JUNE 21-26, 1999
Animal Rights Awareness Week (ARAW) is a celebration of
our relationship with
animals and a remembrance of the strong and proud tradition of animal
rights.
ARAW was created to educate people about ways to bring about a more just
and compassionate world. This annual series of events explores our many
options for lifestyles that benefit both animals and humans and advances
the
conviction that animal rights and human rights are complementary, not
contradictory.
The aim of this year�s ARAW is to focus on the property
status of animals by
educating the public about the ways in which businesses that sell
animals,
particularly �pet stores,� perpetuate a vicious cycle of cruelty,
suffering and
death. We are urging people to target these businesses and their patrons
to
educate the average person about how the buying and selling of animals
is not
only ethically wrong but they also support the puppy mill and backyard
breeder�s assembly line production of millions of animals.
Tabling events at businesses that sell animals will also
plant seeds of
awareness and compassion by educating people that we should no longer
consider animals to be property or ourselves to be �owners.� This
seemingly
simple shift from �owner� to guardian, companion, caregiver, etc., will
greatly
benefit animals. More animals will be adopted from shelters, fewer
animals
will be abandoned, and people will have a deeper sense of respect and
compassion for companion animals who are now part of their families, not
mere commodities to be bought, sold and discarded at whim.
Please join us in a week of educating people about the
cycle of cruelty,
suffering and death inherent in buying and selling animals by tabling at
businesses that sell animals. Join us in a week of working toward
elevating
the status of animals while honoring the people whose foresight, hard
work and
heroic dedication paved the way for today�s animal protection movement.
For more information and tabling materials, please
contact IDA.
In Defense of Animals
131 Camino Alto Suite E
MIll Valley, CA 94941
phone: (415) 388 9641
fax: (415) 388 0388
email: [email protected]
www.idausa.org
Go on to Internet Chat
Reminder
Return to 20 June 1999 Issue
Return to Newsletters
** Fair Use Notice**
This document may contain copyrighted material, use of which has not been
specifically authorized by the copyright owners. I believe that this
not-for-profit, educational use on the Web constitutes a fair use of the
copyrighted material (as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright
Law). If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your
own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright
owner.
