Animals deserve rights (From Oxford Mail)
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Animals deserve rights
10:00am Wednesday 15th February 2012 in Letters
IT is becoming more and more widely accepted that animals experience many of the same emotions and sensations as humans do, such as fear, contentment, anger, happiness, sadness and physical pain.
So perhaps it is about time we recognised that animals are not here for our convenience.
Obviously animals do not need exactly the same rights as humans, but the right to a life free from suffering and exploitation is as important to them as it is to us.
A good place to start would be to stop intensively farming and slaughtering them for food, and to stop cruel experiments on them.
ASHLEY OWEN, Animal Aid, Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent
Comments(2)
BigAlBiker
says...
12:27pm Wed 15 Feb 12
Mr Owen, hop off that planet your on and get back to reality, when an annimal tells you personally that it does not want to be farmed and he has read the animal rights manifesto then we can have a balanced discussion.
Until the animal tells you he is annoyed, carry on as you were.
Darkforbid says...
11:04am Wed 15 Feb 12
stop intensively farming and
slaughtering them for food┄
Good idea lets dispose of all those breeds that we only use for food.