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Depart From Evil – 8 August 2007
The following is from Pamela Rices’s excellent article
“Intelligence Tests: Animals Passing with Flying Colors!” (Summer 2007
American Vegan):
“The eighteenth century philosopher Jeremy Bentham challenged the
world regarding animals with his famous quandary: ‘The question is
not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?’ It’s
becoming more and more obvious to science that animals are able to do
all three: reason, communicate, and suffer. The differences between
animals and humans are being blurred with every new scientific
finding. Upon inspection, each creature is a wonder, no less so than
that species, our own, which happens to walk upright.
Ultimately, today’s question must be, Can we humans utilize our
known capacity for logic, communication, and empathy to
take animals off our plates?”
My comment: Even if we are unaware of the proven similarities between
other animals and humans, we should always err on the side of
compassion. The few humans from ancient to modern times who were
compassionate toward animals did not need science to tell them what they
knew instinctively. I believe that God makes this knowledge available to
anyone who chooses to “depart from evil.” (Found in 7 passages: Job,
Psalms, and Proverbs of the King James Version) There has never been an
excuse for cruelty.
Pamela Rice, a vegan activist living in New York City and founder of
the Viva Vegie Society
www.vivavegie.org, is the author of “101 Reasons Why I’m a
Vegetarian.” Besides the pamphlet version, a 2005 book version is also
available.
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