2008-11-25

“Animals are innocent!”

Vegans claim thatunlike humansanimals are innocent. When an animal kills, it kills for food, not for pleasure, they never torment other animals, and so on.

This is not the case:

  • Cats love to play with severly insured mice, tormenting them before they are dead,
  • horses eat apples fallen down from the tree when they already have started to ferment to get drunk,
  • lions kill the offspring of their rivals.
  • fraud, theft and prositution amongst Capuchin Monkeys,1
  • rape being a common practise amonst all kinds of animals,
  • racism, war2 and torture amonst chimpanzee3 (sorry I have not found English sources yet),
  • ants enslaving lice,
  • …and many more.

It is naive to think that humans are worse than animals. There is good reason to assume that a world where not the Homo sapiens but any other species is the most powerful would not be a more peaceful one than ours.


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Footnotes:
1: Source: www.nytimes.com
2: Source: www.affen.at
3: Source: www.perlentaucher.de