I care about animal suffering. But, I absolutely hate, HATE that commercial(can’t remember even who puts the ad out but, I see it on FOX every now and again). There will always be animal suffering. The only thing we can do about it, is to treat our own animals well and report any abuse we see.
Oh! I though he was describing human fetus abortion. Actually he is describing the murder of human babies, just not intentionally. Which yields the obvious question, "How is it moral to protect animals and not protect human babies?"
no sane person supports animal cruelty or unnecessary suffering
Concern for the welfare and dignity of animals is such an issue, associated with nihilist leftists such as Peter Singer and local totalitarians who seek to regulate pets out of existence. But one need not believe that animals have been endowed with all the rights of humans to insist that they are more than a commodity that tastes good.
I agree 100%. There's something wrong with a person who doesn't love animals. And while they (animals) aren't people, neither are they robots. And most importantly of all, they were created by G-d for us.
It isn't just the Left that has co-opted love of animals. The European anti-Semitic Right also has a long history of nature worship and attacking Jews as "alienated from nature." This despite the fact that it was the Jewish G-d Who created nature in the first place!
The proper treatment of animals is addressed fully in Noachide Halakhah (one of the Seven Laws forbids eating a limb cut from an animal while it was still alive). All this being said, it remains a truism that it is forbidden to add to these laws as secularists do.
I resent the implication that if I do not become a vegan and support the right of snail darters to sue in Federal Court, I don’t care about animals and endorse the idea of animal cruelty.
Proverbs 12:10
A Righteous man cares for the needs of his animal,
But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
As long as we still remember that they’re animals and property, not something or someone with “rights.”
Having watched the Animal Rights lobby eat away at the rights of the purebred dog fancy for the past 20 years I see Wayne Pacelle, HSUS, PETA and anyone who spouts their nonsense as the opposition. Their ultimate goal is for humans not to interact with animals at all. If someone doesn’t want to eat animals or wear animals or do any of those things, I’m fine with that. But when they want to legislate what the rest of us do I’m NOT fine with that. And believe me, that is exactly what they want to do.
Why not? She would eat you.
BTW animals are not attatched to their "mommies". Give them a milk and heat source and they are fine.
I have W. C. Fields’ attitude on both children and animals.
Anyone who thinks that animals do not suffer physical and emotional pain is heartless. Or that their pain doesn’t matter. God is not heartless and Jesus is not heartless. Balaam’s ass saw the angel, thus illustrating that animals have souls and are thus sentient beings, albeit with diminished intellect obviously. But they have attachments, fears and experience love given to them, not unlike children. Condoning or not caring about the suffering of animals reveals hardness of heart. It’s really quite simple.
And Saint Francis.