CAPITÁN SWING LIBROS

is it right or wrong to needlessly inflict pain and suffering on others?

After all, if it was so obviously wrong, surely it would be illegal. But does legality equal morality? Should something be accepted as ethical simply because it is allowed under law?

I could either bury my head in the sand, ignoring the feelings of guilt and discomfort that causing suffering to an animal created within me, or live by the new principles that I was beginning to form and change my lifestyle.

And regardless of the farming methods used, humane slaughter is an oxymoron

Is it not strange that we call those who kill dogs animal abusers, those who kill pigs normal and those who kill neither extremists? Is it not odd that someone who smashes a car window to rescue a dog on a hot day is viewed as a hero but someone who rescues a piglet suffering on a farm is a criminal?

The ability of animals to have these subjective experiences was outlined in the European Union’s 2007 Treaty of Lisbon, which determined that animals are sentient beings. In 2021, the UK government also announced a law that would formally recognise the sentience of animals (including farmed animals)

It is ironic that we often believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathise with the animals who suffer at our hands.