Sentences with phrase «human animal suffer»

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If god created all the organisms on the planet, then He must have created even the germs that have caused and are causing so much death and suffering for humans and animals.

And it's hard enough to cope with human suffering without worrying about the suffering of other animals.

It is the human acts that so greatly increase animal suffering against which they protest.

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But one way or another all advocates of animal rights, process thinkers included, lament the fact that so many domesticated animals can and do suffer unnecessarily at the hands of humans.

We would not interfere with the wilderness ways in which animals suffer and are killed by one another, but we think that there is far more, and far less necessary, suffering among creatures for whom human beings have assumed responsibility.

Some of those who are concerned for animal suffering believe that the goal should be legislation to reduce this suffering, while still affirming the right of human beings to raise animals for slaughter.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

If god created all the organisms on the planet, then He must have created even the germs and sickness that have caused and are causing so much death and suffering for humans and animals.

The qualitative distinction between physical suffering (of animals) and spiritual suffering (of humans) is not drawn out.

Rather than attempting to have animals classified as «persons,» which Professor Carlin says would «narrow the gap between humans and the lower animals,» the Christian animal rights movement wants them to be recognized as the sentient beings they are, demonstrably capable of physical and emotional suffering.

Thus men owe them kindness» (n. 2416); and also that «it is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly» (n. 2418).

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

For example, most animal protectionists will argue that the mere death of the animal (unless to end suffering not induced by humans) is by definition cruel, as the animal will have lost its expectation of life.

It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.

This gift of theological freedom comes at a high price, because human beings can use it to violate the social, political, and economic freedom of other human beings, inflict great suffering on other animals, and destroy the planet in general.

It is sometimes suggested that animal suffering is for the sake of calling forth human compassion.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

For 70 years we've been campaigning to make veganism an easily adopted and widely recognised appoach to reducing animal and human suffering and environmental damage - and you've been part of it.

The Buffalo area Republican says sophisticated simulators exist that better mimic human subjects, from bleeding to organs, that ends the need for animals to suffer and then, when the training is finished, be put down.

If the human implant gives an animal «increased sentience or mental capacities,» he added, it might suffer more.

From fish in a British lake to lions and corals, many plants and animals have suffered devastating disease outbreaks because of human activity, says Michael Le Page

The authors agree that some animals have extraordinary, savant - like cognitive powers — Clark's woodpecker can locate over 1000 pine nut stashes, for example — but they say these brilliant birds are simply well adapted, and don't suffer other cognitive impairments typical in human autistic savants.

Interestingly, increased activity in the ACC is also seen in humans suffering from anxiety disorders and in animal models of anxiety.

This is not only because tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in humans or other animals is severely limited by differences among major species.

While I doubt any animal experiences pain the way humans do, if suffering and discomfort are indicated in their behavior, it is no less important biologically or ethically.»

It's not just humans and animals that suffer when the mercury rises, plants feel the heat too.

Critics charge that rabbits are not good animal models for human brain diseases and note that the dialysis patients suffered from dialysis encephalopathy, or «dialysis dementia,» not Alzheimer's disease.

Who knew that humans could suffer when animals die out?

While the animals» brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects.

More animals died as a result of interactions with humans than from any other cause, and captive - born animals suffered more fatalities from human interactions than their counterparts caught in the wild.

This is a shame, because stress and suffering in individual wild animals due to the encroachment of humans is contributing to the demise of whole populations.

Mackenzie is one of a small band of scientists who are trying to work out why Australia is suffering from a rash of «zoonoses», diseases that jump from animals to humans, and why, in almost every case, a bat features somewhere in the story.

As previously noted, these animals accumulate CTTAS in vulnerable brain regions in a pattern consistent with that observed in humans suffering with diagnosed PD and LBD, [16] making them a good model for testing mAbs intended to target these species.

These ensure that those doing the work are qualified and suitable; that alternatives to animals are used wherever possible; that the number of animals used is minimised; and that any suffering or other harmful effects experienced by the animals have been weighed against the potential benefits (to humans or animals).

Don't get me wrong, medicine and other fields of study have benefited from plastic, but the health of humans, animals (especially aquatic) and the planet are suffering the consequences.

Time to get animal products off the menu, and end the insane amount of suffering that humans place upon other species.

Mycotoxins are documented to cause substantial suffering by disease and death in humans and animals.

This popular ethical fashion and vegan vlogger is funny, fierce, fearless, fabulous and full of rage — which is a very good thing when that anger is focused on mindless consumerism, animal cruelty and human suffering.

I hate human and animal and any kind of suffering, think everything would be better off if it didn't exist......

The older apes remember the abuse they suffered at the hands of humans and the humans blame the apes for the virus (never mind that it was created by humans) and have an instinctual suspicion of any animal that can speak.

Humans may suffer from seasonal affective disorder when melatonin, a compound found in animals, plants and microbes and produced by serotonin, is increased and serotonin is decreased.

The human / companion animal bond suffers greatly from misunderstanding and miscommunication during this period.

Abuse of any animal is upsetting, not only for the pain and suffering inflicted on the animal, but for the fact that animal abuse is often a precursor to human - directed violence and an indicator of family crisis.

Animals can suffer the Stress that change brings, just the same as humans can, and when stressed cats can act in strange ways.

Successful outcomes from veterinary clinical trials could also lead to comparable human clinical trials because people and companion animals suffer from many of the same disorders.