We kill them for food, kill them for being a nuisance, make pets out of them or pen them up so we can stare at them.
Nice of us isn’t it?
There are a few we use to perform work for us, but now we have discovered the internal combustion engine and rubberized wheels, they are no longer of use.
Do we realize what we do by massacring what is?
Time magazine had an interesting article about the millions of tons of tuna we harvest from the ocean each year. That is akin to tuna genocide isn’t it? Fisherman have to go further and spend more time to catch the same quantities they used to.
Reminds me of the stories of the millions of buffalo that roamed free on the prairies and were almost brought to extinction by man.
I saw a picture of a carcass of a blue whale, apparently killed having been cut by the propellers of a ship. The second blue whale killed this way this year. I don’t know how long it takes a blue whale to grow to seventy or one hundred foot lengths, but do know it is a mammal and must possess some intelligence.
There are only 6.6 billion of us now, wait till the world population hits 9 billion.
Will there be any edible life forms left?
What is wrong with us? In order for us to survive as a species we have to take a look at what we are doing, otherwise we had better thin out our own ranks for we are the most destructive species on this planet.
This morning I got up and was filling my coffee pot with water. I felt something on my leg. Chica was looking at me, as was her way when she needs something. There were five dogs in the house and they had no water. She was thirsty and let me know by touching me with her paw and looking at me. This was not the first time she communicated with me this way.
There are many other species that have intelligence and a society, such as elephants.
We kill elephants for ivory. I have seen deer and moose killed for antlers or tongue.
We no longer have the luxury of indiscriminately killing because we can. It is as simple as that.
We are a bunch of bastards at times.
