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Environmental concerns potentially bring us all closer to
agreement with each other. Who in their
right mind doesn’t think the environment should be cared for, especially since
it has been so badly damaged. We all
love this planet. We want a future for
our grand children. We all want to save the
forests and rivers, whereas Animal Rights isn’t in the same league of
importance. It doesn’t sound like a
planet-saving matter and it isn’t obvious how saving animals (from humans) can
be ‘good for us’.
If giving rights to animals brings no benefit to ‘me’, then
all we see is inconvenience. We might
want to do ‘the right thing’, but we’re likely to let ‘animal issues’ fade into the background - we put the issues
on the backburner. It isn’t urgent, like
‘the environment’. We may feel some
sympathy. We may feel our nice side coming out when we do something against
cruelty, like supporting giving hens larger cages. Nothing more. It’s as far as empathy-for-hens and
animal-welfare goes. It’s as far from ‘the abolition of animal slavery’ as you
can get.
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