Will I ever live to see the day when animals have rights? It actually
horrifies me going into a pet shop and I'm surprised that they are
legal. Perhaps I'm simply too sensitive, and have unrealistic
expectations on how living creatures should be treated.
Seeing birds in cages breaks my heart. Imagine if you had wings that you could never use? Imagine living in a cage for your whole life? I don't think that people see animals as anything more than animated colourful objects to add to their homes.
I know that many people love animals and keep them in their homes because it brings them joy and that they do take care of them. However, I still can't believe in my heart that any bird could ever be happy living in a cage when it is denied the ability to fly. When I was four years old my mom had a budgie and I hated seeing it in it's cage. I felt that it communicated to me that it wished to be released. So I opened the cage and it flew away. Sadly it went out the window and was never seen again, which is really quite cruel as it wouldn't have had a chance to ever survive outside. Especially not in the winter.
But I digress. I honestly believe that pet shops should not sell live animals. Imagine if you could go to the store and buy a person? Oh, there would be outrage! Imagine seeing a baby in a glass cage with a metal floor and it was banging on the wall screaming for some attention! This would never happen in the Western world. Why not? What is so different from a human and an animal?
What makes us God? What gives us the right to abduct innocent animals from the wild and place them in cages? What gives us the right to abuse them, torture them, eat them, experiment on them, buy them, sell them, and throw them away when we don't want them anymore?
How are so many people unable to have compassion for animals? I suppose given how we treat each other it isn't surprising that we treat animals the way we do. But we do set a basic standard for human rights and we have organizations to help people such as the United Nations and Amnesty International. There are many organizations that aim to protect animals, but ultimately most people eat animals so until that changes people probably aren't going to be able to see animals as being equal to us.
Animals should be allowed to live a natural and normal life without us killing them. There should be ways to test medications without killing and torturing animals, isn't that a bit primitive in this day and age? There has been a lot of research that shown that many animals that are tested on will not respond to drugs the same way as humans (duh, we're not the same species!) which could cause delays in cures. How is it that we can't have computers doing the testing? Then in final stages test on volunteers.
Most people live in a bubble and are completely unaware of the gross and disgusting way animals are treated across the planet.
You like to wear fur? Did you know that the animals are often abducted from their wild and natural home, and then while they are still alive they get to have an electric probe shoved up their ass so that they are electrocuted from the inside out. Apparently this preserves the fur. Would you ever do that to your baby? To your mother? To your house cat or dog? Then why would you ever wear fur? I can't believe it's legal.
You like to eat meat? Love to eat chicken? Wow, if only you knew how these beautiful creatures are treated!!! Baby chicks are thrown into the garbage if they are male because they can't lay eggs, so are therefore worthless.
Have a look at the PETA website if you have balls http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/chickens.aspx. If you eat animals, then you are a cruel abuser. Only instead of doing the damage yourself you are paying people to do it for you. That makes you no better or worse than an assassin. Only instead of just putting a bullet into the back of someones head, you condone allowing the creature to be brutally treated for its entire life and then finally at the end of it's miserable life, murdered.
Buying pets from the pet store is also cruel. You are now supporting puppy mills where dogs are imprisoned in a cage for their whole life and their only purpose is to breed. There are so many dirty and overcrowded mills that there is no way to know where your new little puppy has come from. The SPCA work really hard to save animals and we owe it to society to support them and to buy animals form them instead.
Oh, but you mean you can't get a pure bred? Too fucking bad! Do you only hang out with pure bred humans? Someone that you can trace their genetic history for centuries to prove that they are 100% German, or whatever? That would be racist. Well so is rejecting a beautiful animal waiting to be loved just because he or she doesn't have the right genetic make up. We love people of all colours shapes and sizes and we should do the same for animals. Worst of all, pure bred animals often have genetic defects and are more apt to develop debilitating illnesses when they are older.
Seeing cute little bunny rabbits at the store makes me sick! Do you know how many people abandon their bunnies once they aren't so cute and little anymore and are chewing on their furniture? The average time a person will keep a rabbit is about year, after that they get dumped at the SPCA. They aren't pets for kids contrary to what most people believe. http://www.rabbit.org/easter/ . Do your research!
What makes me more angry and sick than pet stores is seeing lobsters at the supermarket!!!!!!!!!! How anyone can walk past and not feel like they are about to burst into tears is beyond me. I see them in the tank, and know how cold that water is, and see their poor little claws held shut with rubber bands, and how they are all piled on top of each other like they don't even matter at all! Each and every lobster has a right to live! People buy them, and then toss them into a pot of boiling water WHEN THEY ARE STILL ALIVE!!!! How would you like to see your best friend or your mother tossed into a pot of boiling water while they are still alive! Why can't we see the cruelty in that?
Seeing birds in cages breaks my heart. Imagine if you had wings that you could never use? Imagine living in a cage for your whole life? I don't think that people see animals as anything more than animated colourful objects to add to their homes.
I know that many people love animals and keep them in their homes because it brings them joy and that they do take care of them. However, I still can't believe in my heart that any bird could ever be happy living in a cage when it is denied the ability to fly. When I was four years old my mom had a budgie and I hated seeing it in it's cage. I felt that it communicated to me that it wished to be released. So I opened the cage and it flew away. Sadly it went out the window and was never seen again, which is really quite cruel as it wouldn't have had a chance to ever survive outside. Especially not in the winter.
But I digress. I honestly believe that pet shops should not sell live animals. Imagine if you could go to the store and buy a person? Oh, there would be outrage! Imagine seeing a baby in a glass cage with a metal floor and it was banging on the wall screaming for some attention! This would never happen in the Western world. Why not? What is so different from a human and an animal?
What makes us God? What gives us the right to abduct innocent animals from the wild and place them in cages? What gives us the right to abuse them, torture them, eat them, experiment on them, buy them, sell them, and throw them away when we don't want them anymore?
How are so many people unable to have compassion for animals? I suppose given how we treat each other it isn't surprising that we treat animals the way we do. But we do set a basic standard for human rights and we have organizations to help people such as the United Nations and Amnesty International. There are many organizations that aim to protect animals, but ultimately most people eat animals so until that changes people probably aren't going to be able to see animals as being equal to us.
Animals should be allowed to live a natural and normal life without us killing them. There should be ways to test medications without killing and torturing animals, isn't that a bit primitive in this day and age? There has been a lot of research that shown that many animals that are tested on will not respond to drugs the same way as humans (duh, we're not the same species!) which could cause delays in cures. How is it that we can't have computers doing the testing? Then in final stages test on volunteers.
Most people live in a bubble and are completely unaware of the gross and disgusting way animals are treated across the planet.
You like to wear fur? Did you know that the animals are often abducted from their wild and natural home, and then while they are still alive they get to have an electric probe shoved up their ass so that they are electrocuted from the inside out. Apparently this preserves the fur. Would you ever do that to your baby? To your mother? To your house cat or dog? Then why would you ever wear fur? I can't believe it's legal.
You like to eat meat? Love to eat chicken? Wow, if only you knew how these beautiful creatures are treated!!! Baby chicks are thrown into the garbage if they are male because they can't lay eggs, so are therefore worthless.
Have a look at the PETA website if you have balls http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/chickens.aspx. If you eat animals, then you are a cruel abuser. Only instead of doing the damage yourself you are paying people to do it for you. That makes you no better or worse than an assassin. Only instead of just putting a bullet into the back of someones head, you condone allowing the creature to be brutally treated for its entire life and then finally at the end of it's miserable life, murdered.
Buying pets from the pet store is also cruel. You are now supporting puppy mills where dogs are imprisoned in a cage for their whole life and their only purpose is to breed. There are so many dirty and overcrowded mills that there is no way to know where your new little puppy has come from. The SPCA work really hard to save animals and we owe it to society to support them and to buy animals form them instead.
Oh, but you mean you can't get a pure bred? Too fucking bad! Do you only hang out with pure bred humans? Someone that you can trace their genetic history for centuries to prove that they are 100% German, or whatever? That would be racist. Well so is rejecting a beautiful animal waiting to be loved just because he or she doesn't have the right genetic make up. We love people of all colours shapes and sizes and we should do the same for animals. Worst of all, pure bred animals often have genetic defects and are more apt to develop debilitating illnesses when they are older.
Seeing cute little bunny rabbits at the store makes me sick! Do you know how many people abandon their bunnies once they aren't so cute and little anymore and are chewing on their furniture? The average time a person will keep a rabbit is about year, after that they get dumped at the SPCA. They aren't pets for kids contrary to what most people believe. http://www.rabbit.org/easter/ . Do your research!
What makes me more angry and sick than pet stores is seeing lobsters at the supermarket!!!!!!!!!! How anyone can walk past and not feel like they are about to burst into tears is beyond me. I see them in the tank, and know how cold that water is, and see their poor little claws held shut with rubber bands, and how they are all piled on top of each other like they don't even matter at all! Each and every lobster has a right to live! People buy them, and then toss them into a pot of boiling water WHEN THEY ARE STILL ALIVE!!!! How would you like to see your best friend or your mother tossed into a pot of boiling water while they are still alive! Why can't we see the cruelty in that?
