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Echidna
07-23-2015, 11:05 AM
A Spanish town has declared at least cats and dogs non-human citizens with all rights:
http://www.thelocal.es/20150721/spanish-town-gives-dogs-and-cats-equal-rights
This could be the very first step to a world where animals are treated as living creatures, and not as possessions.
I have a foreboding that in the future, all humans will be vegetarians and animals are treated equally, and meat consumption will be regarded as today is cannibalism (that was also widely practiced by tribes), and what today is acceptable in animal keeping will be regarded as slavery.
I'm not holding my breath, but maybe it's going to happen some day.
Trade Winds
07-23-2015, 02:12 PM
I would hope instead of vegetarian, everyone would be vegan instead of ditching just meat. No dairy cows that have their babies taken away and turned into veal, forced to be constantly pregnant and then killed for cheap meat. No hens producing an abnormally large amount of eggs and then killed for cheap meat (hint: free range, cage free, etc is not a regulated term and is a lie). NO ANIMAL deserves to be used, killed, eaten, etc by humans. No more animals forced to entertain humans (zoos, circuses, aquariums), live in unnatural settings, etc. A world where we are all equal. It's a far away dream but I think sometime in the future it will happen. Just think...blacks got rights, women got rights, now even gays can marry freely...one day animal rights will happen. Animals are not ours. They are their own. Using them is not a 'personal choice'. If you believe that, you're forgetting the choice and desires of someone else- the animal!
Watch Earthlings and you will understand just how badly we are treating animals, and destroying the planet at the same time via animal consumption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuQ-J04eLQ
Also Food Inc, Forks Over Knives, and any other good docs I've forgotten. *hopes another vegan will chime in*
As with other threads if anyone wants to debate anything, has questions, etc message me. I won't be following this thread.
Princess Kae-Leah
07-23-2015, 05:43 PM
Echidna, I totally agree! :) The statistics are there that meat and seafood consumption are slowly on the decline in the US. If things continue to progress at this rate, in a few decades most people will be vegetarian or at least flexitarian, only eating meat once in a blue moon as a special treat I just did a fact sheet on my mer-page about that very topic in fact. All these stats are from legit sources such as legit news sites, the US Department of Agriculture, the National Fisheries Institute, and farming and fishing industry websites, NOT from PETA etc.
*About 12% of US adults strongly agree and 19% somewhat agree that "they are eating many meatless/vegetarian meals"
*Meat consumption in the US fell by 12.2% from 2007 to the end of 2012
*According to one poll, a whooping 16% of people eat vegetarian more than half time
*Cow slaughter was down 4% in 2012
*Beef consumption in 2012 fell to 57.3 pounds per person, compared to 94.4 pounds per person in 1976
*The average U.S. consumer ate 14.6 pounds of seafood in 2012, down from 16.5 pounds in 2006, a drop of nearly 14 percent
*Spain, a country leading European seafood consumption, has seen a fall of 8% since 2008
*400 million less land animals were raised and killed for food in 2014 than 2007
*In Los Angeles, HSUS convinced the school district to switch to Meatless Mondays back in 2012. Today, that program alone is saving more than 700,000 meat-based meals from being served each week
*A 2013 study found that more than a third of Americans buy meat alternatives like Gardein
*A survey found 36% of Americans are open to the idea of plant-based eating
*In a survey of 2,000 US adults, 39% of participants say they ate less beef in 2013 than in 2012
*1 in 10 millenials is vegetarian or vegan
*More than 50% of Americans are familiar with the Meatless Mondays campaign, and one in five already participate
*The Meatless Monday program is practiced in hundreds of public and private K-12 schools
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