This article will illustrate some ways that I help human rights.
I steadily encounter human right organizations that want to help humans
by efforts that are harming and killing animals, in order to provide e.g. food
and clothing.
How do they think that we can get a more peaceful and just world by
inflicting completely unnecessary suffering, violence and death to sentient beings
with an interest of not suffering and an interest of a continued existence? It
is unnecessary, since they can provide nutritious foods for an optimal health
from non-animal sources [1], and they can provide clothes created from non-animal
sources.
Violence anywhere, hurts everyone, everywhere. A violent means, apart
from being immoral, doesn’t work to reach a nonviolent ends.
As long as there as people think that violence can
be justified for completely frivolous reasons, such as the violence in the
production of animal foods, people will think that other forms of violence also
are justified, that are much less frivolous.
A human rights-organization sees a need, e.g. a
freezing child that is starving. They feed her/him animal foods and put on
clothes from sheep wool. In this process animals are harmed, killed and
exploited for completely frivolous reasons, frivolous since the starving and
freezing child could have been fed by foods from non-animal sources, and
clothed from non-animal sources. In the process of helping the kid, animals are
exploited, people are taught to believe that violence is justified for
frivolous reasons and that it can be used to help people; poverty and starvation
is exacerbated because of all plants, water and energy required to feed the
animal who is killed for frivolous reasons. People start wars, and use
violence, for what they believe are justified reasons; because they have been
taught that violence is a justified means (reinforced by having violence on
their plates 3 times per day (violence that was used to produce animal foods),
and using violence as their clothes everyday (violence that was used to kill
and domesticate the animals used for fur, leather, down, etc.)) to reach a
peaceful ends; and in this process poverty and starvation is exacerbated, which
again human rights activists try to alleviate through being violent towards
animals. And thus this is all a vicious
circle.
As long as human rights activists exploit nonhuman animals to reach their
goals, we won’t have any end of all violence and injustice inflicted towards
humans. And the same goes the other way around. As long as “animal rights”
activists justify violence and harm against humans, including sexism, to
promote animal rights, the exploitation of nonhuman animals will continue. It is all a
vicious circle that only can be broken by opposing all violence and
discrimination towards both human and nonhuman animals.
Here is one example of how feeding starving People animal foods exacerbate starvation, injustices and poverty:
“Currently, the continent as a whole has the arable land capacity to
feed its entire population with plant protein, but it does not have
even close to the land capacity to feed all of its farm animals. The
European Union found that only 20 percent of what Europe’s farm animals
eat comes from the continent, while the remainder must be imported.
Because most of these imports use up the land in developing countries,
this animal-based method of feeding Europe contributes directly to the
depletion of the resources of developing nations, thus contributing to
their continued impoverishment. What it essentially boils down” (..)
“even
if you are only concerned about human rights issues, you ought to be
concerned about animal exploitation as well because it is directly
connected to a significant human rights issue. As we discussed earlier,
the amount of resources required to produce animal foods is multiples of
what is required to produce plant foods. Although there are certainly
political issues that hamper the distribution of food, it is also the
case that animal agriculture and a diet of animal foods is increasingly a
threat to world hunger, our water supply, our topsoil, etc.”
-Quote from Eat like you Care ; www.eatlikeyoucarebook.com
Note 1: See the end of http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/08/varfor-vegan-for-att-det-ar-omoraliskt.html
More references:
How violence and domestication of animals, leads to violence against humans:
Animal Oppression and Human Violence, by David A. Nibert, Professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University.
http://www.cupblog.org/?p=10179
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.full.pdf
http://www.imeche.org/.../reports/Global_Food_Report.pdf...
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/
http://www.ncifap.org/issues/environment/
Fler resurser:
https://www.facebook.com/DjurensRattigheterAvskaffaDjurslaveriet/posts/554732297952812Richard Oppenlander, Your role in Global depletion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drS5hHdelR8
