THE COMING OF AN ECOLOGICAL AGE Animals are not things. They are living beings with affection, sensitivity, and they feel pain and fear. They have intrinsic value. Scientific studies redeem this way of considering them. (...) Artists and environmentalists of note, such as Paul McCartney, plead for the cause of animals and sensitize the society which increasingly appears more open to questioning the utilitarian assumptions on the basis of the mercantile view of animals as material goods. We are moving from a mentality in which they are considered things, to a mindset where they are valued as non-human beings. Such changes in our relationship with animals lead us to recognize their intrinsic value and are part of the cultural change required for the coming of an ecological age in our evolution on this planet. 000 From the article Animals, Persons and Deities, by Maurício Andrés Ribeiro, THE AQUARIAN THEOSOPHIST, December 2013 edition: theosophyonline/userfiles/The%20Aquarian%20Theosophist_December_2013_TheosophyOnline.pdf .
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