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(climbing up onto big bargain size soapbox)
I think a harsh mental picture is what more people need to have. If more
people cringed, we might live in a world that was more apt to protect animals.
The fact that anyone on this list wasn't aware of any of those issues in itself
speaks for the lack of animal abuse education in our society. Cringe away...
have nightmares... cry... then go out and MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Lobby for harsher
animal cruelty laws, lobby to have the states that require shelters give
unadopted animals to research facilities change those laws (the term is called
"pound seizure, I believe), Lobby to end animal experimentation or to at least
stop allowing class B dealers (also known as "bunchers"). Picket, get out and
hold a sign. We live in a wonderful democracy (those of us here in the USA) but
it doesn't work if you don't use it, so WRITE your representatives and urge them
to sponsor bills to tighten animal cruelty laws and change the ones that
effect animals in a bad way. Visit your local high school, and colleges, and see
if they dissect cats or use animals in any of their labs, and if they do, urge
them to stop, picket them, hand out flyers to all the students about all of the
alternatives available these days. Write a letter to the editor of your local
newspaper. Just make a difference. Until now, some of you may have been unaware,
NOW, you are not. Before, you didn't know, so things happened around you without
your knowledge, NOW you know, and you have the power to try to effect changes.
That's what activism is, you see a wrong, and you set out to make it right. It's
that simple. Now you just simply have to start caring enough to take action. I'm
not saying you don't care when I say that, I'm saying, from my own experience,
it takes a LOT of willpower to take the time out of your busy life to actually
DO anything to make the world a better place. No, it doesn't just happen, and
no, others wont do it for you. So when I say you have to care ENOUGH to
take action, I mean that you have to PUSH yourself to DO what needs to be done,
because it's really easy to take a neutral stance in life, and let everyone else
run the show, but it takes time, energy, and determination to go out and do it
for yourself. WE, you and I, are the voice and protectors of the animals we rule
over in our society, to give them voices, we have to put aside our own, and make
room for their message in our lives, then, we have to go out and spread the
message, because what good is a message that no one hears?
Every tear I shed, though they may be many, is far outnumbered by the
numbers of animals that suffer in our world, and my tears, though they may fall,
will never make a difference in anyone's life but my own, and that just isn't
enough. If only I could collect a dollar for every tear I cry, and give it to
the cause that made them fall, then, perhaps, my sadness would be justified in
itself. Actions speak louder than tears.
(off my soapbox now)
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