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Animal Rights and Welfare

Before you get involved in an animal organization, make sure you understand everything they believe in.

The History of Respect for Animals

Today we see animal rights activists everywhere. From Green Peace attempting to hunt down a Japanese Whaling Vessel to eco-terrorists letting all the animals escape from a Country Animal Shelter and Pound and then vandalizing it. These of course are extreme and yet humans have quite a lot of empathy for animals and nature as well.

No Primate Is Illegal

Did you know that non-humans are supposed to have human rights? Talk about losing the language, but that is exactly what some are trying to establish. The test subject for redefining human is a 26-year old chimpanzee named Hiasl which certain animal rights activists are trying to get legally declared a person.

Preventing Animal Abuse and Neglect-An Introduction

Learn about the difference between animal abuse, intentional neglect and unintentional neglect. Tips on how to identify animal abuse and neglect are included along with information about how to report abuse and neglect.

Stop Prairie Dog Poisoning!

The U.S. Forest Service today released its draft plan that may drastically increase the poisoning of prairie dog colonies this fall throughout the Buffalo Gap and Fort Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota and the Oglala National Grassland in Nebraska. Widespread poisoning could kill tens of thousands of prairie dogs, which would jeopardize the continued recovery of the critically imperiled black-footed ferret, the most endangered mammal in North America. The plan would also harm other wildlife that depend on prairie dogs for food or prairie dog burrows for shelter, including rare species such as swift foxes, burrowing owls and ferruginous hawks.

Our Fellow Creatures

Short piece that briefly outlines the reasons why animals deserve rights and our responsibility to them.

Animal Lab Testing: An Essay

Everybody at one point in his/her life uses cosmetics such as make-up, deodorant, shampoo, wrinkle creams, blemish creams and many other products. In the many different trials that these products go through before reaching the public, some are tested on animals.

That Fur Coat

Do the women of the world enhance their beauty by wearing dead animal skins?

Say Thank You to the Cow for the Steak on Your Plate

Have you ever considered saying thank-you to the cow for the steak on your plate?

Animal Cruelty: The Key to Serial Minds

What makes a common person a Serial Killer? According to research, serial killers exhibit what is known as the Triad of Warning Signs in Childhood.

Read This Article If Animal Abuse Upsets You

Are you upset with animal abuse and cruelty to animals? Are you equally upset with neglect that some people show to their animals?

The Cruel Fool: God's Payback (Animal Cruelty)

Animals feel pain too. Think again before inflicting more pain on the weakest link. Abusers bullies/cowards you will find their victim/target a lot smaller. What are the chances of an abuser standing up to someone his/her own size...Zilch