Animal & Human rights
This is one of my posts from my flickr site:
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Photo caption:
A dead harp seal is left in its hole on a ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Prince Edward Island, Canada on the first day of the annual seal hunt Tuesday, March 29, 2005.
Sophia Elise says:
so what do they just kill them for fun? that is DISGUSTING
jim says:
This is a complex issue. If it were killed just for fun I’d say its not only disgusting, but criminal. But they are killed for a purpose, pelts, meat, etc. But, ask yourself, do you use animals for a purpose? Do you eat meat? wear furs, leather, ivory or other animal parts? use products that were tested on animals, such as some makeup and household products? would you refuse to used medical treatment on your loved ones that was derived from animal experimentation that caused the animal suffering?
The fact is that humans not only kill animals for fun, fur and meat, etc. but as everyone knows, we bring a great number of them into existence for the express purpose of causing them suffering or killing them to in some way benefit us. We even used to do this, and still do it in some parts of the world, with our fellow humans. Maybe it’s in our nature to use other animals, including the human ones, for our benefit and survival. Maybe it is impossible or incredibly difficult for most humans to rise above this. What if we are genetically ‘programmed’ so to speak to use and oppress other animals? Have you ever noticed how often the stronger uses, manipulates, benefits from the weaker much more than vice versa? Maybe only some enlightened animals are able to understand and stop acting this way?
