Please take a moment to view the Pages (listed on the right) dedicated to the animals we so effortlessly take advantage of and treat like items.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Life Spans!

•An average elephant lives for about 55 years.

•A butterfly lives for about 6 months.

•A gorilla lives to about 40 years of age.

•A queen honeybee lives for about 7 years.

•A shark lives for about 100 years.

•An average lion lives for 25 years.

•An average parrot lives for 120 years.

•Ants may live up to 16 years.

•Dolphins live for about 25 years.

•Eagles live for about 40 years.

•Giant tortoises live to be 200 years old.

•Rattlesnakes live for about 19 years.

•The longest-lived insects are queen termites, which live for up to 100 years.

•The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Fight the real enemy!

I'm often taken back by the way in which animal rights activists interact with each other. If we are all fighting for the same solution why are we attacking each other and not the real enemy?

The government has the loudest voice of all, but because animal rights don't benefit them they turn their back. Animals can't vote for their own freedom, so we need to speak up. If everyone worked together we would be able to show the government that for our vote there needs to be changes. It almost seems like instead of fighting for the animals people are fighting to get there message heard the loudest. For the people who truly want the best for the animals being affected by humans "need" for power, it doesn't matter who is saying it, as long as it's being heard. I've always respected Peta's ability to bluntly get their words across. Many people have grown to hate them and their over the top ways to spread their message, but I've always showed my support by signing all of their petitions and keeping up-to-date on their progress. I've learned lately that, although peta does a lot for animal welfare (which is greatly appreciated), their ideas on how the word needs be to spread is often bashed. There are websites, blogs, pages, and facebook groups all dedicated to bringing down Peta.

Let's just say one person spends 20 mins a day bashing peta. That's roughly 9 hours a month, which is over 100 hours a years spent on bringing down another animal welfare group instead of helping the millions of animals in need.

Another reason the back and forth between animal rights groups is unproductive is because that's taking away from the original issue. People are so sick of hearing about the same issues over and over that it's disturbing there "out of sight, out of mind" way of life.

For the people who are sick of hearing from animal rights groups. My mom was always bugging me to clean my room, ALWAYS. It didn't occur to me until now that to stop her from nagging all I had to do was clean my room. Well, if you don't want to hear about animal cruelty, global warming, saving the environment, and all that other repetitive stuff that we talk about just help. Recycle, stop supporting fast food restaurants (not only will the animals benefit from that but your health will too!), turn the lights off when you're not using them, take the bus or walk when you have the chance, and adopt pets instead of buying them.

I've eaten meat. I've gone to McDonalds. I've used twice as much toilet paper then needed. I've thrown a plastic bottle in the garbage. But I've also realized what I need to do to help and made the life changing decision to use my ability as a "superior" to animals and get them on the path to there natural habitat.

Fight the real enemy!

It doesn't seem like the human race will every be able to compromise and decide on a correct path for stopping animal cruelty. Instead of attacking each other we need to attack the real enemies. why not put the attention on the government, who is allowing all this inhumanity to go on? Why not go after the people who are actually causing these animals all this pain?


Yes, I agree! Peta does have extreme ways to get there point across, and their way of going about teaching young kids isn't necessarily right in a lot of peoples minds (including mine) but they are getting noticed and they are being listened too.

I realise that everyone is trying to help -So am I- but we need to see that the way information is being protraded now is only making people irotated.

We need to find a way for people to naturally want to help.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Quotes I Have Fallen in Love With.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?  ~Pierre Troubetzkoy


God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages.  ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien


We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.  ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.  ~Murray Banks

Hunting is not a sport.  In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.  ~Paul Rodriguez

Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.  ~U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999
 

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.  ~Author Unknown

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.  ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.  They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.  There you go.  I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.  ~Ellen DeGeneres

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

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them.  But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.  ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.  ~Bradley Millar

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?  ~Jean Paul Richter

Wear your own skin.  ~As seen on a shirt at pangeaveg.com

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              

Friday, August 13, 2010

Look at it this way!

“If you would not volunteer to experience even a small portion of what farmed animals go through or if you feel subjecting companion animals to the same fate is morally repulsive, then isn’t that reason alone to consider a system of eating that is not founded on the subjugation and exploitation of other sentient, feeling beings?”
                                                                                             -Marji

I found this quote online and thought it needed to be repeated.

The four B's -Bear Bile Belongs in Bears

Did you know there are readily available herbal and synthetic alternatives to bear bile?
In South Korean there are over 1400 bears suffering the cruelty of bear bile farms. For ten years their stuffed into cramped cages waiting to be slaughtered for their bile.

Click here to be directed to the petition that tells the Korean parliament to support a ban on bear bile farming.


http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bear-bile908.html

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Ways to make a difference.

Not dedicated enough to participate in protests but still want to help?

Don’t have the funds to donate money?
No time to attend fundraisers?
Just want to help as much as possible?

It’s easier then you think to help stop animal cruelty.

As much as donations and fundraisers help, life is busy. I personally found it hard to get involved because the city I lived in didn’t have much to offer. Have you every heard the saying “It’s the little things that count”? There is so many small ways to show your support without spending money and using precious time.

Please check out my “Ways to make a difference” page to the right. It will give you quick tips and options to help fight the war on animal cruelty.

Stop Guilt Tripping and Show Them the Truth!

When trying to get the information about animal cruelty out to my friends and family I’ve come across phrases like “I don’t want to hear about that” or “I’ve heard this a thousand times”. I’ve realized that people need to naturally WANT to help. They can’t be guilt tripped into donating money or changing their lifestyle. People are happy with an “Out of sight, out of mind” way of life and when confronted with such a negative topic they often feel attacked. If someone is trying to defend their past choices, there going to hesitant to change there future ones.


I want to show people the beauty in creatures we so effortlessly take advantage of. I want people to realize that the animals we often pass off as “items” are actually amazing and unique. Thousands of people are passionate about living a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle, but for hundreds of years society has accepted that we are superior to animals, therefore, we can do as we please with them. I’m not interested in turning everyone vegan or asking for money. I just want people to realize that there are more humane ways to keep the lifestyle we are comfortable with but also show the animals the respect they deserve.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A Mothers Instinct

We share this earth with millions of amazing species, all with different qualities and unique abilities. The beauty these incredible animals can show us is astonishing, but humans being the "superior beings" take advantage and cause unnecessary pain and suffering for so many living things on this planet.

The outcome of being forced out of their natural habitat.
I watched a video last night about a mother deer attacking an innocent dog because she saw him as a threat to her baby. The person filming and many comments on the video displayed no sympathy for the deer. Generally if a human mother feels her child is in danger she will do ANYTHING to protect them. People were implying that she deserved to be shot and she should go back to where she belongs. Deer are gentle animals that show amazing grace and beauty. Their homes are being destroyed due to our societies need to expand, forcing her to respond to any situation as threat.


We need to devote the resources used on unnecessary expansion for things that really matter. We need to focus on developing plans that end poverty and preserve the natural beauty of our planet. Humanity is so worried about technology and evolution that we forget to respect the earth and all its inhabitants.

 



Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Animals in Entertainment

There was a huge tent with dozens of pretty colors in the parking lot of the local mall. I remember the excitement I had seeing the elephants and ponies giving rides outside the door. We went in and got cotton candy and delicious red candy apples. There were clowns running around and beautiful women hanging from the ceiling. What a grand place. The animals were doing amazing things, and i could tell there trainers really loved them.

When I got home the first thing I did was research and find out how I could be apart of this extravagant world. I always wanted to work with animals and this seemed like the perfect place for me. I went to several different websites for mainstream circuses and found phrases that described the perfect life for an animal such as "Healthy Environment" and " Groomed and Cleaned Daily". I needed to get involved in this glamorous life.

Then Google recommended a topic that changed my view from then on. The stories I found were unbelievable aftere the beauty I had just seen hours before. It wasn't possible that the people I was so fond of could harm such beautiful creatures. The pain and suffering these poor animals endured for human entertainment disguised me. I continued my search...

Not just circuses but dog and cock fighting, rodeos, zoos, racing, bullfighting, movies and television shows, aquariums, marine parks and bear-baiting are all ways humans find enjoyment from the torture of animals.

Not only would the millions of animals beign treated like objects and forced to live painful lives appreciate you taking some time to learn about these issues but also the thousands of people trying to make a difference.

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