animals

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

...cont

of the abilities humans possess, they are conscious creatures feeling pleasure, anger, loneliness or suffering. Therefore, we should not consider ourselves as their superiors or masters and keep them in closed confinements, isolation or laboratories and ignore their needs, feelings and preferences. Vegetarians, for example, have even more extreme views. They renounce the use of animals in any way and give up eating meat while Greenpeace members propose to identify with mammals and claim that animals are members of oppressed groups.