{"id":16,"date":"2008-02-02T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/02\/on-being-humane-to-animals\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:40:46","slug":"on-being-humane-to-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/02\/on-being-humane-to-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Humane to Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">&#8220;With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right&#8230;.&#8221; Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/span><\/span><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Humane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">We call ourselves that, but there is nothing sometimes human in what we do and treat animals.\u00a0 This article is not about PETA, nor will i wax poetic about how we are destroying the earth, nor am I caring that I don&#8217;t offer a solution.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just making a point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Think about this from the dog&#8217;s point of view, and I&#8217;m using dogs because i like dogs, but any animal will do.\u00a0 After lives of abuse, where then they are rescued from a life of every lasting cruelty, most laws then require that the dog is then euthanized. How wonderful and humane of us, to save a creature from a life time of torment, so we can kill it as our final act of mercy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Go ahead, tell someone you saved from a serial killer that the best solution for them is to put down. You can&#8217;t call yourself human and have that conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Let&#8217;s just be serious with ourselves, the humane part comes in what we feel when we are done, when we can cry and tell ourself that the creature is no longer in pain.\u00a0 Humane doesn&#8217;t do a damn thing for the dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right&#8230;.&#8221; Abraham Lincoln Humane.\u00a0 \u00a0 We call ourselves that, but there is nothing sometimes human in what we do and treat animals.\u00a0 This article is not about PETA, nor will i wax poetic about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[28,30,29,31],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blubs-of-verbs","category-thought-crime","tag-animals","tag-cruelty","tag-dogs","tag-humane"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}