If An Animal Has Any Rights At

I Maintain That We Ought To Abolish The Institution And Stop Causing Or Facilitating The Existence Of More 'companion' Animals.

We Proclaim Human Intelligence To Be Morally Valuable Per Se Because We Are Human. If We Were Birds, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Fly As Morally Valuable Per Se. If We Were Fish, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Live Underwater As Morally Valuable Per Se. But Apart From Our Obviously Self-interested Proclamations, There Is Nothing Morally Valuable Per Se About Human Intelligence.

We Can No More Justify Using Nonhumans As Human Resources Than We Can Justify Human Slavery. Animal Use And Slavery Have At Least One Important Point In Common: Both Institutions Treat Sentient Beings Exclusively As Resources Of Others. That Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Humans; It Cannot Be Justified With Respect To Nonhumans—however “humanely” We Treat Them.

Forty-two Years After Dr. King Was Murdered, We Are Still A Nation Of Inequality. People Of Color, Women, Gays, Lesbians, And Others Are Still Treated As Second-class Citizens. Yes, Things Have Changed But We Have Still Not Achieved Equality Among All Humans. And Nonhuman Animals Continue To Be Chattel Property Without Any Inherent Value.

When It Comes To Animal Agriculture, There Is Conventional, Which Is Rally Hideous, And 'compassionate' And 'certified Humane' Or Whatever, Which 'may' Be 'slightly' Less Hideous. But It Is All Torture. It's All Wrong. These 'happy' Gimmicks Are Just Designed To Make The Public Feel Better About Exploiting Animals. Don't Buy The Propaganda Of 'happy' Exploitation. Go Vegan And Promote Veganism.