Issue Position: Goodness and Mercy

Statement

The brokenness of human/nonhuman animal relationships appears to be a symptom of a more fundamental confusion about the value of life itself. The lives of nonhuman animals have meaning, purpose and direction, as anyone who observes them with the eyes of a naturalist knows. Even the smallest carry themselves with dignity. Yet we condemn so many of them to a world of institutionalized suffering, where market value trumps intrinsic worth and the ends always justify the means. This is a great shame because animals have remarkably uncomplicated needs and seek nothing from us save our basic goodness and mercy. Ironically, these are the very things that are so often withheld.

We can do better for America's animals, much better.

Your vote for Paul Deakin on November 4, 2014 sends a clear message to Washington that animals matter and that Goodness and Mercy might just be about to break out across our great state.

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