Take your "emotional support hamster" AND FLUSH IT DOWN THE TOILET!!!!
09 February 2018 [link youtube]
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woman a woman tried to board a plane on
the innocuously named Spirit Airlines sounds like an allegorical tale at the 18th century while boarding while boarding her flight on spirit Airways a woman tried to carry on board her so-called emotional support hamster I've seen the official response to this from pedo People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who never miss a chance to miss a chance just oh my god totally fail to address the real underlying ethical questions here from a vegan perspective our thing from any thinking person's perspective and look guys I want to keep this video off by saying within the first two minutes I'm still within the first two minutes this is a situation where we really do have positive alternatives to domestication animals just today me and my best girl Melissa here you see in the background we saw a whole troop of feral rabbits living very happily on the line of pardon me on the lawns of Victoria Island University where I just gave the wrong name of the oh let's pretend let's pretend that was intentional Vancouver I want University um and these rabbits you know at some point obviously they're descended from from domesticated rabbits they are feral not purely wild rabbits and they're quite relaxed and comfortable around human beings and they get to hip hop around the campus they get to chase one another and mate with one another freely they do indeed breed like rabbits I am sure once in a while a Fox comes out of the woods and each one of them and they off to run for their lives I'm sure once in a while a falcon swoops down from the sky when human beings ourselves included kind of take photographs themselves with these rabbits there are signs up saying please do not feed the rabbits but once in a while someone throws a carrot at them evidently and you know human beings and animals can interact in grey areas that neither can be described as the wilderness nor as domestication these rabbits that we just saw today have an incomparably better life than a domesticated dog or domesticated cat that has to decorate the couch while its owner watches television that has a chain put around its neck and it's taken out to a park to sniff the bums of other dogs that live in other you know glass cubicles in other condominiums overlooking the park or once a day they get to poo and pee and sniff the bombs of other members of their species all of whom have mysteriously been castrated and in some place cases declawed for the convenience of their owner okay so we got to see a whole bunch of rabbits running around living a life it's not natural it's not nature red in tooth insane it's not entirely wild but some you know has in it real dignity including obviously for those animals the freedom to compete and reproduce and the freedom to you know be both predator and prey put it that way they're living on the edge of the forest they're not living in the forest they're living on the lawn of a university campus and one of the professor's we talked to said it had been debated whether or not the rabbits should be gotten rid of or encouraged or what attitude the campus that but hey um and it's cute you know I'm not gonna lie there's a speciesist element here having bunnies around is different from having rats around it is it's different you can kill yourself I also think foxes are cute it would be better you have more foxes on campus to and the Foxes can chase the rabbits for all I care I think Falcons are cute we could have Falcons you know I don't mind but don't pretend don't pretend it's the same if you've got a campus infested with rats as opposed to rabbit it's not the same Victoria University of Victoria is more or less infested with dear which is indeed another story in any case this woman in this you know headline-grabbing story tried to take her emotional support animal onto an airplane and it seems to me hilarious that nobody is responding to this by questioning what the hell is an emotional support animal in the United States of America in the year 2018 and that is the question we have to ask all the evils of domesticating animals are here made even worse and let me tell you something if an animal being declared an emotional support animal would give them any rights we as vegan activists would be rushing out to get paperwork done for the thousands of cows awaiting slaughter in the slaughterhouses and the thousands of sheep and the thousands of pigs we would declare them all emotional support animals try to save their lives or at least try to make the meat industry take a long hard look in the mirror right but it doesn't mean a goddamn thing it doesn't make the animal any less of a commodity or any less of a tool for human needs human use human convenience right and in this case the moment this animal became inconvenient for its owner she took it and flushed it down the toilet and various people suggested this is a crime I'm not at all convinced that it is if you own an animal as your property in most jurisdictions you do have the right to kill or put down or discard that animal as you see fit and families do that with the family dog all the time they take the dog to the vet and have it put down or if they live on a farm they may just take a rifle or a shotgun and shoot the family dog through the head this is an everyday thing as a part of our society and again hashtag speciesism do you think a pig or a cow is really any different in this respect right um a quick Google search will show you many many websites that are cynically abusing this loophole and basically where corporate services and say Oh get around the regulations quickly sign up and we'll have a medical professional declare your pet an emotional support animal and then you won't have as much trouble taking into the airplane or getting your landlord to allow you to use the animal inside an apartment building etc and use is really the word here right there are a lot of people issuing these pieces of paper declaring animals to be ESA emotional support animals giving them this quasi legal status for totally cynical insincere reasons um but what is this status of an emotional support and when this case an emotional support hamster even when it's done sincerely this young woman who ended up flushing her hamster down the toilet and who by the way purchased a new rodent soon thereafter to replace it a replacement was purchased so if you're in this line of work let me tell you something you can be replaced quote to be afforded protection under United States federal law a person must meet the federal definition of disability and must have a note from a physician or other medical professional stating that the person has that disability and that the emotional support animal provides an a benefit for the individual with that disability so obviously close quote obviously this wording was meant to pertain to something like a seeing-eye dog helping a blind person that there is a benefit for a person with a disability okay the fact that you are upset that you had a lump in your neck which is what was this girl situation she didn't have a disability she was upset and she bought a hamster to make herself feel better this is not actually a legitimate use of this legal exception right whereas obviously someone in a situation like a blind person with a seeing-eye dog is what this law is Atilla for now if you ask me do I think it is ethical or moral for blind people to use seeing-eye dogs my answer is absolutely not I'm actually as a vegan opposed to that and I think we should abolish that too in good time I mean it may be that right now there are some people in circumstances that owns a better alternative bla bla bla but in principle my answer is very straightforward there how could it possibly be ethical to take an animal you know castrate it domesticated separate it from its own species take it away from any kind of a life resembling what it would have in the wild and to make it into in effect a living toy a plaything for human beings the sickening answer were offered in the year 2018 is that it's perfectly moral and perfectly justified as long as a disabled person feels that it provides them with some kind of emotional benefit I'm sorry honey if you're stressed out because you got a lump in your neck maybe you should try cocaine it'll straighten that the out for you it'll brighten you the hell up okay holding a rodent in your arms and stroking it and pretending it's your baby when you really think about it as lowdown and dirty and pathetic as getting high on crack crack cocaine to cheer yourself up maybe the relationship between a hairless bipedal ape and a castrated rodent one stroking the other on the head cradling in its arms pretending that this rodent is your baby sparking some sense of maternal instincts or whatever it is in you I really have to ask you which one is more depraved taking a plant indeed quite possibly an organic natural it grows like a weed if in South America taking a plant dehydrating it and snorting it up your nose to cause yourself brain damage that's pretty low that's pretty depraved but out of these two alternatives to use an animal in this way when you're done using it to discard it in this way yeah I'd say that's a few rungs lower on the ethical ladder then your average everyday crackhead and out of the two you tell me which one is more diluted which one is further removed from the reality the person who does this to an animal and and tells themselves that they love this animal and that this animal loves them and you're honest every day crackhead who just knows that they don't want to feel bad anymore and they love getting high
the innocuously named Spirit Airlines sounds like an allegorical tale at the 18th century while boarding while boarding her flight on spirit Airways a woman tried to carry on board her so-called emotional support hamster I've seen the official response to this from pedo People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who never miss a chance to miss a chance just oh my god totally fail to address the real underlying ethical questions here from a vegan perspective our thing from any thinking person's perspective and look guys I want to keep this video off by saying within the first two minutes I'm still within the first two minutes this is a situation where we really do have positive alternatives to domestication animals just today me and my best girl Melissa here you see in the background we saw a whole troop of feral rabbits living very happily on the line of pardon me on the lawns of Victoria Island University where I just gave the wrong name of the oh let's pretend let's pretend that was intentional Vancouver I want University um and these rabbits you know at some point obviously they're descended from from domesticated rabbits they are feral not purely wild rabbits and they're quite relaxed and comfortable around human beings and they get to hip hop around the campus they get to chase one another and mate with one another freely they do indeed breed like rabbits I am sure once in a while a Fox comes out of the woods and each one of them and they off to run for their lives I'm sure once in a while a falcon swoops down from the sky when human beings ourselves included kind of take photographs themselves with these rabbits there are signs up saying please do not feed the rabbits but once in a while someone throws a carrot at them evidently and you know human beings and animals can interact in grey areas that neither can be described as the wilderness nor as domestication these rabbits that we just saw today have an incomparably better life than a domesticated dog or domesticated cat that has to decorate the couch while its owner watches television that has a chain put around its neck and it's taken out to a park to sniff the bums of other dogs that live in other you know glass cubicles in other condominiums overlooking the park or once a day they get to poo and pee and sniff the bombs of other members of their species all of whom have mysteriously been castrated and in some place cases declawed for the convenience of their owner okay so we got to see a whole bunch of rabbits running around living a life it's not natural it's not nature red in tooth insane it's not entirely wild but some you know has in it real dignity including obviously for those animals the freedom to compete and reproduce and the freedom to you know be both predator and prey put it that way they're living on the edge of the forest they're not living in the forest they're living on the lawn of a university campus and one of the professor's we talked to said it had been debated whether or not the rabbits should be gotten rid of or encouraged or what attitude the campus that but hey um and it's cute you know I'm not gonna lie there's a speciesist element here having bunnies around is different from having rats around it is it's different you can kill yourself I also think foxes are cute it would be better you have more foxes on campus to and the Foxes can chase the rabbits for all I care I think Falcons are cute we could have Falcons you know I don't mind but don't pretend don't pretend it's the same if you've got a campus infested with rats as opposed to rabbit it's not the same Victoria University of Victoria is more or less infested with dear which is indeed another story in any case this woman in this you know headline-grabbing story tried to take her emotional support animal onto an airplane and it seems to me hilarious that nobody is responding to this by questioning what the hell is an emotional support animal in the United States of America in the year 2018 and that is the question we have to ask all the evils of domesticating animals are here made even worse and let me tell you something if an animal being declared an emotional support animal would give them any rights we as vegan activists would be rushing out to get paperwork done for the thousands of cows awaiting slaughter in the slaughterhouses and the thousands of sheep and the thousands of pigs we would declare them all emotional support animals try to save their lives or at least try to make the meat industry take a long hard look in the mirror right but it doesn't mean a goddamn thing it doesn't make the animal any less of a commodity or any less of a tool for human needs human use human convenience right and in this case the moment this animal became inconvenient for its owner she took it and flushed it down the toilet and various people suggested this is a crime I'm not at all convinced that it is if you own an animal as your property in most jurisdictions you do have the right to kill or put down or discard that animal as you see fit and families do that with the family dog all the time they take the dog to the vet and have it put down or if they live on a farm they may just take a rifle or a shotgun and shoot the family dog through the head this is an everyday thing as a part of our society and again hashtag speciesism do you think a pig or a cow is really any different in this respect right um a quick Google search will show you many many websites that are cynically abusing this loophole and basically where corporate services and say Oh get around the regulations quickly sign up and we'll have a medical professional declare your pet an emotional support animal and then you won't have as much trouble taking into the airplane or getting your landlord to allow you to use the animal inside an apartment building etc and use is really the word here right there are a lot of people issuing these pieces of paper declaring animals to be ESA emotional support animals giving them this quasi legal status for totally cynical insincere reasons um but what is this status of an emotional support and when this case an emotional support hamster even when it's done sincerely this young woman who ended up flushing her hamster down the toilet and who by the way purchased a new rodent soon thereafter to replace it a replacement was purchased so if you're in this line of work let me tell you something you can be replaced quote to be afforded protection under United States federal law a person must meet the federal definition of disability and must have a note from a physician or other medical professional stating that the person has that disability and that the emotional support animal provides an a benefit for the individual with that disability so obviously close quote obviously this wording was meant to pertain to something like a seeing-eye dog helping a blind person that there is a benefit for a person with a disability okay the fact that you are upset that you had a lump in your neck which is what was this girl situation she didn't have a disability she was upset and she bought a hamster to make herself feel better this is not actually a legitimate use of this legal exception right whereas obviously someone in a situation like a blind person with a seeing-eye dog is what this law is Atilla for now if you ask me do I think it is ethical or moral for blind people to use seeing-eye dogs my answer is absolutely not I'm actually as a vegan opposed to that and I think we should abolish that too in good time I mean it may be that right now there are some people in circumstances that owns a better alternative bla bla bla but in principle my answer is very straightforward there how could it possibly be ethical to take an animal you know castrate it domesticated separate it from its own species take it away from any kind of a life resembling what it would have in the wild and to make it into in effect a living toy a plaything for human beings the sickening answer were offered in the year 2018 is that it's perfectly moral and perfectly justified as long as a disabled person feels that it provides them with some kind of emotional benefit I'm sorry honey if you're stressed out because you got a lump in your neck maybe you should try cocaine it'll straighten that the out for you it'll brighten you the hell up okay holding a rodent in your arms and stroking it and pretending it's your baby when you really think about it as lowdown and dirty and pathetic as getting high on crack crack cocaine to cheer yourself up maybe the relationship between a hairless bipedal ape and a castrated rodent one stroking the other on the head cradling in its arms pretending that this rodent is your baby sparking some sense of maternal instincts or whatever it is in you I really have to ask you which one is more depraved taking a plant indeed quite possibly an organic natural it grows like a weed if in South America taking a plant dehydrating it and snorting it up your nose to cause yourself brain damage that's pretty low that's pretty depraved but out of these two alternatives to use an animal in this way when you're done using it to discard it in this way yeah I'd say that's a few rungs lower on the ethical ladder then your average everyday crackhead and out of the two you tell me which one is more diluted which one is further removed from the reality the person who does this to an animal and and tells themselves that they love this animal and that this animal loves them and you're honest every day crackhead who just knows that they don't want to feel bad anymore and they love getting high