Weatherman2020
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- Mar 3, 2013
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Then enjoy the shotgun blast that thieves get.So what’s the right thing to do? Buy 16 rabbits or steal from a family barely getting by?
You’re making a lot of assumptions there. For one, you’re assuming that these types of rescues take place on a small family farm where Ma and Pa farmer are good people just barely getting by. That’s usually not the case at all. Like I said in my first post on this thread, from what I’ve seen, these types of rescues usually take place on farms were there is blatant abuse, where the farmers are clearly only interested in profiting off of the suffering animals.
To answer your question, in my opinion obviously it’s better to do everything legally. And buying animals who were destined for slaughter, in order to save their lives DOES happen, and those animals get to live their life out at an animal sanctuary, free from harm.
But like I said in my first post on this thread, one of the reasons these types of rescues take place is to expose the cruelty going on in farms, behind closed doors, and to get people to think about the bigger picture.
As I said before, whether you agree with them or not, they are going by the principle of civil disobedience, which historically has been a way to bring about change in society. You may not think that laws that protect animal abuse are unjust, but they disagree. They’re not doing this to be jerks, they’re doing it because they sincerely believe that what is taking place behind closed doors is an injustice that needs to be exposed.
And I wasn’t intending to get into a big debate here, but you’re going to see a lot more of this type of thing, because the world is changing. Using/abusing animals for our own self interests is going to be a thing of the past. Veganism is the future. So I hope y’all will be on the right side of history.