I'm vegan myself, and yes, I do believe in animal rights. I constantly get people saying animals are lesser beings, but why? Because they don't have the same interlectual capacities than humans? Well, that's great, let's start and torture, chop up and eat metally challanged people too, they don't either.. And really, intelligence is a human standard. Didn't we all learn "survival of the fittest"? Yes, humans have spread pretty far around. But there are organisms that practically remained unchanged for millions of years, and are all over the world... Would that make humans "lesser beings" then them? Humans have been around for a ridicoulously short time in comparision.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against using animal products in general (although I never would, and I would prefer a world without it), I just see this in a "give and take" way. Threat them fairly and like the living creatures that they are in a morally justifiable way, and you may take from them, too. The life of an animal in my eyes isn't worth less than the one of a human. Yes, a human may kill an animal to have food, no, he may not torture and kill millions of them just to have alot of cheap meat on their plate every fucking day. You do not need it, it's just for pleasure - and for your pleasure all these animals have to suffer. That is decadence at its best.
Now I will get attacked by many people probably, but I do not care. Go on.
Quote from: winkio on January 16, 2011, 01:53:30 pm
2) Over 90% of the animals that we raise as livestock are not designed to live in the wild; they are genetically engineered for food. These animals can't survive on their own. Also, we hold far too many animals to just release them all into the wild. It would destroy the ecosystems wherever they went.
Just a proof of how humans keep doing things without thinking about the consequences even once before. Same goes for nuclear waste. We still do not have proper ways to get rid of it / store it safely for longer times. We now have a big industry based on the exploit and torture of animals, and no way to stop it in any way. Great fucking job, really. The only way would be to gradually make it smaller and smaller - stop breeding more of the genetically engineered animals, until we reached a reasonable amount of them. Those can then actually be threated like living creatures. people will stil have their animal products, yes, they would be more expensive so people will have less of it, but it will be morally justifiable. I repeat once more: Animals are living creatures. They feel pain, fear, arguably happiness, just like humans do. What gives us the right to torture them for our pleasure?