hot bath tonight...my brain cells were cooking....i am not done with the plot to remove entire species of domesticated animals from this planet based solely on another abuse by man. if we don't own them then we don't have a right to manipulate their ultimate demise.
has it occured to anyone that it is impossible to wipe slates clean? the slates are forever dirty with the blood of millions upon billions of animals domesticated by man. so what now? ooops, sorry you all suffered, sorry you all died...we can fix this, we can make you no longer exist, we can hide forever from our guilt..now we are enlightend and noble.... if we just make you go away that is.... nice.
excuse me but this makes me angry...it is just another stupid ploy to play god and further destroy. these animals are here, they are to be respected, they are to be cherished for the wonder that they are. they are not some garbage that man created and then decided to commit benevolent genocide against because we changed our minds.
i hate to tell the abolitionists something that they should already know...but guess what...?
there can be a world where animals are not owned and they still get to live side by side with man if they choose. i don't happen to own my children or my ex spouse, i can't abuse them, i can't eat them, i can't give them away, i can't breed them, i can't sell them, i can't even make them hang out with me if they don't want to. but i can share my life with them, i can love them and they can love me...if that is what we both want..that folks is actually equality of rights across the species....not forcing them to conform to your views of right by engineering their extinction.
who the heck are the humans that say animals don't deserve to have the same rights as any species to live their life in a way that they choose? their protectors? their advocates? the ones who know damn well they are promoting a future world where companion and domesticated animals do not ever exist. just because a dog decides he would like to have a human companion to play ball with and to sleep next to at night..he now has no value? he doesn't deserve to exist. give me a break here.
if the human slavery abolitionists promoted ending african slavery by not letting them breed and reproduce until they all died off naturally and no more africans lived in the united states...someone really thinks this is right? someone thinks this would have been a good idea? for who? the african slaves or the white gotta be god and get me more power race?
i have 28 dogs here...not a freaking one will go and run around in the fields and be a dog if i am in the house. they converge on the gate and they scream for me to join them...why? i don't know why...ask them...i am assuming it is because they like to be with a human. this makes them bad? this makes them wrong? this makes them something unnatural to be wiped out?
how nice to pay back all of their suffering and all of the blood and sorrow they endured for more than 100,000 years..we will pay them back by making them not even exist anymore instead of treating them with dignity and respect for who and what these animals are.
we are so freaking noble and honor their suffering so well that i hang my head before them in shame.
Sorry...should have included the source for the quote lest you all think I am too brilliant for words. :-)
It is one of my all-time favourites...from naturalist Henry Beston's book, "The Outermost House".