On World Animal Day, we feel it is appropriate to emphasize that:
- intensive livestock farms
- fur industry
- experimentation and vivisection
- circuses and zoos
- hunting and fishing
- reproduction for profit
- use for entertainment or as a labor force
are forms of exploitation and cruelty to animals that are consumed daily and inexorably before everyone’s eyes.
Always, even on the world day that “should” celebrate all animals.
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others,” wrote George Orwell in the novel Animal Farm.
Pigs, chickens, chickens, mice, hamsters, horses, calves, cows, goats, sheep, turkeys, wolves, elephants, and you name it, these are the nonhuman individuals defenestrated across the line of ideological hypocrisy.
The main question to ask is why we are extolling animal advocacy when we claim the right to harm 99 percent of the existing species.
The moving slogans of animal rights activists or self-styled animal rights activists are repugnant in the face of their habits and especially their eating habits.
It is fine to defend the dog and the cat but of the vivisected mouse little cares and even less of the pigs housed in microscopic cages destined for slaughter to become chops, bacon, sausage.
And as for the “good” St. Francis, he is no exception either: the poor man of Assisi ate meat, placed man at the center of everything, and only then, to follow, animals, theenvironment and creation as resources at the service of man himself.
When St. Francis spoke to the wolf of Gubbio he said, “Brother wolf, you do much harm in these parts, and you have done great evil, tasting and killing God’s creatures without his license. And you have not only killed and devoured beasts, but you have had the audacity to kill and spoil men made in the image of God “.
If you are Catholic, you cannot profess to be an animal activist: be honest at least with yourself.
