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  Connections abound

  As a student activist the relevance of animal rights issues to environmentalism and vice-versa continue to amaze me.

  I'm not the kind of animal welfare activist who abhors hunting, although I can't help but cringe even when I see my cat torment a squeaking, half dead chipmunk. Tom Twigg was so right to say that life is beautiful but not always pretty. Hunt if you must, and sometimes it is a useful tool for population health, but if you hunt do it humanely and sustainably.

  My concern for animal welfare stems from a visceral repulsion towards suffering and the philosophy that callousness towards any sentient being hardens our hearts towards all.

  Before I get carried away, let me give a couple of examples of the crossovers between animal welfare and environmentalism:

  -pollution of our ecosystems poisons all of the resources we glean from biodiversity, and the health of individual animals figures into this
  -the push away from factory farms towards smaller, local farming enterprises favors more humane treatment of livestock raised for meat

  carry on this great discussion,
  ~RuthOn No environmentalism is complete without consideration of animal welfare posted 3 years, 2 months ago 64 Responses