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Want To Help Stop Animal Cruelty and Suffering? Animal Rights Action Can Help!
Welcome to Animal Rights Action!
This site tells you about:
- Lots of Ways You Can Help Stop Animal Cruelty and Suffering.
Many ways are free, fun, do not involve donating any money and involve very little effort. In some cases, you won't notice you are making any effort at all!
This section gives you the tools to change things for animals. It also tells you the most effective way to report animal cruelty you see on the web.
- Why Animals Desperately Need Our Help - Types of Animal Cruelty.
This section exposes many different forms of animal cruelty all over the world, some of which you may not be familiar with.
It reveals shocking and horrifying facts that industries, countries, companies and Governments, etc, try hard to keep hidden.
- Pet Adoption, plus information about fostering and sponsoring animals. This section also gives you access to animals available at rescues all across the UK & US. Find your perfect pet at a rescue near you!
In the UK and US, Millions of healthy, problem free, adoptable shelter pets of all ages are destroyed every year due to people abandoning them and people buying newly bred puppies, kittens and other pets, and breeding them, instead of adopting existing ones that need homes.
Millions of the newly bred puppies are bought from pet shops and other sellers supplied by cruel puppy mills, helping this abusive trade thrive.
Animals are not in shelters because they have problems. The vast majority of the time, it is because the owner was irresponsible, applied no forethought, or less often, circumstances beyond their control forced them to part with the pet.
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” ~ Edmund Burke
What Is Meant By Animal Rights?
It is the belief that, because animals feel pain and fear just like humans do, they deserve the right to the same protection from those things as humans.
Morals, Ethics And Principles
All the creatures on the earth, humans included, share the planet. As much as humans behave like they are the owners of the planet, they are not.
One of the main characteristics that makes humans different to other animals is our conscience. This gives us the ability to make moral and ethical choices.
We therefore have a responsibility to make the right ethical choices. It is obviously ethically and morally wrong to exploit other animals, to cause them pain and distress, and make them suffer for our selfish gain.
Instead, humans should use intelligence they are blessed with to find a way for humans to exist harmoniously along side all other creatures.
What are Animal Rights Activists?
Animal rights activists can be split in to a number of categories, including the following:
ANIMAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS: These people make up the majority of animal activists. They campaign against animal abuse and try to bring change by lobbying Government politicians, and using petitions, email / letter writing campaigns, boycotts, protests and demonstrations, etc. Find many more ways in the Help Stop Animal Cruelty and Suffering section of this site.
ANIMAL LIBERATIONISTS / LIBERATORS: These are people who rescue animals from situations where they are suffering. Their concern is not whether their actions are lawful, only that they remove the animal from the abusive situation.
ANIMAL RIGHTS EXTREMISTS: Extremists are very rare, but in the past have used violence to try to deter people who cause animal suffering, from continuing to do so. There may also be an element of giving them a "taste of their own medicine" too. As animals have the capacity to suffer like humans, some people see this as justice being done to people that the law often protects.
Misconceptions:
Some people mistakenly immediately associate the term "animal rights" with extremism, violence and terrorism, even though the vast majority of people who believe in the cause are not extremists or terrorists. They are gentle, sensitive, compassionate, empathetic people.
Another misconception is that animal rights supporters think animals should have more rights than people, and animals' rights should be put above humans' rights. This is also untrue.
Despite it being untrue, some people believe the myths and turn against the cause, trying to turn others against it too. People who do not believe animals are worthy of having the same protection from abuse as humans do this too, despite animals having the same capacity for feeling fear and pain as humans.
It is wrong to say that animal rights campaigners care more about animals than people, as many animal rights supporters are also campaigners for human rights.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Above: Rescue dog owner Tyler with Honey, from Second Chance Animal Rescue Society, a no kill rescue in Athabasca, Alberta, also known as SCARS (www.scarscare.org). Tyler says of Honey "what a fabulous dog she is. We couldn't ask for a better-tempered or lovelier dog!"
THE CONTENTS OF THIS SITE WITH DESCRIPTIONS:
Help Stop Animal Cruelty and Suffering
Many ways to help stop animal cruelty & suffering, including ways for free/very little, & very little effort, no matter what your personality, age, financial situation, etc. Contribute your ideas too.
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Types of Animal Cruelty
Information about many different types of shocking animal cruelty all over the world. You will soon also be able to contribute to this section of the site.
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Pet Adoption
Consider pet adoption, save an innocent pet's life. Each year millions of abandoned pets are killed due to not being adopted, while millions of new pets are bred & bought. Sponsor, foster & adopt here
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So Called Dangerous Dogs And Overlooked Shelter Pets
Irresponsible dog ownership results in gentle breeds gaining the reputation of being dangerous dogs, which means millions of innocent, loving dogs & other shelter pets are killed every year.
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Bad Breeders
Dogs from disreputable, bad breeders, including pet shops often have more health and behavioural problems because of thoughtless and irresponsible breeding practices.
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Free To Good Home Warning
People give their pets Free To Good Home with faith they will be well looked after. Sadly, some people take advantage of this and exploit & abuse the animals for money, after posing as a good home.
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What is a Sitemap? See the Animal Rights Action Sitemap
What is a Sitemap? Click to see the Sitemap for Animal Rights Action. It gives you links to every single page in the website. Find what you are looking for quickly and easily.
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