Humans may differ in appearance from the birds, fish, and other animals who share the world with us. But we all have the capacity for pain, hunger, fear, thirst, love, joy, and loneliness or simply the desire to live.
PETA: ‘In 2016, Kaepernick put a national spotlight on the racial inequality with the peaceful act of ‘taking a knee’… PETA worked with a talented group of advertisers and artists who came up with the idea for our beautiful ad… to open our hearts and minds and reject Speciesism… The National Football League (NFL) apparently found our new Colin Kaepernick–inspired ad, with its message of inclusion and respect, too daring and pressured FOX to snub our commercial.
Humans may differ in appearance from the birds, fish, and other animals who share the world with us. But we all think and feel, and when it comes to the capacity for pain, hunger, fear, thirst, love, joy, and loneliness or simply the desire to live, we’re all the same…
Speciesism is a supremacist worldview. It allows humans to disrespect other living, feeling beings and to treat their interests as unimportant… The way we think about other animals continues to evolve as we learn more about them and become awestruck by their innate intelligence, self-awareness, communication skills, social structures, and unique abilities.
Mothers, from cows to crocodiles, adore their offspring and try hard to protect them. Fish pass down culture through generations. Pigs are social, playful beings who like to cuddle. Crows hold grudges and remember the faces of humans who are kind or cruel to them. Turkeys could be called “helicopter parents” because of how protective they are. Male mice sing to females, and bower birds decorate their porch to seduce a potential partner. The point is that humans are one type of animal among many, and the others are just like us in the ways that matter most’. SOURCE…
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