ADDA - Asociación para la Defensa de los Derechos del Animal

  • Defendiendo los Derechos de los Animales
  • Defendiendo los Derechos de los Animales
ADDA’S RADIO AND TELEVISION CAMPAIGN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY “ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS”
Image ADDA is launching its annual audiovisual campaign in Argentina, as it has been doing for the last 25 years with a view to making the community more conscious of animals’ rights and wellfare.

There are people who still declare that animals do not have rights due to the fact that they do not have obligations. Positive Rights must acknowledge the evolution of humanity taking into account Natural Rights. Law is not an exact science so it should be flexible to the natural incorporation of values that human beings need to include because of their relationship with the environment, society, family, work and nature.

The internal legislation of countries as well as global and international treaties are accepting the struggle to respect animal rights from an ethical point of view, that is, supporting the idea animals suffer, instead of considering them as objects that belong to somebody. I have been devising the guidelines for ADDA’s work taking into account these claims.

In fact, I was able to apply this ethical point of view to an international treaty eighteen years ago, when I worked as a journalist in the team that drew up the Treaty on Ethics, as a response to ECO 92, the Earth Summit, which took place in Rio de Janeiro. I was patronized by the centenarian newspaper La Unión, from Lomas de Zamora, to participate in the event. With the support of the team working on the Project on Ethics, I was able to include the intrinsic existential value of non human animals above their utilitarian value.

Let’s take the case of carriage horses in the streets. This is a typical example as the suffering of horses is not taken into account. The human beings who exploit them are poor people who cannot afford to feed them. Their poverty should not be an excuse to allow them to kill these horses little by little. On the contrary, due to their lack of economic means, they should not be allowed to use horses they cannot feed, or provide veterinarian care for. In most cases, these horses are whipped and overexerted and obliged to draw from overloaded carriages. If we continue accepting this fact, we are disregarding the Natural Right of horses –they are animals sensitive to pain, abuse, punishment and lack of food or water. They need a clean place to rest after a day’s work.

ADDA requests regulations to exempt these noble animals from traction tasks when they depend on people who do not have the means to feed them and keep them in good health. There more economical ways to transport the recyclable material they pick up.

It is absurd to allow people who cannot sustain themselves to be in charge of a horse, an animal that needs big amounts of food daily as well as vaccines, medicines and veterinarian controls to be able to accomplish traction tasks.

This year’s campaign is made up of two 30 second videos with spoken messages. The first one aims at educating people to value domestic company animals, not to abandon them and to sterilize them to prevent abandonment. The second one aims at the obligation to treat horses kindly, especially carriage horses mentioned in the above paragraph.

In both messages, we are addressing the community, including the authorities, who have the resources to find the necessary ethical solutions to these problems.

It is important to remind the people who still accept punishment to animals that animals are like small children and that they do not always understand what people say to them. In the case of dogs, their capacity to understand is similar to that of two or three year old children. Who would punish two or three year old babies because they do not understand an order? The physical development of animals does not correspond to their mental capacity. I have been working on the subject of punishment to animals for more than 20 years and I have been trying to make people understand the difference between human beings and animals as regards understanding words. It was about 20 years ago, in New York, where I spoke with a researcher on animal punishment, that I was able to put together an argument that I have been using ever since: “non human animals are incapable of understanding our messages”. As matter of fact, two or three months ago, I had the opportunity to read a letter written by an Argentine animal protectionist using my argument, and I was very glad because the analysis is very graphic and easy to understand.

Punishment to animals can never be condoned. This is the message our 2010 campaign has the intention to convey.

Martha Gutierrez – Journalist
ADDA President
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