Animal Rights



The basic tenets of Animal Rights Strategy are the following:

*  Nonhuman animals have moral rights and should never be subjected to human-inflicted suffering.

*  Basic legal rights for animals are the primary goal of the animal rights movement.

*  Where animals are known to be suffering from the failure of the animal-welfare system, demand that authorities act to remedy the situation.

*  Educate about the ability of the welfare system to protect the animals.

*  Animal rights are a matter of justice.  Acting merely on compassion is insufficient to change the law.

*  Campaign to change practices, policies, regulations and laws that promote and support animal exploitation with public funds.

*  Work to eliminate the public-relations effort of government agencies and other publicly funded and subsidized entities.

Demand that public entities adhere to the principle of equal consideration of equal interests by strictly enforcing the Constitutional guarantees.

Animals Rights

Peter Singer, who is said to be the founder of the Animal Rights Liberation movement, points out that "humans grant moral consideration to other humans not on the basis of intelligence but on the basis of their ability to experience suffering.  Animals also experience suffering and excluding them is a form of discrimination known as "speciesism."

Book:  "Animal Liberation",  by Peter Singer

Full Name:  Pete Albert David Singer

Date of Birth:  July 6, 1946

Place of Birth:  Melbourne, Australia

Nationality:  Australian





The Years Pass and Cinderella Is Now 75 Years Old

Cinderella Is Now 75 Years Old

After a fulfilling life with the now dead Prince, she happily sits upon her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat named (strangely enough) Bob, for companionship.

One sunny afternoon, out of nowhere, appeared the Fairy Godmother.  Cinderella said, "Fairy Godmother, what are you doing here after all these years?"  The Fairy Godmother replied, "Cinderella, you have lived an exemplary life since I last saw you.  Is there anything for which you heart still yearns?"  Cinderella was taken aback, overjoyed, and after some thoughtful consideration, and almost under her breath she uttered her first wish:  "I wish I were wealthy beyond comprehension."  Instantly, her rocking chair was turned into solid gold.  Cinderella was stunned.  Bob, her old faithful cat, jumped off her lap and scampered to the edge of the porch, quivering with fear.  Cinderella said, "Oh thank you, Fairy Godmother."  The Fairy Godmother replied, "It is the least I can do.  What does our heart want for your second wish?"  Cinderella looked down at her frail body, and said:  "I wish I were young and full of the beauty of my youth again".  At once, her wish became reality, and her beautiful youth visage returned.  Cinderella felt stirrings inside her that had been dormant for years.  A long forgotten vigor and vitality began to course through her.  Then the Fairy Godmother again spoke, "You have one more wish; what shall you have?"  Cinderella looks over to the frightened cat in the corner and says, "I wish for you to transform Bob, my old cat, into a kind and handsome your man."  Magically, Bob suddenly underwent so fundamental a change in his biological make-up, that when complete he stood before her, a man so masculine and enticing, the likes of which neither she nor the world had ever seen, so fair indeed that birds began to fall from the sky at his feet.  The Fairy Godmother again spoke, "Congratulations, Cinderella.  Enjoy your new life."  And, with a blazing shock of bright blue electricity, she was gone.  For a few eerie moments, Bob and Cinderella looked into each other's eyes.  Cinderella sat, breathless, gazing at the most stunningly perfect man she had ever seen.  Then Bob walked over to Cinderella, who sat transfixed in her rocking chair, and held her close in his young muscular arms.  He leaned in close, blowing her golden hair with his warm breath as he whispered...

... "Bet you're sorry you neutered me now."

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My Declaration of Self-Esteem

"I Am Me"

In all the world there is no one else exactly like me.

Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me;

my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures an mistakes, because I own all of me.

I can become intimately acquainted with me.  By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts.  I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me and other aspects that I do not know, but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.  If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.  I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do - I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me - I am me and I am okay.

Virginia Satir (1916-1988)

It is so true...

IT IS SO TRUE...

That we don't know what we've got until we lose it,

But it's also true...

That we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives !

    Anonymous

The BOND by Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States

The BOND by Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States

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GOLF WELL DEFINED

GOLF

Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime,

in which you may exhaust yourself but never

your subject.  It is a contest, a duel or  melee,

calling for skill, courage, strategy and self-

control.  It is a test of temper, a trial of

honor, a revealer of character.  It affords

a chance to play the man and act the

gentleman.  It means gong into God's

out-of-doors, getting close to nature, fresh

air, exercise, a sweeping away of mental

cobwebs, genius recreation of tired tissues.

It is a cure for care, an antidote to worry.

It includes companionship with friends,

social intercourse, opportunities for courtesy,

kindness and generosity to an opponent.  It

promotes not only physical health, but moral force.

David R. Forgan 1899