International Respect for Chickens Day

This kind of creeps me out;

Advocating the rights of Chicken

Viva the Chicken

David Letterman's Show

It is a bit creepy. Still, factory-farming animals does have its problems, both ethical and health-related, and factory-farmed chickens are among the worst. Those critters do need a bit of respect.

Of course, ALL living beings need some kind of respect ...

My personal argumentation is always this:

As long as we are acting unrespectful towards animals, ANYONE can come and just say about some humans : "They're not humans at all. They're just animals ..." Like the Nazis did. Or early colonists with america's natives, among others ...

So, from my perspective, helping animals is in the end result = helping humans, in fact.

But I guess that oinly empathic beings like me can think this way. Unempathic ones will rather happily cling to the notion that the universe as such doesn't know such a thing like "respect" - so why not wipe out a whole town ? The people in there would've died anyway ...