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Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
essays, pieces, articles, stories, commentaries, discourses
Description: The cruelty of hunting may seem very apparent, but there is a contradiction worth examining in these ideas.
Quote: "A cow in a factory farm lives shut up in a tight cage with rotten food that includes the carcasses of their brothers and sisters, before it is slaughtered."
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Description: A short piece stating on opinion on Animal Rights and Vegetarianism.
Quote: "There is no justification for buying and purchasing meat to fill your stomach, and thus advancing an industry bent on carnage, when the Earth is so good as to give us food that is not conscious."
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Description: The earth is being destroyed by the private interests for profit. It is this which is poisoning our earth and posing as such a great health risk to society.
Quote: "Human health, dignity, and wellness. These have been the core ideals of militant unionism that seriously challenged not only Capitalism, but the power of the state."
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Description: An attempt to answer the question, Who or what deserves to be treated morally, and why?
Quote: "If a being has interests - either of avoiding pain, gaining pleasure, or future hopes and dreams - then this being deserves moral consideration and not only moral consideration, but they should be given an equal consideration of interests."
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Description: Demonstrating the heartless nature of this religion's moral code.
Quote: "The church has condoned the evils of the world. Attaching shackles to slaves, it has enslaved races, as condoned by scripture..."
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Description: Brief opinion piece on the question of whether animals fit the idea of those whom we give rights to.
Quote: "...there certainly is no justification for killing someone because they are born with a different quantity of legs."
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Description: Philosophical justification for considering the rights of every conscious being, with refutations against arguments and nutrition information.
Quote: "Civilization defines it as the abstinance from meat. The heart defines it as humaneness in action -- the epitome of truth and kindness."
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Description: Inquiry into the justification for human rights, and then applying this idea to the animal rights.
Quote: "This admiration that we cast upon heroes of old, it is done so, with a silence on the matter of how we feel towards animals today. It is rarely brought up that the way slavers felt of African humans is identical to the way we feel towards animals..."
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Description: A human being is an animal. But that means we possess a nervous system, a consciousness, an ability to suffer and feel pain.
Quote: "If there is any reason for valuing a human being, then there is every reason to value all animal life. In our senses, our suffering, and our happiness, we are essentially the same."
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Description: The social, economic, and political nature of hunting, as well as a consideration of the act of hunting, how it effects the conscience.
Quote: "Few people hunt; good men are naturally repulsed by the sight of any violence."
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Description: Opening the door to the idea that non-human animals are deserving of fair treatment.
Quote: "I ask... does an animal have fewer rights than a human, simply because one is born with a different genome type?"
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Description: Short piece that briefly outlines the reasons why animals deserve rights and our responsibility to them.
Quote: "There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change."
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Description: A plea delivered to a group of people that they abandon their habits that resulted in the exploitation of animals.
Quote: "Any animal -- whether it is human or non-human, tall or short, mammalian or non-mammalian, male or female, white or black -- is capable of consciousness."
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Description: Arguments on behalf of the Vegetarian ethic, claiming that it is a political question, that all animals deserve rights, and that diet is the primary reform.
Quote: "As progressive reformers, we are realizing that all of our fellow creatures on this planet can suffer like any man. For this reason alone, we offer them our sympathy, our hope, and a sense of justice that always seems fleeting."
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Description: It has been in the favor of civilization's spirit if we do not judge others based on race, creed, or gender. But why hasn't compassion advanced far enough to extend this to all species?
Quote: "For a society to give justice to all, it must first widen its thought to the point where it understands, accepts, and values all. Today, this still has not yet been the case."
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Description: Animal Rights is the extension of the principles of liberty and emancipation. Unlike other philosophies, it examines morality for what it is worth, and then applies it in its only meaningful direction. According to our ability to suffer, and our understanding of sympathy.
Quote: "It is a test of conscience if a human being is offended by the images of inside the slaughterhouses; if you cannot sympathize with those that suffer exactly like humans, how can you sympathize with humans?"
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Description: Animal Rights is the extension of the principles of liberty and emancipation. Unlike other philosophies, it examines morality for what it is worth, and then applies it in its only meaningful direction. According to our ability to suffer, and our understanding of sympathy.
Quote: "It is a test of conscience if a human being is offended by the images of inside the slaughterhouses; if you cannot sympathize with those that suffer exactly like humans, how can you sympathize with humans?"
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Description: Short defense of the ethical considerations of eating meat, and then resources on nutrition and other information of the lifestyle.
Quote: "If it is wrong to judge on race, then it must be certainly wrong to judge someone one the quantity of legs, especially if you withhold the right to their life solely on physical characteristics."
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Description: If we have sympathy, it is because someone can suffer in a way that resembles how we have suffered. But, if we reject sympathy for animals, it makes it easier to reject sympathy for humanity.
Quote: "There is a hidden lesson here that everyone absorbs: we, as human beings, have decided to take away the rights of animals. If we were so inclined, we would have every right to extend this to include human beings."
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Description: The worldwide slaughter of animal kind is not taking place for some great advancement, for enlightenment, for peace or justice; it is done out of gratification and satisfying ancient prejudices.
Quote: "If humanity is going to reach a higher condition of living, a better situation for society, then we need to abandon the savaged past. We need to abandon those traditions based subjugation and domination."
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Description: Anti-animal experimentation letter sent to health charities that support this kind of abuse.
Quote: "Charity is the acceleration of human thought, the beautification of the soul, the memoirs of a person who believes in doing good..."
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Description: Commentary briefly explaining the fundamentals of a Vegetarian or Animal Rights outlook.
Quote: "If judging on skin color is wrong, then certainly judging on the quantity of legs must also be wrong."
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