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The only purpuse of this video is to try to give everyone a basic understanding of animal
ethics so that one can give personal thought about our rights and duties towards nature
and living beings. There are no shocking images.
It is highly recommended that one carries
out the necessary research to get a wider view of what is said. During the 19 following minutes.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
- Mahatma Gandhi
Planet Earth, cradle of the world, mother long before our biological parents, has witnessed
our evolution, our ancestors and given us life, given us air to breathe, water to drink,
plants and fruit to eat. Beautiful landscapes to soothe us, magnificent trees to shade us
and rivers to refresh us ... But we are not the only species who live on
it, the world is populated with thousands of different species of living beings with
the main purpose to live a life, in the same way as human beings.
"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." - Alice Walker
Humans are the only living beings capable of changing the natural world in a deep way;
diverting rivers, digging mountains, raze whole forests and create lakes. Man has almost
total control over the physical change of the planet.
He has also captured and tamed some of the wildest animals and eradicated many species
Inspite of having the possibility of chosing
a way to act with positive consequences and having the power to do so, billions of living
beings are killed for fashion, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, military and biological industries are killed.
About 1 billion are killed every week in the whole world for people's gustatory pleasure.
He is the only living being who places his ego and money before everything and both are linked
Yet he has created a word which gives a special value to his existence - a word which if properly
understood, learned and put into practice - could make of our planet a paradise for
all species, including us, human beings.
"What we can criticize is the exclusive prominence given to humans, because it involves everything
else. If people were more modest and more convinced of the unity of things and beings,
of responsibility and solidarity with other living beings, things would be very different.
It may just be a hope. " - Theodore Monod
Humanity is kindness, sensitivity, compassion for the other's misfortune, not only human
beings, but any sentient being. We are abandoning this virtuous humanity for
envy, greed, selfishness or indifference. This has not only bad consequences on our
fellow beings, but also on all other species on earth and nature.
Yet we give more value to our appearance and to our comfort. We overestimate ourselves
because everything we do is moraly accepted, but we are full of desirs that make us act
without any thought to the consequences.
Approximately 500 million animals are killed worldwide for research and testing. It is now proven that these methods are useless
and ineffective / Alternative methods that do not involve animals are now available and effctive.
Approximately 35 million animals are killed by hunters in France, 20 million of them are
born in breeding farms. Each year, 7000 tonnes of lead are left in the countryside, about
18 tons in the Camargue region alone (Not to mention millions of cartridges and illegalpoaching)
In one year : 140 billion animals are killed each year in the world for food which is 20 times the actual
human population.
We probably kill more animals than all the wars, genocides, holocaust, have killed people.
Let us all show some humanity and honesty towards ourselves and towards the planet we
live on. Let us stop saying that we love it when we don't respect it, treat it like a
playground, use its ressources for our own personal pleasures.
We should show love for it everyday and not only by sorting out our garbage or taking
pictures of it. If we really loved it, we would be honest
and we would respect it and all its inhabitants who make up the balance of this world.
But now, we are damaging this balance. We expect politicians or someone more courageous
to take the lead, but in the meantime, we like to say that we can't do anything so that
we do not have to change our habits.
Do not forget that our material desires have a price on the ecosystem, why can we not just
take what is necessary and stop wanting more? Our greed results in the land being exploited
to exhaustion , as well as children, women and men. It exploits and kills ALL species.
Let us face our responsabilities and stop accusing the industries who just fulfill their
task by responding to our demands. Let us be responsible, honest and fair.
We are not content to just get a glimpse of animals in the wild, or to imagine them free
and happy in their natural environment. To satisfy our curiosity and our need of entertainment,
we want to see them close up, we pay to take our children to see them in cages.
Their happiness, their well-being doesn't matter to us. We want to stroke them, watch
them spinning around in circuses, we want to see them suffer, tortured by sadistic people.
We want to bet on them to win money. They fullfill our pleasure, our leisure, our possessions,
our food, our desire to kill.
Our ignorance has consequences : They are forced out of their environment, enslaved and killed without mercy.
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the *** of animals as they now
look on the *** of men" - Leonardo Da Vinci "For as long as man continues to be the ruthless
destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as
men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of ***
and pain cannot reap joy and love." - Pythagoras
We need to ask ourselves the following questions:
What is a lion doing in a cage? an elephant in a circus?
Is it normal that bullfighting still exists in the 21st century?
Why do we still wear fur like a prehistorical man ?
What does it have to do with progress? Why is there a piece of a dead sentient being
on my plate? What do they live for?
What if I put myself in their place ? Are my actions, or non-actions fair?
Our children ignore that a nugget or a piece of meat wrapped in plastic was a part of an
animal, parents often forget it, but aren't they supposed to inform their children? Teach
them to love before having desires? Teach them compassion?
Why we attach so little importance to what is not human?
Why do we think we are so important?
Because very often --sometimes innocently - we are anthropocentric. We place human beings
above all, erect statutes of important men - on which birds constantly deposit their
droppings / perhaps to show that our beliefs are just nonsense?
We live in idolatry of the human species. Let us not forget that without this rich and
balanced world, the human being cannot exist. Humans are much less important than pollinators,
sharks or earthworms.
There is no question of comparing humans to
devils, it is simply a question of placing human beings at the same level as each species.
Absolute equality. Biocentrism.
Nature is not just a place to relax, nature is a wild, lively, and sometimes impenetrable
world, it is all around us, in our gardens, around paths. We must accept this fact and
agree not to always respond to our ego, our interests, we need to let things be. What
is more beautiful than forgetting our desires in order to fulfill the well being of others ,
Every life is important, interdependent. We do not create balance, we are part of it.
Let us live with what exists and lives around us, with which we interact. Let us forget
trivialities, beliefs, religions, sexism, homophobia, superficiality. Let us put money
in its proper place as a means rather than a goal. Let us express our sensitivity and
eradicate the evils that plague our lives. Let honesty and humanity win. Let us be Fair.
"As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields" - Leon Tolstoi
Should we be ashamed to love all living beings or to have compassion for the animal world?
Let us eradicate injustice and our sensitivity will inevitably be felt against humans.
In our everyday actions, let us buy products which do not involve animal testing, boycott
leather and fur. Let us get closer to nature by purchasing natural products, organic products
--avoiding GMOs and pesticides- buy seasonal products. Everything that does not change
the world or destroy it.
Let's preserve biodiversity in our gardens, let herbs and flowers grow - insects and pollinators
are essential- take care and let the trees grow - keep dead trees, they are full of life
and give shelter to many animals- cherish regional trees rather having an exotic tree
in the garden. Boycott pesticides that kill the entire food
chain and soil, permaculture is sufficient in itself, stop believing that eating animals
is vital, that vegetarism makes us deficient or weak.
Too often we refuse to understand the way we could improve our diet because it creates
a form of aggression for our ego.
As little informed as we are we still find excuses , however
the benefits of plant food for health and the planet are proven. Let's inform ourselves
Let's Evolve
Every gesture is important, every action counts, The more we do, the better it will be, let
Let us become aware of the genocide against the living.
let us show the example. Let us take care of the world we will leave to our children,
let us care about what kind of people they will become.
Does it matter to us? Let us banish anthropocentrism, let us be
fair, honest, full of humanity.
"Comparative anatomy teaches us that in all things, man is more like frugivorous animals
than carnivores" - Georges Cuvier
The main thing we have to do is to stop living through thoughtless ideas. Ideas that divide,
hierarchize. Let us try to work on it every day, little by little, by consciously choosing
our food, our equipment, our activities. It is not complicated it just requires changing
some habits ...
Let's trust the humanity we have inside us, let's love the earth and our children. We
want them to be happy, at peace with themselves and the planet, we want them to be representative
of the words Humanity and Honesty and we want them to transmit the goodness humans can have inside.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi