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florencegris [2018-09-12 21:59:07 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful drawing! It makes sense that Babar is smaller than the elephant in the middle if you consider the height of the old lady. I would've loved to see Elmer with his elephant friends

It's so sad how poachers killed thousands of elephants in the ivory trade, it makes me so sad and ashamed to be part of the human race. To make sure poachers don't kill these beautiful animals (elephants and rhinos), people came up with a "solution".... Elephants and rhinos have their horns dyed (not the exterior pink dye, that was a PhotoShopped picture). People inject dye in the animal's horn(s) to make sure the dye is detectable if the ivory is traded, even if the ivory is in dust by the time it travels to its final destination -mainly China-. It is said to work like the dye packets banks use in dollar bills to make sure they apprehend the criminals if the money is stolen. In airports, the security team would detect the dye when ivory is moved.

 

It's so sad and actually pathetic that we have to go to these extreme measures to make people not respect elephants and rhinoceroses, but not be able to kill them and "get away with it". And by extreme measures, I am not hyperbolic... it IS extreme : elephants and rhinos have to have their horns drilled into, then dye and poison are injected into the hole, they have to take painkillers and antibiotics because of the procedure....and are in recovery for about a week to 10 days... Nobody has been "caught" yes, but is it because it dissuades poachers or because it doesn't work? is it because ivory is less used today? Is it because poachers somehow know which animals are "treated". And if poachers do get caught, the animal will be dead already. I understand that it's a way to dissuade people from killing these magnificent animals to use their horns, their ivory for "medicinal" purposes, jewelry or other things. 70% of all ivory goes to China. I believe we have to educate people on what ivory does and does not, but it's a hard task (no pun intended) when people have done this for hundreds, thousands of years. It does not make your skin glow or cure epileptic seizures. It just kills animals who deserve to live.

As humans, we can make the choice (because, yes, it is a choice) of not hurting other species. Lions, tigers, cats cannot choose to stop harming other animals. Your beautiful cat will continue to hunt because it's in his or her DNA to do so. We humans can choose to stop consuming animal products. We can stop eating meat, eating yogurt and ice cream, cow milk, etc. We do not need these products to survive. We don't need them to live.

 

Imagine being raped again and again, giving birth 3-4 times to have every single kid taken away from you, being attached to machines that pump your breastmilk 24/7. Every single time a child is taken away from you, you obviously cry. For days. You don't get to socialize with anyone, no grooming, no nothing. You have so little space, you are lame, which means it is impossible for you to walk properly because of your living situation, let's call it that, a situation. Then, after your short 6-year-long life, you get slaughtered in the most horrendous way. 6 years is a lot shorter than you would normally live, but in these conditions, in this situation, it's way too long, way too painful.
You could've lived a good life, a longer life in better conditions. But no, you were abused and slaughtered because we like milk, we love cheese and yogurt and ice cream. My desire for dairy and steak is more important than your life, sorry.

We like to tell ourselves "cows don't have our thought process, they don't realize what's going on", "they don't have emotional intelligence". Yet they cry for their babies, they crave social contacts, but they don't have emotional intelligence, no, no, no. Is it possible that we tell ourselves they don't realize what's going on to ease our guilt? Maybe we'd be emotionally intelligent if we did feel guilty.  Is this what we call having emotional intelligence? Slaughtering animals? Doing so says a lot more about humans than it does about cows and their calves.

   

I'm going to stop now, I could write for days. I know my comment has no structure and I don't care, I just wrote what I thought, it made me feel a bit better. We need to protect all animals from not just poachers, but from us, humans. Not just the cute ones (and how can you think cows and pigs aren't cute? they're adorable.... but it's not the point). How many people advocate for a better life for domestic pets but eat meat? A lot.
We shouldn't eat meat and we should be really careful about what animal product we consume. I understand not all people can (or want to) be vegan, but it's not a hard thing to learn. If you eat eggs, buy free range and organic. If you eat cheese, see where it comes from. Let's be better because we can. If people stop buying products from industries that do not respect animals rights, they will have to change their ways.
Every bit helps.



On a lighter note, listen to this , it's an amazing song about animals 

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elephanza [2017-03-27 14:13:39 +0000 UTC]

Great job on the drawing! It's funny how much bigger the elephant is than Babar But he was an unusually small fellow.  Anyway, this is wonderful and thanks for spreading the message about saving elephants.  I'm glad they are no longer in circuses!

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SmashGamer16 [2016-11-20 15:23:38 +0000 UTC]

Cute cartoon.

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CandiTheWildPig [2016-11-19 15:10:45 +0000 UTC]

Poor elephants. I hope they have a better future soon.  

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