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To add interest
throughout the website I have
interspersed commentary with thought provoking
quotations from philosophers, ethicists, scientists
and other notable thinkers both past and present.
For ease of reading
all quotations appear in a purple font
Please note:
External links will open into a new window.
This section of the website will focus on various issues
concerning animal rights and will eventually include
articles on such subjects as animal experimentation,
animal labour and other issues concerning animal rights
in addition to specific issues such as the one below
concerning the Gadhimai festival. Factory farming has
its own section
Animal Rights: Factory Farming
This is a new section which will be revised and updated
Articles available now:
The two articles that follow concern the Gadhimai
festival which takes place every five years in Nepal.
The word festicval with its implication of a joyous
celbration is sadly incongruous as there is nothing
remotely joyous
about the brutal slaughter of as many as 500,000 gentle
creatures despite the inclusion of a Ferris wheel, Robot
fortune tellers and stalls selling snacks.
Read about this horrific Event of appalling brutality in
the name of fear, ignorance, superstition and greed.
Also included is action you may take to prevent this
even t ever happening again
The Gadhimai Festival: Why it Must Never Happen Again
Stop the Gadhimai Jatra Festival ever Happening Again
More animal rights issues will be added in due
course including
information concerning animal experiments, hunting and other abuses.
This is a new section in the process of construction. If
you have written an article, or an essay on any relevant
issue concerning animal rights I would be pleased to
consider it for inclusion.
Links
In the main this website supports the stance on
Animal rights as expressed by but not limited to:
PETA
The People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA) Foundation is a
UK-based charity dedicated to
establishing and protecting the
rights of all animals. Like
humans, animals are capable of
suffering and have interests in
leading their own lives; therefore,
they are not ours to use – for food,
clothing, entertainment,
experimentation or any other reason.
PETA and our affiliates around the
world educate policymakers and the
public about cruelty to animals and
promote an understanding of the
right of all animals to be treated
with respect
peta.org.uk/ with links to international web sites
The Abolitionist Approach
Mission Statement
The mission of this website is to provide a clear
statement of an approach to animal rights that (1)
requires the abolition of animal exploitation and
rejects the regulation of animal exploitation; (2) is
based only on animal sentience and no other cognitive
characteristic, (3) regards veganism as the moral
baseline of the animal rights position; and (4) rejects
all violence and promotes activism in the form of
creative, non-violent vegan education
abolitionistapproach.com/
Animal Equality
Animal Equality is an international non-profit
organisation dedicated to achieving equal consideration
and respect for animals. Founded in Madrid, Spain in
January 2006 we are currently active in Spain, the
United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia.
animalequality.net
VIVA Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
What does Viva! Do?
Viva! campaigns for a vegetarian/vegan world because
most farmed animals spend their short and miserable
lives in the filth of factory farms and are killed with
sickening barbarity – see here We expose this abuse by
secretly going inside these shameful places and filming
the suffering – publicising it with nationwide campaigns
that bring about change. Billions of animals are also
killed at sea causing immense suffering and the
ecological collapse of the oceans
viva.org.uk/
League Against Cruel Sports - Home - End cruelty to
animals in sport
We work
to expose and bring to an end the cruelty inflicted on
animals in the name of 'sport'
Uncaged Campaigns Against animal testing and experiments
We are a
peaceful international animal protection organisation
based in Sheffield, England. Our main campaigns are
against animal experiments (vivisection); against
xenotransplantation (animal to human transplants); the
global boycott of Procter & Gamble; for animal rights
and for democratic action on animal issues through the
political system.
References
1)
Animals Are Not Ours to Wear The Issues PETA.org.uk
2) If animal farming were to stop and we
were to use the land to grow grain to feed ourselves, we
could feed every single person on this planet. Consuming
crops directly - rather than feeding them to animals and
then eating animals - is a far more efficient way to
feed the world. This Viva! Guide looks at why eating
meat is a major cause of world hunger and how
vegetarianism can provide a solution.
viva.org.uk/guides/feedtheworld.htm
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