A n i m
a l W r i t e s © sm
The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 11/04/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE SIX ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Holiday Gift Buying
2 ~ Website of Note
3 ~ Help The Homeless This Thanksgiving
4 ~ On Learning From Animals by Jim Willis
5 ~ I Love You Zoe by Guila Manchester
6 ~ Memorable Quote
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Holiday Gift Buying
by JJswans@aol.com & Demnyjets@aol.com
Last year, two of our enterprising staff members
brought you an article listing various vegan and cruelty free gift tips for the
holiday season. You can still find that article in our archives at:
A n i m a l W r
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http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1395/aro001126.html
This year we would like to give you an earlier start
on other cruelty free gifts, as well. Among these are ones that you can
order directly from animal advocacy groups, thereby helping to support the
animals, especially at this time when donation to animal groups are so
meager. Please check out the following websites for all kinds of goodies
for the holidays:
The
Animals' Agenda Online: Gift Subscriptions
http://www.animalsagenda.org/subscriptions.asp?menu=Subscription
The Elephant Sanctuary.
http://www.elephants.com/merchandisestart.htm
ARDA Merchandise Index
http://www.ardainc.org/merch_index.htm
Great Gifts from the SF/SPCA
http://www.sfspca.org/products.html
Kind Kid's Shopping
Humane Book Selection
http://www.kindplanet.org/shop9musicbottom.html
The Humane Society of
the United States |Humane Holiday Gift Guide
http://www.hsus.org/marketplace/giftguide.html
Enviroshop
- Environmental and Cruel-Free Shopping>
http://www.enviroshop.com/
the humane catalog (HSUS)http://www.thehumanecatalog.com/
Links to Vegetarian
Products -- The Vegetarian Resource Group
http://www.vrg.org/links/products.htm#retailer
Delta Society Online Store for
Resources on Health Benefits of Animals, Animal-
http://www.deltasociety.org/dse000.htm
The
Sirius Shoppe Online Store
https://secure2.nexternal.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?Target=&RowID=&CategoryID=&Coupon=&GiftCert=&CustomerID=&CS=tss&BusType=BtoC&Keyword=&NexternalRoot=www.nexternal.com
PETA :: PETA Mall
http://www.peta.org/mall/index.html
Your Online Guide To Cruelty-Free
Shopping (Animal Spirit)
http://www.theanimalspirit.com/vl.html
Catalogs of Cruelty-Free Products
http://www.uga.edu/vegsoc/c-free.html
Animal Aid
Shop
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/sass/system/shopassistant.htm
In Defense of Animals,
Marketplace
http://www.idausa.org/marketplace.html
T's & Sweats & More
(Critter Haven)
http://www.critterhaven.org/chtandsweat.htm
Compassion Over Killing ::
Resources/Merchandise
http://www.cok-online.org/res.html
Farm Sanctuary -
Resources & Merchandise
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/resource/index.htm
ASPCA: Store
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=store
Support The Ark
Trust
http://www.arktrust.org/support/store_orderform.asp
Cruelty Free Shopping - The cruelty
free shop featuring vegan vegetarian ethica
http://www.crueltyfreeshop.com/
Please Feed The Animals
- On-Line Shopping for Pets Gifts
http://www.pleasefeedtheanimals.com/index.html
United Poultry Concerns -
Merchandisehttp://www.upc-online.org/merchandise/
Cruelty-Free Living - Vegan
Information
http://www.theanimalspirit.com/vl.html
Farm Sanctuary -
Adopt-a-Turkey - 2001
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/campaign/c_turkey2001.htm
Humane America: The H.A. Store
http://humaneamerica.org/store.htm
Animal Friends Online -- Our
Shelter Store Catalog !!!!
http://animal-friends.org/store.html
{Hugs
For Homeless Animals} Giftshop and Bookstore
http://www.h4ha.org/gifts/
Progressive Animal Welfare - Online
Catalog
http://paws.org/store/index.htm
The Fund
for Animals: Online Store
http://fund.org/store/
GreenMarketplace.com
Non-Profit Store
http://www.greenmarketplace.com/greenmarket/areas/nonprofit.html?siteid=nfc-home
F.A.R.M. Gifts
http://www.farmusa.org/gifts.htm
Fondation
Brigitte bardot : The Boutique
http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/uk/boutique/index.html
ARF | Shop to benefit ARF
http://www.tlr-arf.org/get_involved/Shop.html
Doggon' Wheels - Home Page for pet
wheelchairs, dog carts, mobility aid for dis
http://www.doggon.com/home.html
>> CAFT - Coalition
to Abolish the Fur Trade
(merchandise)http://www.banfur.com/merchandise/home.html
PCRM--PCRM Mall
http://www.pcrm.org/pcrm/mall.html
Animal Protection Institute -
Shopping Cart
http://www.api4animals.org/gocart/
The Critter
Shop
http://www.thecritterclub.org/links/shop/storecontents.html
Chimps, Incorporated
http://www.chimps-inc.com/merch.html
HFA
CATALOG
http://www.hfa.org/form-2.html
http://www.pigs.org/html/spon.html
PIGS: Sponsor Info
Wildlife Waystation Store
http://www.waystation.org/html/other.html
Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society
http://www.seashepherd.org/store/merchandise.html
Lots of breed rescue organizations also have
merchandise that you can purchase and support the rescue at the same
time. A couple of examples are below, but you can check your own favorite
rescues website.
Dachshund
Delights: Dachshund Gifts And Gifts For Dachshunds
http://www.doxidelight.com/
Small Paws Rescue -
gift shop
http://www.smallpawsrescue.org/pup3/giftshop.html
So sit in the comfort of your own home, browse
these websites, and get your order in early. Your gifts will be unique,
and they will help the animals. Happy shopping.
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Website of Note
For those that are still undecided about the
validity of animal research, this website is a must read:
Little Angel
http://cepe.enviroweb.org/LittleAngel.html
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Help the Homeless This
Thanksgiving
from Bruce Friedrich - BruceF@peta.org
Every
Thanksgiving, homeless shelters are flooded with turkey donations. This
year, PETA would like your help in coordinating “Project Tofurky.” If you would
like to donate a Tofurky to a local shelter, please call us and we will put you
in touch with your nearest shelter (we have a complete list). If your
local grocer does not carry Tofurky (or they have sold out), the company has
volunteered to donate as many extra Tofurkys as we need (up to what they have
in stock), if we pay shipping costs. If you would like to help, please call
Bruce at 202-244-3709, or email him at BruceF@peta.org.
Thanks for all you’re doing to make this holiday season a time of celebration
for people and animals.
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On Learning From Animals
Copyright Jim Willis 2001
tiergarten@onebox.com
http://jimwillis0.tripod.com/tiergarten/
Anyone
who has ever worked with animals, particularly with formerly abused or
neglected animals, has observed their capacity for adaptability, their ability
to forget their former lives and to respond to love. Many of these animals come
to us with "baggage," and after a certain amount of reliable good
care, they display little evidence of their former lives. Most animals even have
the capacity to adapt following a medical trauma, such as amputation of a limb,
and most throw themselves back into life as successfully on three legs as they
once did on four. As they age, they do what they can do until they can't do
anymore.
Animals live in the here and now, they live for the moment. They don't spend
time brooding about the past, they don't worry about the future, and except in
the face of clear and present danger, they aren't concerned about their own
mortality.
Animals are honest. When they are happy they make the appropriate noises and
they play. A warning growl is a warning to be heeded. A cry of pain means
genuine pain. A lick and a caress mean affection and trust. There is no
duplicity in their world and what you see is what you get.
Animals nurture their young and their lives and world revolve around their
young until their young are able to go out into the world on their own, well
prepared for everything they will face. Animals respect seniority and realize
that their mature members have much to teach. For many animals, their lifelong
relationship with their mate will be the most important relationship they will
have.
Animals never ignore their own needs, they achieve balance and pursue nothing
to excess. When they are hungry, they hunt or forage and eat, and they always
eat what is appropriate. Because they balance nutrition and exercise, they are
almost always fit. When they are tired they sleep. They pay attention to their
grooming and most help to groom each other, partly for hygiene, partly as a
ritual of companionship. Animals divide their day and their activities
according to what it must be for them, what is good for each as an individual,
what is good for all as a whole. They rebel against confinement, they own
the world and they want access to it.
There is no confusion in the animal world. A foe, prey, a friendly fellow
species are all immediately apparent and most are able to drink together at a
common watering hole.
Animals communicate constantly and effectively. Every member of their group is
at all times completely informed about the moods and needs of each member, and
their present situation in their environment. When they want company, they seek
it; when they want to be alone, they remove themselves from the group. There
are no meaningless social graces in the animal world, every movement and action
has meaning. There is no insincerity. They have maximized their senses and they
drink information from the world around them.
Animals are innocent. They don't ravage the Earth. They don't hate or plot the
annihilation of another species. They don't take more than they need of
resources. They don't jeopardize their own survival and they accept what they
cannot change.
Animals don't agonize over the existence of a Creator, or how the world came to
be. They are in this world, they symbolize the best of creation and all of
creation beats in their breasts. Creation is for them evidence of a
Creator. They are in tune, they each play a part in the rhythm of life
and they are each as necessary to the music as is every instrument in a
symphony.
One species has risen to the position of conductor - the Human, and like a
symphony conductor, we face in the opposite direction from the musicians.
Rather than adapting and surviving, we've filled our vocabulary with "I
can't," "I won't." We live lives of regret and bemoan our pasts.
We don't live in the present, we exist in a mind-numbing condition of stress
and second-hand information. We worry about the future, about dying, to the
point that we no longer know how to live. We need outside sources of
entertainment because we've forgotten how to entertain ourselves. We create
imaginary worlds because we can't cope with the real world. We can hate solely
on the basis of appearances without understanding the inner being. We aren't
very good at expressing our needs and we are blind to recognizing needs in
others. We give confusing signals - we say "yes," when we mean
"no." We say "good morning" and we don't mean it. We lie to
ourselves and we hide our true feelings from others.
We don't get enough sleep. We either eat too much of everything, or not enough
of what our bodies require. We are poisoning ourselves with chemicals,
preservatives, antibiotics and hormones hidden in our diets. We are raping the
Earth. We spray every square inch of our plots of land with fertilizers and
pesticides. We have wiped out whole species of animals intentionally, and
others through sheer ignorance, and Earth's ecology hangs precariously in the
balance. We are cruel to animals.
We don't live by our senses, we've subjugated them to a senseless degree. We
don't listen to our instincts, we use prejudicial reasoning. We deny our animal
nature, creation is something we control and manipulate, and we don't recognize
our relationship with the rest of creation, or that the Creator lives in us,
because we've set ourselves apart. We use the excuse that modern life no longer
allows us to be who we once were, when we know that we have the power to make
life anything we wish it to be.
Perhaps our greatest sin is what we do to our young, who still begin life in
innocence. We ignore them, force them to fend for themselves. We don't teach
them the lessons they will need to know in order to live successfully. We
fill our days and lives with the wrong values, we have no time for ourselves or
our children, and we hand the children adult responsibilities before they are
prepared for them. We teach greed and selfishness. Drugs and addictions have
become our way of dealing with the stress of the lives we create, and they've
become the lessons we teach our young. We teach them to repeat our mistakes.
Odd that we could do that to children and still live in a culture of
youthfulness where the aged are not respected for their wisdom, they are
forgotten.
It is not too late to learn lessons from the animals. Be good to yourself. Play
more. Sleep more. Bask in the sun. Live each day fully and balanced. Be honest
and sincere, tell the members of your group what you need and ask them about
what they need. Touch...hold a hand, feel a leaf, let the stream run over your
fingers. Smell, listen, see the world around you. Arrange your lives around
nurturing your young. Respect and love your mate. Learn what the old have to
teach. Let go of greed. Protect and stop poisoning your environment. Eat only
when you are hungry and only what you should eat. Adapt and survive.
Realize that you are not alone and accept that you have something to contribute
to the pack. Turn off the artificial noise, the mechanical drone and be here
now, in this world. It is a beautiful world and you are a part of creation, and
in your heart beats all that the Creator intended.
The world is waiting for us to get back in step with the music, to fearlessly
turn our backs to the musicians and to face in the same direction as they. To
once again gather at the same watering hole.
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I Love You Zoe
by Guila Manchester
Dear Zoe,
My days of wandering are done;
My days of love have just begun.
No longer do I shake with fear,
For my new family holds me dear.
With sister dogs I'd like to play,
But she just turns and walks away.
Well, anyhow, I eat her food
Along with mine; it sure tastes good.
A fenced-in yard in which to run
Where I can get the air and sun.
At night I sleep in "Mommie's" bed;
Upon her arm I lay my head.
I'm nice and clean and, if you please,
They washed away those awful fleas.
My tail with happiness I wag;
I even have a license tag.
And all these dreams now coming true,
I wouldn't have except for you.
So I just had to let you know
How very much I love you, Zoe.
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Memorable Quote
"Viler than unbelievers are those cruel ones
who make the law that teaches killing.
~ Yogashastra (Jainism)
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