In case there are any remaining doubts that animal welfare has been hijacked by the hard left;
The editors of a new Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE) published this month by the University of Illinois Press say derogatory words like “pests” and “vermin” should be dropped altogether and “pets” replaced by “companion animals”, while “wild animals” should be termed “free living or free ranging animals”.
“Despite its prevalence, “pets” is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers. Again the word “owners”, whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint … In addition, we invite authors to use the words “free-living”, “free-ranging” or “free-roaming” rather than “wild animals”… For most, “wildness” is synonymous with uncivilized, unrestrained, barbarous existence. There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided.”
Check, double check, and triple check just who is running your local SPCA or humane society before donating so much as a nickel to them. Pay close attention to the language they use. There are hard core animal rights activists at work in even small town, rural animal shelters.
Some of those who solicit your money to “help animals” have, as their end game, the removal of your right to own one.
“For most, “wildness” is synonymous with uncivilized, unrestrained, barbarous existence. There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided.””
This is clearly from someone who has never been off the pavement before. Out in the bush you are only a link in the food chain. The trick is to stay at
It was the Haiti Earthquake which brought home to me: Always check out a charity. Find out what they spend, how. There are a few websites which monitor this. (Before the quake I thought the Red Cross was great, the way everyone does. Now, in no small part due to SDA posters, I know what kind of reputation they have, at least in some areas.)
Any decent charity should have a breakdown of where the money goes right there on their main webpage.
Perhaps they can all go and pet the nice free roaming polar bears, thereby earning themselves a chance at a Darwin award.
So… we’re not supposed to use ‘carbon’ based energy… now we’re not supposed to ‘use’ animals, I presume for work or food… I guess we should just wander around aimlessly until we freeze to death…
Funny that we never hear the proponents of these fictions offering to live this lifestyle that they want us all to live. i.e. Al Gore
“we’re not supposed to use ‘carbon’ based energy… now we’re not supposed to ‘use’ animals, I presume for work or food”
The fact that you think those two are equivalent says a lot about your attitude towards science.
“Funny that we never hear the proponents of these fictions offering to live this lifestyle that they want us all to live. i.e. Al Gore”
Not a fan of Gore, but I’m sure he’d be thrilled if “us all” bought enough carbon-credits to offset our emissions, so I’d say he is living the lifestyle he wants us to live. He just doesn’t want either himself or anyone else living the fictitious lifestyle you’ve come up with. But aren’t strawmen just so much fun? 🙂
Apparently they forgot to mention that “service animal” will be replaced with “slave”. Perhaps that’s for next year’s announcement.
Anyone know what Alex is babbling about?
I have one ‘pet’ and one working dog and they know where they stand with me and I with them – I don’t need some language police trying to redefine those relationships with politically correct terminological nonsense.
aviator, he’s makin’ perfect sense to me. Maybe, just try re-reading it 😉
Oh, go hug a polar bear and then come back and tell me the difference between wild and free living.
“harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property”
If someone steals your dog the only way you’ll get any action on it is by immediately reporting the crime as a property theft.
Dog theft is on the rise for a number of reasons, not least of which is that dog fighting rings steal your dog to use them as bait in training theirs and there is also an increase of animal rights activists stealing them to “set them free”.
Like Islam, the Greenies animal branch of fanatics have infiltrated all our institutions.
Alinsky yet again. Its their Bible.
There might be something to all this. I have stopped referring to the family dog as a “pet” and now address him as “companion animal”. His temperament has mellowed somewhat, his incidents of peeing on furniture have decreased markedly and his coat appears shinier. I know how the dog whisperer feels and all it took was a change in attitude.
Tomorrow, in order to reap even greater benefits, I will take it up a notch and he will become known as “canine carbon unit”.
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none of the 4 most recent 4-legged animals I have had a part in adopting (Im a first time cat owner) came from the humane society.
to hell with their politics.
the laST sentence says it all. I used to keep exotic pets, used to.
Henceforth, I will replace “pests” and “vermin” in my vocabulary with “animal rights activists”.
“Animal lovers” often come with a mindset that would be right at home with:
“Human and companion animal family members who have not been spayed
or neutered should each have to pay a $2000. yearly tax for their potential
environmentally damaging lifestyles.”
When a traditional charity institution undergoes a political take over by hard left zealots, the primary agenda is to enrich and empower the activist executive and secondly to propagate hard left radical ideologies. The AHS seems to fit this MO to a ‘T’.
Don’t forget “Pet Parents” which is being used in commercials to replace pet owners.