{"id":307,"date":"2007-09-16T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-09-16T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T17:40:35","slug":"307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/307\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong — fundamentally wrong — with the way animals are treated isn’t the details that vary from case to case. It’s the whole system. The forlornness of the veal calf is pathetic, heart wrenching; the pulsing pain of the chimp with electrodes planted deep in her brain is repulsive; the slow, tortuous death of the racoon caught in the leg-hold trap is agonizing. But what is wrong isn’t the pain, isn’t the suffering, isn’t the deprivation. These compound what’s wrong. Sometimes – often – they make it much, much worse. But they are not the fundamental wrong.<\/p>\n

The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us — to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport or money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights<\/em>, in In Defense of Animals<\/em> edited by Peter Singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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