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Ontario Farm Organization Claims Animals Don't Think or Feel
An email about a report called OFA [Ontario Federation of Agriculture] submission to the Standing Committee on General Government regarding the Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act (Bill 156) that contained a quotation emphatically stating, "We simply do not know if animals are capable of reasoning and cognitive thought" shocked me. I immediately read through the report and lo and behold, the authors did make this unscientific and ludicrous claim. And, not surprisingly, there isn't a single citation in the entire in-house report.
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Humans are, like it or not, also animals in an evolutionary sense. This way of thinking, anthropocentrism, is what destroys anything (alive) on the planet. A more known word for this is arrogance, although it doesn't cover the scale of anthropocentric handling and thinking.