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.'
4 comments:
Wow Shallu.
Really, wow. I really have to agree with this topic.
Let me share something Mr. Deb Roy shared with us. In some parts of Thailand (I'm not sure of the location, I remember him saying something about Thailand), a baby monkey, is laid in a kind of pit, in the centre of a table. On festive occasions, the monkey's skull is smashed open, and the brain is scooped out and eaten.
Bear bile, in certain parts of Japan/China/Indonesia/Thailand, is considered a medicine. A tube is stuk into the where the bile is most concentrated, and instead of going to bodily functions, it is collected in a container outside a cage.
Cobras are left loose in a room. A mongoose is also kept there. When a cobra gets angry, it starts spitting venom. The mongoose is meant to anger the cobra and when it's blood is boiling, it is killed and the meat is intaken.
In China, dogs are fed and fattened, and then they are twirled around and tossed around like you would do in hammer throw, and the vomit is eaten.
This is probably the worst, even if it is with the smallest animal out of all these.
This is how parrots are caught.
Parrots are birds that love to colonize and would protect each other. A baby parrot is caught. It is blinded with a needle. They poke its eyes with a needle.
Then it is left, screaming, in the middle of the area/forest, and when the other parrots hear its shrieks, they come to see what's wrong, and then the nets are thrown.
A capture of a life is nothing less than a murder of a human, a murder of a creation, destruction of a world, and may be more devastating than all the nuclear bombs blasted in one area.
It is time. It definitely is time people began thinking like you do.
shalaka...wow...and nishant....wow..!
WOW Nishant !
I'd heard some of that before, but I didn't actually think it was still prevalent. :O
Oh, thanks Raay :D
How did the speech go, actually ? We still haven't done our aurals :P We've done a rehearsal, but that's it. We did a comprehension on Robinson Crusoe. I'm so sure we've done that before, in some exam 8-)
I haven't talked to you the whole of today ! I miss you !
And Rayna :P
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