Why don't animals have constitutional rights and freedoms?
Innocent cows, chickens, and pigs are slaughtered every day for food. These animals are being unjustly punished. (Without an alleged charge, a chance for the animal to plead guilty or not guilty, without a due process of the law, or a trial by jury for the animal in a criminal court of law before the animal is slaughtered for food.
Animals should at least be read their miranda rights LONG before being sent to a slaughter house, with the right to remain silent and wait for a lawyer to represent them before a court case brought out by the farmer.
Why aren’t animals free to express themselves and killed only if sentenced to death in a trial by jury when execution is the sentence recommended by the Jury?
Instead, we just eat innocent cows like hamburgers at McDonald’s? Why don’t animals have rights and freedoms????
it’s worse than military tribunals what cows go through. If the cow could have its pick, it would even settle for Guantanamo before the slaughterhouse.
And why don’t cows have the right to bear arms and the "right to not be searched without a search warrant specifically prescribing the animals and things to be seized"?
25 Responses
Brian
21 Mar 2010
Jack P
21 Mar 2010
LOL
dnafairy
21 Mar 2010
Most of them do (see animal cruelty laws and hunting regulation).
Paul B
21 Mar 2010
cause they taste soooooooo good.
bmoc2525
21 Mar 2010
They are not people, hence no rights.
You really are not serious right?
Yishka Bedishka
21 Mar 2010
Animals are lower on the food change. We eat them, sometimes they eat us but mostly we eat them
Connor53
21 Mar 2010
These animals breed like crazy anyway. Besides, they are yummy.
pony soprano
21 Mar 2010
ROFL! Sorry,I just got done grilling Elsie the Cow’s old man.
Mike S
21 Mar 2010
I can’t tell if there’s sarcasm here or not, and that’s what frightens me.
Thomas SR
21 Mar 2010
This is funny, but only because the left-wing loons of PETA actually take this stuff seriously.
Frederic
21 Mar 2010
Why don’t vegetables have constitutional rights?
Any cow that eats oats is guilty of murder and should stand trial.
amalone
21 Mar 2010
What will you be eating then? Give me your food and you can deliver all those animals from the doom of my fire pit.
Case
21 Mar 2010
well animals arent as advanced as we are….they cant understand language like we can….so a court of law would be counterproductive
i do agree however that we should develop more humane slaughtering methods
but this question isnt serious, eh?
i worship obama
21 Mar 2010
The constitution applies only to men as it is written. If you want to include animals you need a constitutional amendedment. I would support that.
whydoeseveryonec
21 Mar 2010
I understand you’re trying to make a point here, but its a very, very dull point.
MoltarRocks
21 Mar 2010
Because they aren’t people.
Lwann
21 Mar 2010
because they are animals not humans.
can they communicate to us? no.
and they do – animal crulity laws, ect.
and how do you know a cow would settle for guantanamo before the slaughterhouse? are you a cow? have you talked to a cow about this subject? have you heard a cows deep and personal thoughts about this subject?
you cannot make that statment without having facts to back it up- and asuming your not a superhuman who can communicate with cows you do not have that.
edit: do you really want a peacock walkin around with a gun?
NeoLibs are Path
21 Mar 2010
To have constitutional rights and freedoms, you must also have responsibility. Animals have no such responsibility.
BTW: Have you ever seen what they do to each other. Ever watch a cat chase and eat a mouse, a lion eat an antelope, fish eat smaller fish??
Not pretty. Ever wonder why those innocents didn’t have the right not to be eaten alive?
≠ Tooth and Cl
21 Mar 2010
Because they taste good.
nineteenkilo30ho
21 Mar 2010
Thanks for the laugh.
Good to know you can joke while the country slags itself down into oblivion.
Got to go and eat a vegetarian. Have a morally ambiguous day.
Golden
21 Mar 2010
so there ya go, there’s a career for ya. if you ever grow up you can become an animal lawyer. be careful one of your clients doesn’t eat you.
BekindtoAnimals2
21 Mar 2010
They do not have the ability to reason. They must be protected, not given rights. People make their living by raising animals for food. Its my guess you eat them too.
asmul8ed
21 Mar 2010
Animals aren’t human…when you can get that through your head, you might find out how the food chain works. Its like if you were to say…In the Lion race why can’t antelope be looked upon as equals. Sorry that just isn’t how nature works, and it was never intended to work that way. Humans are omnivores (this means our bodies were designed to hunt and eat meat a well as vegetation). This also means that we don’t have to treat animals not of our race as equals. Humans were created equal to each other, pigs to each other, cows, chickens, etc… When you can prove to me that an animal (not of the human race) can successfully cohabitate and breed with a human,then you might have a point with regard to that animal as being of human origins. Until then you have no argument, and might I suggest that the testing of such a situation breaks ethics, morals, laws, and general social norms, so don’t do it.
Jim S
21 Mar 2010
Well, rights and freedoms are a human invention, they are a abstract concept. The only reason we have them is because we say we do. And the Main way we enforce our rights is through government.
Animals cant form government, so until the day, animals start organizing and making their own governments, they have no rights and are just pieces of property. Humans earned their rights, animals have to earn theirs too.
apple guava
21 Mar 2010
But we can’t even communicate to animals verbally, even if there is a hearing, how is it going to proceed? I guess we can hire an animal behavioral scientist to try to interpret animal’s preference but that may be difficult. Also animals cannot take responsibility and cannot make informed decisions. They therefore cannot be regarded as autonomous beings. We can let lions go loose on city streets and expect them to not eat people, but in reality they most likely will. No matter how many lions we put behind bars, the next free lion will still eat people. It just becomes too impractical. Also because we are more superior plus violent beings and so we see it natural to rule over animals which are considered inferior and are less powerful than us.
Many actually seem to. You just need to be a privileged species..