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Not all humans who keep company with nonhumans do so because they are lonely, or inadequate in human relationships.
Those I have known who do not share life with other animals are frequently cold people, neurotically obsessive with cleaning and disdainful of other humans too.
Children reach out naturally to other animal life, and we don’t question surrounding the youngest of us with fluffy toys in the shape of other animals. It would be questioned if some parent didn’t.
As capitalism blights our lives and crushes the natural out of us with age, we become alienated from both other humans and other animals, and many of us turn our rage on those weaker than us – such as pets, children, and gentle humans who are “not hard enough.”I agree that the pet industry’s disappearance would be a good thing, as speciesism declines following the socialist revolution.
However, aren’t you forgetting (?) that dogs, humans and cats are animals who have gravitated together since prehistory, especially the first two.I have been researching incidents in history that show the powerful love of dogs for their human friends, and innumerable cases abound that show the same between other animals and humans, and between other species without humans.
Why should the fading of the pet-keeping phenomenon, and the disappearance of exploitative relationships rule out any relationship between humans and members of other species, without ownership and exploitation?
Relationships with other humans will be freed from the ugliness, competitiveness and bullying of today, but even so: would you really want no sharing and no friendship with other fellow animals?
Humans are killing more than that every day.
What do you propose we do with the cats?
Domesticated cats have been pets since Ancient Egypt.Another Greenwald article on animal abuse. In this article the way in which those who expose or condemn animal abuse are punished is discussrd.
New Documents Reveal How the Animal Agriculture Industry Surveils and Punishes Critics
Another good article on the piglets.
An article of an undercover investigation of the culling of pigs during COVID. They were basically roasted to death in their barns.
Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic
Putin might feel it necessary to invade Finland to stop it entering NATO. A NATO Finland would be able to host US nuclear missiles.
And it goes on, every day, the language which reveals human hatred for other animals and the human need to castigate and liken other animals to the human behaviour which reveals humans at their worst:
“It’s ANIMAL behaviour!” (The actions of Israeli troops).
“They’re not humans, they’re ANIMALS!” (Describing Russian actions in Ukraine).
“Only ANIMALS would do that!”
He’s an ANIMAL!”
“They treated him as if he were a DOG!” (In other words, were he a dog, that would be ok).Show me a single nonhuman animal species that perpetrates what humans perpetrate on their own kind as well as on other beings, that justifies such language.
What this language does do, however, is legitimise the holocaust that humans are inflicting on other animal species, and also on one another, by branding as “other” those we inflict injury and devastation on.
