Lets’ discuss the pet shop scenario: The owners of
the pet shop can legally when they want to kill the animals. They can
legally breed new animals. They can legally sell the animals to other
people that can kill the animals right away. Then they can keep and
treat the animal in any way they like to without risking any legal
consequence if they just hide it to the public.
Other animals used for food can be tortured legally and without the risk of facing any legal consequence.
When
an animal advocate advocates for a law related to the animal prisoners
that are imprisoned in this breeding system, they perpetuate and
reinforce the property status that these animals have in our society. They legitimize the exploitation of animals. The law that will be enforced is a law to protect 'commodities', not a law to safeguard persons.
In
the population’s eyes now the problem becomes the treatment, or rather
the societal view that the treatment is the problem becomes reinforced,
of the exploited animals and not the exploitation of breeding and
killing animals at any whim. As long as they have sprinklers, as long as
they are treated good, they can be killed when their owner think that
they no longer need to take care of the animal. The focus becomes on the
treatment of animals, instead of putting the focus on all use of
animals. And nonvegan animal lovers think that they are helping the
animals while they are consuming their dinner of animal foods, wearing
their leather shoes and their wool sweater, and bringing their healthy
pet to the animal shelter because of that they don't have time to take
care of her. And since animals are property under the law, the animal
welfare reforms doesn’t offer any real protection – not in reality and
seldom in court.
Instead of using my time to draft Animal welfare
reforms/sign petitions of Animal welfare reforms that perpetuate the
property status and the exploitation of animals, I use my time to
educate our world that they have a moral obligation not to exploit
animals; and that no domestication of animals can be justified. No
breeding shop/pet shops can be morally justified. Further that we should
adopt and take care of the domesticated animals that are her today. It
is having a good effect and many people go vegan. And thus less animals
are exploited than should have been exploited otherwise.
When it comes to advocating for sprinklers in a
school there is a morally a completely different issue. Children in the schools are not commodities. However if I
were to advocate for sprinklers for human slaves when owning slaves were
common in the USA and slaves were property under law, the moral issue
would be the same.
Now may I suggest that you study some theory of the Abolitionist
Approach, instead of misrepresenting us that we don’t care about the
welfare of animals??
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