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English-Nederlands-Espaņol-Deutsch
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taking away an animal's freedom worse than killing it? |
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The emphasis we put on the central, major
role of freedom, could lead to the impression that we
think slaughtering the animal for consumption-purposes
is not as bad as taking away its freedom during the time
it grows up.
Killing animals can be seen as the most extreme way of
deprivation of their freedom. The only difference is the
irreversibility. Killing means putting a final end to,
in a very short instance, all the options one can choose
from while alive.
If a human being commits a premeditated murder on another
human being, the killer can be put in jail for just about
as many years as he or she would be imprisoned if they
would have taken someone hostage (a maximum of 15 years
opposed to 20 years for murder, under Dutch law). |
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There are circumstances under which killing
a human life is permitted: in a case of self-defence,
in a case of abortion and by practising euthanasia (i.e.:
for the last two cases it goes that in recent years some
countries (f.e. The Netherlands) have adapted their laws
to that respect).
Curtailment of freedom is allowed
only by way of punishment or by way of protection of society.
Only the government may carry out this task.
If you assume that you are
allowed to eat animals, this does not yet entitle you
to curtail its freedom during the animal's life to an
extreme extent.
The culling of healthy animals too in cases of FMD
or swine fever, is being rejected by a majority of people.
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| In our video-directory,
the killing of a six months young calf can be watched.
Whoever can tell from the last seconds of this calf whether
it knows what is has coming, may say so. |
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On video too, the life of the calf can be
watched. Still separately housed and on its own now, in
future to be housed in small groups of calves.
Is your food worth this kind of life? |
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Species versus individual
We have to work hard on the Ecological Main Structures
throughout countries, in order to create, for animals,
their own territories where they can find rest and liberty.
Rights of the species go above rights of the individual
(if a certain family of plants is about to become extinct,
it is allowed to forbid people to disturb the life of
these plants).
Put into a schedule: |
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According to the schedule
below, genetic manipulation of plants can be allowed provided
that the consequences of such handling are fully known.
Genetic manipulation or modification of and experiments
on animals that would reduce their options to behave naturally,
ought to become forbidden soonest possible. |
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Killing is allowed
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Impeding natural
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Is hunting for pleasure a natural
pastime?
Hunting animals for the sheer pleasure of the "sport",
is unnatural since in nature it is virtually unheard
of that one creature would kill an other living being
just for "fun". Amongst wildlife killing as
good as always takes place within the so called food
cycle. In that sense the hunting-instinct of the "hunter-sportsman"
is both unnatural and hard-hearted.
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When less hunting would take place in our
country, as a result more animals would eventually dare
to show themselves - from a distance - to people more
often.
Make the hunter "shoot" with a camera: that
is equally sportsmanlike and exciting and truly a manner
of honouring and respecting freedom!
Also see the argumentation against "hunting
myths".
More about ethics and farming and food on our ethical
barometer. |
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