Spend summer helping animals
Published in THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: June 24, 2004)
Don't have any summer plans? Want to make a difference
this year?
Here are a few suggestions for kids and young teens for
events that will benefit the earth and all its inhabitants:
1) Organize a clean-up day with your friends around
fishing areas.
Fishing not only hurts fish, it also kills and injures
other animals who get tangled and strangled in lost or tossed fishing
tackle.
Organizing clean-ups will also help return neglected
land to its natural beautiful state, providing a haven for people and
indigenous animals, insects, etc.
2) Organize a cruelty-free shopping spree to buy
animal-friendly, not-tested-on-animals goodies.
3) Raise money for your local animal shelter by holding
a car wash, yard sale or bake sale with lots of delicious home-baked vegan
treats. Check out yummy, easy-to-fix recipes at
www.petaEats.com
.
4) In Westchester, Animal Nation
www.animalnation.org
is creating a junior SWAT Team: the Save Wildlife Action Team!
To contact proprietor Jill Doornick, email
[email protected]
, or call (914) 967-7826.
5) Circuses and rodeos are no fun the animals. Organize
a boycott when they come to town. Animal Defenders of Westchester can help;
contact us at www.adow.org
.
6) Millions of frogs, cats, dogs, pigs, worms and other
animals are killed every year for biology class. Prepare a project to
deliver to your teachers in the fall, with the facts about why kids are
objecting to dissection, and the modern alternatives now available, by
visiting www.petakids.com
.
Make time to be a blessing to others this summer!
Troy Winston (age 11), Kiley Blackman, Yonkers Blackman
is spokesperson, Animal Defenders of Westchester.
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