'Save Animals, save the planet'. Yes, that is the theme for 2025. Yes, every year, on October 4, the feast day of the Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, is celebrated the World Animal Day, and such beautiful theme as this one this year, actually central to OUR, that is, human existence, is annually declared.
Yes, animals, small to big, matter maximally for our own sustenance. Animals here would refer to the smallest creature like an ant to the biggest one like elephants whom, according to 'Aesop's Fables' and 'Panchtantra', she can defeat.
Unfortunately, THAT, precisely is a problem in a way. We have humanised animals in multiple ways. We use them as beasts of burden. We treat them for edification. We ill-treat them for our amusement. Worst of all, we assign them human (mostly bad) qualities!
Actually, in the natural world, there is not any competition, unlike the bitter human world where bettering brilliance is not self-amelioration. Rather, it is butchering brilliance every possible way.
In the animal world, save in 'Aesop's Fables', animals live their own lives. They never compete, they never contradict, why, they never even kill, if they are herbivores like the gentle giants, elephants. Even carnivores do not kill, if they have had their fill.
They have tremendous intellect, huge hearts and superb togetherness. Watching YouTube videos by erstwhile T.V. channels such as the 'Discovery' or 'National Geographic' is hence a treat that in fifteen minutes can make you an eternal optimist as here we can see how animals survive despite extremely harsh conditions, and most gracefully under extreme duress.
It is not only for such edification that we need animals. Without them, as the school lesson on the cycle of life through the food chain would explain to us, the planet would vanish. Remember the famous discovery that maintains that without a tiny insect like the pollinating bee, the entire earth-bound life would vanish.
We need animals for our own sustenance. As it is, we, human beings, have inhumanly encroached their habitat, unjustly we ill-treat them and yet bitterly keep on complaining about them! Why, the carbon print would lessen remarkably if livestock is not fattened so that humans can feast on them as food!
Time to realise that animals are our shields against extinction. We live if we let live!
Pratima@Want proof that if animals are protected, our world progresses? Just gaze in to the eyes of your pet dog. A world of love, kindness, empathy, goodness, loyalty without any return gifts demanded resides there most patiently and affectionately! Love animals, live better!
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