Animal Owners United is a group of Internet animal and/or pet owners. We have banded together to EDUCATE the people about the differences between animal rights and animal welfare. Sometimes these differences become intertwined and the confusion that follows could be very dangerous to the rights of the animal and pet owners. We want to protect those rights!!
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WE believe the answers lie in education, NOT LEGISLATION. Legislation only hurts the honest people, those that care less about the law will simply move to a "safer" location. This is the way they think. Those that seek to limit numbers, breeding, locations and other animal and pet activities, only hurt the responsible people.
People that believe in animal welfare, believe that animals/pets should be properly cared for. Animal have needs and people are responsible to provide that care. Animals were put on this earth for our benefit. (We believe in animal welfare)
The Animal Rights movement seeks to endow animals with certian "rights". (Actually, only governments can assert rights. Rights are GOD given.) Animal truly, do NOT have rights. They were were NEVER intended to have them. They can't vote, holfd office or any "human rights" - Remember I said they DO have needs and It is OUR JOB to meet those needs.
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THE Animal Rights AGENDA
- Abolish by law animal research.
- Outlaw the use of animals for cosmetic and product testing, classroom demonstrations and weapons development.
- Vegetarian meals should be made available at all public institutions, including schools.
- Eliminate all animal agriculture. (This is your food sources people)
- End herbicides, pesticides, and other Agricultural chemicals. Outlaw predator control.
- Transfer enforcement of animal welfare legislation away from the dept. of Agriculture
- Eliminate fur ranching and end the use of furs.
- Prohibit hunting, trapping and fishing.
- End the international trade in wildlife goods.
- Stop any further breeding of companion animals, *including purebred dogs and cats*. Spaying and neutering should be subsidized by State and Municipal governments. Commerce in domestic and exotic animals for the *pet trade* should be abolished.
- End the use of animals in entertainment (no more animal shows, circuses or Zoos)
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What Animal Rights leaders say:
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship they should seek it with their own kind." -- Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, "Animals," May/June 1993"I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out." -- (Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988)
"One day we would like an end to pet shops and breeding animals [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild." -- Ingrid Newkirk, Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990
"I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate 'good' has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property...." -- David Foreman, co-founder and leader, Earth First! (Animal Rights Reporter, June, 1989)
"You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them....One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild....They would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV." -- "Where Would We Be Without Animals?", Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA, "Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights" (symposium) Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles- from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it." -- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington D C, PETA, 1982). p. 15
"As the surplus of cats and dogs (artifically engineered by centuries forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment from a distance." -- Ingrid Newkirk, "Just Like Us?......(see above)
"We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child" -- Alex Pacheco, then Chairman, People for the Ethical Treatment of animals [PETA] (New York Times, January 14, 1989)
"The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory of animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and nonhumans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes. then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights." -- Gary Francione, Director of the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic (The Animals'Voice, VOL. 4, NO. 2, pp. 54-55)
"As long as humans have rights and nonhumans do not, as is the case in the welfarist framework then nonhumans will virtually always lose when their interests conflict with human interests. Thus welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved." -- Gary Francione and Tom Regan ("A Movement's Means Create Its Ends", Animals' Agenda, January-February, 1992)
"I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate good has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property." -- David Foreman, Co-Founder and Leader, Earth First! (Animal Rights Reporter, June, 1989)
In Q&A session following a speech, "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs", University Of Wisconsin-Madison, October 27, 1989, Tom Regan, when asked which he would save, a dog or a baby, if a boat capsized in the ocean, responded: "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
"[Animal] Fancies provide an escape from the real world, a sense of purpose in a lot of purposeless lives, a chance to play God by breeding animals, and a chance to play celebrity by showing them." (The Animals' Agenda, Dec. 1991, Phil Maggitti).
"Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage." (Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of U.S., in 1988 Newsweek interview).
Animal rights advocates do not distinguish between human beings and animals. In the words of Ingrid Newkirk, founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), "There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals."
Michael Fox of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has said, "That life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect."
And lest we forget where we're seen similar rhetoric and Animal Rights trumpeted before:
"Man should not feel so superior to animals. He has not the right to." -- Adolph Hitler, 1939
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