Selectively Sacred The Ethics of Institutional and Commercial Animal Use Lisa Shaw Presented to Dr. Bryan Froehle St. Thomas University 12/8/10 Observing: The treatment of commercially and industrially used animals, held against their will and acted upon by human beings who wield power under the banner of biblically assigned dominion has perpetuated a society in which nearly all of us by virtue of our surface innocence are in fact complicit in their suffering by our blind consumption of products. Who has never taken a pharmaceutical drug to combat a physical condition? What woman has never used mascara? How many of us have indulge with delight in a Thanksgiving feast of tofurkey? In the past 25 years the public has been made more aware of our speciesism, negligence, and abuse of animals who are bred and held captive to serve human need by radical organizations such as PETA and the Humane Society of the United States, who often go to extremes and wind up inadvertently declaring war even...
Enlightenment from Our Animal Companions by Lisa Shaw, Animal Intuitive, R.M.