I found this article by Anonymous for the Voiceless and fuck this person. Does anyone else object to disabled people having service animals? To quite honest no matter what, I’m this life you will serve someone or something. Might as well be happy to serve.
https://www.facebook.com/111805341155022...03739/?d=n
Do we condone the use of “service animals”—for example, guide dogs and police dogs? Is the use of service animals vegan? And moreover, is it ethical?
Firstly, we have to understand what veganism is. The default position of veganism—and indeed anti-speciesism—is to reject the use of non-human animals. And while it’s a wonderful feeling to create a bond with and receive love from an animal, we need to be clear that no animal owes us anything.
Many people argue that guide dogs and such are “treated well” and that there is a special bond between a service animal and their human companion, but veganism is not about treatment, and it never has been. Rather, veganism aims to abolish the use of animals throughout society, regardless of welfare, treatment, love, or anything else. In the same way that identifying as a backyard-egg eater furthers the perception of chickens as “food sources,” the idea of “service animals” promotes exactly what that name suggests: animals are here to serve us.
In any case, with animal use DOES come harm. The guide-dog industry, for example, is a cruel and exploitative industry, in which female dogs have their reproductive systems exploited for their puppies before the puppies are taken from them and trained to be guide dogs. Puppies “unfit” to be guide dogs are often sent off to shelters and, should no one wish to home them, eventually killed.
With regards to use of police and military dogs, dogs are put in the face of danger (including extreme jobs, such as bomb sniffing) and risk their lives without their consent. Essentially, these animals are forced down a path they did not choose.
So do we NEED to use service animals? The answer is absolutely not, even including cases of severely blind people. Service animals absolutely are a WANT and not a need, and blind people who live without guide dogs—as well as police departments that do their jobs without dog units—are proof of this. And depending on the reason for a service animal, there are human or technological alternatives, so just as we continue to create vegan versions of foods and products, the replacements for service animals will also continue to evolve the more we focus on an anti-speciesist world.
To summarize: Animals could be treated in the least physically abusive ways possible, and that wouldn’t change the fact that they are individuals with their own lives and don’t exist for our benefit. Grasping this, we cannot overlook the concept of service animals.
https://www.facebook.com/111805341155022...03739/?d=n
Do we condone the use of “service animals”—for example, guide dogs and police dogs? Is the use of service animals vegan? And moreover, is it ethical?
Firstly, we have to understand what veganism is. The default position of veganism—and indeed anti-speciesism—is to reject the use of non-human animals. And while it’s a wonderful feeling to create a bond with and receive love from an animal, we need to be clear that no animal owes us anything.
Many people argue that guide dogs and such are “treated well” and that there is a special bond between a service animal and their human companion, but veganism is not about treatment, and it never has been. Rather, veganism aims to abolish the use of animals throughout society, regardless of welfare, treatment, love, or anything else. In the same way that identifying as a backyard-egg eater furthers the perception of chickens as “food sources,” the idea of “service animals” promotes exactly what that name suggests: animals are here to serve us.
In any case, with animal use DOES come harm. The guide-dog industry, for example, is a cruel and exploitative industry, in which female dogs have their reproductive systems exploited for their puppies before the puppies are taken from them and trained to be guide dogs. Puppies “unfit” to be guide dogs are often sent off to shelters and, should no one wish to home them, eventually killed.
With regards to use of police and military dogs, dogs are put in the face of danger (including extreme jobs, such as bomb sniffing) and risk their lives without their consent. Essentially, these animals are forced down a path they did not choose.
So do we NEED to use service animals? The answer is absolutely not, even including cases of severely blind people. Service animals absolutely are a WANT and not a need, and blind people who live without guide dogs—as well as police departments that do their jobs without dog units—are proof of this. And depending on the reason for a service animal, there are human or technological alternatives, so just as we continue to create vegan versions of foods and products, the replacements for service animals will also continue to evolve the more we focus on an anti-speciesist world.
To summarize: Animals could be treated in the least physically abusive ways possible, and that wouldn’t change the fact that they are individuals with their own lives and don’t exist for our benefit. Grasping this, we cannot overlook the concept of service animals.
