody wears it

  • With little or no thought of where it came from

  • Thousands of India cows are slaughtered each week for their skins

  • purchased from poor families in part of rural India who sell them only after the assurance that the animals will live out their lives on

  • farms

  • To relocate the animals to a state where they can legally be killed

  • Since cattle slaughter is forbidden in most of India

  • The animals must be shoed and roped together in preparation for a harrowing death March, which could last for several days

  • Forced to walk through the heat and dust without food or water

  • coupled with the sheer stress of this terrifying experience for them

  • Many of the animals collapse and are unable to continue

  • Bear in mind that most of the cattle are being placed in the trunk for the first time in their lives and are likely to

  • be frightened

  • Especially if they have been handled hastily or roughly by the men loading the trucks

  • The noise and motion of the truck itself is also a new experience

  • one which makes them ill

  • After one or two days inside the truck without food or water. They are desperately thirsty and hungry especially

  • Since it is normal for such cows to eat frequently throughout the day

  • But when the cattle become weary and grow faint

  • The bones and their tails are broken in an effort to get them back up on their feet

  • This is done by repeatedly pinching the tail in several areas

  • Handlers must constantly keep the cattle moving pulling

  • them by nose ropes

  • twisting their necks

  • horns or tails

  • They lead or rather force the cattle down embankments and in and out of trucks without ramps

  • causing injuries like broken pelvises legs ribs and horns

  • Chili-pepper tobacco, also used to keep the animals walking

  • This practice is done by rubbing the pepper directly into their eyes in order to stimulate the animal back onto his or her feet

  • And all this before the slide

  • As many as half of the animals will already be dead by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse

  • But to make the experience even more traumatic and terrifying

  • there often killed in full view of each other

  • And instead of the required quick slice across the throat with a sharp knife

  • They are generally killed through hacking and sawing with a dull blade

  • Afterwards the skins from these animals are sent to tanneries that use deadly substances like chromium and other toxins to stop decomposition

  • Remember leather is dead flesh

  • It is dead skin and therefore natural for it to decompose and rot away unless treated with such potent substances as these

  • and

  • For people the health effects of such chemicals and tanneries and Louvre the continued demand for leather goods is yet another issue?

  • Ultimately leather from Indian cattle make their way to clothing stores all around the world

  • Most major chains sell Indian leather whether that comes from completely different cows than those we eat

  • And what about fur over

  • 100 million wild animals are murdered for their pelts every year 25

  • million in the United States alone

  • These animals obtained by hunting and trapping are kept on fur farms and conditions like these

  • Naturally these undomesticated wild animals are not accustomed to being caged

  • And cage madness develops when frightened and frustrated animals are driven crazy from the stress of confinement

  • These wild free-roaming animals and their offspring

  • Find themselves unable to live in natural life

  • Can never take even a few steps or feel the earth beneath their feet

  • Instead they're reduced to scratching circling and pacing endlessly

  • The physical injuries these animals endure on fur farms

  • involve broken and exposed bones

  • Blindness

  • Ear infections dehydration and malnutrition exposure to freezing temperatures

  • Lack of veterinary care and slow

  • Death

  • No laws indicate the killing of animals on fur farms

  • Therefore the least expensive methods are the most appealing

  • Carbon monoxide poisoning strychnine suffocation

  • Breaking the neck and anal electrocution are some of the more common methods used

  • Removed from his or her cage with a heavy neck pole the animals walked past the rows of bodies of slaughtered foxes sables

  • raccoons and wolves among others

  • Death by anal electrocution is a crude process that requires a probe to be inserted

  • In the rectum while the animal bites down on a metal conductor

  • Oftentimes this inept procedure must be repeated to actually kill the animal

  • And the skinned carcasses seen here will later be ground up and fed to the animals still caged

  • How much is this run this is forty nine thousand five hundred

  • And so we move on to entertainment

  • Mark Twain once said of all the creatures ever made he man is the most detestable

  • He's the only creature that inflicts pain for sport knowing it to be pain

  • In rodeos bulls and Broncos don't buck because they're wild but because they're in pain

  • The belt called a flank strap or a bucking strap is secured around the animal's body over the genital area

  • As the animal leaves the chute type jerk on the belt is enough to start him bucking in pain

  • Apart from other injuries animals incur at rodeos such as broken legs

  • They're all so worked up up being slapped

  • teased given

  • electric prods and

  • otherwise tormented

  • To bolt out of the chute in the frenzy

  • Groping as seen here involves throwing the rope around the neck of a frightened animal running full speed

  • Jerking the poor creature to a halt and slamming him or her to the ground

  • Like any other business dog racing and horse racing are industries motivated by a common denominator profit

  • At Fair Grounds across the country animals

  • Are used to race?

  • bet with and spectate

  • over

  • Training for these events is accomplished by withholding food and sometimes water

  • These animals

  • unfamiliar with their surroundings

  • the noise the crowds

  • Even what they're supposed to be doing

  • Are all too often injured and discarded in pointless trivial outlandish?

  • contests

  • Designed to make profits and entertain

  • Besides loss of habitat hunting is the number one threat to wildlife today?

  • Hunters kill over 200 million animals every year

  • Deer rabbits and squirrels top the list of desirable targets

  • There is no denying it if hunting is a sport it is a bloodsport

  • Targets are living

  • And they undergo violent deaths

  • Fishing is also a death sport wherein the nonhuman animal suffers

  • Researchers have distinguished the official the same way mammals do

  • Anatomically physiologically and biologically pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals

  • In other words fish are sentient organisms

  • So of course they feel

  • For those who think fish die gentler deaths consider that their sensory organs are highly developed

  • Their nervous systems complex the nerve cells very similar to our own and

  • their responses to certain stimuli immediate and vigorous

  • When going to the circus

  • Where do we stop for a moment and consider

  • What incites an animal to do something unnatural even dangerous such as jumping through flames balancing

  • On one foot or diving into water from shaky platforms high in the air

  • Animal trainers would like for the public to believe that animals are coaxed into such behaviors with the promise of rewards

  • But the truth is the animals perform because they fear punishment

  • In essence circuses condemn animals who are wild by nature to live out their days isolated

  • in tiny barren cages

  • Denied normal exercise and socialization

  • Shuttled around from place to place

  • And shackled in Chains for up to 95% of their lives

  • Elephants are taught to perform with positive reinforcement

  • Never hit never hit

  • Never never never will you see anyone use the ankus as?

  • Anything other than a guide or a tool?

  • Nothing no no no no no no no no no

  • Dominance subservience and pain are integral parts of the training process

  • Vernon don't touch him and you scream if you're scared to hurt him

  • When I say written is funky, bhai I'm about touching tonight

  • So much, they rip his head off lift this button pull it off. What does that mean? It's very important?

  • And when he starts wanting to fucking punch both fucking boom right under them chance it

  • And you better back it and when he fucks around too much

  • Don't threat that plate you fucking sink that hook give everything you got with a can there go

  • When you hear that screaming then you know you never did

  • We know animals feel

  • They feel fear loneliness and pain just like humans do

  • What animal would choose to spend their entire life in captivity if they had a choice

  • Zoos are

  • Zoos valuable educational and conservation institutions

  • Sure zoos are interesting. They're only educational in the sense that they teach a disregard for the nature's of other living beings

  • Besides what can we learn about wild animals by viewing them in captivity?

  • Zoos exist because we are intrigued by exotic things

  • In to zoo-goers, zoo

  • Animals are just that things

  • In both cases at circuses or zoos

  • wild and exotic animals are captured

  • Caged transported and trained to do what humans want them to do?

  • At best the term bullfighting is a misnomer

  • as

  • There's little competition between the sword of the nimble Matador which is Spanish for killer

  • And it confused maimed psychologically

  • tormented and physically debilitated bull

  • Many prominent former bullfighters report that bulls are intentionally debilitated with tranquilizers and laxatives beatings

  • To the kidneys and heavy weights hung around their necks for weeks before a fight

  • Some of the animals are placed in darkness for 48 hours before the confrontation

  • Then I released blinded into the bright arena

  • And a typical event the bull enters and is approached by men who exhaust and frustrate him by running him in circles

  • Maybe tricking him into collisions

  • When the bull is tired and out of breath he's approached by picadors who drive Lance's into its back and neck muscles

  • Twisting and gouging to ensure a significant amount of blood loss and impairing the Bulls ability to lift his head

  • Then come the banderilleros who distract and dart around the bull while plunging more Lance's into him

  • Weakened from blood loss they run the bull and more circles until he is dizzy and stops chasing

  • Finally the matador this killer appears and after provoking a few exhausted charges from the dying animal tries

  • To kill the bull with his sword

  • And this bloody form of amusement is bullfighting

  • The pleasure derived from all of these activities in sports

  • a

  • communion with nature some would say

  • Can be secured without harming or killing animals?

  • The commercial exploitation of wildlife

  • Erroneously assumes that the value of wild animals is reducible to their utility relative to human interests

  • especially economic interests

  • But wild animals are not a renewable resource having value only relative to human interests

  • That perception can only be that of a speciesist

  • Nevertheless these practices exist only because we do not take seriously the interests of other animals

  • In this light are humans not the most callous speciesists of all

  • The term vivisection is used to apply to all types of experiments on living animals and is said to be a form of Medical Science

  • The reason for experimentation of this type is to allegedly discover cures for human ailments and illnesses

  • But those who hope to find remedies for human ills by inflicting deliberate sufferings on animals can make two fundamental errors in understanding

  • The first is the assumption that results obtained on animals are applicable to mankind

  • The second concerns the inevitable fallacy of experimental science and respect the field of organic life

  • Since animals react differently from human beings

  • Every new product or method tried out on animals

  • Must be tried out again on man through

  • careful clinical tests before can be considered safe

  • This rule knows no exceptions

  • Tests on animals are not only dangerous because they lead to wrong conclusions

  • but furthermore they retard Clinical Investigation

  • Which is the only valid kind?

  • Just remember the fact that any disease deliberately provoked is unlike any disease that arises spontaneously

  • Unfortunately such methods still sail today under the flag of science which is an insult to true science as well as human intelligence

  • And so vivisection applies to medical experiments

  • Done with the administration of noxious substances

  • Electric or traumatic shocks

  • Uh Nanette eyes operations

  • Bronze

  • Drawn-out deprivations of food and drink

  • Physical and psychological tortures that lead to mental imbalance infections and so on

  • Hedid injury research

  • Involves partially or fully conscious baboons strapped down with restraints and their head cemented into a metal helmet

  • Which will be thrust at a 60 degree angle at a force of up to 1,000 G's

  • The purpose of this experiment is to simulate auto crashes football

  • boxing

  • and other head related injuries and

  • This process is often repeated again and again on the same animals

  • And finally military research this one speaks for itself

  • From sending monkeys into outer space and testing

  • atomic blasts on helpless dogs

  • To exposing primates to nuclear radiation

  • Twenty years ago the number of animals dying of tortures through the practice of vivisection was astronomical

  • Estimated a 400,000 per day worldwide and growing at an annual rate of five percent

  • Today that numbers almost beyond comprehension

  • 19,000 per minute ten billions per year

  • Some uneducated persons pretend to know that less intelligent animals don't feel pain the same way we do

  • In truth we know very little about how specific animals may feel

  • Except, but they must also submit to the universal law that causes every organism dying by unnatural means to suffer greatly

  • before that final release

  • But it's nonsense to say that animals do not suffer because they have a lower order of intelligence

  • Pain is pain conveyed by nerves to the brain and there are other nerves than those of intelligence

  • Nerves such as sight smell touch and hearing

  • And in some animals these nerves are much more highly developed than in man

  • We know that there has never been an epoch in which we can learn something about the physiology of man by torturing animals

  • We only learn something about animals

  • And if there's something we can learn from them on the psychological level is not by means of steel or electricity

  • much less so through psychic violence's

  • The systematic torture of sentient beings

  • Whatever the pretext and in whatever form

  • Cannot achieve anything more than it already has

  • To show us, but as the lowest point of debasement man can reach

  • That's what we want to know

  • Ignorance is the species it's first line of defense

  • Yet, it is easily breached by anyone with the time and determination to find out the truth

  • Ignorance has prevailed so long only because people do not want to find out the truth

  • Don't tell me you'll spoil my dinner if the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced

  • Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests

  • That the clothes come from slaughtered cows

  • But the entertainment means the suffering and death of millions of animals

  • And that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories

  • Still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad

  • For us the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it

  • But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as

  • Much as a desire not to know about facts that may lie heavy on one's conscience

  • That is responsible for this lack of awareness

  • After all the victims of whatever it is that goes on in all these awful places are not members of one's own group

  • It all comes down to pain and suffering not intelligence not strength not social class or civil, right?

  • Pain and suffering are in themselves bad. It should be prevented or minimized irrespective

  • Of the race sex or species of the being that suffers

  • We are all animals of this planet we are all creatures

  • And non-human animals experience sensations, just like we do

  • They too are strong intelligent industrious

  • mobile and evolutional

  • They too are capable of growth and adaptation

  • Like us first and foremost. They are earthlings and

  • Like us they are surviving

  • Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort and like us they express degrees of emotion

  • In short like us they are alive

  • most of them being in fact vertebra just like us

  • As we look back on how essential animals are to human survival our absolute dependence on them for companionship

  • food clothing

  • Sport and entertainment as well as medical and scientific research ironically

  • We only see mankind's complete disrespect for these non-human providers

  • Without a doubt this must be what it is to bite the hand that feeds us

  • In fact we've actually stomped and spit on him

  • Now we are faced with the inevitable aftermath, this is evident in health reports due to our over-excessive consumption of animals

  • cancer heart disease osteoporosis

  • Strokes kidney stones anemia diabetes and more

  • Even our food has now been affected and at it's very source

  • With antibiotics used to promote weight gain in animals who can't gain weight under the stressful

  • overcrowded living conditions of factory farms

  • with the overuse of pesticides and insecticides or

  • artificial hormones designed to increase milk production litter size and frequency

  • With artificial colors herbicides

  • larvicides

  • synthetic

  • fertilizers tranquilizers growth and appetite stimulants

  • It's no wonder that mad cow disease

  • foot and mouth disease

  • Feisty RIA and a host of other animal related abnormalities have been unleashed on the human public

  • Nature's not responsible for these actions we are

  • So a change is inevitable

  • either we make it ourselves or

  • We will be forced to make it by nature itself

  • The time has come for each of us to reconsider our eating habits our traditions our

  • styles and fashions and above all

  • our thinking

  • So if there's any truth to the age-old saying what goes around comes around and what did they get for their pain

  • Do we even give it a second thought

  • If what goes around comes around what do they get for their pain?

  • They are earthlings they have the right to be here just as much as humans do

  • Perhaps the answer is found in another age-old saying and one equally true

  • We reap just what we sow

  • So of course animals feel and of course they experience pain

  • After all has nature endowed these wonderful animals with Wellsprings of sentiment

  • So that they should not feel

  • Or do animals have nerves in order to be insensitive

  • Reason demands a better answer

  • But one thing is absolutely certain

  • Animals used for food used for clothing used for entertainment and in scientific experiments and

  • all the oppression that has done to them under the Sun they

  • all died from pain

  • Each and every one

  • Isn't it enough that animals the world over live in permanent retreat from human progress and expansion and

  • For many species there simply nowhere else to go

  • It seems the fate of many animals is either to be unwanted by man or wanted too much

  • We enter as Lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike

  • But human beings should love animals as the knowing love the innocent and the strong love the vulnerable

  • When we wince at the suffering of animals that feeling speaks well of us even if we ignore it

  • And those who dismiss love for our fellow creatures as mere sentimentality overlook

  • a good and important part of our humanity

  • But it takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal

  • And it is actually within us to grant them a happy life and a long one

  • On the heath King Lear asked Glouster. How do you see the world?

  • And Glouster was blind answered. I see it feelingly I

  • See it feelingly

  • Three primary life forces exist on this planet nature animals

  • And humankind

  • We are the Earthlings

  • Make the connection

Since we all inhabit the earth all of us are considered earthlings

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    Richard VT 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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