Animal Suffrage
March 6, 2009 by Chill Out Point
Filed under Animals
Animal studies and accounts of their emotional reactions to the suffering and death of those close to them indicate that they not only have empathy, they are capable of so-called remote sensing because they are cognitively linked with what I have termed the empathosphere. This discovery raises a profound ethical question; namely, when, for example, whales are being harpooned, chained elephants starved and beaten into submission, and billions of farmed animals made to suffer in extreme conditions of overcrowding, do other animals distant from them, but connected through the quantum field of the empathosphere, also experience their pain and anguish, and so fear us and cower or flee if they can? Read more