11/29/2007

Universal declaration of the Rights of the Animal

Preamble
Considering that all animal possesses rights.
Considering that the ignorance and scorn of this rights have driven and they continue driving to the man to make crimes against the nature and the animals. Considering that the recognition on the part of the human species of the rights of the existence of other animal species, constitutes
the foundation of the coexistence of the species in the world.
Considering that the man makes genocide and the threat that continues making it exists.
Considering that the education should teach, from the childhood, to observe, to understand, to respect and to love the animals.
The following thing is proclaimed:
Article 1°
All the animals are born same in the face of the life and they are entitled the same to the existence.
Article 2°
to. - An animal is entitled to the respect.
b. - The man, as long as it is animal species, the right cannot be attributed of exterminating the other animals or of exploiting them violating that right. He/she has the obligation of putting their knowledge to the service of the animals.
c. - All the animals are entitled to the attention, to the cares and the man's protection.
Article 3°
to. - No animal will be subjected to the bad treatments, not to cruel acts.
b. - If it is necessary the death of an animal, this it will be instantaneous, painless and not generating of anguish.
Article 4°
to. - All animal belonging to one
wild species, is entitled to live free in its own natural atmosphere and to reproduce.
b. - All privation of freedom, that that has educational ends, is even contrary to this right.
Article 5°
to. - All animal that belongs to a species that lives in the man's environment, should live and to grow to the rhythm of the conditions of life and freedom that they are characteristic of his species.
b. - All modification of this rhythm or of this conditions that it was imposed by the man with mercantile ends, it is contrary to this right.
Article 6°
to. - All animal that the man has chosen as partner, is entitled to that the duration of its life is according to its natural longevity.
b. - The abandonment of an animal is a cruel and degrading act.
Article 7°
All work animal is entitled to a reasonable limitation of the time and the intensity of the work, to a reparative feeding and the rest.
Article 8°
The animal experimentation that implies a physical and psychological suffering is incompatible with the rights of the animal, so much if it is medical, scientific, commercial experiments, as all other experimentation form.
The alternative techniques should be used and developed.
Article 9°
When an animal is raised for the feeding it should be nurtured, installed and transported, as well as sacrificed, without it is it for him reason of anxiety or pain.
Article 10°
to. - No animal should be exploited for the man's esparcimient.
b. - All the exhibitions of animals are incompatible with the animal dignity.
Article 11°
All act that implies the death of an animal without necessity is a biocidio, that is to say, a crime against the species.
Article 12°
to. - All act that implies the death of a great number of animals is a genocide, that is to say, a crime against the species.
b. - The contamination and destruction of the natural atmosphere lead to the genocide.
Article 13°
to. - A dead animal should be treated with respect.
b. - The scenes of violence in which the animals are victims, they should be prohibited so much in the cinema as television, except for if they have as end to give sample of the attacks against the rights of the animal.
Article 14°
to. - The protection organisms and it safeguards of the animals, they should be respected at government level.
b. The rights of the animal should be
defended by law, as they are it the man's rights. Promulgated by the Unesco I don't care if an animal is capable or not of reasoning. I think that it is able to suffer and for I consider it that he/she is my neighbor"
A. Schweitzer (doctor, philosopher, theologian, musician and franc-German physique, of origin alsaciano, Prize Nobel of the Peace in 1952)

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