I would like to see the end of animal cruelty. This can only happen when people stop turning a blind eye to animal abuse and cruelty. Stop buying real fur (fake fur, really fake fur is just as stylist and cruelty free), same with fake leather (trust me, it has come a long way), be a vegan, vegetarian or buy free range (if you absolutely have to eat meat), also don't buy products tested on animals (peta provides an extensive list or just look on the back of the containers or buy from places like trader joe's or whole foods).
Animals in 2050
by Malini PatelThere once was a place called Salem
Where girls lived deep in fear
Of being accused of witches brews
Then knowing death was near.Another time in Georgia
When black men had no rights
They were beaten and degraded
With so many sleepless nights.And most recently it's gay men
Who have proudly proclaimed "it's time!"
That love from man to man
Be simply not a crime.There was a place called Auschwitz
Where Polish and Jews were gassed
It's a very sad reminder
Of how very cruel our past.And can you believe that women
Were not allowed to read?
They could not vote or think freely
They existed merely to please.And now the time we live in
It's just the same you see
Animals are the slaves and women
Longing to be free!There is but just one difference
For animals have no voice.
They cannot band together
They simply have no choice!They must follow all our orders
Die for many meals
They give their lives for research
And have no courts from which to appeal.They are stuck inside the evil trap
of peoples compassionless views.
Animal lovers are their only hope
Of spreading this vital news....Animals do have feelings!
They feel loneliness and pain!
We must love and respect them!
We'll all have much to gain!So let us come together
And fight for this huge cause
For we are their last chance
To change our current laws.Let's not waste our time on hunters
Or argue with the blind
Let's focus on the children
And educate their minds.If we can teach compassion
as Liz C. Stanton did long ago
Then animals can have a future
And a culture of compassion can grow.And so my friends, I leave you
With just one thought in mind
The suffering of the animals
Is caused by humankind.Humans have a past of cruelty
As the slaves and women knew
But with time and education
Civility slowly grew.And so I pray to heaven
That 50 years from now
Animal suffering will be nonexistent
And people will look back and think HOW?Copyright © 2000 by Malini Patel. All Rights Reserved
May be used in unchanged form by a vowed Animal Rightists if accompanied by this copyright message.
Tilly and the Wall, Super Furry Animals, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mirah, Dinosaur Jr., The Gossip, Le Tigre, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, R.E.M, Cat Power, Arab Strap, Beta Band, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova, Cranberries, Cat Power....
Bridget Jone's Diary, Trainspotting, Little Miss Sunshine, Emma, The Haunting, Beetlejuice, X-Files, Me You and Everyone We Know, Lovely and Amazing, Love Actually, The Sea Inside, The Island (ha ha ha) .. ;".. ..
Lost, Gilmore Girls, I Love Lucy, Law and Order:SVU, Supernatural, House, Family Guy, Flip This House, AFV
I work in a library. enough said.Great quote by Camus: "Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves." (The Plague)
Defining anyone as a Hero assigns a sort of supernatural power that doesn't exist. I admire a lot of people. I'd say my grandma would be the person I admire most. She has a lot of strength, even now. Baby kitty and Missy I also admire because they fought until the end.