The Animal Rights Movement - Part 1

This is an excellent video regarding the plight of the animal rights / animal welfare movement.

The plight of animal rights is a contentious one, with acts of animal cruelty and abuse stemming from and attempted to be made justifiable from four main sources.

The first being a traditional or cultural right, the second being animal exploitation and greed the third being animals used as applications and the fourth being isolated acts and undue ill-treatment of animals all around the world.

While I believe the rights of animals in the intellectual capacity are very limited, perhaps non-existent and not plausible. Their rights in the moral sense, is an ideal that cannot be argued against.

Morality, the noun of the world moral is an ideal code of conduct us human beings have set up, strive for and wish to live by. Its rules and principals we advocate for, believe in, and strive to live by, based on what we believe to be right or wrong. i.e. to be good, do good, be honest and do the right thing.

Animals form part of and are included in this philosophy, as they are part of the world we live in.

A letdown or break in the above morals, results in upsetting and distressing acts of animal cruelty and abuse, which causes and inspires people to advocate for and implement the proper and ethical treatment of them. This is collectively known as the animal rights movement.

Animals just like humans, are capable of feeling and experiencing the same emotions we do such as pain, suffering, joy, pleasure, love, loneliness and sadness; and our relationship with them should be based on a responsible and humane stewardship of nature, and are ability to live in peace and harmony with a species that does not fully share the same intellectual capacity as us, but like us, can and does feel the same emotions we do.

The way weve treated them and continue to, forms one of the darkest chapters in human history and its important we strive to live by these morals weve set up, and strive to treat animals in a manner which exercises these morals and encourages a continuation of this ethical behavior towards them.

Animals are here, they share our world, and if we want to do the right thing by ourselves and our planet earth (which our treatment of animals directly affects) we must learn to live in peace and harmony with them, respect them for what they are and what (if applicable) environmental and ecological role they play; and just how awe inspiring, necessary and what miracles of nature they are.
Theyre not here to hurt us, theyre not here for us to do whatever we wish with, and them, like humans, deserve to be treated with kindness, dignity and respect.

True compassion extends itself to every creature capable of sensation, a statement which animals are well a part of, and a statement the animal rights movement recognizes and wishes to implement.

The link to the second part of this video is here :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atR_fEQJDsk

To read a further written article regarding animal rights, please click on the link below to be taken to my Blogger website :)

http://thesealwarrior.blogspot.com/2007/12/animals-have-no-rights-well-im-afr...

This video was uploaded with permission from PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

Thank You

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[SealAngel]

Alice you have to realize that common sense has to prevail with things and with animals. The world isn't pretty and sometimes we have to do things that we don't like doing for the grater good, such as culling animals and other things which ensure their survival and benefit not only them but ultimately us and everything else as well.

Remember I said 'a responsible and humane stewardship'

[SealAngel]

The term 'stewardship' in this instance refers to the effective management of environmental resources which animals effect. It's not being arrogant it's being smart about things for the good of human beings and for the good of animals.

[askalice50]

There is no doubt that animals experience pain, suffering, joy, pleasure, love, loneliness and sadness. I believe the real sin in our relationship with them begins with the very word "stewardship" and the arrogance that this term conjures. We're just the simians gone mad.

[smokeybiut]

Just be cruel to animals and you'll experience it first hand. Your family members included.

[AvRiLsHaDy]

Hi, can you please transcribe what in the video people say... help me... transcribe me all...

[MrJero85]

Um but we need them....we need to eat meat in some if not most cases, kill em nice and quick I say no cruelty

[cole3454657]

yeah, with rights come responsibilities. are you gonna throw those animals in jail for not paying their taxes or assaulting and killing eachother and humans? what about segregation? it may sound ridiculous and unrealistic, and it is. but so is animal rights.

[Duvmasta]

I'd like to see you try!

[smokeybiut]

Animal rights pride will soon shake your windows and raddle your walls. B. Dylan

[beaelliott]

Wonderful! This video presents animal rights in a very reasonable manner - Thank you so much! :)

[hedilach]

thank you for these good videos, i will crosspost them,be blessed