An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM Douglas Balmain
January 2020

My kind are intelligent and maniacal, vain and unempathetic, conflicted and contrary, greedy and dangerous. This is human nature, we are blind destroyers.

Be cunning and distrustful, never allow yourself to feel safe. Keep your senses alert, step carefully, do not linger away from cover. Be suspicious of all that feels new or foreign and hide your families well: this is the life we’ve imposed upon you.

Pine Marten photo courtesy of Jessica Hadley@takethewildroad

Dear Predators, Dear Furbearers:

My apologies for the way in which I’ve addressed you all—these generalizations are how humans name your kinds. I do not know how you name yourselves, so I too have submitted to the use of these inadequate terms.

The vast majority of human society does not think of you—you are too foreign, too far removed from our experience. We’re too insulated by…