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Animal Welfare We have put together some articles for your interest, which will hopefully serve to help the long struggle for improved animal welfare in our world. Ignore the issues and, not only will animals continue to suffer at our hands but also we shall all be the eventual losers. The subject of animal welfare touches on a large number of issues. Visit the links in the box below. There is strong evidence that those who are willing to inflict cruelty to animals may move on to do likewise to fellow members of the human species. One reference supporting this contention can be found at: http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/ascione_2.html.
“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.” St Francis of Assisi
“Oh Great King - the birds of the air and the beasts have an equal right to live and move about in any part of this land as thou. The land belongs to the people and all other beings, and thou art only the guardian of it.” Arahant Mahinda 250BC
"If you talk to the animals Chief Dan George
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is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man." "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"They cannot ask for kindness Edgar A .Quest See also: Pet Care
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