New!
We've set up a group for For Life. Join us at AllLifeIsPrecious.ning.com.
(You'll need to sign up, but it is free.)
The
mission of FOR LIFE (which I first wrote about here)
is to help people understand that animals are sentient with a language
everyone can hear if only we choose to listen, to eradicate the
kill policy in kill shelters, creating safe havens for all homeless
animals in commitment for life shelters. To educate people that
domestic animals are companions for life, are kin and kindred spirits,
that they are our teachers and we are their caring guardians.
FOR LIFE promotes the Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary credo of “caring
with commitment and compassion".
FOR LIFE promotes the end of “convenience euthanasia”,
encouraging people to try harder when looking for solutions to problems.
For example, many animals are killed before their time because conventional
medicine has failed them. Solutions may exist in a more holistic
approach. People could also be educated in understanding animal
sentience, spirituality and psychology. Also diet. With FOR LIFE
shelters, people with true difficulties can have help and support
in rehoming their companion, safe in the knowledge they will be
cared for.
FOR LIFE also promotes a change of language with regard to animals.
- Replace
the word “pet” with "animal companion" or
"animal kin". “Pet” means “toy”
to many people and thus something which can be abused or discarded.
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Choose “he” or”she”, instead of the depersonalising
“it”.
-
Replace “owner” with “animal carer”, “person”,
“guardian”. How can you own a soul? When someone "owns"
an animal they feel they can treat that animal however they please,
and that that animal must perform in a certain way. When you are
an animal guardian or caretaker or carer, you embrace an animal’s
care and consider their emotions and feelings.
The
FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN really started for me over thirty years ago when
I became a vegetarian, and understood the truth of the images and
feelings I was receiving from the animals and natural world. For
the last 20 years I have taught animal communication and been involved
in rescue. To try and raise consciousness, I have written children’s
books, made two films, taught hundreds of students, and written
any number of articles on animal communication and sentience. But
now the time has come for enormous change in animal welfare. I sincerely
believe we will not have true peace on this planet until harmony
with the natural world is achieved. And this will come when humans
treat animals as equals, teachers, and kin.
We need you. We need your voice and support and your ideas. We need
songs, advertisements, artists and filmmakers, media, journalists,
fundraisers, PR people, web designers, volunteers, animal handlers,
people who can write letters, people who can write proposals, people
who can make donations --- this is a new campaign and we urge all
of you who want to join us to email
me so we can coordinate the effort.
SAY
YES TO COMMITMENT AND COMPANIONS FOR LIFE. SAY YES TO A BETTER WORLD
FOR ANIMALS, LIVES WITHOUT FEAR, AND TRUE PEACE FOR THE PLANET.
Because
an animal is a commitment For Life.
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