Marlee, age 12:
Before I even begin to explain what in the animal life, is reality, I’d like to point out that your commentary is an opinion, not fact. Think of it this way, humans have rights to remain fairly treated, healthy, happy, safe, and respected. If animal rights are limited due to the crude remarks of people who choose to make senseless comments, such as yourself, the suffering will continue. It is the same to an animal as it is to a human.
Animals, just like humans, have emotions, experience pain, suffering, and discomfort the exact same way you or I would. So why not bother to care for them, as you would care for a human. What’s the difference? We’re all on the same earth. We all breathe the same air, so what does it matter if some of us are covered in fur? Does that give us the right to torture them and use them for our own greed? It really doesn’t. There is no reason one species should have to suffer and live in filth so that another species can have additional products.
As for your interpretation on PETA’s president, Ingrid Newkirk, you should really think about what you're saying. Milk, believe it or not, is not all that society, and commercials say it is. It’s not all that healthy - it's full of dangerous diseases, and it belongs to the cows, not us. Most farmers, who sell their animals to be slaughtered and eaten do not care much for the animals themselves. They care about the money they sadly earn from selling these innocent animals’ lives. As long as they have meat inside of them, are a decent size, and not deformed, its fine with the farmer.
‘Concentration camps for animals’ Is a perfect way to say it. If it were untrue, it would be insult, but its not. Its only the truth that people who were put in concentration camps were in stress, pain, had disease, and in the end, traumatic death was the result. No matter which way you say it it’s the truth. That’s what concentration camps were. They led to death, and that’s the blunt description of a turkey’s life on a turkey farm. They are raised to be eaten.
In nature, one animal doesn’t eat another animal for personal greed and a spoiled society. They’re eaten because animals don’t have the brain capacity to understand the result of their actions. The fact is, if an animal doesn’t have to suffer, and you realize the intense pain an animal experiences as it's raised, why are you supporting it?
Do you see people volunteering to have research done on them? To have makeup products sprayed in their face, chemicals smothered over their bare bodies, and things poking around your body is not human. Is it very fair to animals to have their lives sacrificed for our research? They should have the exact rights that you or I have to not allow this done to us.
Even I’ll admit, some people do take this matter too far, with bombs. But you have to keep in mind that some people have dedicated their lives to saving animals, and standing for their rights, to the point when they take such a crucial stand and do something like blow up a building. But they are just tired of not being listened to, and not having people realize what they’re doing is wrong, dead wrong.
To close this letter, I’d like to ask you a question. If all the cows formed an alliance, brought you into a strange laboratory, you had no clue what you were doing, what these cows were doing, or where you were, and then they started hurting you…trying to figure out a cure for mad cow disease. And even though you begged them not to touch you, because you were in extreme pain, having needles carelessly stabbed into your eyes and body, would you be happy? Think of the situation. Really think about it. If you can honestly tell me that you wouldn’t mind, Ill consider your opinion.
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