 Animal
Pride
The widespread concerns over genetic engineering,
cloning and patenting of animals illustrates a new attitude - as
does public disquiet about the live exports of farm animals; about
stag and fox hunting; the burying of yet more countryside under
concrete and tarmac; the use of animals in cruel tests; and the
exploitation of wild animals by old-fashioned circuses. Then there
is BSE and Foot and Mouth, and the unnatural methods of factory
farming.
In every social group and across the age range,
people are looking for ways to live in harmony with nature and without
causing needless animal suffering. The transformation of attitude
is of historic proportions. Take pride in being part of the historic
movement to advance the status of animals.
"I fully endorse the objectives of Animal Pride. I
want people to share with me the sheer satisfaction of seeing animals
as our partners on this planet not our prisoners."
Tony Banks, MP
"If you have reverence and feeling for the lives of
humbler forms of animals than ourselves, it will reflect itself
in our treatment of our fellow human beings. People who are brutal
to animals are ultimately coarse in their human relationships."
Lord Rothermere, Daily Mail proprietor
"The whole world of domestic and wild animals is under
unending pressure from the human race. I think the animal world
of the wild is gradually disappearing. I can only wish this campaign
well. The very best of wishes."
Spike Milligan
"Animals aren't proud, they're very humble... Good
luck with everything."
Crispian Mills, Kula Shaker
"Animals have the right to be free."
Linda Robson, actress
"We are advancing! In 1971, when I became a vegetarian,
such campaigns were unheard of. Consciousness is rising. I have
faith."
Martin Shaw, actor
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