1. We not only must constantly upgrade our animal cruelty statutes, but make sure
that they are enforced!
2. We need more team players in animal control, humane society, and police agencies.
3. We need more media attention and investigations conducted by animal advocates.
4. We need to clean up our act in America before we can hope to change animal
cruelty in other countries!
5. Always consider the source when reading or listening to advertisements or
articles. Since our government manipulates scientific research results to say what they
want them to say, why wouldn't companies that have everything to gain and profit by
falsifying their research results?
6. We have to keep fighting to get the legal system to give punishment that properly
fits the crime!
7. Animal cruelty statutes have been improved, but we should pay attention to see
what measures they will take to enforce the laws. If they do nothing to uphold their
own rulings, then we should take it upon ourselves to uphold their rulings for them,
whether they like it or not.
8. Become enlightened. Learn everything you can about your own health and proper
care of your animals. Read labels, or better yet prepare your own foods from organic
and locally-grown produce. Don't take the propaganda that is 'spoon fed' to you at face
value. Ignore commercials, political hyperbole and so-called scientific research and
consider the source and reasoning behind that information. What do they have to gain if
you blindly believe?
9. If you are truly the animal lover that you claim, don't kill and eat them. If you
are truly the Earth lover that you claim, don't pollute her.
10. Don't let polluters run the EPA (Environmental Protection Act), Clean Air Act,
Clean Water Act, etc. Help make it so that environmentalists are in equal numbers on
their Board of Directors to make decisions for our world. Currently, George W. Bush’s
”Healthy Forests” initiative promotes destructive logging of old-growth forests. His
“Clear Skies” program, which repealed key provisions of the Clean Air Act, allows more
emissions.
11. Likewise, don't let hunting agencies run the ESA (Endangered Species Act), etc.
Help make it so that animal rights people are in equal numbers on their Board of
Directors to make decisions for our animals.
12. Lawmakers must be made aware of this connection between animal cruelty and
interpersonal violence, and laws changed to detect, rehabilitate or punish animal
abusers. Right now, we should increase awareness of this connection between animal
cruelty and interpersonal violence.
13. Humane education should be practiced in schools.
14. Pets should be treated as members of the family, not as an inferior species.
15. Children should be taught to respect all animals, then they will too respect all
life.
16. We should also give more credence and respect to those that are caretakers of
Mother Earth and all of her creatures. The value of those individuals and organizations
that rescue, rehabilitate, fight for, and educate about those that they care for are an
extremely important public service.
17. Animal rescuers should not be harassed, but should be supported. Too many in the
animal community are too quick to spread rumors about others before they have the facts.
They turn them in with false allegations. It is always the animals that suffer for it
because there aren't enough people to help the animals.
GOOD SUGGESTIONS IN GENERAL:
1. If you don't run your own animal organization, then volunteer at someone else's.
2. Have a contingency plan in case you are harassed.
3. Be careful what you put in emails. Use codes.
4. Never believe the majority of what is written or said in the media. There is a
conspiracy to undermine animal people and sensationalism is all that matters in those
circles.
5. Always get a good attorney. Never trust a public defender ("pretender").
6. Never let any 'official' that demands to get in your home unless you first check
to see if their warrant is legitimate. Most of the time it is not or they just barge in
no matter what your objections.
7. Invest in, and always have running, an undetectable video camera. The little
surveillance cameras are best because they are undetectable. They will videotape YOU,
but you need to tape THEM.
8. You may be falsely labeled a "terrorist", but don't act like one.
9. If you have any incriminating information, keep it hidden somewhere safe and not
where government officials can get their hands on them. NEVER trust ANYONE with that
information!!
10. Secret computer files can be retrieved even if you delete them from your Recycler
Bin. Create a file for them with an unrelated file name, i.e., Macrame Tips.
11. Be aware of all laws, how to quote the right ones, and know how to stand up for
your rights.
12. Never do any acts that might hurt any human beings or animals.
13. Be willing to be charged, jailed, fined and even mistreated, but never be convicted
of real crimes.
14. Become vegan, or at least a vegetarian. Teach others by setting a good example.
15. Don't be hypocritical by wearing leather and using non-animal-friendly products
when discussing cruelty to animals. Better yet, don't do it under any circumstances.
16. Vote at the elections! Vote on important issues and sign petitions.
17. Don't use speciesist language, and bring it to the attention of those who do.
18. Boycott products that come from countries that are cruel to animals - like Japan,
China, Canada, France, etc. Boycott products that come from companies that conduct
research on animals. Boycott products from companies that sponsor cruel events against
animals.
19. Always have a camera (and extra batteries and film) on hand because you never know
when a cruel act will take place (to an animal, person, especially an activist).
20. Tape record violent acts.
21. Always let someone know where you will be when doing investigations,
demonstrations, etc., and when to protect yourself.
22. Invest in and keep with you at all times walkie-talkies and/or cell phones where
you can keep in communication while doing surveillance work.
23. Don't be afraid to commit acts that are morally right, even if they conflict with
immoral laws.
24. Use alias names and accounts on the Internet so that the government can't trace you
to your home.
25. Don't watch TV shows that have animal-cruelty sponsors, and let them know why you
won't watch their shows any more.
26. Read labels carefully. Don't be fooled by false advertisements.
27. Practice "green" every day as much as you can - recycle, carpool, take shorter
showers, compost, use green products, etc.
28. Instead of buying more items as gifts that people really don't need, donate to
honorable causes in their name and present that as their gift, i.e., adopt them a whale
or a wolf or a buffalo or an orangutan or buy them a piece of a rainforest. It might
become contagious.
29. When you do any kind of protest, have surveillance cameras or someone hidden to
take pictures of any kind of police brutality. If they take or destroy cameras, there
will be someone hidden to document that act and, hopefully, that camera won't be
confiscated.
30. Vote to make it illegal for interest groups to buy their way into the White House.
Make the polluters and rapers of the Earth abide by the laws the rest of the citizens
do.
31. Vote to get rid of government agencies that use conflict of interest for their own
personal gain, or at least divert those duties to groups that have the best interest at
heart for animals and the environment.
32. Just because somebody DOESN'T makes a campaign contribution doesn’t mean that they
should be denied the opportunity to express their view to government officials. Make
yourself heard. Don't let the government keep ignoring environmental and animal rights
citizens!
