Says who? Says us humans, of course — a species that is so arrogantly homeocentric that it is not only brazenly rationalizing the horrific atrocities it is currently committing against vast populations of farmed animals, but is also willfully destroying its own planet of origin at an alarming rate – and knowingly taking the majority of other sentient species over the cliff with it while it does so.

In all fairness, it seems as though the only animals on the entire planet that have no right to speak about rights are we humans!

To make matters worse, our hubris continues to blind us to the many ways that many other species are clearly superior to our own – that cows are more nurturing, that herons are more faithful, that dogs show greater loyalty, that elephants have greater empathy, and that dolphins exhibit a more complete intelligence — just to name but a few.

Of course, it doesn’t really matter whether a particular species is “smarter” or more “technologically savvy” than we are. After all, we aren’t talking about the right to vote or the right to drive a car here … We are talking about the innate Right of every sentient being to be treated with fundamental respect; the innate Right of every sentient being to be able to live a life free from the unjust & cruel intrusions of enslavement, confinement, torture & murder.

My Friends, the truly superior being is not the one who can speak in clear sentences or operate machinery or force his or her will upon another. The truly superior being is the one who deeply respects the rights of all his sentient brothers & sisters — and then acts accordingly.

 

Current status of this Myth: Negated
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE

Filed under: Minimizing the Myths of Meat by Scaughdt