What happened to humanity?

When did we become so full of our own self importance that we decided which animals have the right to live or die?

I’ve just been watching Grime Busters on Sky 3 and i was shocked to find a man, working for the local council in London, going out into the very few fields remaining in London and along the riverside putting out traps to catch and then kill rats.

I know that rats are considered the scum of the earth and i know that traps are set in and around people’s houses etc but to actually go out into the wild to hunt them down i find shocking!

Don’t get me wrong, im not a fan of rats, just a fan of pro-life in the belief that every animal has the right to live. Frankly if you are so dirty that you do not keep your home clean then you should expect to get infested with rats, cockroaches, earwigs etc but it makes me angry that humanity seems to believe it has the right to determine whether an animal has the right to live or die.

I feel the same when it comes to the likes of fix hunting, badger baiting, deer shooting etc. To hunt any animal for fun is just wrong in my opinion. It’s completely different if you have to kill an animal to survive, whether it is because the animal is attacking you or you need to eat, i mean every animal kills other animals for food but they certainly do it in the name of fun. When was the last time a lioness woke up and thought, “I’m bored, lets go hunt and kill some wilderbeast”? We also seem to forget that it was us that have taken away the homes of all these animals by destroying the forest to build houses!

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