Animal Liberation vs. Environmentalism: Spanish environmentalist leading the fight against country’s new animal rights legislation
Spanish environmentalist Álex Lachhein: 'If we were to go out on the street and ask people, the vast majority would say that animals have rights. This belief is backed up by a bogus UNESCO Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. It is based on a falsehood, because animals cannot have rights because they have no obligations. In other words, it is a fairy tale.'
ALVARO PENAS: Interview with Álex Lachhein, field naturalist, writer and environmental communicator… Álex Lachhein has worked in several biological parks in Spain, participated in countless productions as an ‘Animal Trainer’, and is a recognized expert in conservation communication work after more than thirty uninterrupted years of profession working with animals of all kinds. We talked about the recently-approved Law for the Protection of Animal Rights and Welfare before it was passed by the Spanish Parliament.
Possibly in February, the Spanish Parliament will pass the law for the protection of animal rights and welfare. A very nice name, but one that will have very serious consequences.
AL: Yes, and it is based on a falsehood, because animals cannot have rights because they have no obligations. The plenary session will be held in early to mid-February, but the problem with this law is that what it implies is not being told. It hides a direct attack on citizens’ rights and freedoms. One of the aims of cultural Marxism is to change society by undermining its cultural, not economic, pillars, and severing man’s relationship with the natural environment is one way of changing the way we live.
To achieve this, the vegan/animalist movement seeks to put an end to any traditional and sustainable use of animals, to put an end to what they call “speciesism”, i.e. discrimination against living beings by species. This is a very broad objective and cannot be achieved overnight and has other objectives such as emptying the rural world or ending livestock farming…
So, as you pointed out earlier, we have a law that starts from a false premise.
AL: Yes, but if you lie over and over again, from different angles, on TV, radio and everywhere else, people will end up believing the lie. And if you now say that this law is unnecessary and that animals have no rights, you will be called a denialist, a murderer, a hunter, etc.
The explanatory memorandum of the bill makes it very clear: its aim is not the welfare of animals, but to protect and promote their dignity. It is a totally ideological question to put an end to the relationship between animals and human beings, and not only in a nutritional aspect: you cannot eat eggs because it is an exploitation of the hen, you cannot eat honey because it is taking advantage of the work of the bees, you cannot wear a woolen jumper because you are taking advantage of the hair of a sheep, and all this is speciesism. Veganism is not a diet, it is a philosophy of life in which human beings are cancer for the planet.
However, this animalism is increasingly driven by politics.
AL: By politics and the media. In all progressive parties there is an animalist and vegan department, and in Spain, there is a parliamentary association for animal rights formed by deputies of all parties except VOX. At the European level there is a lobby, Eurogroup for Animals, based in Brussels, made up of more than 80 vegan and animalist associations from all over Europe (In Spain: FAADA, ANDA, AAP Primadomus and AnimaNaturalis).
Their roadmap is very clear and they set their goals for each year, goals that they are achieving: In 2019, their target was farm animals and we already see how meat consumption is now criminalized; in 2020, the target was the protection of carnivores and they have achieved it with wolves; in 2021, the target was to ban animals in circuses and there is not a single traditional circus left; in 2022, animal experimentation; and for this year, new, more restrictive regulations for fishing…
Most people believe that animals have rights.
AL: That’s right. If we were to go out on the street and ask people, the vast majority would say that animals have rights. This belief is backed up by a bogus UNESCO Universal Declaration of Animal Rights, which has been widely circulated by progressive journalists and politicians. It is a text of fourteen articles from the International League for Animal Rights, the first article of which says that animals are in the same legal category as human beings, i.e. they have the same rights. You can imagine what the other 13 were like… The text was heavily criticized and in 1989 a new 10-article document was presented in Geneva which, again, was not adopted by any institution or state. In other words, it is a fairy tale. SOURCE…
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