CarlMinez said:
CrazyCapnMorgan said:
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals.
If we could manage ethical treatment for HUMANS, we wouldn't have as much of a problem with ethical treatment of animals.
However, one is entitled to their opinion, no matter how ill-informed.
What exactly are you implying? Humans suffer, yes, but i still think animals generally suffer more. In the western world alone, more cattle are slaughtered in the meat industry every year than the number of humans killed during the genocide. I'm a hypocrite. I do support many animal right's group but i eat meat. But I still don't think a human life should be valued over that of an animal, just because it's a humans life.
In this case, i agree with Peter Singer. In suffering, animals are our equals.
It isn't that I believe humans have more value in life than animals - to the contrary, I believe that all of us, from the smallest insect to the largest mammal, have equal value in life and in love. The sad fact, though, is that we treat each other with such disregard that it is almost impossible to treat anything else better than ourselves. Sure, there are humans that take this kind of suffering quite seriously, and some take this issue with an equal amount of compassion and intelligence (something quite lacking in most things we, as humans, deal with). However, as a collective species, when you view human history for what is was and has gradually become, we have despoiled most of everything we touched and we treat our home, and all that live on it, with the utmost of contempt. I'll let someone else, who influenced my way of thinking quite profoundly, do the talking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw