Animal Rights. Do You Think Animals Are Equal To Humans?

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Permalink Reply by Marie Carew on January 30, 2010 at 9:44am

Man And Animals Are Equal. Bible passage Eccl. 3:19-21 states: (The New Testament);“Man's fate is like that of an animals; the same fate awaits them both:

As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. We all go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust we will all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the Earth?

To me animals always have been the superior race on this earth that is why they act on instinct and don’t make barbaric weapons or cause wars and planetary destruction like global warming. They also don’t drive drunk or pollute the environment and create disease with their cigarette smoke.

I have been an animal rights activists and vegetarian for over thirty years. Human Beings Are Not The Most Important Life Forms On This Earth, However, There Are Individual Human Beings Who Believe That They Are The Most Important, Because Of Their Capacity For Higher Intellect. The Truth Is, All Life Forms On This Planet Were Created Equal Regardless Of Their Race, breed, Color, Creed, Religion, Species Or Personal And Sexual Preference. No Species On This Planet Can Claim A Higher Intellect Unless They Use That Intellect To Benefit All Life Forms On This Planet Without Excluding Anyone Or Anything That breaths Life. Bigotry, Intolerance, Hatred, Violence, And Cruelty Are Not Intellectual, Nor Are They Praise Worthy.

As a humanitarian and a vegetarian I think it’s important for every human being to become aware the plight of the Earths other life forms. Only common sense will tell us that animals were not put here on this Earth for human pleasure and consumption on the contrary, because human beings are supposed to have the higher intellect that means that they were put on the Earth to defend serve, and protect animals and all life forms who they think cannot defend, protect and think for themselves. The only time Humanity will reign supreme on this Earth is when the human race learns to humble themselves to the level of all other life forms on this planet. Only when a human being strives to act humanely can they claim their ability for higher intellect on the species chain.

Don’t confuse higher intellect with the ability to think for yourself. Animals can think for themselves. They do not need human beings. It is human beings that go into an animals territory uninvited for the purpose of murdering, tortureing and confineing them.

Whenever an animal comes into a humans enviroment it is because the human being is camping on their home land or because other human beings have destroyed their homeland for the purpose of building their own homes. Human beings do not realize that when they do this they leave no place for the animals to go. Coyotes and other wild life often attack domestic animals for this very reason. When a human being destroys an animals enviroment and does not replenish its space and food supply, the animal has no alternative but to seek its food and surival on the very land that the human being has claimed for its own.

Always remember, the measure of someone’s intellect is equal to the capacity of ideas inside the brain. Higher intellect is also viewed by what someone does with those ideas. In other words, Human beings can use their brains and positions of power to benefit an animal’s life by defending and caring for them instead of taking their land and eating, hunting, wearing them or using them for sport.

An animal acts instinctively. For the most part it thinks in terms of survival. Animals use their cunning, claws, teeth skills and instincts to survive here.

Some human beings try to dominate and rule over all. They feel they have a superiority over the wolf and the deer because they can make weapons to defeat them.

The Earth at all times must be kept in balance and yet human beings have disturbed this balance by the creation of these weapons and by using their power to hunt, fish, factory farm, trap, bait, bull fight, dog fight, cock fight, fur farm, horse race, dog race and perform animal research, When learning about human negativity and intolerance, animal cruelty is the number one most negative act that a human being can partake in. The abhorrent mistreatment of innocent life is a vile injustice to nature. Animal Welfare has always been a huge humanitarian issue with me.
In my opinion it is not moral or ethical to harm any living thing.

It is a disturbing fact but everyday man’s negativity and negligence brings our animal kingdom and its own human race closer to extinction. To maintain balance one must think and act humanly.

Not all humans condone or act in barbaric ways but enough of them do to make these issues a problem for all.
The natural order of things in a scientific point of view has been stated as: there is more plant life then animal life and more animal life then human animal life. Humans are the last in the order of nature.

Permalink Reply by Marie Carew on January 30, 2010 at 9:48am

To clarify an issue that I presented in my last post concerning human beings and cigarette smoke I must present the facts.

The human body is our temple. We must preserve our bodies as we must preserve the Earth we live on.

It is a free will choice to smoke and a free will choice to quit. An average American uses about 750 pounds of paper every year, that means each person uses the equivalent of one 100 foot tall, 16 inch diameter, tree every year for their paper and wood product needs. Out of that paper used manufacturing machines use over 40 miles of paper per day to make their cigarettes and cigars. Without cigarettes and cigars in this world we could save thousands of trees.

Trees are the longest living organisms on the planet Earth, a single tree produces approximately 260 pounds of oxygen per year as much oxygen in one season as ten human beings inhale in one year. Water originating trees in our national forests provides drinking water for over 3400 communities, and approximately 60 million individuals.

Trees are also used to build homes, furniture and anything made out of wood, we even burn wood in fire places to keep us warm, and take tree shavings to fertilize our lawns and make paper products to write on and bags to carry our groceries in. Trees can live thousands of years and reach heights up to three hundred feet and above. Trees clean the air, break the wind, fight soil erosion, conserve rainwater and reduce water runoff and sediment deposit after storms. Trees can also muffle unwanted noise as effectively as stone. To produce their food over the course its life, a single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide and helps prevent Global warming. Human beings must stop using our Earths Natural resources for inhumane reasons.

Smoking kills and breeds disease. It is a foul habit and the stench remains long after the cigarette is extinguished. I am against all substances that pollute the body and try to educate people in the fact that second hand smoke can be ingested in a person’s lungs victim up to twenty feet away. You don’t have to be a smoker to die of cancer. Everyday smokers are destroying the environment and subjecting non smokers to disease and death.