One of the angles I read was that some of these countries are so backward about animal welfare that it's important that more enlightened countries do what they can (the forum is UK based).
Yes. I get that so many of these places are "backward" compared to the US and other countries. However (
this is another big peeve of mine), why is it up to our and other "higher-level" countries to "save" them from themselves?
We sure haven't solved our own problems in these arenas, so why is it that people in our countries feel like they have the right to go over there and tell them they're wrong for their animal rights issues? (
We won't talk about those eating what we consider pets, though many of them do out of necessity.) We're talking about countries that have people living in conditions down on the level of what we consider animal abuse. They can barely feed their own mouths. There's no way any sane person can expect them to have great expectations for the animals in their countries.
So. Really. What gives us the right to hold ourselves up as "holier than thou" concerning those countries and go saving animals when so many of the people need saving first? Maybe their countries would be able to get to "our level" of animal rights if their humans were better off.
But we have NO right to say anything to those countries when we have so many homeless; when we are still putting animals to death every day because they're considered un-adoptable; when we have children dreaming of having a forever home of their own too.
All those in rescue that claim that those of us that pay for something specific are putting an animal in a shelter to death? Well they need to straighten out these other rescues first before they attack another one of "us". They need to actively stop animals from being brought into this country (
assured of adoption after the trouble and excess of money that was put into bringing them here) until they are have NO pets from this country in their shelters.
Sorry for the rant. But the more I think about this, the more upset I get thinking about all the factors that are in this equation.