Last week I wrote for an extraterrestrial point of view. This week it might be good to write from the point of view of a pig, but since I am human it's time to face the question of "Human entitlement".
Is it legit or not?
Is it right for humans to have first dibs on everything or not?
Can humans just go about doing whatever they want on earth with disregard to other species?
There are more than 8 billion people on earth, but there are more than 2 trillion cockroaches roaming the earth at any given time. They were here before us and they will be here after us. Many insects have found a symbiotic way to coexist with humans, but not all insects have found it easy to coexist with man.
The irony is that insects that humans need to survive are the ones dying off due to human entitlement. There is a delicate balance of plants and animals and nature. Humans continue to disturb the balance for reasons of pesticide control, cash crop agriculture, deforestation and real estate development. In the biological world "human entitlement" cannot exist because taking from nature ultimately leads to the destruction of the human habitat as well.
Let's stop outside of the ecology question and just talk about the fundamental right to eat another species. Is it legit that humans can eat other species, but other species are not to eat humans?
Is it legit that humans remain on the top of the food chain? Is the human being the only animal with an opposable thumb to perform cell phone functions? Shouldn't the same entitlement then be given to apes, monkeys, chameleons, koalas, pandas and possums? Technically speaking they are all able to create apps for a smart phone and all these species can contribute to human society just as much or more than many humans today.
Who is to say when a human is contributing or not? There really is no limit to "human entitlement". Are humans the caretakers of the earth? Maybe they were created to take care of all other creatures but some sick thing happened in which humans began to only look out for themselves.
An organization called HMP has set out to make the playing field fair again. The Human Meat Project allows volunteers to donate their bodies to feed the hungry. This allows a reduction in the human population and provides the opportunity for other species to flourish.
The website is here: https://humanmeatproject.com/
It offers an explanation of the theory of population management and a solution to human entitlement.
You might be thinking, "this is a hoax". And it is. The website is an artistic statement that man should take care of the world around them and think twice before taking the lives of other creatures. There really is no such thing as "human entitlement" because we also suffer the consequences of what we take from nature.
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