My Moral Vision

                                                                                                              Moral Vision

After taking this course I have used the knowledge I have gained to come up with my own philosophy of how we should view and treat all non-human animals in this world. This course has truly open my eyes to how big of a role animals play in our lives. We as humans often time believe that non-human animals lack intelligence and emotions. This perception needs to change in order to create a sustainable and humane interaction between humans and non-human animals. Humans use other non-human animals for work, companionship, food, clothing, research, entertainment and other by products that are necessary. The use of animals in our everyday life is critical. In many of these cases the animals are being abused and inhumanely treated. I feel that the only way people will be able to improve the problem is to notice that there is a problem going on. Many people need to know what goes on and how the animals are harmed for human benefit in the medical, food, clothing, pet, and entertainment industry. If people educate themselves before buying pets about where the dogs in the shelter come from and educate themselves on adopting animals, there would be no puppy mills. Also if handlers in the food industry would handle the animals gentler and educate themselves about an animal’s flight zone they would find it easier to work and maneuver the animals. For animals used in zoos and or other entertainment, there should be AHA investigators there just as there is on movie sets to insure that when the animal is trained and performing they are truly being treated humanely. If people would just educate themselves on how intelligent animals are and see that they are sentient beings this would improve our overall interactions with animals. I feel without creating empathy with all these animals as we do with our companion animals we will never interact with the animals in a humane and ethical way. These animals play a very important role in our everyday life so it is important that we give them the most humane life that we can.