To Japanese 　　　　　　In order to secure animal right, what should we do ?　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Circle to Study How to Live(e-mail masayama@mtc.biglobe.ne.jp )

The purpose of this homepage is to ask everyone for the action to remove or relieve the pain given to animal by human being and to secure animal right. To achieve this purpose,I showed the message as follows:

The animal is defined as mammal,bird,reptile and amphibian in this homepage according to the definition in the animal protection law revision proposed to Japanese Diet.

（１）The cruel fact of killing animal ,quoted from Tolstoi and Kamata.
（２）The reason why we should respect the life of animal, quoted from Komaki,Bentham and Singer.
（３）The necessary action for animal protection, with the useful links to the homepage of animal protection organizations.

"From the other side over the door besides me,a big,red and fat bull came in drawn by two men.As soon as it came in,I observed that a man pierced the neck with a knife.As if the bull lost four legs,it put down the abdomen to the ground, was turned upside down at once and struggled moving the legs and the hip.Then the other man ran to the moving legs from the opposite side and pinned the head against the ground holding the horn.Then another man cut off the throat with a knife.Dark-red blood gushed out of the wound and a boy received the flow of blood into a basin smeared with blood.The bull seemed to try constantly to stand up with trembling legs.And it moved the four legs in the air.Although the basin became full of the blood in a moment,the bull was still alive ."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Lev Tolstoi （１８２８-１９１０）

"Drived into the enclosure,the cow is thrusted a pin on the forehead with a pistol and became rigid.Immediately the iron plate besides the cow is opend.At the instanse,the cow slipped down the slope.The waiting worker pass a wire through the opend hole in the forehead instantly.If the nerve is not paralysed completely,the cow kick and struggle later.Turned upside down,the cow is hunged by one leg.Then bloodletting from the throat began."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　 　Satoshi Kamata （１９３８-　　　）

"Not the worker at slauterhouse,but the meat eater is responsible for killing cow.Cow is killed mechanically and easily.What kills cow is not the will of the good worker,but the will of meat eater.The will repeats the cruel behavior beyond description at the corner of Kyouto,the capital of Buddhism,without miracle everyday.I was already calm.But I felt the suffering of the cow clearly.The big eye opened widely seemed angry with the violence of human being and seemed to throw herself on their mercy.When the eye became cloudy and began to lose light,the cow trembled with anger at last under the decling consciousness.Does nobody stand up to stop such cruel behavior ? Then I will stand up and tell the anger of our brothers having life and heart to the people all over the world.The abdomen waves fast.The eye was open widely.It seemed to say"Who tells you that she feel pain little,because she is animal ?"
　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　Hisatoki Komaki （１９２６-　　　）

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs,the villosity the skin,or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning s sensitive being to the same fate.What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason,or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full -grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational,as well as a more conversable animal,than an infant of a day or a week or even a month,old. But suppose they were otherwise,what would it avail ? The question is not,Can they reason ? nor Can they talk ? but,Can they suffer ?"
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Jeremy Bentham （１７４８-１８３２）

"... The ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals,too."　
　　 　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Peter Singer （１９４６−　　　)　

The above consideration requires us to take the actions as follows :
The first action is to become vegitarian,which is classified into many steps from non-meat eater who eats any food except the meat such as mammal and bird, to perfect vegitarian who does not eat even eggs and dairy products.So far I am not a perfect vegitarian,but non-meat eater who eats fish.

The second action is to remove or relieve the pain given to animal by human being in each process of breeding,transportation and slaughter through their short life from the birth untill it lose the life,if the habit of eating meat is not realized at once by all human beings.

The third action is to implemnt the alternative instead of animal experiment.

In order to achieve those three objectives,there are many organizatins in the world.The following is the useful links to the homepage of some of them.Among those actions,you can find out some actions that you can do yourself.To start little thing that you can do is worthier of living than to do nothing with the resignation that it is impossible to realize the ideal world.


★　International Vegitarian Union (IVU)

★ 　Japan Vegitarian Society (JPVS)

★ Compassion in World Farming (CIWF)

★　All Life in a Viable Environment (ALIVE)

★　Japan Anti-Vivisection Association (JAVA)

★　 World Animal Net