3 posts tagged “animal rights”
"I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started
to eat meat. This is my protest against the conduct of the world."
Isaac Bashevis Singer – Nobel Prize winning author
This article is about what it means for most of us, to live in a world where we're very much alone to feel the way we do about animal exploitation. As far as I'm concerned, it's very accurate. For some it might be hard to go against the rest of the world, but at least for me, it was easy. I didn't have 'the rest of the world' even before I chose my lifestyle.
Today, my sister and I created a new microcommunity. It's a sort of personal Twitter. The members post short status update messages, just like on Twitter, but this is a community - in this case one especially about veganism, animal rights and similar issues.
You're welcome to come in and take a look:
The writer of this article hypothesizes about a world where animals had rights. It's something I try to imagine frequently, but most of the time I just despair. No one else seems to care. But if that day ever came, I for one, wouldn't be afraid to step back a little. Do we really need the power to destroy the earth just because we can? In fact, isn't that rather counterproductive? After all, we're animals too.
Anyone who doesn't like the idea, consider this: there was a time, not so long ago, when it was considered ridiculous for women and children to have rights. In some parts of the world, only people of European ancestry were considered rational, capable and worthy of ruling the world. In others, Europeans were considered uncivilized.
Today, most people would hesitate to advocate stale old ideas of that kind. Maybe there will come a day when animals get their rights. In my opinion, that won't be a day too soon.
