What is an animal rights activist?
Many of you feel the hunger of a starving dog, the pain of electrocution of monkeys, the burning agony of chemicals dropped in a rabbits eyes in a test laboratory, the emotional, physical and psychological pain of all creatures who suffer in the world. To see or know that an animal is suffering at the hands of humankind causes a grief so painful that it pierces the soul. Not every human being possesses this gift, which some believe is divine. Christ felt it. Buddha felt it. Gandhi felt it. Animal rights activists know that all creatures possess emotion, intelligence and experience physical pain. Other creatures only differ from us in the degree of intelligence and physiology. It is this evolution in thinking that separates activists from others in the society. Advocates of animal rights feel a passion, an urgency, to stop the senseless suffering and exploitation of animals. Animal activists are the voice for the animals who are vulnerable to self-serving members of humankind. Many peop
