The Animal Abuse Awareness Site

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Most of the world's suffering is undergone by members of other species. This cannot rigorously be proved. On the other hand, philosophically speaking, it cannot rigorously be proved that anyone suffers or is conscious besides oneself. So in one sense the sceptic is right. The sentience of others is simply an inference to the best explanation. The price of being wrong is in any case just too high to take the risk. As it is, a convergence of evidence suggests that the nature and relative extent of organic life's biological capacity to suffer is mediated by neuronal firing frequencies, cellular and synaptic density, and a distinctive neurochemical and functional architecture of the central nervous system. Pain is not rooted in the human capacity for a generative syntax. Humanity often behaves as though it were, and as if this specialised linguistic adaptation conferred on us the moral right to treat all other creatures as though they were mere objects and commodities. For we presently keep hundreds of millions of sentient beings in unimaginably frightful conditions. We do so for no better reason than to satisfy our culinary tastes. It has aptly been remarked that if animals had a conception of the Devil, he would surely have human form. Alas this is no mere rhetorical conceit. Humans deliberately incarcerate and butcher our fellow creatures in a vast state-sanctioned apparatus of concentration and extermination camps of incommunicable horror. In retrospect, our descendants may view them as a defining feature of our age in a way akin to our own conception of the Third Reich. Analogously, the horror and even existence of the death-camps and -factories is usually camouflaged behind a mass of bland euphemism. Fortunately for our peace of mind, we find it hard properly to conceive of what we're being spared. Conditions inside the camps and factories are so gruesome that members of the public have to be barred from watching the atrocities which go on inside them.For the most part, however, we are willing accomplices in our own ignorance. By our purchases we pay others to commit acts of extreme violence which might otherwise upset our squeamish sensibilities. Ironically, anybody who practises, or connives in, the maltreatment of a helpless and undeveloped infant of our own species is likely to be demonised and reviled. Ordinary decent people will find it "inconceivable" how such an "inhuman" monster could cause such suffering to the young, innocent and helpless. So (s)he will be prosecuted and locked up.What we are doing in the death-factories is so vile that a few lines of text can scarcely even hint at its ghastliness. Nevertheless, we are so inured to the notion of exploiting and killing other sentient beings to titillate our palates that many otherwise "sophisticated" people will find the starkness of expression of these paragraphs somehow sensationalistic; or perhaps "emotive", as if the reality of such suffering could properly be otherwise.

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The purpose of this site is to inform, and stimulate new ways of thinking. Let it be known:Any life form human or non human classified as property, entails the possibility of misery, torture, and premature death.
Humans--who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals--have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them--without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeeling toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious.They are just too much like us.

Animal rights means recognizing that animals are living sentient creatures with interests of their own, not objects to be exploited by humans. It means that animals' interests should be respected, and that the enslaving, eating, wearing, and torturing of animals by humans is wrong.

You say I cannot know my fate, You say my life will have to wait, I cannot ask myself a question, Of my place in this world of vivisection, I can only tell you with my eyes, I'll feel the pain and I'll wish to die."

"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures." Christian Barnard
''HE WHO IS CRUEL TO ANIMALS BECOMES HARD ALSO IN HIS DEALINGS WITH MEN ... WE CAN JUDGE THE HEART OF A MAN BY HIS DEALINGS WITH ANIMALS.''

The philosophy behind vivisection, the sacrifice of creatures we regard as 'inferior' beings, differs little from that behind the concentration camp or the slave-trader."

Movies:

Earthlings

''YOU CANNOT DO A KINDNESS TOO SOON..BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW HOW SOON IT WILL BE TOO LATE.''
"Some will take refuge in the old cliché that humans are different from other animals. But when did a difference justify a moral prejudice? When did those with black hair have a right to mistreat those with red hair...or even those with blue or purple hair...Surely the crucial similarity that men share with other animals is the capacity to suffer? Regardless of the number of legs or the woolliness of our fur, we can all suffer..."
''THESE BIRDS AND ANIMALS AND FISH CANNOT SPEAK, BUT THEY CAN SUFFER ... AND OUR GOD WHO CREATED THEM KNOWS THEIR SUFFERINGS, AND WILL HOLD HIM WHO CAUSES THEM TO SUFFER UNNECESSARILY TO ANSWER FOR IT.''
Factory Farming is a world-wide trend toward replacing small family farms with huge corporate factory farms--large warehouses where animals are severely confined in crowded pens, stalls, and cages. Profit drives the agribusiness, not concern for the animals', the workers', or the public's well being. This results in hellish lives for animals who have to deal with severe confinement, mutilations done with no anesthesia (such as debeaking, castration, and tail docking), horrible living conditions, disease, shipping in extreme temperatures, and finally their own execution at the slaughterhouse

"What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgement in the case of humans who are similarly deficient."

"My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism." Henry Spira
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel. It is as if we, like the animals, become trapped within the zoo concept and we cannot see beyond the bars. We forget that wildlife in zoos is still wildlife."
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
"The day may come when the rest of animal creation may acquire those rights which could never have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny...a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes..."
''THE WORST SIN TOWARDS OUR FELLOW CREATURES IS NOT TO HATE THEM ... BUT TO BE INDIFFERENT TO THEM: THAT'S THE ESSENCE OF INHUMANITY.''

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Factory FarmingFactory Farming is a world-wide trend toward replacing small family farms with huge corporate factory farms--large warehouses where animals are severely confined in crowded pens, stalls, and cages. Profit drives the agribusiness, not concern for the animals', the workers', or the public's well being. This results in hellish lives for animals who have to deal with severe confinement, mutilations done with no anesthesia (such as debeaking, castration, and tail docking), horrible living conditions, disease, shipping in extreme temperatures, and finally their own execution at the slaughterhouse
What's Wrong With Dairy and Eggs?
The "Free-Range" Myth
The Protein Myth
Ecological Effects of Animal Agriculture
Protecting Your Bones
Vegan Holiday Recipes
Factory Farming Fact Sheet
Seattle, WA Vegetarian Restaurant Guide
Portland, OR Vegetarian Restaurant Guide

I lived in agony in nasty, diseased waste. The line speed faster, he sliced me in haste. I was boiled alive to take the fur off my skin. Factory Farming is Systemic Sin. Crammed in the dark, I live in poop, In one square foot I am forced to coop. Hormones, antibiotics don’t ease my pain. ’Til I’m murdered for my remains
"Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food?" John Harris

Heroes:

"Of all the creatures ever made, Man is the most detestable. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."Mark Twain

Speciesism is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species. Speciesism is wrong for the same reason racism and sexism are wrong--because all beings interests should count equally. “All the arguments to prove human superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals”. For any individual who can suffer, the degree of suffering, not the species of the sufferer is what should count.