Animals Rights Should Be The Golden Rules

Slaughter. Torture. Neglected. Starvation. Everyday innocent animals have to face these consequences because of us. Animals can show more love and affection to us than we humans can. Animals are not only subjects to animal testing, fur farming, breeding, factory farming, dog fighting, but also many other purposes. Animal cruelty perfectly epitomizes the fact that animals can show more compassion, respect to others. A dog, otherwise known as a “man’s best friend” always has this thing called a collar, choked on its neck. So does that mean we in return have to wear a collar too, being pulled in the direction that the dog wants to go, never having the chance to go where we want, do what we want? A young orca forcefully separated from their mother to be enslaved into performing at water parks eternally. Not only that, they are enclosed in these small cages and have to spend endless hours cramped up in that tight space. The pool they swim in is far smaller than what they can swim in if they were free, off in the wild. Is that fair to them that for our satisfaction and pleasure, these animals are deprived from their perfect live? As Christine Stevens had said, “The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.”

In the year 2010, 1.28 million animals are used in experiments and that number is excluding rats and mice. About 100 million rats and mice are used in experiments and these numbers are just the experiments conducted in the US. 2009 Canada, 3.38 million animals are used in experiments. 145,632 animals were subjected to severe pain that were near, at, or above the pain tolerance. The pain endured was so high that many...

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... do. But they are helpless victims, and can’t do much about stopping abuse. These poor animals endure so much loneliness, torture, and suffering. The outcome of these abuses would lead to the animals being timid, depressed or even aggressive. Since they can’t do much about it, the only ones who can make a change are us. And we can do are supporting the local shelter, never second guessing animal abuse, contacting an agency when you suspect animal cruelty, and donating to your local shelter. But, most importantly treat your pets with love. It is all that they ask for. As James Herriot had said, “I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs... [They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”