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Our attitude to animals in
general is a paradox. It’s curious how
we humans can be close to our cats and dogs, even sometimes closer than with our
human companions. We might do everything
for our cats and dogs, to make their lives happy, despite the fact they only
offer us companionship (‘only’!) and produce no useful products for our use. We call them pets or companion animals and place
great value on them.
Mind you, when they’re no
longer able to fulfil their role as ‘companions’ they too may be shot, well,
‘shot’ full of lethal chemicals to ‘put them to sleep’, anyway. But when they’re alive, living with us as
working companions, we often try to give them the very best. We give them love, food, shelter and expensive
medical care.
But not so other animals, who
are valued not as companions but as property and often as edible property, at
that. These animals enjoy no quality of
life whatsoever; jailed for their whole life and, in fact, a life of perpetual
torture.
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