Animals Rights and Human Wrongs in a Fast Food Nation

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date published 25/04/2008

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The abolitionist movement in slave-era America was clear-cut and its ethos was simple: Free all slaves in the name of human rights. Looking back centuries later at those who argued for slavery, most would find holes in their argument that Africans were meant to be slaves because of their racial inferiority and lack of civilization. The great golden empires of Mali were obviously ignored, as well as the fact that mothers were screaming and crying for their children as they were thrown into nets and hauled away from their villages. Africa had numerous political systems and governments before the age of slavery, and it’s obvious that an African person can feel physical and emotional pain and distress like any other human being. As for intelligence, Africans and African-Americans merely needed to be given a chance to produce such minds as George Washington Carver and Thurgood Marshall. Can any argument on so-called racial inferiority be offered today that can’t be refuted by a non-Eurocentric look at history and biology?

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Tom Regan, author of 'Animal Rights, Human Wrongs', is a different sort of abolitionist.
Regan points out the numerous health benefits of a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Why should animals be excluded from suffering pain?
Religions disagree on whether or not a sentient being has a soul or not.
Food safety laws have been argued for thousands of years.
Decades ago, fast food started as just another post-war development of convenience.
While on the subject of the environment, slash-and-burn farming may be discussed as a further violation of animal rights.
I stand with Tom Regan on his abolitionist stance on using animals for meat, dairy, and fur.