BY NEHAL FATIMA ARBAB
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” -Mahatma Gandhi
Recently animal justice was a prominent hashtag trending all over social media. A pregnant elephant’s immediate loss was reported which was caused by an elephant eating a pineapple that was replenished with firecrackers that resulted in the demise of a naive pregnant elephant in Kerala.
Forthwith the running circumstances of the world during this pandemic got the susceptible existences to go on starvation whack and helpless beings also comprise animals. They’ve survived in enduring for such a lengthy period, no mortal being is going out to nourish them or take care of their maintenance.
The agony of a firecracker in an insolence while expecting a newborn actually sounds outrageous. People however believing in the Hindu-Muslim confrontation that the Kerala region was inhabited by the Muslims so Hindus must have performed something against them or to mistreat them.
According to Hindus, they invariably contemplated the animals as the purpose of admiring for devotion. The people who are doing the awful acts against animals are neither Muslims nor Hindus. They are not even reasonable to be named human beings as well. Animals have perpetually been recognized as pals or friends for mortal beings and these innocuous beings were created to be adored by human beings.
The last limited months have evolved as living hell for living beings and in the norm of this pandemic, some ruthless and heartless so-called humans are striving to make it additionally miserable by amplifying poison to nature so that the animal nature could undergo this too.
Not only this pregnant elephant but various animals have vouched to become a victim of physical insult, the innocent beings who can’t even speak and inform their miseries to anyone. Recently a kitten’s video got viral in which two appalling women were whacking the kitten.
The other video implicating a dog, who was dropped behind the lowermost side of the automobile with its paw, got exterminated brutally. It seems like people during this pandemic have entirely forfeited touch with humanity.
Various people are performing this dreadful deed for the sake of likes on TikTok and others are only non-understandable for human nature, how could someone brutally abuse the virtuous lives like these? Physically abusing animals has been in the ring for a while, in the circus, and the other animals who work as laborers are the ones who also got beaten up for any mistakes or the deeds which are unappealing towards their masters.
Animal ethics should reap a comprehensive and detailed emphasis to get out of the circumstances like these. Law has got to put up with strict litigations against the abusers of animals. Awareness regarding animal rights can’t solve the issue completely but it can at least alert human beings about the valuable lives of animals and that they have families too.
If they can’t deal with them, at least they can call a rescue service for the sake of prosperous innocuous lives. Awareness can build an emotional connection in the souls of people, so at least when they see any individual abusive towards animals, they can report a complaint against them instead of taking out their mobile phones for video recording.
“I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.” -John Feldmann
(Nehal Fatima Arbab is a student of bachelors in media and communication. Her leisure pursuit includes reading, writing, and binge-watching)
