Right to life tome

Speaking Out For Those Who Can't

We can't put an end to human cruelty of animals. But can bring

about change to minify it by the same method used to minify

cruelty to human slaves categorized as property. No, not

a terrible war, but by merely freeing them from the

stigma of property.

I am at war with people that abuse, torture,

and wantonly kill animals,

any animal human or non human, in the name

of impulse, greed, need, interest, religion or personal choice.

J. B. Suconik

I see no reason to base our treatment of animals on their intelligence quotient, which is to use their similarity to people as a guide for human behavior. To do so is, I believe, but another manifestation of meism,the plenteous source of untold strife,and misery. Meism is a narcissist, self seeking cocktail with a dash of smallness. However, to the degree that meism can be another source of improvement of the terrible plight of animals, it becomes a virtue from vice. JBS

Reviews of Animals: Why They Must Not be Brutalized

             By
Professor Tom Regan
Editor-in-chief Midwest Book Review
James A. Cox
Rhona Zaid, Ph.D.
Ed Duvin
Kay Sievers

Editor-in-chief Midwest Book Review

Animals: Why They Must Not Be Brutalized
provides the reader with the relevant facts necessary to disprove fallacious and misleading arguments in support of the animals for recreation, food, research, amusement, and entertainment simply on the basis that we are human and they are not. Highly recommended, practical reading for those actively engaged in or sympathetic to the animals rights and wildlife protection movement. Animals: Why They Must Not Be Brutalized, is informative, insightful, cogent, challenging, timely, and iconoclastic
James A. Cox

Rhona Zaid, Ph.D.

Review by Rhona Zaid, Ph.D.
"logical and objective formula"

" In his cohesive approach to the title which draws from legal, historical, and cultural knowledge, Suconik presents compelling arguments for the rights of animals as opposed to animal rights. From the outset he accomplishes a difficult task, to create a brief yet convenient historical overview of the principle philosophical and ethical concepts, set within legal analogies, of continuing intolerance toward non human animals.
The book covers a wide variety of specific areas, including shelters, fur farming, and usage, vivisection, hunting, and circuses, among many others.
Building his case on a metaphor of the right to property, guaranteed, in theory, to each human under Western democracy, he demonstrates that non human animals have a right to the "property," i.e., the physical bodies that are their own. "Everything that constitutes the cat is the cats own property," Thus to deprive a cat of a limb, take his very life, or perhaps more importantly, his liberty, through useless and dangerous (to human and non human animals alike) vivisection experiments-or any other form of abuse is an infringement of the cat's inalienable right to be a cat. By placing the argument in that context, Suconik erases all whispers of the absurd from the debate, and offers a logical and objective formula to guarantee natural rights to all non human animals.

Extending further the legal metaphor to the concept of justice, he draws a parallel between the (once) practice of slavery in the nineteenth century, and the continuing violence and abuse toward nonhuman animals in the modern world. The analogy accurately reflects attitude. "...the realities of a world in which partisan (i.e., prejudiced) justice is pandemic comprise, crime and cruelty to which we are habituated." Much as the abolitionists campaigned for a change in attitude, maintains the author, so must advocates of the rights of animals work to secure change.

He artfully juxtaposes the central moral and ethical issues of cruelty against all the (other) attendant social consequences that accompany the abuse of nonhuman animals. An excellent example is the chapter on fur "farming," in which he shows the practice as a principle contributor to pollution and other ecological problems. He successfully separates the issue from one of self-determination, a ploy often used by fur trappers and "mongers," and their customers, whose selfishness exceeds any understanding of justice or feelings of compassion. " It is not the legal right to wear fur that is at issue. The issue is the wrongfulness based on cruelty, suffering, and death entailed in the wearing of fur." Suconik who is clearly optimistic about humankind's ability to learn from history, imagines a future where tyranny against its nonhuman brethren will no longer exist. He reflect the vision shared by all who appreciate and respect the nonhuman animal kingdom."*
*Permission granted by The Civil Abolitionist.

1 n "supporter, backer, champion" 2. According to Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 human life in a " state of nature" is " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Professor Tom Regan

Regan says: "It covers all the most important issues, and is written simply yet powerfully. I hope all who should read the book will read his book

Ed Duvin

"...Animals: Why They Must Not Be Brutalized is a superb piece of work, and will provide rich nourishment to anyone striving for a just world."

Kay Sievers

"...The author's language is rich and complex. I admit that several times I stopped to reread a sentence where I had lost the thread of its meaning as I followed the authors elaborate and elegant path through the maze of reason."

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Title: Animals. Why They Must Not Be Brutalized
Author: Suconik J. B.

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"There will come a day when such men as myself will view the slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as the murder of his fellow man. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty".

Albert Einstein

I believe that it is not morally right, and in keeping with the Golden rule broadly defined , to annually subject billions of non human animals, as we are now doing, to abuse, torture, and violent death, and to continue to do so? I believe moreover that because violence is habituating, our violent treatment of non humans animals, accounts to a significant degree, for the ongoing violence to human animals.

J. B. Suconik

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