Animal Rights and WelfareBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tracey_Wilson]Tracey Wilson
Unfortunately, there are many animals out there who are neglected and abused. Most western cultures have laws that punish those who injure animals intentionally, including those requiring animals to do too much work. We also have facilities for the rehabilitation of wild animals, and organizations that support and protect natural habitats for animals.
Before you get involved in an animal organization, make sure you understand everything they believe in. One of the largest organizations, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PETA), is most famous for speaking out against the use of animals for research, especially repetitive research such as measuring effects of caustic chemicals on animal eyes and finding lethal doses of household chemicals – but they also advocate a ban on keeping animals for our enjoyment because (they say) the practice shows a disrespect for other forms of life.
What would happen to all of the animals if people stopped taking care of them? When an animal and person is matched up correctly, doesn't the animal benefit from all of the love and care they receive, just as much as the unconditional love they give?
Animal rights and animal welfare often overlap. Most pet owners are concerned with both the welfare of their pets and providing the type of food, shelter, affection and activity that animals enjoy.
Use your purchasing power to support only pet traders who balance profits with animal care. Don't be trapped by feeling sorry for the animal and buying him anyway. As soon as you purchase the animals the business owner will be able to acquire another for sale. Use your dollars to vote against large animal trading businesses that do not spend a significant amount of income on animal care. Use your dollars to vote for responsible breeders and to support animal shelters and rescuers also.
Report animals in danger, creating a nuisance, or threatening the well-being of a citizen. You may be concerned that the animal will be locked up – but you may be saving the animal from being hurt badly from other people.
There are so many organizations out there that only care about making the almighty buck. While there is nothing wrong with wanting your business to be profitable, there is something wrong when you do it at the expense of a living creature.
All living creatures deserve respect and humane treatment. If a person or business can not treat their animals as such, then they do not need to be in that kind of business – and as long as people keep supporting them by buying their animals, it will keep them in business. Instead, if you know of a business as such, please report them. They will be investigated, and if found not to be treating their animals humanely, they will be shut down and all of the animals will be taken away and put in good shelters or places where they can go to good homes.
Animal responsibility is everyone's business. We all need to get involved. Please don't close your eyes to the inhumane treatment some poor animals are being subjected to day after day. It's time to make a stand and help protect those who are not able to protect themselves.
This article has been submitted in affiliation with http://www.PetLovers.Com/ which is a site for Pet Forums.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Animal Rights Is A Dirty Word
Animal Rights Is A Dirty WordBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jeff_Popick]Jeff Popick
Many years ago I saw Donald Trump interviewed by Larry King on the subject of charity and charitable organizations. "The Donald" expressed his suspicions that nobody is completely altruistic and, therefore, was leery of the true motives of charitable organizations. Knowing a thing or two about some large charitable organizations, I agreed with his perspective.
For example, the members of the American Heart Association could solve the major issue of heart disease easily, if they simply told people to adopt a vegan diet. But how would the increased consumption of carrots pay for the doctors' Mercedes?
Interestingly, Larry King often expresses his eternal gratitude for the cardiologist that performed his bypass surgery, and holds this surgeon in great esteem. But what is so magnificent about a man who sits back and let's people fall into a ditch, only so that he can play the role of hero by then selling the victim a "lifeline?" The true hero is the poor "weirdo" who tells people how to avoid the ditch. Yeah, we do live in a funny world.
Being the "Vegan Sage," I recently attended (and sponsored) the Animal Rights 2007 conference, where I got to meet roughly 800 poor weirdos who, sadly, Donald Trump has yet to meet. Consider the fact that, by and large, women fight for women's rights, blacks fight for black rights and gays fights for gay rights, and, therefore, civil rights is a never-ending struggle because it has little to do with civility and lots to do with personal agendas.
Enter the animal rights "weirdos." These are people who look out for the rights and welfare of animals, not because they, themselves, fear being hunted for whale blubber or for fear of being kept in a laboratory cage, but because they know it's wrong to do it to animals simply because the animals don't speak English. It has become apparent to me that people who fight for the rights of animals may very well be the only altruistic people on the planet.
At this conference I stood at an exhibitor's table, where we handed out free sample bars of a new soap called Veganu, and another unique feature emerged from these weirdos. If you've ever been in an environment where there are free samples, people often take as much as they can possibly get their hands on or stuff into their pockets (or mouths). It's not necessarily a bad thing and, in fact, it's kinda expected. Even we were well-stocked for it. But almost universally, these poor weirdos, when offered a free bar, would politely decline if they had already got one previously. I fell in love with 800 weird people that day.
"Animal rights" is a dirty term indicating that there really is no civility, rights or humanity in the first place. Clearly, the practical reality (and uniqueness) of animal rights has not to do with personal agendas and self-aggrandizement, but the real essence of humanity and pure altruism. The meaning of animal rights is the proper application of our dominionship – to care for our underlings, not violate them. But in a crazy world, it is the sane man who looks like the weirdo.
Only when animal rights becomes known and accepted as "Humanities 101," and only when we acknowledge and embrace our very reason for being, i.e., caretakers of our underlings, will we achieve the "rights" we all really want.
Animal rights weirdos may be the only sane people on Planet Earth. Everything else, as Donald Trump suggested, is just a self-serving exercise. [http://www.JeffPopick.com]Jeff Popick, also known as The Vegan Sage, is a keen visionary and one of the leading experts on the diverse effects our diet has on our health, environment, society and even our spirituality. Jeff is also a millionaire businessman and passionate author of [http://www.TheRealForbiddenFruit.com]The Real Forbidden Fruit.
Many years ago I saw Donald Trump interviewed by Larry King on the subject of charity and charitable organizations. "The Donald" expressed his suspicions that nobody is completely altruistic and, therefore, was leery of the true motives of charitable organizations. Knowing a thing or two about some large charitable organizations, I agreed with his perspective.
For example, the members of the American Heart Association could solve the major issue of heart disease easily, if they simply told people to adopt a vegan diet. But how would the increased consumption of carrots pay for the doctors' Mercedes?
Interestingly, Larry King often expresses his eternal gratitude for the cardiologist that performed his bypass surgery, and holds this surgeon in great esteem. But what is so magnificent about a man who sits back and let's people fall into a ditch, only so that he can play the role of hero by then selling the victim a "lifeline?" The true hero is the poor "weirdo" who tells people how to avoid the ditch. Yeah, we do live in a funny world.
Being the "Vegan Sage," I recently attended (and sponsored) the Animal Rights 2007 conference, where I got to meet roughly 800 poor weirdos who, sadly, Donald Trump has yet to meet. Consider the fact that, by and large, women fight for women's rights, blacks fight for black rights and gays fights for gay rights, and, therefore, civil rights is a never-ending struggle because it has little to do with civility and lots to do with personal agendas.
Enter the animal rights "weirdos." These are people who look out for the rights and welfare of animals, not because they, themselves, fear being hunted for whale blubber or for fear of being kept in a laboratory cage, but because they know it's wrong to do it to animals simply because the animals don't speak English. It has become apparent to me that people who fight for the rights of animals may very well be the only altruistic people on the planet.
At this conference I stood at an exhibitor's table, where we handed out free sample bars of a new soap called Veganu, and another unique feature emerged from these weirdos. If you've ever been in an environment where there are free samples, people often take as much as they can possibly get their hands on or stuff into their pockets (or mouths). It's not necessarily a bad thing and, in fact, it's kinda expected. Even we were well-stocked for it. But almost universally, these poor weirdos, when offered a free bar, would politely decline if they had already got one previously. I fell in love with 800 weird people that day.
"Animal rights" is a dirty term indicating that there really is no civility, rights or humanity in the first place. Clearly, the practical reality (and uniqueness) of animal rights has not to do with personal agendas and self-aggrandizement, but the real essence of humanity and pure altruism. The meaning of animal rights is the proper application of our dominionship – to care for our underlings, not violate them. But in a crazy world, it is the sane man who looks like the weirdo.
Only when animal rights becomes known and accepted as "Humanities 101," and only when we acknowledge and embrace our very reason for being, i.e., caretakers of our underlings, will we achieve the "rights" we all really want.
Animal rights weirdos may be the only sane people on Planet Earth. Everything else, as Donald Trump suggested, is just a self-serving exercise. [http://www.JeffPopick.com]Jeff Popick, also known as The Vegan Sage, is a keen visionary and one of the leading experts on the diverse effects our diet has on our health, environment, society and even our spirituality. Jeff is also a millionaire businessman and passionate author of [http://www.TheRealForbiddenFruit.com]The Real Forbidden Fruit.
NYC Animal Welfare Resources
NYC Animal Welfare ResourcesBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jon_Decker]Jon Decker
1. The first and most effective way to combat overpopulation in large cities is spay and neuteringprograms. View sites like Bide-A-Wee for informationand Muffins Pet Connection for low cost NYC spay andneuter locations.
2. We all need to be more educated on both the actualstate of NYC animal welfare and how to positivelyaffect it. The ASPCA is always a good reference foranimal welfare in your area. You can also try theMayor's Alliance for NYC's Animal's for all types ofresources. A website that is not particular to theNew York area but has a large resource of animal welfarerelated links is AnimalConcerns.org.
3. There needs to be new and or updated animal rightslegislation. A wonderful site for animal rights law is theAnimal Legal Defense Fund. A New York City resourcefor animal laws is the Humane Society of New York.For an extensive, state-by-state, collection of animal lawstry The Institute for Animal Law.
4. A vegetarian diet can have a positive impact on yourhealth and on the state of animal welfare in general.More and more people are adopting the vegetarianlifestyle and the food industry is starting to hear theircalls with better tasting meat alternatives. You can checkout PETA'S new vegetarian site GoVeg.com. This pagedescribes the benefits to a vegetarian diet, titled"49 Reasons why I am a vegetarian" (britishmeat.com/49.htm).
5. Get the word out that having an animal in your lifemakes you happier and healthier. It's a proven fact!Check out an interesting article on the physical andsocial benefits of having a pet (my.webmd.com/content/article/81/97060.htm). This article (quakeroatmeal.com/wellness/articles/FH_Pets.cfm)discusses the health benefits of having a pet and how to choose which pet is right for you. View this article about some of the scientific studies proving the health benefits from having pets.
This article and others like it can be found on [http://www.Downtownpet.com/dogwalkernyc.html]Downtown Pets, a NYC dog walker website for Lower Manhattan.
Jon Decker is a head [http://www.DowntownPet.com/]NYC dog walker and assistant NYC dog trainer for Downtown Pet in Lower Manhattan.
1. The first and most effective way to combat overpopulation in large cities is spay and neuteringprograms. View sites like Bide-A-Wee for informationand Muffins Pet Connection for low cost NYC spay andneuter locations.
2. We all need to be more educated on both the actualstate of NYC animal welfare and how to positivelyaffect it. The ASPCA is always a good reference foranimal welfare in your area. You can also try theMayor's Alliance for NYC's Animal's for all types ofresources. A website that is not particular to theNew York area but has a large resource of animal welfarerelated links is AnimalConcerns.org.
3. There needs to be new and or updated animal rightslegislation. A wonderful site for animal rights law is theAnimal Legal Defense Fund. A New York City resourcefor animal laws is the Humane Society of New York.For an extensive, state-by-state, collection of animal lawstry The Institute for Animal Law.
4. A vegetarian diet can have a positive impact on yourhealth and on the state of animal welfare in general.More and more people are adopting the vegetarianlifestyle and the food industry is starting to hear theircalls with better tasting meat alternatives. You can checkout PETA'S new vegetarian site GoVeg.com. This pagedescribes the benefits to a vegetarian diet, titled"49 Reasons why I am a vegetarian" (britishmeat.com/49.htm).
5. Get the word out that having an animal in your lifemakes you happier and healthier. It's a proven fact!Check out an interesting article on the physical andsocial benefits of having a pet (my.webmd.com/content/article/81/97060.htm). This article (quakeroatmeal.com/wellness/articles/FH_Pets.cfm)discusses the health benefits of having a pet and how to choose which pet is right for you. View this article about some of the scientific studies proving the health benefits from having pets.
This article and others like it can be found on [http://www.Downtownpet.com/dogwalkernyc.html]Downtown Pets, a NYC dog walker website for Lower Manhattan.
Jon Decker is a head [http://www.DowntownPet.com/]NYC dog walker and assistant NYC dog trainer for Downtown Pet in Lower Manhattan.
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