Reply #69: More philosophy addressing the animal/slavery connection.... [View All]

http://www.anima.org.ar/slavery/


"The systematic and legalized use of sentient beings that have feelings to obtain commercial earnings has reached unimaginable proportions. Raised under aberrant conditions and killed to be sold as food and clothes, tortured and destroyed in laboratories, hunted for sport, forced to unnatural behaviors in circuses, imprisoned in zoos for 'education'. The list could go on. This exploitation, based on the arbitrary discrimination that animals are subjected to, is the cause for extreme suffering and misery. The oppression goes by so unnoticed for the common citizen that when animal activists refer to animal defense, the listeners only relate it to sentimental reasons pertaining to companion animals.
Slave trade, sale of women and children under patriarchal tyranny, the burning of witches, political, religious, racist and sexist persecutions. The fight for equality among the human beings is today still a draft. But although the Cartesian conclusions about animal insensibility, according to the current scientific investigations, can motivate laughter, animal slavery is kept under the most terrifying forms of cruelty. The law approves specicism establishing animals to be "things" at the disposal of the use and enjoyment of humanity. They, who are unable to organize themselves in rebellions or labor unions, and unable of being understood in their voiceless language, suffer and die. Milan Kundera says: "Man's true kindness can only be shown in an absolutely clean and free way in connection with whom does not represent any force. The true test of humanity's morality, the deepest (located to such a depth that escapes our perception), resides in its relationship with those that are at its will: the animals. And here was where man's fundamental downfall took place, so fundamental that all others derive from it". "

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