{"id":11,"date":"2010-07-19T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/07\/the-new-slave-trade.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:54:31","slug":"the-new-slave-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/07\/the-new-slave-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Slave Trade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I am shocked to say that slavery is still alive<br \/>\nand well in America. The culprits, exactly who you would least suspect, the<br \/>\n&#8220;alleged&#8221; animal rights activists. Animal rights activists always entertain me<br \/>\nwith their lack of consistency. I am not a big animal lover but I also believe<br \/>\nthey are not to be abused or mistreated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>This is the same message you would get from an<br \/>\nanimal rights activist because the animal rights activists are the geniuses<br \/>\nthat coined the phrase &#8220;species-ists&#8221;. I know, I know, it sounds like a punch<br \/>\nline at best or at least a frightening term one would find in a science fiction<br \/>\nbook from George Orwell. Right up there with big brother and thought police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Unfortunately the problem is it is all too real.<br \/>\nThere are humans that believe that <i>being<\/i><br \/>\nhuman is in no way superior to being non-human even though humans are the only<br \/>\nspecies with the capability of making that distinction. Dogs don&#8217;t since even<br \/>\nthough they&#8217;re &#8220;smart&#8221; they still sniff each other&#8217;s butt. Seems like it<br \/>\nshouldn&#8217;t take more than once to know what a butt smells like and to avoid it<br \/>\nat all costs? Plus wouldn&#8217;t <i>that<\/i> be<br \/>\nsomething your &#8220;memes&#8221; would pass on as soon as possible Dr. Dawkins?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>I don&#8217;t blame animals of course since all<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re looking for is three steady meals. The problem as I see it and lets<br \/>\nface it, I&#8217;m the only one that matters at this point, is the moment you take a<br \/>\nwild animal out of it&#8217;s environment and teach it to act contrary to its<br \/>\ninstincts. It is precisely at this moment that you are acting inhumanely since<br \/>\nyou are controlling its autonomy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Lets analyze the human\/pet interaction and see<br \/>\nwhat it looks like shall we? The animal lover always speaks about the pet in<br \/>\nloving terms and assures us &#8220;they&#8217;re like one of the family&#8221;. They oftentimes<br \/>\nrefer to the pet as &#8220;just like their children&#8221;. Really? You need someone to<br \/>\nguide your analysis a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>First off you OWN an animal, you get to<br \/>\nsterilize it in the name of compassion, you can sell off its young whenever you<br \/>\nwant to make money, you can have it killed without penalty, and command it to<br \/>\nobey your bidding, including the ultimate indignity, telling it where it is<br \/>\nallowed to relieve itself. That makes pet owners sound more like a slave owner<br \/>\nthan a humane individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Precisely why your called &#8220;master&#8221; I assume. A<br \/>\ntrue animal lover should be releasing their cats into the wild so they can<br \/>\nregain their killer instincts. Don&#8217;t coddle a poodle but teach them to assume<br \/>\nthe fierceness that poodles lost when they were removed from the pack and their<br \/>\nfur went from a thick armor designed to fend off attacks to carefully coiffed<br \/>\nsweater-like appearance designed to make them represent a walking Q-tip. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>We live in a time where animal rights fanatics<br \/>\nwill always stop any human progress of building or seeking energy if it in<br \/>\nanyway inconveniences an animal or for that matter a moth or a mollusk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Animals in their world aren&#8217;t treated as well as<br \/>\nhumans but actually <i>better<\/i> than us. A<br \/>\nwhale ends up on our beach we&#8217;ll spend thousands returning it to the sea. We<br \/>\nfall into the sea, the creatures eat us. Ironically they call our treating<br \/>\nanimals gingerly being humane. You know, from the word human. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>That&#8217;s my point after all. The fact that we<br \/>\ndiscuss how to treat animals proves we are superior to them because I guarantee<br \/>\nanimals in the Serengeti aint having this conversation. They treat us animally<br \/>\nbecause they are beneath us since they posses no compassion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>All I&#8217;m asking is to be consistent and do the<br \/>\nhumane thing by setting them free and letting the strong survive. If for know<br \/>\nother reason than I have got to see what a pack of poodles looks like in their<br \/>\nhunt for their former groomer. He&#8217;s going down!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am shocked to say that slavery is still alive and well in America. The culprits, exactly who you would least suspect, the &#8220;alleged&#8221; animal rights activists. 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