We have all seen the cartoons like bugs bunny and daffy duck. Who have the capacity to talk. We hardly think of the consequences of this action because we know it is not real. In the real world animals don't talk. They don't say much except moo and baah and quack to name a few. But recently in an article in the January issue of Scientific American, a story was written about finding a gene that may help animals and humans talk. Apparently a lot of animals have this gene. So why is it that we can talk and animals can't? This is never answered or at the least it is assumed their maybe more then one gene involved in talking and we just have only found the first.
But this article leads me to think of a world with talking animals. Could you honestly go hunting deer or a rabbit if it said to you….“Eh what's up doc?” or “Please don't kill me!” … it would be a totally changed world. In fact this idea of animals talking would throw our whole system of food production from animals out of whack. How could you kill a cow that said, “I don't want to die, please don't kill me.” It is this very fundamental right that makes human separate from animals, but if we found the genes that help us talk should we give it to animals? It is this question that obviously we would have to say no to because it would throw our whole society out of balance. With animals talking soon they would be getting a job and helping out like every other human and we would be eating tofu burgers. What would happen if they didn't want to be a cow? Maybe they wanted to be a horse. Could you honestly see an operation that turns a cow into a horse?
I just feel that this is a very sensitive issue and at least on this issue I believe we should leave animals alone. We don't need a talking dog in the house yet. We don't need talking barn animals or wildlife. What we need is to look at the bigger picture and realize that some thing were set up by god or by dumb luck and leave it the way it is. At least for now this issue will have to stay unresolved until smarter brains can come up with a solution.
