How to Join the Animal Liberation Movement
The animal liberation movement is dedicated to freeing animals from abuse and use at the hands of humans. Though the movement often makes the news when supporters engage in property destruction or illegal activities, animal liberation is grounded in empathy and compassion.
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Understand the difference between supporters of animal liberation or animal rights, and supporters of animal welfare. Those supporting animal liberation seek to change the status quo so animals are no longer used to fulfill human desires. Animal welfare supporters seek to improve conditions for animals without changing the fundamental system.
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Read the classic animal liberation literature and find out about the current state of the movement. Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" paved the way for the animal liberation movement. Since then, hundreds of books have tackled the subject. You can find a list of notable books at the Animal Liberation Front website.
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Embrace the idea that animals have personhood. The animal liberation movement sees other species as having the ability to experience emotion, hope and desires. In other words, animals are persons just as humans are persons. Given this, humans have no right to subjugate animals.
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Adopt a vegan lifestyle, in which you consume no animal products, wear no animal products and seek out cruelty-free items whenever possible. The Vegan Society can help you make informed choices. Additionally, actively speak out against practices that use animals, including experimentation and entertainment.
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Support direct action when necessary, as long as the direct action harms no animals-and that includes humans. While direct action may include civil disobedience, it doesn't need to. If you do use civil disobedience as a way to help liberate animals, you may face jail time.
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Volunteer your time or make financial contributions to no-kill sanctuaries and shelters. Animals liberated from fur farms, factory farms, laboratories and abuse situations need food, shelter and care, which sanctuaries and shelters provide.
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Join an animal liberation or animal rights organization. You can find a number of animal rights organizations listed on the Animal Liberation Website. If there aren't any in your area, start one up. When you join with others, you can make more of a difference in the lives of animals.
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Adopt or sponsor animals. If you're able to provide them with a good home, become their guardian. If you can't care for an animal yourself, or if you want to help an animal who isn't adoptable, sponsor an animal that lives at a sanctuary. Another approach is to sponsor an animal in need of liberation. Through the Primate Freedom Project's Primate Freedom Tags, you can adopt a primate held in a lab and help bring about her liberation.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep individual animals in mind as you become a part of the animal liberation movement. It's easy to focus too strongly on the philosophical and political elements of movement, forgetting about the individual animals you're helping through your ideas and actions.
To start up a local animal rights group, you can put up fliers at schools, libraries and coffee shops announcing an organizational meeting to see how much interest there is in your community. At the meeting, encourage everyone to share ideas about what they would like the organization to be.
Animal guardianship is compatible with animal liberation. Domestic animals can't fend for themselves, and so need guardianship. However, purchasing, using or breeding an animal is incompatible with animal liberation.
The Animal Liberation Front is labeled as a terrorist group by the U.S. Government. If you directly associate with known group members, you may be investigated by the FBI. Visiting its website, which is purely informational, is perfectly safe and legal.
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