Time to give animals the vote
posted on behalf of Angela roberts | 17.05.2005 13:15
The following article is from an excellent article written by Angela Roberts for the Uncaged website
The last three years have been particularly demanding ones. We've been incredibly busy with two of our major campaigns: Diaries of Despair / xenotransplantation and, on the Global Boycott Procter and Gamble front, the exposé of cruel experiments for IAMS' pet food.
Sometimes I find myself so tied up with the daily ups and downs that I temporarily lose sight of the bigger picture. A short break over Christmas however changed that. Early into the New Year I found myself full of questions and thoughts about the direction of our future campaigns and the best way to achieve our aims.
I began to think about why only humans have the vote and we deny that right to animals
I now regard this position as morally unacceptable.
We can confidently say that public opinion increasingly shares these views. There have been protests and campaigns against vivisection for around 100 years and of late the public has now come to embrade our viewpoint, the next stage in that campaign is to enable animals to have a say in their life and future.
I will now be campaigning for this right. Animals deserve to be participating in the election process with votes of their own. The abuse of animals is about power I intend to put that power in the hands of the animals themselves.
Uncaged Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG, UK
phone +44 (0) 114 272 2220, fax +44 (0) 114 272 2225
Sometimes I find myself so tied up with the daily ups and downs that I temporarily lose sight of the bigger picture. A short break over Christmas however changed that. Early into the New Year I found myself full of questions and thoughts about the direction of our future campaigns and the best way to achieve our aims.
I began to think about why only humans have the vote and we deny that right to animals
I now regard this position as morally unacceptable.
We can confidently say that public opinion increasingly shares these views. There have been protests and campaigns against vivisection for around 100 years and of late the public has now come to embrade our viewpoint, the next stage in that campaign is to enable animals to have a say in their life and future.
I will now be campaigning for this right. Animals deserve to be participating in the election process with votes of their own. The abuse of animals is about power I intend to put that power in the hands of the animals themselves.
Uncaged Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG, UK
phone +44 (0) 114 272 2220, fax +44 (0) 114 272 2225
posted on behalf of Angela roberts
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