Comment
from Action Volunteers for Animals
Since
none of the many animal advocacy groups
approach the issue in a similar way,
Action Volunteers for Animals places
a very special emphasis on the following:
since everything on this planet falls
into three categories—mineral,
vegetable, and animal—humans must
resign to the fact that they do not
get a separate category. They are the
human animal. If one pays any attention
whatsoever to history, it doesn't take
much to understand that the human animal
is not superior to the other, only different.
If
the human animal can possibly comprehend
this, that is the first step towards
going to the root of the problem: doing
away with human arrogance. That leads
to the next step in the right direction,
to recognize the fact that we have no
“rights” on this planet—only
privileges.
Next
step, there is absolutely no such thing
as “ownership” of anything
whatsoever on this planet (we are only
borrowing temporarily). This leads to
the next step (very obviously), the
human animal can not own another animal
any more than he does not “own”
the cemetery plot where he has been
buried. Shocked? Entire cemeteries have
been relocated, in case you are not
aware.
Infamous
“Dr.” Robert White said of
animal advocates, “the preoccupation
with the alleged pain and suffering
of the animals used in medical research
may well represent true psychiatric
aberrations.”
In
view of all of the above, I say, humans
not only have the ethical obligation
to refrain from exploiting animals to
the degree of pain, suffering, but that
if they do, it “may well represent
true psychiatric aberrations.”
— Ava
Barcelona
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