Some people especially young children are extremely sensitive and impressionable with regard to animals. They have a natural affinity for them and a curiosity which should be carefully nurtured. With the right guidance an encouragement by parents and teachers, a child can learn to appreciate and understand animals, to treat them with compassion and to respect their rights.
In a purely utilitarian sense, animals can provide valuable learning experiences that will help a child mature into a more responsible and caring adult. In other words, teaching kindness toward animals can indirectly benefit our society because humane attitudes affect our relationship with both animals and people. The question of animal rights has been ignore in our culture for too long, unlike to most western countries where the welfare of animals is being safeguard accordingly. We owe it to them, as we do to our young and incoming generations, to foster concern for the rights of animals; to put an end to the thoughtless abuses, exploitations and insensitivity towards our animals’ kin that are so widespread today. I think animals have been more or less taken for granted, but since they cannot speak for themselves, we as their masters and guardians must speak for them, we as the most powerful creation on earth, have a moral obligation. Like us they are purposely created by God thus they too, are entitled for the rights we humans have. Wild or tranquil they are all basically to our own
ROAR!
REACH OUT. ACT. RESPOND.
I Feel bad and mad for people who recklessly treat animals, WE have an obligation but often a lot of people are ignorant about the fact that animals can suffer; "I often wondered what they learned about animals when they were young."
There are many rights that our animal kin should be accorded. These include:
- the right to life;
- to humane treatment;
- to freedom;
- And responsible care.
Yet these are often ignored by people. In fact, a lot of illegal animal selling is truly rampant for many people think that animals are just like machines and that their actions when they are injured are simply automatic reflexes; when you burn your finger, you pull your hand away. That is an automatic reflex action. So why do some people think that animals are unfeeling as machines? As Cardinal John Henry Newman said; “Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God." Let us ROAR and make children think, feel, and see with greater intensity and clarity. Just where we fit in relation to the rest of the animal kingdom.YOU DON'T LIKE TO BE HURT, NEITHER DO I. It’s logical to think and to expect that these animals don't like to suffer either. How do we know that? Because we are the most powerful animal thus we are considered human and above. So let us be a friend for them...
FOR ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS, TOO!
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