Why should animals get it easy?!
Answers: Why is it that animals should be treated like royalty (or gods) and never have any use for anything when humans have to work their backsides off to get anywhere? I'm not saying it's ok to abuse pigs or accept eggs from battery hens, but seriously? Should we tell these animals they are useless and have no purpose living?
Animals don't really have it easy. They have to go out and find food and avoid predators.
For those of us who are omnivores, animals are quite useful as they are apart of many peoples' daily diets.
I'm not a vegetarian and I think it's fine to eat animals. However I don't think that vegans treat animals "like gods." I think they just don't believe you should eat other livings things that have minds and possibly souls. I mean, we think it's wrong to eat other people, right?
Animals should have it easy because they cannot talk.
animals have no purpose living?! dogs make people happy bees make honey and ants are always carrying heavy things around. chickens, like humans, take care of and make sure to protect their chicks. (no, i am neither vegetarian nor vegan.)
I wanna come back as a cat..wow what a life! But then I avoid Curry Houses, it would worry me about the curries! Tom Cat Curry anyone!
Well what have we done for the world that is so damn freaking spictacular???All we have done is make the earth a polluted waste dump.Think about it ...the world would be a much better place if humans werent living on it. Dony you agree?So dont go picking on the animals becuase their to "lazy," at least they dont dont sit on their asses like your doing right now asking stupid questions get up and go do something good for the earth useless *** hole!!!
Well im 14 and dont have a job, but i do volunteer at the animal shelter a couple of times a week and its sad to see what some people can do...please you probably work at mcdonalds loser.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Are you under the impression that vegans/vegetarians want people to serve animals and give them lives of luxury? Because that's not what it's about.
It about getting people to stop torturing and killing animals. And, yes, animals are tortured at slaughterhouses and on factory farms.
I don't want to treat animals like royalty or Gods. I just think they deserve to live lives that aren't full of extreme physical and emotional pain.
And they don't just exist to be food for humans, they obviously have a will to live their own life without being eaten. I'm sure they'd all prefer to be "useless" to us if the use requires killing them.
Also- I have no idea what the fact that you grew up on some supposedly great farm has to do with your question. So there are 50 or so sheep that are treated OK in comparison to the millions that are killed in brutal conditions? How then do animals in general "get it easy"?
First off, you're not "telling" any animal it's "useless" because you disagree with factory farming techniques, and because you would prefer not to have animals killed unnecessarily; that makes it sound as if rejecting a hamburger is going to send a cow into a period of self-doubt, an addiction to Vicodin, and eventual appearances on the Dr. Phil show. An animal only has the "purpose" to die for you because that's what you believe.
What's your purpose in life? What's the purpose of life itself? Honestly, that's a question that philosophers have been debating for millennia. I don't think, however, that in the case of animals, it boils down to - purpose, being caged, made lame, burned, injected, bits chopped off their bodies, and then eventually dying. Rejecting that is a far cry from treating 'animals like gods.'
animals don't get it easy!
a) wild animals often struggle to survive. We easily get our food while they often go days without a meal because for most animals, everytime they want to eat they have to hunt and kill something..not an easy task. It is kill or be killed and many die of starvation
b)Animals live to be your food. MIllions of farm animals are born every year for only one reason.. to be EATEN. They are born into horrible conditions, often being tortured and forcefully fattened up only to be slaughtered and eaten.
I am really not trying to say that what your saying is WRONG, i understand where your coming from, for example pets, most of them have a pretty sweet life compared to us and get everything just given to them, but then again so do a lot of people.
My, you have a dim view of the world. Animals have serviced humans since the begining of time. They were/are used to plow fields, pull heavy wagons, forge trails (that are now paved roads) wrangle cattle, naturally fertilize the earth, as food, and a host of other things. Dogs, horses, mules, camels, and other animals are still very much in service to this day. Other animals are on display in zoos, circus, amusement parks, and other places that entertain humans. You may work 70 hours a week, but I doubt you are subjected to the inhumanities animals are-especially those used for food. Want to trade your 70 hour a week PAYING job for a day in the life of a dairy cow or laying hen? Thought not...The only thanks they get is to be dowsed with condiments and served with green beans....some trade off. Open your mind, why don't you...you might just discover that you DON'T know it all, after all.
What are you talking about? Animals have a HUGE purpose on this earth! I think it depends on what you define as "useless." You might ask yourself if what you mean by that is if they even contribute to civilized human society. If that's the case, then yes, they do! Here's where I think every non-human animal is useful, to both humans and the rest of the world:
-Food (I'm vegetarian, but animals do provide good protein for meat-eaters)
-Ranching (herding dogs, plow-horses)
-Traveling or carrying freigt on rough terrain (horses, elephants, dogs on sleds, camels)
-Maintaining animal population (too many furry little bunnies and not enough alligators, for example, means bunnies become rodents, which means we're forced to bust out the rodenticides and traps)
-Psychology studies (here's where they benefit themselves and not humans directly. Ever watched video of a pack of wolves or herd of elephants? They have social heirarchies that work to the benefit of their health and well-being, thus prolonging their species)
-Psychology studies (where it benefits humans by watching other animals so we can understand our chaotic human selves :P)
-Therapy (like dogs or cats in retirement homes)
-Rescue, disabled-persons-guides, bomb detection (who knows, you might be rescued by a German Shep from a fire one of these days)
-Plant food source (honey from bees)
-Land and water maintenance (dam-building beavers keep water from eroding soil)
-Natural architecture (we've learned a lot about modern buildings by watching beavers build dams, spiders spin webs, wasps build nests and ants dig homes in the ground
-Plant growth (how do you think plants get fertilized and thrive? by animal poop, of course!)
-Natural phenomenon changes (we still rely on bird flights for weather changes, hyperactive pets when an earthquake is about to hit, and certain flies to detect light ray emissions)
-Companionship
I remember a grade-school teacher telling us that "animals don't rely on us - we rely on them." That's a very wise thing to say. I also think in order to rely on them, we need to do what we can to keep them from being extinct. This is why we have endangered species lists. Each animals serves some purpose of keeping our earth balanced. That's important to remember.
HAVE YOU EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR QUESTION!?!
Humans do work for their food..and sure they work pretty hard.
But that is NO comparison to animals!
They work hard, but they risk their lives for food.
They hunt..they cant just go out to the store and bring home some food.
They hunt for it, and others hunt for them.
You should feel lucky being a human.
You go to work, you get paid….the government protects you.
No human in America actually starves to death because they're poor.
you say the animals have no purpose living..well then are you saying that humans do?
they want to live just like US.
They want to eat JUST LIKE US.
they Have Kids JUST LIKE US!
They arent treated like royalty.
In Factories they are abused and hurt.
In the wild they are feared of being eating..they risk thier lives for their dinner..THAT DOESNT SOUND SO ROYAL DOES IT?
Sure humans work hard for food..but do they risk their lives for it?
They go to jobs, they get what they earn.
If they cant work..they government helps.
AND im sure Animals do not get that kind of support.
ANd by saying the are useless did u mean they have no use on earth..or they have nothing to live for..
If it was for the earth then think about humans..what do we do for earth..we contaminated it...but Do no good for it.
and in case you meant no point of living..well they live the same purpose humans do.
Eat, Live, Reproduce, Ect.
I hope you don’t think like this anymore, be thankful you were born a human and not suffering animals.
I used to be a vegetarian, I have no idea how, it used to discust me thinking of enjoying eating animal flesh and their insides, now I love it, animals should die, especially cows, I love cows
I don't think animals should have it easy... I am fine with people eating meat, I don't judge, but I do think many people choose to ignore the cruelty behind the food they eat. It wouldn't bug me as much if there was at least a semblance of humanity to it all.
I just don't like what the meat industry and dairy industry has done to animals. I choose not to participate in and fund cruelty to animals. Besides, I feel healthier eating a vegan diet.
Ideally I would like animal populations to normalize, I think that animals are seen as disposable, as things, like crops. There is an excess of cattle, pigs, chickens, etc. And these aren't healthy animals, they are sick, fat, basically meat for slaughter. These animals contribute to pollution; their sewage run-off is literally toxic due to the poor diet they eat and the hormones and antibiotics they are pumped full of.
Ideally I think there should be a return on earth to a normal ecosystem; right now I feel that the ecosystems on our planet are thrown out of whack because of simple human greed.
Animals have purpose, but their purpose isn't necessarily to be consumed by us. They should have the chance to live a life outside of a factory farm. Animals in the wild help promote a healthy ecosystem because they eat natural feed, and most herbivores excrete seeds so that new plant life will grow in the place of what they consumed. Carnivores keep populations down.
If an animal's mere existence and it doing only what nature intends for it to do is not enough, then we really don't have to breed millions and millions of them, do we? There are some very lazy unpurposeful people I know of...they do little good, but I still don't eat them. If my only purpose in this life were to end up on someone's dinner plate, I'd rather not exist in the first place. :)
Oh, and go ahead...tell Mr Chicken he's worthless, I bet you a dozen wings he won't care much and will happily continue with his dust bath.
The fact that you think animals don't have rights because they don't have any "use" betrays the simplicity of your "thought process".
So, you're saying if an animal can't be turned into food,clothing, test subject, transportation, or anything interesting to people it shouldn't even bother being born?
Human species must be the most evolved one, but we're not above Nature. we're just mere animals as well.
Excuse me? This is an insult to vegans and vegetarians everywhere.
Read this, dumb@$$, and then leave us all alone. What have YOU done to change the world? Sit on your butt and insult vegetarians all day?
http://samvak.tripod.com/animal.html
Interesting question.. I do sometimes resent my cat for lying around all day while I'm working hard to get a degree :)
But seriously... It's not about treating animals like royalty or "gods". It's about having enough compassion to treat animals like living, feeling beings instead of like meat-producing machines: http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty....
I believe that they should have never been born. That is the main problem, breeding. There is no way that animals would reproduce this fast naturally just to feed gluttonous developed nations so people have to force breed animals. I would rather have domesticated species become extinct than used up like disposable property.
Just because we are the most advanced species on the planet, that gives us no right to expect a use out of every other species for our benefit.
Letting someone live without extra pain and suffering is not treating them like royalty. Everyone deserves such a life. I'm not trying to be rude, but it sounds pretty ridiculous to equate not slitting someones throat with treating them like royalty.