QUOTES
-Animal
Rights-
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use
of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue
any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.
If you
look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic
rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended
to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the
mentally retarded. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals
and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving
of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability to pursue life without
having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of
the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness". By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living
thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights
to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion,
ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child
to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products
on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or
condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate
and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,
mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards
anyone, be they human or not.
-Ecology-
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment,
other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
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Peace -
Let peace and beauty reign
-Vegetarian-
Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious
that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's
easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But
I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow
had ceased to breathe and moo and walk around.
