Furcoat

A great little animation about fur
http://furcoat.segolia.net/fcanimatic.htm

Friends

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me. ~Author Unknown

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf

Soul mates bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

Quotes on vivisection and animal testing

“My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity.” – Dr. GF Walker (in “Medical World” Dec 8, 1933)

“It is difficult to entertain a warm feeling for a ‘medical man’ who straps dogs to a table, cuts their vocal cords, and spends an interesting day or week slowly vivisecting or dismembering them.” – Clare Booth Luce (American writer of “The Women” and former ambassador to Italy; 1902-1987)

“Those who won’t hesitate to vivisect, won’t hesitate to lie about it as well.” – George Bernard Shaw

“There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning people at the stake in the name of religion.” – Henry J. Bigelow, MD

“The reason why I am against animal research is because it doesn’t work. It has no scientific value. One cannot extrapolate the results of animal research to human beings, and every good scientist knows that.” – Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., (Late Professor of Pediatrics at the U. of Illinois, College of Medicine)

“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race. The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called ‘medical research’.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. The whole thing is evil. Charles Mayo, MD (Founder of Mayo Clinic; 1865-1939)

“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.” Eleanor Roosevelt (Writer, diplomat, First Lady; 1884-1962)

Quotes on “Why Veganism?”

“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun, and light, and of that proportion of life and time they had been born into the world to enjoy.” – Plutarch (Greek biographer 100 C.E.)

“What do they know – all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel Prize Winner

“Men dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those instruments than by all weapons of their enemies.” -Pythagoras

“Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the calf scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal’s eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you.” – Dick Gregory (“The Shadow That Scares Me”)

“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.” – Plutarch

“Can you really ask for what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? I, for my part, marvel at which man was possessed, who was the first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of murdered beings. How could his eyes endure the spectacle of the flayed and dismembered limbs? How was his taste not sickened by contact with festering wounds, with the pollution of corrupted blood and juices?” -Plutarch

“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality.” – His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

“Wherefore I say to all those who desire to be disciples, keep your hands from bloodshed and let no flesh meat enter your mouths, for the Lord is just and bountiful; who ordains that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone.” Jesus, Gospel of the Nazirenes, Chapter 38, Verse 4

“My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.” – Benjamin Franklin (Politician, writer, scientist; 1706-1790)

“I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us. I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless the creature, the more it is entitled to protection from humans form the cruelty of humans.” – Gandhi

“People ask me how I look so young, I tell them I look my age. It is other people who look older, what do you expect from people who eat corpses?” – George Bernard Shaw (British playwright; 1856-1950)

“Animals are my friends. And I do not eat my friends.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us. I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless the creature, the more it is entitled to protection from humans form the cruelty of humans.” – Gandhi

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” – Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Dave Scott, considered the world’s greatest tri-athlete, holds a degree in exercise physiology. In his words, it’s a ‘ridiculous fallacy’ to think that athletes need animal protein. He is joined in his views by such Olympians as Edwin Moses, the gold medalist who went eight years without losing the 400-meter hurdle competition, and Murray Rose, who, at age 17, won three gold medals in the Olympic swim competition. This year, I was glad to see Olympic champion Carl Lewis crown his career with his best long jump in two years to win a record-tying ninth gold medal. Lewis, of course, is a longtime vegan whose dietary changes developed out of his moral and religious convictions. Several years ago Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis traded titles back and forth when they were being hailed as the fastest sprinters in the world – and both were vegetarians. Whether you are a world-class athlete, a weekend athlete, or simply a recreational exerciser, we know that you can meet your performance objectives, and improve your health by eating a plant-based diet that meets your energy needs. Even at my present age of 93, I found that switching to a plant-based diet improved my health dramatically.” – Dr. Benjamin Spock (World’s foremost pediatrician; author of “Baby and Child Care”)

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” – Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“A disciple of the Buddha should have a mind of compassion and cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings. He must reflect thus: throughout the eons of time, all male sentient beings have been my father, all female sentient beings my mother. I was born of them, if I slaughter them, I would be slaughtering my parents as well as eating flesh that was once my own. This is so because all elemental earth, water, fire and air-the four constituents of all life-have previously been part of my body, part of my substance. I must therefore always cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings and enjoin others to do likewise-as sentient beings are forever reborn, again and again, lifetime after lifetime. If a Bodhisattva sees an animal on the verge of being killed, he must devise a way to rescue and protect it, helping it to escape suffering and death. The disciple should always teach the Bodhisattva precepts to rescue and deliver sentient beings.” – From the Brahma Net Sutra

“One day, I reached out to eat something and it ran away. Obviously, it didn’t want to be eaten.” – Dave Allen (Musician)

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher/writer of “Nature”; 1803-1882)

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.” – Anna Sewell (Author of “Black Beauty”; 1820-1878

URGENT: Protect the whaling ban, protect whales!

http://www.wspa-international.org/latestnews/2009/whaling_action.aspx

Protect the whaling ban, protect whales!

On 22 June over 80 governments will meet to decide the future of the world’s whales. More than 25 years after the global ban on commercial whaling was passed, these intelligent mammals are in danger once more.

At the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) annual meeting in Portugal, member countries will consider a proposal to allow coastal whaling – effectively lifting the international ban and spelling disaster for whales.

Many governments – maybe even your government – seem dangerously interested in accepting the proposal; they believe it could act as leverage to control Japan’s so-called ‘scientific’ whaling.

A dangerous compromise
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Bartering with coastal whaling quotas will not guarantee that fewer whales are killed by Japan, Norway and Iceland, all of whom defy the ban.

Instead, this proposal would open the floodgates for this cruel industry to grow worldwide.

Whaling subjects gentle, warm-blooded mammals to rifle fire and exploding harpoons, and ultimately an agonising death. Many hundreds will suffer from horrific explosion wounds for up to an hour before finally dying.

If we act now we can prevent this.

Ensure the IWC votes for whales, not whaling
The world’s whales urgently need you to tell your national representative at the International Whaling Commission to uphold the blanket ban on commercial whaling.

If your nation is not represented at the IWC, you can still take action: write to the foreign ministers of Iceland, Japan or Norway, asking them to cease commercial and ‘scientific’ whaling on welfare grounds.

Please take a moment to sign the petition to protect whales today. You can choose to take the action in Dutch, English, German, Portuguese or Spanish. Your location makes a difference, so please choose correctly.

Do you think a non-human animal feels less pain than a human animal?

(polls)

Animal Rights 2009 National Conference

http://www.arconference.org/

July 16-20 in Los Angeles

KEY FEATURES
World’s largest and oldest animal rights conference

100 sessions, including plenaries, workshops, raps, reports

90 speakers from 60 animal protection groups in 9 countries

Sessions on personal skills, activism, organizing, outreach

Eyewitness report on whale wars and Prop 2 campaign

Presentations by leaders of other social justice movements

Celebrity & Activist Awards

80 videos with premieres

Hundred free exhibits

Networking Receptions

Discounted parking

Newcomers welcome!

Lyrics

LOOKING FOR CHANGES

I saw a cat with a machine in his brain
The man who fed him said
He didn’t feel any pain
I’d like to see that man
Take out that machine
And stick it in his own brain
You know what I mean?

I saw a rabbit with its eyes full of tears
The lab that owned her had
Been doing it for years
Why don’t we make them
Pay for every last eye
That couldn’t cry its own tears
Do you know what I mean?

Well I tell you that we’ll all be
Looking for changes
Changes in the way
We treat our fellow creatures
And we will learn how to grow.
When we’re looking for changes

I saw a monkey that was
Learning how to choke
A guy beside him gave him
Cigarettes to smoke
And every time that monkey
Started to cough
The bastard laughed his head off
Do you know what I mean?

When I tell you that we’ll all be
Looking for changes
Changes in the way
We treat our fellow creatures
And we will learn how to grow
When we’re looking for changes
We’re looking for changes
In the way we are

– Paul McCartney

History of Animal Rights

http://www.animalrightshistory.org/timeline-victorian/wil-howard-williams.htm

This is a wonderful resource giving many examples of the early literature/materials that tells about the existence of compassionate humans who were a big part of the forming years of the Animal Rights Movement.
At a time where the general belief was, that animals lacked intelligence and since they weren’t intelligent enough to comprehend/process physical or emotional pain, that they would not be suffering when subjected to ranging from light to extreme levels of physical and emotional pain.
To many people in the world, ‘Humanity, Justice and Kindness to Animals’ were ideas, much too foreign to even give a thought to.
Despite the fact that this belief has sadly still not changed in the minds of some of todays people, many people accept that Animal Rights and Human Rights are no different than the other.

Earth parents and their little ones

A seal mom and her baby tenderly enjoying each others' company

A proud hippo-mom teaches her newborn how to swim

Inseparable: A mommy elephant and her little one

Mommy pelican keeps her little darling safe and close

Mommy and baby taking a nap together

A loving peck on the head from mommy

A mother sheep caressing her tired little lamb

A human mom and her baby taking a little nap together

Mothers,
Fathers,
You are the creators of life,
Loving caretakers of future.
Most captive animals are not able to enjoy their children and most captive animal children are not able to be close to their mothers.
May every single human and animal child have the opportunity to be with his/her mother and experience a mothers love to give them the strength they need to get through life and be able to give the same love to THEIR young some day.

Sea Shepherd – Nobody Talks, Everybody Walks

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4PPjladbsg
Sea Shepherd’s Swedish First Officer, Peter Hammarstedt, is a great example of what to do while being interrogated.

Last year, Peter was arrested when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) boarded the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat in international waters. Peter, along with Captain Alex Cornelissen of the Netherlands, was charged with the “crime” of breaking the seal protection regulations by approaching, witnessing, and documenting the killing of a seal.

In Canada, it is a crime to witness or document the killing of a seal by a licensed seal killer.

Peter and Alex were each interrogated for four and a half hours.

And during that time, Peter and Alex said absolutely nothing in accordance to the rule: Nobody talks, everybody walks. They also refused to sign anything in accordance to the rule, Nobody signs, everything is fine.

Peter and Alex were unable to attend their trial last month in Nova Scotia because they had been previously deported and banned for life from entering the country. As a result, the trial went ahead without them, and their bail will most likely be forfeited.

By banning the two crewmembers from the country, the Canadian government was able to avoid the embarrassment of a legitimate trial with a defense. The sentence of deportation for life was given to Alex and Peter a year before the trial. We have included in the video a couple of the more humorous moments from the interrogation of Peter Hammarstedt. And remember, Peter and Alex each sat through four and a half hours of this comedy until the Mounties finally threw in the towel.

I’m especially amused by the Mounties comparing the documentation of the seal slaughter with Muslim terrorism.

In viewing this, please keep in mind that a Mounty need not have more than a tenth grade education to qualify to be a member of the RCMP. Another interesting factoid about the Mounties is that Disney owns their image. Every time a Mounty uniform appears on television or in a movie, Disney gets a cut of the appearance fees.

In this video, Peter Hammarstedt demonstrates the perfect response to interrogation. He simply said and did nothing.

and yes we do have a website:
http://www.seahepherd.org
Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: Sea Shepherd, Nobody Talks Everybody Walks, Canada Seal Hunt, Paul Watson, peter Hammarstedt, Farley Mowat

From Dusk ’til Dawn (by Keith Mann)

Published May 2007
672 pages, 140 photographs
An insider’s view of the growth of the Animal Liberation Movement. From Dusk ’til Dawn offers the personal perspective of former ALF activist Keith Mann on the direct action wing of the Animal Liberation Movement, from its early history, through its rapid growth in the 1960’s, to the present day. The book takes the reader on tour with the ALF as activists carry out raids, and uncovers the thinking and motivation of some of the people who work within ALF cells or alone – those who go out of their way and are ready to break the law of the land to help stop the suffering of animals.
Source: www.thethinkshop.co.uk/fdtd/guestbook.asp

Cuteness Overdose

Poems

God’s Garden

God made a beatous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway
That was not overgrown.
And to this beauteous garden
He brought mankind to live,
And said: “To you, my children,
These lovely flowers I give.
Prune ye my vines and fig trees,
With care my flowerets tend,
But keep the pathway open
Your home is at the end.”

Then came another master,
Who did not love mankind,
And planted on the pathway
Gold flowers for them to find.
And mankind saw the bright flowers,
That, glitt’ring in the sun,
Quite hid the thorns of av’rice
That poison blood and bone;
And far off many wandered,
And when life’s night came on,
They still were seeking gold flowers,
Lost, helpless and alone.

O, cease to heed the glamour
That blinds your foolish eyes,
Look upward to the glitter
Of stars in God’s clear skies.
Their ways are pure and harmless
And will not lead astray,
Bid aid your erring footsteps
To keep the narrow way.
And when the sun shines brightly
Tend flowers that God has given
And keep the pathway open
That leads you on to heaven.

Robert Frost (written in 1899)

Quotes

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. – The Dalai Lama

For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and who so eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. -Jesus Christ

“Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein”

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -Thomas A. Edison

Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. -Albert Schweitzer

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of `real food for real people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital. -Neal D. Barnard, M.D.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for? -George Bernard Shaw (Living Graves, published 1951)

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is–whether its victim is human or animal–we cannot expect things to be much better in this world… We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. -Rachel Carson

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. -George Bernard Shaw

Results from animal tests are not transferable between species, and therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans…In reality these tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability. -Herbert Gundersheimer, M.D., member, PCRM

Doctors who speak out in favour of vivisection do not deserve any recognition in society, all the more so since their brutality is apparent not only during such experiments, but also in their practical medical lives. They are mostly men who stop at nothing in order to satisfy their ruthless and unfeeling lust for honours and gain. -Dr. Hugo Knecht

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. -Professor Charles R.Magel

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. -George Bernard Shaw

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. -Mahatma Gandhi

During my medical education at the University of Basel I found vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary. -Carl G. Jung

Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing against God and his fair creation. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practise elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures. -Mohandas Gandhi

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. -C. S. Lewis

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. -Mahaparinirvana

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends. -George Bernard Shaw

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -Albert Einstein

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. -Isaac Bashevis Singer

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. -Leo Tolstoy

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. -Pythagoras

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. -Plutarch

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo Da Vinci

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore. -Franz Kafka

When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings. -William C. Roberts, M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of `real food for real people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital. -Neal D. Barnard, M.D.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals. -Geoffrey Guiliano, the main Ronald McDonald actor in the 1980’s who quit and publicly apologized.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -Froude

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it’s called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it’s called ferocity. -George Bernard Shaw

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. -Henry David Thoreau

Thou shalt not kill. -Exodus 20:13

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. -Isaiah 66:3

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be as meat…. -Genesis 1:29

If you have men who will exclude any of god’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. -St. Francis of Assisi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. -Gandhi, the Moral Basis of Vegetarianism

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer? -Jeremy Bentham

All the arguments to prove man’s superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer Liberation

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -Charles Darwin

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. -Ingrid Newkirk

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. -Alice Walker

I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. -Abraham Lincoln

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. -Albert Einstein

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.” -Arthur Conan Doyle

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. -Leo Tolstoy

Jung

Animal Cruelty in Spain

Cruelty in Spain
Source: http://www.crueltyinspain.webnode.com
We ask you to avoid tourism in Spain, and to avoid buying Spanish products. It is the only way left to make pressure on Spanish Government in order to have a new, serious, active Law for Animals’ Protection. …