Not to hurt our humble brethren the animals is our
first duty to
them - but to stop there is not enough: we
have a higher duty - to be of service to them whenever
they require it."
St. Francis of AssisiYou must
be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be a part
of the change take action today!
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Update January 2010 New website
In
2009 over 1 million animals were sacrificed
in Nepal
Stop Animal Sacrifice in Nepal!
January 18
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New website promoting awareness and action
you can take
against animal sacrifices in Nepal:
STOP ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN NEPAL NOW!
The "Stop Animal Sacrifice" Campaign is a
5-year campaign conducted by Animal Network
Nepal aimed at phasing out animal sacrifice
in Nepal and the region.
Please click the link above and help this
campaign by taking whatever action you can.
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Below you will
find a listing of Animal Rights campaigns, animal
advocacies, farm and other animal sanctuaries and
actions you can take to support them in their endeavours
and improve the lives of animals and
stop cruelty and abuse.
Campaigns
Such action may include signing petitions or letter/email
writing, fund raising, making a donation, leaflet
distribution sponsoring an animal and peaceful protestations.
Concerning
factory farming one of the ways we can demonstrate our
objections is quite simply to stop consuming animal
products such as meat, to include fish, eggs and milk.
For help and advise about how to become vegetarian or
vegan :Go
Veggi/Vegan
This is an on-going section and new campaigns will be
included from time to time. However this list is far
from comprehensive, there are many more campaigns than
those included here. Sadly animal cruelty
continues on a wide scale and while the focus here on my
website is mostly on the plight of factory farmed
animals, abuse and appalling cruelly takes place in many
other circumstances. If you know of any campaigns or
actions to stop cruelty to any animal and help improve circumstances for
all animals
please let me know and I will add it to the list.
Please
consider taking at least one action to stop the abuse of
animals.
Even if you
can take only one small action such as signing a
petition this will go a long way towards improving the
lives of animals.
Stop the
Gadhimai Jatra festival ever Happening Again
Despite
protests and campaigns world wide this cruel massacre of
500,000 animals took place on November 24th & 25th,
2009.
Click the
link below for information about this event and action
you may take. More information will be added as it
becomes available.
Stop the
Gadhimai Jatra festival ever Happening Again
PETA
Petra, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, with 2
million supporters is the largest animals rights
organisation in the world, here you will find on-gong
campaigns to which you may offer your support in a
number of ways such as signing petitions, writing
letters or
e-mails, donations and so on.
PETA's Get Active Center
Viva
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
Find out
about campaigns and actions you can take to stop cruelty
to animals in factory farms and other circumstances of
abuse. Campaigns such as writing letters to government
officials, MPs, local papers, dropping leaflets
and
fund raising are just a few of the many actions you can
take to bring about change to the way we treat animals
Viva! - Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
Uncaged
UK
animal rights website dedicated to ending animal
experiments
"Our
ultimate aim to end the ultimate evil. Animal
experiments represent the most intense form of
systematic cruelty - on an industrial scale - in the
history of humanity..."
"In the decade
since it was founded, Uncaged has developed a unique
campaigning approach which has placed it at the
forefront of the anti-vivisection movement."
Click the
links below for action you can take to help bring an end
to vivisection
Email postcards against animal testing
The Truth About Vivisection
Uncaged Campaigns
The
Truth about Vivisection
This is a
website belonging to American based IDA (In defence of
Animals.)
"Every
year, tens of millions of animals are dissected,
infected, injected, gassed, burned and blinded in hidden
laboratories on college campuses and research facilities
throughout the U.S. Still more animals are used to test
the safety of cosmetics, household cleansers and other
consumer products. These innocent primates, dogs, cats,
rabbits, rodents and other animals are used against
their will as research subjects in experiments and
procedures that would be considered sadistically cruel
were they not conducted in the name of science."
What You
Can Do
The tens of millions of animals who are burned,
electrocuted, and addicted to drugs in laboratories each
year in the name of science need your help. Here are
easy ways that you can be a voice for animals used in
experiments:
Click the
link
below which will take you to a web page where there are
actions you can take to stop this type of cruelty to
animals in laboratories.
Action against vivisection
Kinship
Circle
Actions you
can take to help animals include: letter and e-mail
writing campaigns, volunteer for disasters, donate and
other actions
Mission
Kinship
Circle believes all beings possess the right to exist in
their natural environment and express behaviors
significant to their kind. When animals are viewed as
"things for human use," and thus denied the primary
protections humans enjoy, they are victims of speciesism,
a discriminatory benchmark similar to race, religion,
gender, sexual preference or age.
Kinship Circle is a 501c3 nonprofit organization serving
the animal advocacy community. We empower people to
communicate (speak,write, present) influentially to
lawmakers, businesses, media and other decision-makers.
Our core strengths are RESEARCH, WRITING, and GRAPHIC
DESIGN utilized in action campaigns, literature, and
other advocacy materials. We INFORM and MOTIVATE
activists to take part in weekly action for animals.
Kinship Circle
International Fund for animal Welfare
The
International fund for animal Welfare has many campaigns
in which you may participate such as the campaigns to
stop mass dog culls now taking place in China:
"Following a
number of reported rabies cases, the authorities in
Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, China, have recently
instigated a policy of indiscriminate dog slaughter. Dog
killing squads have been stalking the streets with poles
and sticks, brutally beating to death any dog they come
across."
Please send an
e-mail to the Chinese Ambassador urging China to stop
mass dog slaughters like the one in Hanzhong City to
send e-mail please click the link below
Take action | IFAW Web Site
Mass
slaughters of dogs - even family pets - in rural
communities like Hanzhong City are preventable.
Please give whatever you can spare to help us set up our
emergency vaccination fund and to continue our mission
to protect animals around the world from cruelty.
To make a
donation to provide rabies vaccine
Please help us stop these slaughters | IFAW Web Site
Ban Snares
Sign our petition to ban snares
A campaign
led by by Advocates for Animals and the League Against
Cruel Sports with the support of the Scottish Wildcat
Association, Hare Preservation Trust, Hessilhead
Wildlife Rescue Trust , the International Otter Survival
Fund and Scottish Badgers.
This is an
opportunity for you to sign this petition against this
type of cruelty, if in doubt be sure to watch the video
and read more About the campaign
Ban Snares - About the campaign
Animals
Australia
"Whether
you have a month or a minute to spare—you can make a big
difference to the lives of animals!
Many Australians are unaware of the issues involving
animal cruelty (such as factory farming or the live
export trade). This means that ‘word of mouth’ is one of
the most effective forms of spreading awareness. This,
combined with making compassionate choices in your every
day life, means that you really can make a difference!
Together we can expose animal cruelty and improve the
lives of millions of animals. Find out how simple it can
be to add your voice to the call for change..."
The
following link will take you to a list of actions you
can take
Action Centre // Animals Australia
Sponsor An
Animal
The Farm
Animal Sanctuary UK
The
sanctuary is a place of refuge for over 500
animals including birds rescued from abuse, neglect,
slaughter and abandonment. Please donate or sponsor an
animal to keep them safe.
You can
help by sponsoring an animal such as ET the sheep
Here is his
story:
"Hello my name is ET.
I know I look strange to you but happily the other sheep
are not disturbed by my appearance. I was only 5 months
old when I was attacked by this dog. It was terrifying
and so painful. I was screaming and the dog was growling
and biting through my neck. It had me pinned on the
ground. I couldn't escape. There was a public footpath
in the field and some walkers were on it. They must have
heard all the noise and came to see what was happening.
I owe them my life. I can’t remember a great deal of
what happened next. I think I was in shock and had lost
a lot of blood. The dog had ripped my neck open. The
walkers took me to a man who, although he hurt me at the
time, did all he could to save my life. He was
tremendously kind. I am 3 years old now and have
terrible scars on the back of my neck and no ears but I
can hear perfectly well especially when Janet comes down
the field with Rich Tea biscuits. They are my
favourites. I know that the dogs who live here at the
Sanctuary won’t hurt me. My special friend is Jessica.
She is a pure bred Leicester and is white and she has
enormous ears – makes up for the lack of mine. She is 14
years old but I'm not concerned by the age difference .
It seems to be quite a status symbol here at the
Sanctuary to be a toy-boy. I don’t want to be attacked
by dogs ever again I don’t think I would survive the
shock. It’s safe here. Please sponsor me."
To sponsor
ET or any of the other farm animals click on The sponsor
Us tab along the top of the Home page for a drop down
list of animals needing your sponsorship:
The farm animal sanctuary.
You can
also donate or volunteer if you live in the area by
clicking the appropriate tab on the Home page
Farm
Sanctuary USA
"Currently,
Farm Sanctuary operates two shelters — a 175-acre farm
in upstate New York and a 300-acre farm in northern
California. Our shelters rescue, rehabilitate and
provide lifelong care for hundreds of animals who have
been rescued from stockyards, factory farms, and
slaughterhouses. Here, the animals are given all the
care and love needed to recover from a lifetime of abuse
and neglect. All of the animals have nourishing food,
spacious, clean barns, and acres of green, sunny
pastures in which to roam."
You can help
farm sanctuary by taking the following actions:
Donate
The farm animal sanctuary.
Get
involved; Action Alerts
Click the link
below for a list of actions you may take such as
sending an e-mail in support of the bill to ban tail
docking for cows
"Many
large-scale dairy producers routinely cut off a large
portion of their cows’ tails. A bill has been passed by
the state Senate to ban the cruel and unnecessary
practice of tail docking in California, but the dairy
industry is telling your state assembly members to
oppose the measure. Your voice is needed! Please ask
your state assembly member to support this modest but
important reform."
Get Involved | Farm Sanctuary
Included in
the websites above are additional ways you can help.
There are so many actions that you can take that will
help to bring about change in the way we treat animals.
Please try and take at least one action such as sending
an e-mail or signing partition.
Things do
change with persistent effort and campaigning. This year
the EU has finally banned animal testing for costmetics.
A great triumph for both the animals and those dedicated
to campaigning relentlessly to bring about these
changes.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | EU bans animal testing for
cosmetics
Be a part
of the change take action today!
Important please note:
I am not an
animal expert of any kind just your average person who
loves animals, all animals, and feels deeply about the
plight of many of our fellow creatures. Neither am I a
writer, or any other expert. Therefore please keep in
mind that the information included in this website has
been researched to the best of my ability and any
misinformation is quite by accident but of course
possible.
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