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is a cruel species. The stupidity of religion convinces some of our own
kind that a human blastocyst is of divine worth, yet an animal, even one
which is genetically nearly us, is expendable. In the Judaic/Christian
sacred text the delusion propounded is one of an imaginary god creating
animals solely for humans to harvest. It is this religious delusion which
underpins the culture of vivisection in a society that pays lipservice
to being secular. In other countries bile is 'harvested' from caged, living,
bears... until the animal is slowly killed... One wonders why..., for in
a country like Buddhist Vietnam, it would mean they are torturing another
human soul reincarnated as a "lower" life-form... , but maybe their Buddhist
delusion convinces them that this terrible fate is warranted; after-all,
to come back as a lower life-form means that this "soul" must have committed
something terrible in their previous incarnation and thus deserves this
miserable fate....(...yes they "milk" bile from bears in China too... ....
China..., the land in which the practice of "traditional medicine" is bringing
many species to the brink of extinction ... like the rhinoceros of which
97% have been exterminated from 1970 to 1990 simply because of a moronic
Chinese belief that the essence of an animal's 'power' can somehow be absorbed
by the consumption of the body part symbolising this power, which in the
case of the rhino is its horn. The west aids this extermination in its
support of such dumbfoundingly stupid voodoo by credulously peddling the
fantasy that Chinese traditional medicine is merely "herbal" ... )
As
humans we are represented against cruelty from our own kind by bodies such
as Amnesty International, but Amnesty is essentially politicised which
utterly diminishes the legitimate causes it pursues...
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