AR-News: (S. Africa) Animals must be protected too

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Louise van der Merwe, SA representative of Compassion in World Farming and 
director of the Humane Education Trust, writes: Our celebrations of 10 years of 
democracy in South Africa are heating up. How much prouder we could be if our 
new constitution had also included the fundamental right of animals to live 
lives free of torment and abuse. The lobby to the Constitutional Assembly in 
1993, to grant animals this meagre dispensation, was the second largest lobby of 
all. As things stand, I cannot be Proudly South African for as long as I am 
not Proudly Human - and Proudly Human I can never be for as long as we continue 
our violent approach towards non-human life. 
At a family gathering, a relative said to me that I should give up fighting 
for a better dispensation for animals because, he said, "You're not going to 
win it. You've got to remember this is Africa and Africans haven't got time to 
worry about animals." 




full story:

http://www.news24.com/Regional_Papers/Components/Category_Article_Text_Templat
e/0,,303_1486200~E,00.html  

"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein
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There is no justice, just us!  








    
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