Animal rights

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Of course not, they are food. Who said they should be given a right to protect them from being killed and eaten?

Vegans.

If it's some unnecessary thing, sure, I'd put that in the "sadistic nuts plaything"-bin. But if it's something vaguely useful, then sure. They are, afterall, our underlings, and again, who said they should be given a right against being used in medical experiments?

Vaccines will have to be tested on living subjects at some point, it should always be animals first.

WHAT?!?!??!?!

Outside cats get all kinds of diseases. Our vet was fairly adamant that cats should be kept indoors and I tend to trust him because cats getting diseases would be good business for him...

Generally, I do not see animals as underlings, but just as different beings on this planet. In many aspects, I think their lives to be better of that of humans because they lack conscience. They work in perfect harmony with nature. Stephen Fry once said:

"If you look outside, the only ugly things you will see are manmade. Everything in nature, be it a desert, swamp, lake, plain is beautiful in its own right."

Ugly is a human concept though...and swamps are pretty ugly imo.

A lion doesn't inflict multiple small wounds with the intention of causing harm but not death, a lion is simply trying kill its prey to be eaten.

In a bullfight, they make the wounds to the neck not to cause harm, but to weaken the bull so that they can kill it safely. Lions probably do something similar to giraffes, and wolves certainly do to elk and such. House cats on the other hand, are well know for playing with their food, it's where we get the saying "a game of cat and mouse".