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 "Humans are more important than animals." Ok, fine. Let's worry about how animals affect us then. See above. "We have more important problems to deal with than animals." That doesn't make it not a problem, and any problem is worth solving. "Who cares about animals, what's the big deal? You people are crazy." The 'crazy' probably comes from disagreeing with some organization's tactics, but strategies to solve a problem are different than the necessity to do so. Not everyone will be convinced that any single animal cruelty case or factory farm is a problem, or indeed has any effect. But en masse, it is hard to deny that our attitudes and actions towards animals shape us as much as we shape them, even if we don't know how. And while we're learning, we must use this knowledge to make informed choices about how we manage our inter-species relationships, both for our own individual well-beings and the well-being of the big, interwoven blue marble we inhabit. Our big brains have put a lot of power in our hands-- it is up to us whether or not we use it wisely.

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I'm curious to see how I continue to edit this as I work this summer at an animal rights organization. I hope some other people out there wrote papers that relate to what they will be doing over the summer, and so they can engage in the same process.

-- RorySkaggs - 02 May 2010

 
 
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