Animals And Plants Have A Duty Of Law

Animals and plants have a duty of law

Rights are an invention of man who have the purpose of seeking a balance and social peace, and that can only be claimed by human beings because we have a language and a reasoning capacity that allows us. The main purpose of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to ‘reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and value of the human person’. Although animals and plants have no voice or vote, does it mean that we can make biodiversity suffer or extinguish?

Human beings have an intelligence that exceeds nature. We do not act only by animal instinct, such as the rest of the species, but we act based on our desires and needs, which go beyond nutrition, relationship and reproduction. We have aspirations, plans and feelings. In addition, we have a language that allows us to socialize and a reasoning capacity, which is an abstract knowledge that differentiates us from the rest of living beings. Hence the morality of society, and our definition of good and evil, analyzing the past and thinking about the future.

Unlike us, animals lack this reasoning and language ability, which prevents them from claiming a treatment towards them. It has been shown that they are aware, that they can suffer and that have sensitivity, even if they do not have the pampering that humans are not immune to pain.

At present there have been crimes related to animals, on the Internet videos have been published torturing and killing animals for fun.

This is the case of a young woman who liquefied her cat, or a series killer of cats that published the last moments of her victims on the Internet. To anyone, these cases would seem like the consequence of a psychopathy. However, there are still entire societies that excuse animal abuse of culture. This was the case in Tordesillas, a Spanish people, in which the "Toro de la Vega" was held every second Tuesday in September ". The men of the town, mounted on horseback harassed and threw a bull until they kill him. Fortunately, last year the bull’s slaughter was prohibited, but its abuse is still present. Until 2002, there was another tradition in manganese of La Polvorosa, a town in Zamora, which consisted of throwing a goat from the church bell tower, during the town’s parties. Unfortunately, many traditions that arouse violence have not disappeared, while other non -violent traditions have done so.

Numerous investigations have shown that animal abuse is related to abuse between people. Thus, the FBI has been able to locate several serial killers and psychopaths. For example, the ‘Boston strangler’, who murdered 13 women, began enclosing dogs and cats inside baskets and shooting them or killing them with arrows. The doctor. Albert Schweitzer states that "anyone who is accustomed to belittling the life of any living being is also in danger of also belittling human life". Since childhood we learn to feel empathy and compassion for any living being, not only for human beings, and if these abilities are lacking, it has been proven that in the future it will be more susceptible to committing a crime against a person. This lack of emotion against vulnerable beings is the root of the lack of a social peace.

Little by little society shows the need to protect animals. In 1987, the UN and UNESCO approved the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. This document has no legislative power, but it works as a model for all countries, and together with several organizations, such as Pacma, an important evolution has been noted in the last 50 years. On December 10, International Animal Rights Day is celebrated. Daily, the different communities and person take action to protect the rest of living beings. In the Valencian Community, the circus with animals was banned, and in Spain.

On the other hand, there are plants, which lack nervous system, therefore, do not suffer. However, its deterioration is causing serious consequences before the rest of living beings, human beings, and the whole world. The cause for large oxygen reserves are disappearing on the planet, is the feeding of developed countries, countries in which there is no lack of food, rather, leftover. Our capitalist systems, and the monopoly of large companies destroy the flora at high speed, for example, the "second Amazon" is being devoured by huge soy plantations that are transported to Europe and the United States to feed animals undergoing livestockIntensive that then produce important CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases, and that constitute one of the main causes of global warming. The unconsciousness of the need to maintain the basis of our existence has led to a chain of events that will gradually affect our day to day.

Today, society, especially young people, have shown concern about environmental degradation, and several associations have been created that promote an ecological consumption and fight for these large companies to change their modus operandi to a less harmful one towards plants. In the European School of Alicante an area has been created to be able to plant, and so, from childhood, you learn to take care of the plants.

In conclusion, the one who cannot claim their rights, has no rights. Therefore, neither animals nor plants have rights, but their protection is a right of the human being because there are behaviors that are contrary to the feeling of society, such as that of cruelly treating an animal or that of destroying entire forests. Having rights also requires having responsibilities, and since we are not demigods that we live alone in the world, we have the position of awareness of taking care of our planet. It seems to me an atrocity that a person is able to mistreat an animal for fun, because it reflects what it is as a person;or that, in the same way, a society can use the excuse of tradition to torture a vulnerable being: torture is not culture. It does not seem conceivable for someone to entertain themselves with suffering and death. Likewise, we cannot deny the obvious problem of climate change, whose origin comes from the extermination of biodiversity. With the passage of time, social awareness in favor of the protection of animals and plants evolves, but there is still a long cumin to travel. In my opinion, the way in which we treat other living beings shows our human values and it is important that we demonstrate that we are more than only selfish people, through our ability to care for and respect our planet.