Animal Rights
Yesterday the Detroit Free Press had an article about animal rights and the increasing number of lawyers who are studing them. The arttcle mainly focused on animals in trust situations where the owner died and money was left in a trust to care for them for the rest of their lives.
It also touched on divorce cases where animals were fought over like children in custody cases. But it breifly mentioned abuse/cruelty cases, and that is the area that concerns me the most.
Now don’t get me wrong. As I have said in the past, animals deserve to be treated better (in the eyes of the law) than just property. Who cares if you leave your car out in the back field to slowly dissolve into a pile of rust, but when you do that to an animal you should be imprisoned. So yes animals deserve some rights.
If you talk to PETA they will tell you that animals are beings that deserve to be free from ownership. Humans would become caretakers and animals would be free to come and go as they wished. In this situation could a caretaker be sued for not taking his dog on daily walks? Or maybe sued for feeding a non designer type of dog food? Would the care and attention that you can give no longer be “good enough”?
That’s the part that worries me about animal rights. Every animal has the right not to suffer. Beyond that, I’m just not so sure.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
When animal rights and welfare groups shared agendas to eradicate not only pets and all domestic animals they became grave threats to our wellbeing and that of coming generations. They need to be treated as massive threats not crowned for their “selflessness”. There’s enormous money to be had in animal law specialty or over 60 law schools wouldn’t have adopted HSUS designed teaching cirriculums. Some clerk in a windowless room will be set to churning out animal trusts; law firms will specialize profitably in breaking those. More and more people daily are propagandized into backing efforts to impose mandatory spay/neuter on pets. The huge majority of folks I’ve met being in dogs 40 years who’ve involved themselves with shelters and rescue have no understanding at all that their emotions have been hijacked and their efforts in reality are being directed toward permanent eradication of pets first and all domestic animals as soon as it can be accomplished. Too little rational attention is focused on the concurrent creation of corporate monopolies of domesticated animals, how inordinately profitable those already created are, and how infinitely more profitable those are intended to become as fast as private animal ownership can be eradicated of pets and other domestic animal. We’re being scammed, held hostage to our emotions vs rational thought, and we’re too short term in thinking to even realize what’s really afoot.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Interesting thoughts. And at some level I am sure you are right on. But for now the PETA type groups are serving a purpose of moving society to a middle ground when it comes to animals. We are far too extreme when animals are only property. So for now let them spend their money.