Animal Rights Help Animals, all around the world!
Animal Rights Help Animals, all around the world!
If you're here I'm probably guessing you want to help animals. Or at least I hope so. I want to. So read on please, give animals a chance, let their voice be heard through me.... I hope soon you will also give them a voice. How to Help animals Step #1 - * Dont use products that use animals for testing*
Every single day more than 38,000 animals are used to test cosmetics, toiletries like toothpaste and shampoo, and household detergents and cleaners. The most common test is called the Draize test where products are put directly into the animals’ eyes and technicians record the effects. The "Lethal Dose" test measures the amount of a product it takes to kill part of a group of animals forced to eat it. THESE TESTS ARE NOT REQUIRED BY LAW, but some companies continue to use them to protect themselves from future lawsuits.
Companies that don’t use animals use human volunteers to test their products. This makes more sense because rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, rats and other small animals are not like people at all so there’s no guarantee that their reactions will be similar. More than 500 companies have already given up animal testing.If you have cruel products in your home, ask your parents if you can mail them back to the companies that made them (try sending them C.O.D. which means the receiver pays the postage). Some companies will send you a refund. Here’s a sample letter: President
Proctor & Gamble Co.
P.O. Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45202Dear President, I am returning this bottle of Tide detergent because I find it unsatisfactory now that I know your company uses animal tests. Until you stop testing on animals, my family won’t buy any more Proctor & Gamble products. Instead, we will buy cruelty-free cleaning products. Please send me a full refund, and please stop testing on animals. Very disappointed, [your name] Be annoying!!! Thats one thing everyone can do, I know that (haha). A teenager from New York spent a day handing out leaflets in front of a store that sold perfume that had been tested on animals. By six that evening, the manager had pulled the perfume from the shelves! Be like that teen.... make a difference! Heres step #2.... its long but its IMPORTANT! Step #2.... Clothes
Did you know that over 40 million animals are being killed each year because people want to wear their skin? In the wild, they suffer horribly in steel-jaw leg-hold traps. Animals sometimes remain in traps for a long time before the trapper comes to kill them. While they’re in the traps, they can’t get any food or water; they can’t hide, and they can’t get out of the rain or snow either. Some animals actually chew off their own foot to escape the trap! Some of the animals have babies waiting for them back home who die slow deaths when they lose their mom. Even though trappers only want to catch certain kinds of animals, like foxes, raccoons and beavers, other animals such as dogs, cats and eagles get caught too. Trappers call these "trash animals" because the traps were not intended for them.Some animals are raised under terrible conditions on fur ranches and are killed in the most horrible manner so that people can wear fur. Some countries are even raising dogs and cats for their skin and fur that is used to make coats, gloves and even kids’ toys! Avoid all products made from the skins of animals. You might not think you would ever buy fur, but fur sneaks into clothes when you don’t expect to see it. For example, gloves are sometimes lined with fur, and jackets are sometimes trimmed with it. You might find fur on a hat or on ear muffs. Let your family know if you don’t want any presents which have fur in them. If you get something with fur on it for a gift, you can still say "thank you." You might want to very politely tell the person how you feel about fur though so they know not to buy it for you any more. If you’re nice about it, they’ll probably be very understanding, and they’ll learn about fur just like you have. If you see furs being bought, sold or given away in contests, write letters or make phone calls to protest. You can check toy stores and look for stuffed animals made of fur or trimmed in fur. If you write to the manager of the store to say how you feel about fur toys, he or she might decide not to sell real fur any more. Lots of people in the Congress of the United States are trying to make the leg-hold traps illegal. You can write to your senators and representatives and ask them to vote against cruel traps. Ask your parents the names of your senators and representative in Congress, or click here to look it up yourself. Mail to senators can be directed to: (Name of Senator), United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510. Mail to representatives can be sent to: (Name of Representative), House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. If you or someone in your family already has a fur coat, you can donate it to an animal rights group. They use them in protests or they mark them and donate them to the homeless. You can also check with your local wildlife refuge – sometimes they use them for orphaned baby animals to snuggle in. Wool: Wool is sheep fur, but it’s different from mink fur or fox fur because you don’t have to kill the sheep to get it. Because you don’t have to kill the sheep, people think there’s no cruelty involved, but this is not true. Most wool comes from sheep who live on big, crowded farms in Australia. Sheep’s wool can get really dirty and sometimes buggy. On a lot of the big sheep farms, people cut off the skin around the sheep’s rear ends so that wool won’t grow there anymore. It’s very painful to the sheep. Sheep from Australia are often sent to other countries on crowded ships. They are treated badly and many die during these trips. Some sheep have their fur cut off when it’s still cold out and suffer terribly in the cold weather. Sheep are often injured when they get their wool coats cut off because people are in a hurry, aren’t careful and handle them very roughly. If you decide you’d rather not wear wool, you can ask your parents to buy you clothes made from cotton, flannel, corduroy and other materials. If you do get a wool sweater as a gift, remember that not everyone knows what happens to sheep. You can let them know, which is a great way to help animals. Down (feathers): The soft feathers of geese and ducks are called down. Down is warm and light and people like to use it to make jackets as well as to stuff pillows, comforters and sleeping bags. Some down comes from geese and ducks who are killed for their meat. Some is pulled right out of the geese while they’re still alive. This is a painful process. If you need a jacket or sleeping bag, you can ask your parents to choose one stuffed with fiberfill or some other warm, synthetic material that isn’t from animals. If you have feather pillows and comforters at home, make sure that they last a long time. Leather: Leather is the skin of animals, usually cows, pigs and sheep. Some people think it’s OK to use leather because it comes from animals who are killed for their meat. They figure the leather is just a by-product of the meat industry. But food animals like cows, pigs and sheep suffer terribly on factory farms. Their lives are sheer misery and their deaths are too. There’s no reason to use leather when there are plenty of substitutes for it. Why would you want to wear someone else’s skin? Did you know that sometimes even dog and cat skin is used to make leather products? Lots of things may be made out of leather including jackets, pocketbooks, shoes, belts, wallets, watchbands, etc. In order to turn animal skin into leather, people have to clean it and put chemicals on it. This process is called tanning and tanning can cause a lot of pollution and it really hurts the environment. Many people think that leather is fashionable, but it’s cruel because it hurts animals and the environment. You can let your family know that you’d rather not use leather. You can get rubber or canvas shoes, or shoes made out of "man-made" materials. If you do have leather shoes, take good care of them so they last a long time and you won’t need another pair too soon. Keep an eye out for dead animal parts: Dead animals show up everywhere. There are beads made out of sea creatures, sculptures made out of elephant tusks and earrings made from animal bones or horns. Doesn’t it seem silly and unnecessary to kill an animal to make some jewelry? Some stores sell raccoon, fox or squirrel tails for people to hang from a hat or their car or some other place. Some sell rabbit’s feet for good luck. The poor rabbits weren’t too lucky!!! Sometimes whole animal heads are sold for decoration. Animal parts which are sold for decoration don’t come from animals who have died naturally. People killed them. If you don’t want to contribute to the death of animals for trinkets or decorations, be careful that you don’t accidentally buy a part of a dead animal. You can visit stores in a mall or shopping center and check for dead animal parts. If you see any, you can write to the store manager about how it makes you feel to see animal parts for sale. Step #3... eating animals.(this ones long too, but it'll show how the food industry is really working and it will wake you up!)
I know we all like to have that Big Mac, or what about that Chicken Whopper. But when we decide to have that, to the animals its saying, Hey wanna be tortured just so I can eat you? Read on...Most of us grow up eating animals without realizing where meat comes from and how it gets to our plates. Meat is a funny word because it doesn’t tell you much about your food. For example, what does a hamburger animal look like, or a hot dog animal? Or a bacon animal? Hamburger is really ground up cow and bacon is really strips of pig flesh and a hot dog is really a mishmash of dead animal parts. When you think of food that way, it certainly makes a difference, doesn’t it?Some people think that the animals they eat were raised on farms where they lived their days basking in the sun, munching on tasty food and running around enjoying themselves. But today most animals are raised on factory farms in dark, crowded, smelly sheds, usually unable to even turn around because there is so little room. Their babies are taken from them almost as soon as they are born, frequently never allowed to play, stretch or feel the sunlight. Cows are branded with hot irons that burn a mark deep into their flesh so people can tell them apart. They don’t give them anything to kill the pain. Have you ever burned yourself? Do you remember how much it hurt? To mark pigs, some people cut off pieces of their ears! Many pigs go crazy from having to live inside the smelly, crowded sheds. Sometimes this causes them to bite each other’s tails. To keep this from happening, people cut off their tails without any pain killers. Before they are transported to be killed, pigs sometimes get their noses broken with baseball bats or sledge hammers. People think that this will keep them from biting each other when they are crammed into the trucks. Chickens, turkeys and ducks all have the ends of their beaks and bills cut off or burned off and chickens and turkeys have their toes cut off – all without painkillers. People do this to keep them from hurting each other because they fight when they are crammed into tiny cages in filthy, smelly sheds. It is not natural for them to live like this and they get all stressed out over the terrible way they are forced to live. When cows and pigs are taken to slaughterhouses where they’re killed, they’re often forced onto crowded trucks with an electric prod. This is a big stick which gives them a very painful shock. Those who are too weak or sick to walk, are dragged by chains or pushed with bulldozers. Killings animals to eat kills us too! The top diseases in the United States are heart disease, cancer and stroke—all of them strongly linked to meat. Your chances of getting these diseases when you are older are very small if you stop eating animals early in life. Using animals for food is also very bad for the environment. When land is used to raise animals instead of crops, precious water and soil are lost, trees are cut down to make land for grazing or factory farm sheds, and chemicals are used to fatten up the animals quickly and then end up in streams and in the earth. Besides that, pigs and cows produce a lot of waste that pollutes the environment. People who don’t eat animals are called vegetarians. More and more people are becoming vegetarians today because they don’t want to be a party to the cruelty involved in producing meat, they are concerned with the environment and their own health. Some people become vegan (pronounced VEE-gun) and don’t use any animal products at all – including milk, eggs, leather, wool, etc. They know that animal products cause great suffering to the animals. For instance, egg-laying hens have an awful life – even worse than the chickens who are raised for food! These hens are crammed into tiny cages – six to eight in a cage. The cages are stacked on top of each other in huge factory farm buildings. Hundreds of thousands of chickens live in just one building. The buildings smell so bad that you can barely breathe in them, but the chickens have no choice. Many die in their cages because they can’t get to their food or because other chickens trample them. Male chickens can’t lay eggs, so when chicks are born for egg-laying, the males are thrown into the garbage alive or are ground up while still alive to make chicken feed. Dairy cows also suffer terribly. They are forced to give much more milk than their bodies were intended to give. They are given growth hormones so that they can produce more milk that they would have given during their entire lives in only 8 days. They are hooked up to milking machines for hours and this is very hard on their bodies. They have to have babies every year in order to produce milk, but then their babies are taken from them right away which is very upsetting to them. They get worn out after only four years and are sent to slaughter. Most of them become hamburger meat. As long as there are grains, nuts, fruits, beans and vegetables around, nobody has to eat animals. You can start slowly by cutting down on the amount of meat that you eat, or you can change your diet overnight! It’s important though that you replace the meat with other proteins. To learn more about becoming a vegetarian, visit the Vegetarian Resource Group. PETA will be happy to send you free information on becoming a vegetarian along with great veggie recipes. You can even take the VegPledge and make a pledge to move towards a plant-based diet over the next 60 days. If your parents want you to eat animals, share your feelings with them and get some books on vegetarian nutrition which you can read together. You may have to compromise, which is OK. Eating fewer animals is a big help too. A vegetarian diet is healthy not just for you, but for your whole family. Ask your family if they are willing to eat vegetarian meals once or twice a week. Borrow a vegetarian cookbook from the library and volunteer to help prepare a vegetarian dinner once a week for your family. Step #4... What to avoid and who to help
Avoid hunting, fishing, and using animals in science projects. Skip the circus, rodeos, or other places that keep animals and abuse them for your enjoyment. Dont litter...Litter hurts animals. They can get their heads trapped in glass jars and metal cans when trying to lick out the contents. Always rinse them out. Put the lids back on jars and crush metal and plastic food containers before recycling them. Yoplait yogurt containers are especially dangerous to animals because of the unusual shape. If you use this product, make sure you crush the container before recycling.
It’s not just cans and jars that can hurt animals. Animals can get entangled and killed or maimed in fishing lines that have been discarded carelessly. They can get lead poisoning from eating lead sinkers that fishermen throw away. They can get mercury poisoning from batteries that are carelessly tossed out. They can get their heads stuck in the plastic that holds six packs together. Never put these in the garbage without first cutting each ring. Don’t break glass jars and bottles in the street. Broken glass can hurt animals and people too. Lots of kids and people who don’t know any better litter – it’s easy to just toss garbage on the ground rather than disposing of it properly. Don’t ever throw food or litter out of a car window. It attracts animals to the road where they can be killed or injured by other cars.
Products to avoid and adresses to contact them and encourage them to ban animal testingArm & Hammer (Church & Dwight)
P.O. Box 1625, Horsham, PA 19044-6625; 609-683-5900; 800-524-1328;
www.armhammer.com*Bic Corporation
500 Bic Dr., Milford, CT 06460; 203-783-2000;
www.bicworld.comBlock Drug Co. (Carpet Fresh, Lava, Polident, Sensodyne, Tegrin)
257 Cornelison Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07302; 201-434-3000; 800-365-6500;
www.blockdrug.comBoyle-Midway (Reckitt Benckiser)
2 Wickman Rd., Toronto, ON M8Z 5M5 Canada; 416-255-2300*Braun (Gillette Company)
400 Unicorn Park Dr., Woburn, MA 01801; 800-272-8611;
www.braun.comChesebrough-Ponds (Fabergé, Ponds, Vaseline)
800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 800-243-5804Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer, Arrid, Lady's Choice, Nair, Pearl Drops)
P.O. Box 1625, Horsham, PA 19044-6625; 609-683-5900; 800-524-1328;
www.churchdwight.comClairol (Procter & Gamble)
40 W. 57th St., 23rd Fl., New York, NY 10019; 212-541-2740; 800-223-5800;
www.clairol.comClorox (ArmorAll, Formula 409, FreshStep, Glad, Pine-Sol, SoftScrub, S.O.S., Tilex)
1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612; 510-271-7000; 800-227-1860;
www.clorox.comColgate-Palmolive Co. (Ajax, Fab, Hills Pet Nutrition, Mennen, Palmolive, SoftSoap, Speed Stick)
300 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022; 212-310-2000; 800-221-4607;
www.colgate.comCoty (Adidas, Davidoff, JOOP!, Jovan, Lancaster, Rimmel, Stetson)
1325 Ave. of the Americas, 324th Fl., New York, NY 10019; 212-479-4300
www.coty.comCover Girl (Procter & Gamble)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745;
www.covergirl.comDel Laboratories (Commerce Drug, Flame Glow, New York Color, Propa PH, Sally Hansen)
178 EAB Plz., Uniondale, NY 11556; 516-844-2020; 800-952-5080;
www.dellabs.comDial Corporation (Purex, Renuzit)
15101 N. Scottsdale Rd., Ste. 5028, Scottsdale, AZ 85254-2199; 800-528-0849;
www.dialcorp.comDrackett Products Co. (S.C. Johnson & Son)
1525 Howe St., Racine, WI 53403; 414-631-2000; 800-558-5252;
www.scjohnsonwax.comErno Laszlo
3202 Queens Blvd., Long Island City, NY 11101; 718-729-4480;
www.ernolaszlo.com*Gillette Co. (Braun, Duracell)
Prudential Tower Bldg., Boston, MA 02199; 617-421-7000; 800-872-7202;
www.gillette.comHelene Curtis Industries (Finesse, Salon Selectives, Thermasilk, Unilever)
800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 800-621-2013;
www.helenecurtis.comJohnson & Johnson (Aveeno, Clean & Clear, Neutrogena)
1 Johnson & Johnson Plz., New Brunswick, NJ 08933; 732-524-0400; 800-526-3967
www.jnj.comKimberly-Clark Corp. (Huggies, Kleenex, Kotex, Scott Paper)
P.O. Box 619100, Dallas, TX 75261-9100; 800-544-1847;
www.kimberly-clark.comLamaur (ColorSoft, PermaSoft)
P.O. Box 1221 Minneapolis, MN 55401-1221; 763-572-2883;
www.lamaur.comLever Bros. (Unilever)
800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 212-888-1260; 800-598-1223;
www.unilever.comL'Oréal U.S.A.,
575 Fifth Ave., NewYork, NY 10017; 212-818-1500;
www.lorealcosmetics.com
Max Factor (Procter & Gamble)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745;
www.maxfactor.comMead
Courthouse Plaza N.E., Dayton, OH 45463; 937-495-3312;
www.mead.comMelaleuca
3910 S. Yellowstone Hwy., Idaho Falls, ID 83402-6003; 208-522-0700;
www.melaleuca.comMennen Co. (Colgate-Palmolive)
E. Hanover Ave., Morristown, NJ 07962; 201-631-9000;
www.colgate.com
Neoteric Cosmetics
4880 Havana St., Denver, CO 80239-0019; 303-373-4860
Noxell (Procter & Gamble)
11050 York Rd., Hunt Valley, MD 21030-2098; 410-785-7300; 800-572-3232;
www.pg.com
Olay Co./Oil of Olay (Procter & Gamble)
P.O. Box 599, Cincinnati, OH 45201; 800-543-1745;
www.oilofolay.com
*Oral-B (Gillette Company)
600 Clipper Dr., Belmont, CA 94002-4119; 415-598-5000;
www.oralb.com
Pantene (Procter & Gamble)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 800-945-7768;
www.pantene.comPfizer (BenGay, Desitin, Listerene, Lubriderm, Plax, Schick, Visine)
235 E. 42nd St., New York, NY 10017-5755; 212-573-2323;
www.pfizer.comPhysique (Procter & Gamble)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 800-214-8957; www.physique.comPlaytex Products (Baby Magic, Banana Boat)
300 Nyala Farms Rd., Westport, CT 06880; 203-341-4000;
www.playtex.comProcter & Gamble Co. (Clairol, Cover Girl, Crest, Giorgio, Iams, Max Factor, Physique, Tide)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745;
www.pg.comReckitt Benckiser (Coty, Lysol, Mop & Glo, Resolve, Spray 'N Wash, Woolite)
1655 Valley Rd., Wayne, NJ 07474-0943; 973-633-3600; 800-232-9665;
www.reckittbenckiser.comRichardson-Vicks (Procter & Gamble)
One Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745;
www.pg.comSally Hansen (Del Laboratories)
565 Broad Hollow Rd., Farmingdale, NY 11735; 516-293-7070; 800-645-9888;
www.sallyhansen.comSchering-Plough (Bain de Soleil, Coppertone, Dr. Scholl's)
1 Giralda Farms, Madison, NJ 07940-1000; 201-822-7000; 800-842-4090;
www.sch-plough.comSchick (Pfizer)
201 Tabor Rd., Morris Plains, NJ 07950; 201-540-2000; 800-492-1555;
www.pfizer.comS.C. Johnson (Drano, Fantastik, Glade, Pledge, Shout, Windex, Ziploc)
1525 Howe St., Racine, WI 53403; 414-260-2000; 800-558-5252;
www.scjohnson.comSoftSoap Enterprises (Colgate-Palmolive)
300 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022; 800-221-4607;
www.colgate.comSuave (Unilever)
800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 212-888-1260; 800-782-8301;
www.suave.com3M (Post-It, Scotch)
Center Bldg., 220-2E-02, St. Paul, MN 55144-1000; 612-733-1110; 800-364-3577;
www.3m.comUnilever (Calvin Klein, Diversey, Helene Curtis, Lever Bros., Mentadent, Suave)
800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 212-888-1260; 800-598-1223;
www.unilever.comVidal Sassoon (Procter & Gamble)
P.O. Box 599, Cincinnati, OH 45201; 800-543-7270;
www.pg.com
Until I add more, remember... SAVE THE ANIMALS, YOUR BEAUTY IS NOT WORTH A LIFE... NEITHER IS YOUR CRAVINGS OR STYLE!Other Places to go:
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