Excellent New York Times’ op-ed in which the writer, Frank Bruni,
examines the advances in ethics as far as non-human animals go. New laws,
new documentaries, penalties for animal abusers, etc. and especially the
increasing awareness that non-human animals are simply not different than us
in the sense that they value their lives as much as we values ours, is
pushing humans to recognize that we need to treat animals with dignity and
respect. This simply cannot happen if we continue to use them for our
benefit.
God’s animals raised for food only know misery and death. There’s no
respect, no love and no dignity in the way they are treated. What we do to
them, we do to ourselves, because we see misery, sickness, and devastation
arising from it. text
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