Human Wrongs

A short movie demonstrating that animals should have rights. Philosophical reason tells us now that animal rights are more or less ethically unassailable. However, sometimes we don't need reason, sometimes we can just see that things are wrong and i hope this video demonstrates that too.
Thanks to the uploader of the Tom Regan and Richard Ryder speeches from the animal bill of rights debate, i took the excerpts of the speech i use from them.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Animal
• Rights
• Tom
• Regan
• Richard
• Ryder
• factory
• farming
• testing
• abuse
• liberation
• politics
• philosophy
• martin
• luther
• king

[slicingwater]

I am against killing animals for the sake of killing them, but its really hard not to kill an use them for food and the advancement of medical technology. I mean its hard but if it makes you feel better they didn't die in vain.

[xAnimalxRightsx]

Hi slicingwater. You hit upon a good point, if you need an animal to die for you to continue to live there is nothing immoral happening - I mean it has to happen, and you can't blame someone for doing what they can to survive. However there exists no nutrient that we need to eat animal products to gain - in fact many of the diseases we suffer are because of eating animal products. A vegan diet is much healthier, and hence it makes the deaths of these animals needless...

[xAnimalxRightsx]

... - as soon as it becomes needless to kill an animal it is wrong. Regardless of whether it is for fur (which there exist alternatives to), meat (for which there exist much healthier and cheaper/more efficient alternatives to) or science (for which there appear to be no needed animal tests anymore).

I guess what I want this video to show is that it isn't just fur/game hunting anymore - more or less all use of animals these days is needless, and so just as wrong.

[DIVAD291]

...its needless to eat animals...and its needless to have a computer as its needless to eat more than we need and as its needless to raise your children and its needless to actualy move your body one time in your life...i guess if we think the same way you are...life is needless

[xAnimalxRightsx]

?? I assume you mean where do we draw the line? As if we take that criticism of 'blah blah everything is needless, so I don't care about anything' then the world would be in some state! Clearly you do believe in ethics, so what you mean is where do we draw the line if everything is needless to some degree?

Well for me, just use reason. An animals life is far more important to them than my taste for a burger made of their flesh. Especially as your taste is a taught thing...

[xAnimalxRightsx]

It's just common sense, all be it a common sense that society is only just waking up to. You don't lose out on anything by starting to consume your nutrients from different sources, or wear clothes made of different materials etc. However if you don't start doing this, other individuals will lose out on something - and in the case of animal rights, these things are as extreme as individuals losing out on their lives, their freedom, or having to put up with undue amounts of suffering.

[goingemoguy]

Rape is also natural. Cannibalism is also natural. Murder is also natural. Just because it is natural does not mean it is morally just.

[BeautyLoveLogicPeace]

Well done, xAnimalxRightsx! Some very beautiful photos in there. I'm with you the whole way on this. And I'm sure your videos are helping to sharpen sensitivity towards our animal friends. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

[BelmoreRose]

@slicingwater I can see how you believe in that. But the killing of animals is as inmoral as it is to kill someones father,mother,child,friend or any person. When you kill an animal, they belong to a family, they have been a animals child, they have been an animals father or mother, and they have been a friend of a human or animal. It is just as wrong as when white men killed the Indians. I hear where you are coming from but the point is not the fact they are being killed it's how they are.

[natanon009]

Thank you for sharing it with us!

[PhantomDog666]

For a truly shocking video of a fox hunt in action watch?v=TiDSO5yYHY0

[Chrisisms]

'hunting is natural'

For predators.

Humans have no predator reflexes.

Humans are naturally repulsed by the thought of even killing.

Humans, unlike natural carnivores, can't even digest meat properly. Humans lack the uricase enzyme so instead of uric acid being an antioxidant, uric acid actually causes cancer as a xenobiotic. Humans risk cancer from the type of iron in meat as well, heme iron. Humans lack the NeuG5c gene too so meat causes cancer by that route, etc.

[Chrisisms]

'give me a rational(no morals) reason to give up meat?'

elevated risks (ranging from 20% to 60%) were evident for esophageal, colorectal, liver, and lung cancer, comparing individuals in the highest with those in the lowest quintile of red meat intake. Cross, Amanda (2007). "A Prospective Study of Red and Processed Meat Intake in Relation to Cancer Risk". PLoS Medicine (the Public Library of Science) 4 (12): e325.

u can find thousands of other reasons with a scientific database...

[fishmarc]

Excellent video in every respect.  Glad to see another compassionate soul here.

[journeyman47]

Excellent video! Kudos to whoever made it. Keep spreading the word!

[WildlifeDen]

well, thegillotine. If being kind and compassionate isn't good enough a reason. How about that its healthier for you. and I mean physically healthier.

Eating animal based products, particulary red meat and pork, has been proven to cause things like heart disease and colon cancer.

veganism is also cleaner for the planet, animal agriculture and factory farming sucks up an exorbitant amount of resources, like water, and produces even more pollution

[WildlifeDen]

"The only really soulful eyes belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap."

Absolutely beautiful video. some of the most truthful and sensible quotes and words i've ever seen

words are a powerful weapon used to belittle or discredit the animals or those that protect them. When a person loves, it's god given, pure thought. but when an animal loves, it's programmed instinct.

They're indeed not things, or objects, but other nations. animals, think, feel, communicate, and remember

Bless you!