Truth Tankas 3
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
(Thomas A. Edison)

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 7:12)

Asesinato

In Spain, they hang dogs.
Each year, thousands of “galgos”
Meet a brutal end;
Hunters tie them up in trees -
Leave them dangling from nooses.

• Spain's Hanging Horror
• The dogs left to die after they 'humiliated' their masters

 Swim-With-The-Dolphins

Japanese dolphins
Are forced into coves:
Corralled and cut up alive.
Twenty-thousand die each year.
The rest sent to marine parks.

• Dolphin Hunts - Focus on Taiji, Japan
• What Happens To Dolphins In Taiji Japan - World's Cruellest & Biggest Massacre

Cut Price

Zimbabwe’s mass sale:
Wild animals to be sold now.
A price on their heads.
Elephants sent to China -
(For their ‘ivory.’)

• Cash-strapped Zimbabwe sells off its wildlife to cope with drought
• Zimbabwe Sell 24 Wild-Caught Baby Elephants to China
• Uncovering China's illegal ivory trade
• The Ivory Trade Is Out of Control, and China Needs to Do More to Stop It

 Fluffy Jumper

‘Angora’ rabbits
Have all their soft fur ripped out.
Silent beings scream.
They shake and bleed, in dire pain -
For the sake of a sweater.

• A Look Inside the Angora Rabbit Wool Industry
• After Angora Fur Investigation, Some Companies Ban Products While Others Continue Sales

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

We smoke, drink, gorge, stress -
Then search for cures for cancer.
Rats, mice, dogs…in hell.
Licensed torture in ‘science’ labs,
For hard drugs that just don’t work.

• A Response to Cancer Research UK
• Cruelty Free Breast Cancer Charities
• Animal Testing and the Law