R Eisenberg wrote:
Dear friends, I just received the Christmas issue of the Heifer International catalogue, urging me to purchase an animal to send to help feed the poor in developing nations. >From their website: "Heifer International was founded in 1944 by Church of the Brethren educator Dan West. His vision of a worldwide program to end hunger and poverty was born of his Christian faith. From the beginning, this vision has encompassed all spiritual paths and all people who understood that to serve God, we serve our brothers and sisters." In keeping with it's Christian roots Heifer International is sacrificing animal lives to spread it's message that humans have dominion over animals and can do with them what they wish. The following is a list of projects (i.e. animals being sent to) in China. In total disregard of what might happen to these animals in a nation that has the worst track record for animal abuse on the planet, they are sending livestock (i.e. living beings)as breeding stock of future generations to be slaughtered and consumed. http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.2665753/ I cannot think of a more callous disregard for the lives of these animals. As you can see from looking at their website they have projects in many other nations as well: http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.2665753/ That they see this as a gesture of kindness only highlights the Chiristian view that animals are commodities to be bartered for ingratiating themselves into the lives of the recipients. That they are continuing the judeo/christian tradition of permissible killing of animals at a time when there is so much violence throughout the world, also demonstrates that they do not understand the link between violence to animals and violence to humans. If you wish to protest their insensitivity to the lives of our animal brethren please send you comments to: Ms Sara Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, Ruth http://www.chooseveg.com/meet-your-meat.asp "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham." -- Anna Sewell --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
