Monday, 6th July 2009
A concerted effort to stop cruelty to animals
We have recently been reading and hearing a lot in the media about cruelty and neglect of domestic animals. Reflecting about a recent incident we read in the local newspapers, we asked ourselves how a human being could possibly be so cruel towards such loving creatures. We felt pain and anger imagining the sufferings that these poor animals had to go through without any hope of being saved and freed. We believe that these animals feel sad, sick, afraid, cold, hungry, lonely and willing to live. Is it fair to treat them like this?
Following the incidents, a forum was organised at our school, St Clare College, Girls Secondary School. From the discussion we have come to the following conclusions: Persons who know about such incidents should make an extra effort and report these incidents to the local police, inform the local council and make a report to organisations promoting animal welfare. They should also talk about the subject with a trusted friend or family member and with any animal lovers at school or at work.
Who should take the responsibility to stop cruelty to animals? Animal owners should think and plan well before adopting animals. However, who should take care of animals whose owners die? Do we have enough animal homes? Do they have enough funds? What happens when an animal owner is caught abusing his animal? Is he fined? Does the money go to these voluntary organisations to maintain abandoned and abused animals?
Persons treating animals badly should be punished for their actions and fined. The money should go to animal voluntary organisations.
These people should also be sentenced to do voluntary work with animal shelters, to be helped to feel real love towards these animals.
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Au contraire, I read you loud and clear.
If there is any spin at all, it is by you sir, how you manage to twist everything to suit your agenda.
If you wish to draw parallels, there is no contest when you consider the orchestrated and sustained campaign by the Church against abortion, which is way out of proportion when compared to frightful cruelties perpetrated around the world on already born human beings and animals.
Where is the campaign by the Church for example, to give women and girls equal rights? This is not even practices within the Church itself. Or the Church’s campaign for the rights of minorities such as gays or the exploited workers in China and South America and the Far East? Or the Church’s campaign against Wars or corruption in Government, or the abuse of children by their own clergy? When was the last time that the Pope or Bishop talked about the rights and treatment of animals? Now draw your parallels.
But, by your own admission, you have said that animals are better than humans, as they did not invent war and torture, but man did. I totally agree with you here.
The subject was animal cruelty and you quickly turned it into a soapbox for anti-abortion rhetoric.
Give it a break.
I suggest you read very carefully what I have actually said and why I have said it. Please think and read before you comment!
I point out that more fuss is made about cruelty to animals than about humans and especially the unborn. It is called drawing a parallel.
You deliberately ignore what I say about cruelty to animals and focus only on the fact that I have mentioned abortion.
My agenda is simply to ensure that human life is respected from conception to natural death. Your agenda quite clearly, from this blog, is to put animals first.
Your petty argument that saving the unborn means that they will go in to slavery is very poor. How can you suggest that will be their fate if they live? You suggest the church does not speak out against cruelty. Where is your evidence to support this outburst?
You're right that animals didn't invent torture and war - indeed us humans are responsible, even for killing their unborn!
Why do you go political when animals are concerned. This is not the way especially when it is not all truth what you say. Afred Sant or MLP rather started bla bla bla about the Qali shelther ( not a hospital as it is under way NOW) Therefore this government is doing something. I do not say well done finally because this hospital should have been completed ages ago say in 1972 but no nothing. Better people like you ( many , many) start devoting 2 hours per week at sanctuaries because then the able ones can increase their fund raising activities. All I know is that since we joined the EU I had tens of yopuths ( sponsored by the EU) coming over to Malta to help my society take care of hundreds of cats. Afred Sant and the MLP did noty want the EU..... I am also of the opinion that it is WE and not the Government who should defend and help helpless animals. Therefore politics well aside transefre the bla bla bla into actions. Then and only then we will start seeing results. long live cats and dogs by our help.
Why do you always butt in with abortion whenever cruelty to animals is mentioned? What sort of morality do you adhere to when you suggest that we can ever go overboard in protecting animals against humans who torture, abuse and kill them?
You always talk about the unborn or foetuses, never about the cruelty to children that are abused by adults or who spend their childhood working in some third-world shop chained to the floor, or the women and girls who are denied their human rights such as the right to education, food and respect of their bodily integrity. And why this fixation on human embryos, when this self-same embryo, if it is born and grows to young adulthood, can them be shipped abroad to be killed in some senseless war that is being promoted to safeguard the interests of the Establishment? No Church ever condemns these obscenities. What hypocrisy.
Yes animals should have full protection, just as much as humans if not more so, after all they are innocent, their species never invented wars or torture. It is us humans, the supposed image of God, with our over inflated egos that do these things!
Lately I've seen a billboard that an animal center will be open 'soon' in Ta Qali. The plans for this center had started by Dr Alfred Sant before actually losing the 1996 election. What has been done since then? Nothing!