Ben's Blog

Animal Justice

Support:

More forests
More wildlife bassed tourism to encourage empathy between species
More wildlife corridors (Treeways not Freeways)
More wildlife in general
Real action on Climate Change, including:
Price on carbon
Renewable Energy Target
Learning from animal adaptation to climate change
Decarbonize of the economy
Include livestock in emissions calculation
Education in food based emissions
Note -methane emissions from livestock + carbon emissions from land clearance for livestock is more than double emissions from coal fired power plants

Competition for habitat between animals and humans is caused by a surfeit of humans, not an excess of animals.
(animal plagues should be reclassified as human plagues)

Change in the law that classifies animals as chatels (slaves)
Animals are people too.
Quote –
‘Animals make such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no judgements’

Removal all impediments to animals leading a rich and fulfilling life and achieving their full potential
(it is envisaged that this could be extended to human beings some time in the future)

Extend anti cruelty protection for companion animals to all animals, including livestock.
(Encourage dogs not to bite people.)

Voluntary euthenasia for animals. ( Animals should not be slaughtered for human consumption unless they are fed up with life and wish to die – after a thorough psychological assessment of course)
‘Animals are my friends and l don’t eat my friends’ – George Bernard Shaw

Dolphins, being far more intelligent, should be allowed to run the world
(they couldn’t do any worse than us)

Oppose:

Abolish slavery for animals (in line with the Magna Carta – circa 1288 AD – No person shall be incarcerated who has not committed a crime.)
(it is envisaged that in a future Utopia that animals with aptitude will enjoy the same rights as humans, including the right to vote)
Abolish bounty on Dingos.
Replace with protection for an endangered species
Abolish barbed wire fences
Ban live animal exports (surprise, surprise)
Ban culling of Brumbies in the high country
Ban jumps racing (except jumps with a maximum height of 50cm)
(Ban jumps racing for elephants)
(Ban dwarf Pony Tossing Competitions)
(Ban wombat racing)
(Allow beastiality between consenting adults in the privacy of the bedroom)
(Oppose the slaughter of koalas for human consumption. Aparently they taste awful, not unlike fairy penguins)

Tackle Reverse Sexism in the egg industry – 11 million MALE chicks are Euthenised every year simply because they cannot lay eggs, despite all their efforts
The exploitation of animals in circuses and rodeos
(including wombats, without their written consent)

Ban Animal experiments
Experimenters – read torturers – say:
‘Animals are good for experiments as they are like us’
‘It is morally OK to experiment on animals because they are not like us’ )

Vegetarian – definition: An old norse word meaning lousy hunter.

This data has been extracted from the A.J.P. website (not entirelly verbatim – be especially suspicious of sections in parenthesis)

If you feel the need to verify how closely it resembles the original

Go to A.J.P. Website