The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Man as a pure animal does not exist.
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.