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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
so its okay to leave animals helpless and to starve.
farmers will need their stock replenished.
I take it that you think you are superior to animals God give me animals compared to some selfish people who think they are something special.
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Imagine that you lost your house and everything in it. Maybe even members of your family. Imagine that you`re now living in a "shelter", which is really just a school gymnasium with a few partitions set up in it.
Imagine that the government is working hard to set up somewhere for you to go for the long term, but that it`s taking time because of the massive scale. They`re also still working to recover human remains - hopefully they will be able to find those of your family...
Now... Imagine that you hear that instead of trying to find the remains and to secure long term lodgings for the survivors - they have shifted their efforts over to finding and providing aid for livestock.
When they haven`t even found your missing relatives. When you`re still sleeping on a donated blanket on the floor, just getting by on donated food...
I think there would be a bit of outrage.
I don`t think it is so much that no one cares about the animals. It`s just that PEOPLE are still the priority. Tracking down the escaped cattle of farmer A who was swept away with his house comes pretty far AFTER finding long term shelter for his orphaned children and finding his remains to bring closure. Maybe after all that is taken care of, there will be enough resources to think about the animals too...
If you feel the animals should have priority in a disaster situation, I ask you to make that clear should you ever be involved in one. Please make sure to tell all the groups who would try to help you to STOP helping you and your family, and to shift their efforts to local livestock. To stop building a house for you to live in, and instead build a shed for the animals.
Somehow, I doubt this is how you would feel if you were truly in such a situation. Even farmers who rely on livestock to make a living are not going to choose to save their animals when they are unable to stay near them or care for themselves at the moment - let alone the animals.
There are multiple groups that are providing shelter for animals. There are a number of groups that are rescuing animals from inside the affected areas and finding places for them to go. The Japanese government isn`t stopping them, but isn`t helping either as there simply are not free resources to do so. They have their hands full with the huge number of displaced people and the cleanup.