The acceptance of human superiority over nonhuman animals (animals) has led to the greatest atrocities on the planet earth. In the United States alone, each year over 8 billion animals are tortured and killed in the name of human enjoyment and convenience. This doesn't include the billions of marine animals that are also murdered. Humans don't need to eat animals for any reason, and are in fact physiologically herbivorous. In addition, human obsession with dairy and egg products results in unfathomable misery for billions of creatures who are forced to live their short lives in unimaginably cruel environments, only to end up being dragged to the slaughterhouse for their services.In addition, factory farming is, by far, the greatest contributor to the earth's pollution and global warming. The amount of food it takes to "produce" meat and other animal products could be used to feed a far greater number of human beings.
I am a graduate student at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, working toward a masters degree in philosophy. This blog is a place for me to think out loud about ideas relevant to my thesis on the moral status of animals.
Right now, my focus is on presenting a multicultural, citizenship model of relating to animals whereby humans are mandated by law and culture to treat animals with the inherent moral value they possess as sentient creatures.
If you are at all interested in advancing the cause of ending suffering on this earth for all sentient creatures, please chime in.
Laura Kamienski
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