” Never before have activist groups joined forces with members of the pet industry to enact anti trade / ownership laws. This is because there was never a strong enough foundation to work from . Nobody was large enough for the activist organizations to form a partnership with until now.”

I would imagine that the activist groups have been a part of the pet industry for some time.

I imagine I´m a novice to the AR butt he other day I saw a horrifying comercial on the TV regarding maltreated farm animals so I do a seach on the net to find out more.
I go to my prefered torrent site and do a search on ”farm animals”.
I discover a movie titled The Emotional World of Farm Animals, and I read the summary;

” The Emotional World of Farm Animals is a delightful documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often just viewed as food.

Jefferey Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love, leads viewers through the personal journey he underwent while writing his latest book, The Pig Who Sang to The Moon. This journey into the sentient, emotional lives of farm animals brings Masson to animal sanctuaries around the country where caregivers and the animals themselves tell their harrowing stories of rescue and escape. Masson delves into the rich ancestry of these curious and intelligent animals and interviews top experts in animal behavior who offer scientific perspectives on these amazing creatures.”
- http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3996596/The_Emotional_World_of_Farm_Animals_-_AP_(2004.DVDRip.XviD)

This movie is also viewable on Google Video until it gets taken down for copyright infringement:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8312987796490958256&q=the emotional world of farm animals&total=10&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Check it out, it´s inspiering and raises some good questions (just don´t fall over to the dark side!).

In the end of the movie flashes another weblink, so I follow the breadcrumbs;
http://sanctuaries.org/

I randomly click New York, and visit Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS). - http://www.casanctuary.org/

In the educational section, off-site programs, CAS have the wollowing to say about;

Our director Kathy Stevens is an award-winning educator who has presented at conferences, schools and universities, yoga centers, chambers of commerce and other organizations throughout the Northeast to groups large and small.

By the sounds of that, if I´m looking to adops a dog then CAS seems to be the right place for me so I go there to see if I can find a pup for me.

I come home from the sanctuary with a wealth of new impresstions and I turn back to CAS website in the evening.

I look in the books section and discover that the director of CAS is also an author, wow! The book even has it´s own website where the author has a blog;
http://blindhorsesings.com/


I click the blog and read in the first post at the very bottom. She opens her blog by appealing her peoples to help her ”weed the fields”.
I read some of the headlines of the other posts;
”Two Bunny Buddies”
” President Rambo Addresses the Nation”
” Republican Candidate Babe Addresses the Nation”
” Green Pasture Party Invited to Participate”
- http://blindhorsesings.com/blog/

I see author is fond of methaphors-
I look around at the other publications, I click The Declaration of Compassion;

” AT CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY, JUNE 28, 2008

The Declaration of Compassion for the planet and its inhabitants

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for living beings to reconnect the bands which have separated them from one another and to assume the equal station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a humble respect of all beings requires that they should state what impels them to action.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all creatures are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

I wonder why this wasn´t published at their website... ?
Anyways.. I back up my webbrowser one step and stop up to think for a sec.
If there is a vega
I look at Kathys links to other blogs. Wayne Pacelle of the HSUS is her top spot, while PETA is only number four. In eights place I found link to Dragonbird Sanctuary, sounds interesting. I clicked that;

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=f9a7bbe330bd98070230af8938b27719&url=http://oboe-wan.blogspot.com

Their top story is the animal bill of rights, I read on and click the sign it link and a new site appears;
The animal bill of rights petition at the website of the Animal Legal Defence Fund (ALDF).
I click the ”sitemap” link at the very bottom and find a diversity of interesting links to read.
- http://aldf.org/sitemap.php

Judging by their website I gett he impression that the ALDF is a serious site with serious and thought-through content.
I read their animal rights bill again and stop up at the fourth right, the right to a healthy diet.
I´d like my dog to have a healthy diet but if Im a vegan I may resent the fact that there is meat in most dogfoods, so I starts feeding Fido the vegan dogfood, free of meat, free of guilt and in support of the animal rights industry, but still a part of the pet industry.
One may argue not only that activist groups have joined forces with members of the pet industry, bu teven that the animal rights movement has it own pet industry.

Vegetarian dogs
- Towards a world without exploitation
http://www.vegetariandogs.com/VDWebsite/vd.htm

V-dog (The Original Vegetarian Dog Food)
- V-dog supports PETA through the PETA Business Friends membership program
http://www.petamall.com/PLPShop.asp?RecordID=212#
http://www.v-dogfood.com/

Veggiepets even have vegetarian cat fod and meat flavored food enchancer sprays which you can spray on your vegan dog or catfood to make the animals like it even more! They also have other ”ethical pet care products” and even ”Vegetarian Feeds for Farm Rescue Animals”
- http://www.veggiepets.com/

I am hinking.. there are a lot of animal shelters and animal sanctuaries. I wonder if all the sanctuaries listed in animalsanctuaries.org use vegetarian animal feeds. If so.. then clearly the animal rights activists not only join forces fith the pet industry they claim a part of it to help fund their activities and promote their agenda.

Sorry for long read
Best wishes
oby

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