A Writer Is A Writer - REGARDLESS

welcome to animal welfare and animal rights. this is the first of my causes pages where i will post petitions you can sign and causes you can promote or even march for.

please don't think just because this is the first page that i consider it any more important then the environment or women's rights or anything else - it just happens to begin with an a.

Before we get started on the petitions here is a post from david salisbury over at david's cauldron  http://www.davidscauldron.com/2011/06/animal-rights-my-pagan-value.html  he's got the subject nailed.

"for many Pagans, there is a powerful foundational belief that our individual actions are affective : we do make a difference.  That is the basis of magic, that through our will or our relationship with the spirits of nature, ancestors, the gods, we can create change around us.  If that belief is there within our religious or spiritual perspective, then it accompanies an obligation, surely, to make sure that every action, every decision, is affecting the world we live in positively."

http://www.care2.com/causes/theres-no-holiday-glee-for-reindeer-in-captivity.html

http://www.care2.com/causes/shocking-scale-of-wildlife-trafficking-online-exposed.html

Tell Swiss Zoo To Stop Killing Healthy Animals

Langenberg Wildlife Park, a zoo in Langnau am Albis in Switzerland, has been selling meat from its own animals -- from deer and boar -- in its restaurant.

Tell Langenberg Wildlife Park, stop serving "surplus" animals in its restaurant. The zoo must stop killing healthy animals and, if it has no use for them, find other places (a wildlife refuge, for instance) for them to live.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/138/520/660/tell-swiss-zoo-to-stop-selling-meat-from-its-own-animals/?z00m=22214956

http://www.care2.com/causes/100000-animals-drowning-every-year-in-the-plastic-we-throw-away.html