Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
Then what about the rights of the vegetables? They're living things too, aren't they? Why is it okay to rip carrots out of the ground, skin them with a peeler and chop them up for a salad? Don't they have the right to humane treatment?
What a lovely idea! Why don't you start an organisation?

These PETA people seem to want to give more "rights" to the animals than they are willing to give to other humans.
I don't know about that, but as I see it, animals have just as much right to be here as other life. But we are in the process of taking All and Everything for ourselves, humans alone. What gives us the right to do that? Are we so fantasic creatures? Are you going by bible, which says that god gave us all the earth and everything in it to do with as we please? If you do not believe in god, who gave us the right?

They want to empty out the zoos, despite the fact that this would virtually guarantee the extinction of who knows how many species.
How about stopping either putting them in cages, or ruining their habitats?

Or should we, perhaps, tear down our cities and suburbs and give the land back to the animals? After all, they were here first. They have the "right" to their own land.
Yes, they do, just like the American natives. How about we make a reasonable compromise, whereby we stop ruining more land and start being resposible for domestic animals?

Or do you feel that we have a right to go on till all animals are extinct, and there isn't a blade of grass on all the planet?