This is an altered version of my English speech. It's more like an article.
Earthlings?
Animals, who reside on our planet earth along with us, are our fellow earthlings. An earthling is defined as, “An inhabitant of the earth.” It is not defined as a human, but as any living creature inhabiting the Earth. Then why do we humans treat them as inferior species?
Animal cruelty is a sensitive topic that most people can, but do not wish to understand. For, the question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
Focusing on one aspect of animal cruelty - wild life, furs, and animal skins used for clothing is a fashion statement I’m sure our world can do without. After all, no one in the world truly needs a mink coat but a mink. Every year, hundreds of thousands of baby Harp seals are clubbed to death for their fur in Canada. They’re left to bleed in the snow, leaving a red bloody trail in a pure, white background. It indirectly represents us humans today, who are gradually tainting the purity of our very own home by destroying the species that harmoniously co-exist with us.
Hunting is one of the oldest and most hypocritical elements of animal cruelty. Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns, wouldn’t it? I despise the mentality of hunters. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Hunting is not a sport. After all, in a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. When a man carelessly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal, yet when he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman. Strange, isn’t it? Hunting is cruel and unfair.
Animal testing is a vile practice. Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally acceptable to experiment on animals, and the answer is, "Because the animals are not like us." Animal testing in itself, is an illogical contradiction.
If we want an end to violence, it means that we must first reject the slaughterhouse, the animal circus, and animal skins and remember that kindness to animals has been a cornerstone of every great religion in the history of the world.
Life is life, whether in a bird, or a dog or a human. There is no difference there between an animal and a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Frida Hartley has rightly said:
The beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men.
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All i have to say is, 'The soullessness of men.'
