animals

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

anim right

In European culture we tend to look at animals from the Christian point of view and regard them as inferior beings subordinated to man. This seems to justify the treatment of animals as our resources used for food, clothes, research purposes or just for sport. Of course, there are groups opposing the above attitudes. Many animal welfare groups, such as the World Society for the Protection of Animals or The Animal Rights Movement aim at the total abolition of animal medical research, fur industry and sport hunting and trapping. They claim that although animals lack many