Cruelty to animals comes in many guises – from the deliberate vicious attacks on the defenseless to the suffering caused by indifference or neglect. But all stem from the attitude that animals are ‘less than’ us, and that they can be traded and treated as if they were inanimate objects.
When we understand that animals are here with us, not for us, we treat them as equally deserving of their autonomy as any and every non-human animal. They too have a right to life, a right to fulfil their own natural behaviors, and a right not to be harmed, exploited or abused.
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