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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (103095)	5/4/2005 5:28:34 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I hadn't had time to read ManyMoose's post until you brought it forward. I am trying to do quite a few things today besides post at SI. My opinion? I don't really agree with it. I think that every kind of animal abuse should be protested by those who care, because animals cannot speak for themselves. Some animal abuse is the abuse of individual animals, and some of it is institutional (as in mulesing or the entire fur industry). People have enormous power with the way they spend money. If most of the sheep in Australia are victims of mulesing (and they are), the most effective way to stop that practice is to stop buying the products of it. That would create an incentive for innovative farmers to stop mulesing, just as innovative farmers in America have started selling organic, vegetarian fed free range meat. Innovation should be rewarded. The part about the cats and kittens made no logical sense to me at all. Anyone who abuses animals should be fully prosecuted. That does not mean that nice people having cats is negative in some way. The Iditarod and carriage horses are examples of totally gratuitous use of animals in a cruel way, for profit. Whether you protest each incidence of animal abuse, or try to pass legislation outlawing it entirely, it is still a correct response to animal abuse. My goal is to end the suffering of animals in whatever way I can, because it is the sad experience of the animal that motivates me. These elaborate constructs of whether this kind or that kind of animal abuse, individual or collective, industrial or private, really seem artificial to me, and miss the point, which is protecting animals.