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Animal Rights: What
America Needs Most
From Others follow when the United States expands basic rights protected under the Constitution. But the industry-government-media complex undermines the Constitution through public relations, exploiting human beings and other animals with far-reaching destructive impact. Establishing basic rights of all animals
is the only way to solve the big human problems and give all animals the
protection and empowerment necessary for a fulfilling life. What is animal rights? Members of one animal species - human beings - have some basic rights under the U.S. Constitution and other nations' constitutions. Secondary rights flow from basic rights, enhancing protection against tyranny. Without rights, there is no meaningful protection or empowerment, regardless of laws against cruelty, violence, or neglect. Responsible Policies for Animals outlines animal rights in its Draft Bill of Animal Rights and at the Animal Rights page of www.RPAforAll.org and promotes animal rights through its lectures, literature, websites, and campaigns to end promotion of speciesist ideology and animal-exploiting industries by universities and news. Essential to establishing basic rights
of all animals is eliminating rights of corporations and other nonliving,
non-feeling entities. Animal rights will reduce human disease. Humans acquired almost every infectious disease we can name through unnatural close contact with nonhuman animals - by enslaving them and otherwise disrupting the natural world. Influenza and others continue to cross over, threatening horrific epidemics and pandemics. Eating from animals is linked to the most widespread debilitating and lethal diseases in affluent societies: heart disease, stroke, many cancers, and others. That is not surprising since human beings evolved as prey, not predators; herbivores, not carnivores or omnivores. See the What About People? page of www.RPAforAll.org for details. Basic rights of all animals will help reduce human suffering from disease and will include a human right to healthful food. Animal rights will benefit the natural world. Human beings and the other animals suffer and die from humans' disrupting the natural world these past thousands of years. Beyond supplanting predators and taking up organized hunting, herding, agriculture, settled living, and war, disruption accelerated with rapid human population growth, city-states, nations, engines, electrical grids, coal- and oil dependency, manufactured chemicals, dams, bridges, other brute-force technologies, and more. Today, just using animals for food contributes an estimated 51 percent of gases afflicting humans and others everywhere with global warming. Animal use and human incursions into nonhumans' natural homes are linked to every major ecological disaster. Establishing basic rights of all animals
is the only way to reverse human biodisruption. Animal rights will help end war, genocide, and slavery. Human beings naturally protect and assist each other unless moved by mental illness, desperation, or tyranny to destroy or enslave others. Despots and demagogues create enemy groups by ethnicity, race, religion and other categories, dehumanizing them by calling them parasites, rats, vermin, cockroaches, snakes, pigs and other nonhuman animals deemed worthy only of death or enslavement, rationalizing war, genocide, and slavery. Establishing basic rights of all animals will eliminate classifications of some animals as unworthy of life, ending dehumanization and discrimination. Animal rights will help end poverty. Raising cattle causes poverty by driving agriculturists and horticulturists from their land, desertifying land, and concentrating Earth's wealth in the hands of a few humans. Raising animals for food drives the U.S. "get big or get out" farm policy fostered by our land-grant universities and agriculture departments, pushing rural people into poverty and even suicide. Raising animals for food and growing feed crops use massive amounts of toxic land- and water-contaminating chemicals. Eating from animals is the main cause of costly human diseases, food poisoning, and soaring medical & insurance costs leading to poverty and loss of homes. Establishing basic rights of all animals
will eliminate industries that most rapidly ruin land and steal people's
livelihoods and assets.
Understanding all of this, most people will agree animal rights is what America needs most - and will tell family, friends, officials, and executives. The public-relations industry, universities, and think-tanks use news to prevent understanding, managing the public mind for the industry-government-media complex. Learn more from Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA) literature, websites, and lectures. Have RPA recommend books. Engage politically as a citizen, not commercially as a consumer. Help organize
an RPA lecture. Become an RPA member, donating
by mail or online.
Selected
Sources
Revised September 2011
Donations to Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc., are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc., P.O. Box 891, Glenside, PA 19038 |
Animal
Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements
of Oppression and Liberation by
David Nibert