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Originally Posted by RealJames
helping animals to me feels like such a strange topic because of the extent to which animal activists will go to save a dog or a cow etc and yet completely ignore or dismiss the people in the world who are in far more need of that help
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That's a totally excellent point. There was a famous case here a while back, animal rights activists dug up the remains of a man's grandma and kept them hostage until he freed the animals he had in his possession (drugs testing, I think - although forgetting that without testing on something/someone we'd have no drugs, thus a lot more deaths and suffering). I dislike how animal rights activists treat people as if they don't matter: threatening friends/family, digging up remains, vandalising houses . . .
Animals matter, but so do people.
On a slightly more on-topic note! I think in this circumstance the Japanese have the priority of helping their people, not the animals. There's people homeless, in shelters, starving, loved one's still officially missing . . . I love animals, adore them, and yeah people can suck, but I would rather get a population back on its feet than to save one cow. Let's face it, without
people the animals would suffer all the more. You need farmers and vets and animal shelters, and for
those you need
people.