THE BLUEPRINT – AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN:
There is no law that gives people the right to kill and eat animals.
There is no law against it either. There is no law against cannibalism.
There is no constitutional provision that protects a person’s eating rights.
“The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Since other species of animals were on earth before the human animal, then those animals are endowed by their Creator, not endowed or disendowed by the human male. And since most religious humans believe that one God created it all, then that same human Creator is the Creator of non-humans as well.
The document does not, however, refer to the human male, it clearly states “all men”, meaning all males, not all genders, but solely the male gender.
Some say that women (females) fall within the category of men to justify their opposition to females acquiring equal rights under the law. “They already have them under us”. Yet they don’t actually have equal rights, even now in 2020.
Some also say that males, in a religious sense, answer to God whom they believe to be a male, and that females answer to males.
Since the founders of the original documents were religious, one can argue that the founders based their writings on religious beliefs instead of on reality-based pragmatic conditions.
- One must ask then, how does this square with SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?
All should have known that ‘male’ when written or spoken did not actually include females. But both men and women claimed it did, until at least one of the genders claimed it didn’t.
Even though slavery was abolished in 1865 via the 13th Amendment, black males didn’t get the right to vote until 1870 via the 15th Amendment. In 1920 via the 19th Amendment all females got the right to vote.
In courts of law, the courts go by the actual language and not the prejudicial intent. But the prejudicial intent became the policy and the practice.
The founding documents and subsequent Amendments in the Bill of Rights and later Amendments don’t specifically refer to animals, not even the human animal. Humans are not mentioned.
- Recall that humans are animals who are part of the animal kingdom. Even non-religious people should agree that all animals are in the category of animal.
One could argue that since the writers of the founding documents did not differentiate between the human animal and non-human animal, that male cows, male pigs, male chickens, male goats et al are protected within the male gender in the constitution of the United States – “…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
By law, all women should have gained the right to vote when the 15th Amendment was passed – even though it’s categorized as black suffrage.
- Amendment 15
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
February 3, 1870.
Yet, such rights were denied women, since they evidently were not considered citizens. It applied to only males, even though the language included everyone. ALL MEN MEANS ALL WOMEN. And when it didn’t, then all citizens meant all males.
By law, all women were included with all men when the 19th amendment was passed and included sex.
- Amendment 19
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
August 18, 1920.
In conclusion: All animals, at least those who have a gender, are protected by the Constitution of the United States of America, the amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the later Amendments. The Creator the founders speak of endowed these unalienable rights.
1865 via 13th Amendment abolished slavery
- Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
- NON-HUMAN ANIMALS ARE SLAVES – those born and bred in the USA are citizens. Africans in America were free.
- Now free the other animals protected under the Creator provision.
1870 via the 15th Amendment gave black males the right to vote
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- The right to vote meant freedom. The abolishment of slavery should have provided that, but it didn’t in policy or practice.
- Free all male animals under the all males provision – created equal, endowed by the Creator, plus under the CONDITION OF SERVITUDE clause.
1920 via 19th Amendment gave all females the right to vote
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
- Females were free. That means, those endowed by the Creator, which means all female animals plus under the CONDITION OF SERVITUDE clause.
- Now free all the female animals.
The 13th, 15th and 19th amendments BY LAW and BY whatever universal force created them, applies to all animals enslaved, tortured and slaughtered for all purposes.
Responsible humans will work out the details sooner rather than later.