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Actually we don't need milk. There's a reason you stop breast feeding and it's not really natural to drink cow's milk. The calcium you get from milk is not absorbed that well into your bones because you need something else to help it along that isn't in milk. That said, I do enjoy the taste and products made from milk, but in no way do we need it.
I also don't draw a line between cats, dogs, hamsters and fam animals like cows and chickens. Chickens have amazing memories, they can be trained to memorize hundreds of game states(see tic-tac-toe playing chickens in atlantic city) and hamsters don't, but we don't eat hamsters. I've never been able to train my cat to do anything but sleep all day and eat when he feels like it and go outside when he feels like it, but I've trained fish and we eat them.
I don't understand why animals shouldn't have rights. They're living creatures that feel pain. Do we really have to feel so superior that we can torture them instead of using them for meat humanely? Someone mentioned not torturing animals just to torture them. I invite people to do some research on Huntington Life Sciences. They do testing for cosmetic companies and drug companies. These tests include blinding young beagle puppies with chemicals which isn't necessary at all. The products I use aren't tested on animals and I haven't developed so much as a rash. They use sloppy science methods so that if a company gets sued because of their product they can say "but we tested it on animals."
At my University there was a breakin at a research lab many years ago. This happened after someone working undercover discovered that this head trauma research lab was improperly conducting tests. The subjects were monkeys, as intelligent as young child, that were undergoing head trauma so they could be studied. The only problem was that the people in the lab were breaking the law by not knocking the monkeys out first. There was evidence on videotape of the researchers commenting on it but they were too lazy to walk the length of the room to get more sedative. Imagine if we used awake gorillas in crash tests instead of those dummies. They had to endure this pain because these people felt they didn't have the right to be asleep during this. I find it sick and disturbing that someone would do that. Is this okay because they don't have rights?
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