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 YOUR GUIDE TO CAMPAIGNING FOR ANIMALS
 
Contents
Why Help Animals?
Animals Feel3The Way Animals Are Treated6Helping Animals, Helps People11Helping Animals, Helps The Environment11Helping Animals Is Good For Your Health 11
How You Can Help
Consume Ethically12Spread The Word21Campaigning28Local Ways To Help Animals34Worldwide Peace For Animals36
The Positive Page
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Useful Information
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"The time will come when men suchas I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on themurder of men."- Leonardo da Vinci, artist andscientist
Why Help Animals?
When I tell people I’m trying to help animals, I often get comments such as ‘what about all thepeople suffering in the world?’ ‘animals don’t really suffer’ or ‘they’re there for our use’. Theseare all fair comments, they’re people’s opinions and everyone’s entitled to them; they’re alsothe reason I’ve put this chapter in this book; just in case someone’s picked this up out of curiosity but doesn’t know too much about the animal rights/ welfare movement. If youalready know and want to do something to help animals, then you could memorise some factsfrom this material for future conversations with someone who’s asked about why you careabout animal welfare or to create your own leaflets/ books if you want to. It would also be auseful perspective of another person’s point of view which will better enable you to explainyour side of the story.The reasons it seems that animalscontinue to suffer is that some peopledon’t see them as having feelings(they have no voice to let you knowsomething hurts), big companies thatstand to make profit from the sufferingof animals spend millions on givingthe public an inaccurate picture of howanimals are treated by them, somepeople are too busy to be taking on more responsibility, some people believe the needs of people who are suffering in the world, should come first and some people believe that all theanimal welfare issues relate to the health of people which again, should come first.
Animals Feel
So, we’ll deal with each concern, one by one. Firstly, the matter of animal emotions andintelligence. Descartes famously reported that animals ‘act naturally and mechanically, like aclock which tells the time better than our judgement does. Doubtless when the swallowscome in Spring, they operate like clocks. The actions of honeybees are of the same natureand the discipline of cranes in flight, and of apes fighting. All originate from the corporal andmechanical principal.’ Fortunately, today it seems most people have moved far from thisbelief. Humans also need to be able to do these things but we know it's our feelings thatdrive us to do them. It would, according to nature, make sense for animals to have similar feelings to humans as it would make it much more likely that animals would carry out thefunctions necessary for survival. An animal's more likely to run away from danger if it's afraid,more likely to look after it's young if it feels love for them, more likely to mate if it feelsattraction and more likely to play and learn survival skills, if it has fun doing this.Perhaps when people see animals acting quite violently in the wild by killing another animalfor meat or territory, they feel animals lack compassion but if we were in their situation we’dhave to do the same. Our lives are much easier; we’re less likely to starve, loose our homesor be killed. If we were in the same situation as animals, we’d kill animals for food and kill
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