The Indianapolis Zoo has been promoting a new “Wild Things” ad campaign. I came across one of their billboards and was shocked at the blatant in-your-face promotion of animal suffering. Right there on the billboard, there it is:
“Wild”
There has been an amazing response to our request to write letters to the Children’s Museum asking them to end their relationship with Ringling Bros circus. Thus far 49 of you have already pledged to write letters, and many of those are in the mail, including one from a very inspiring 5-year old girl. If the Children’s Museum won’t listen to her, then who will they listen to?
One of our organizers was recently asked what was wrong with allowing people to just have different beliefs about how animals are used and her response is worth sharing!
I don’t think this is a matter of having different beliefs. Most people have the same values of compassion, nonviolence, and decency. This is a matter of our choices reflecting those beliefs. It’s so easy to eat vegan foods, and it benefits many other aspects of our life than just animals. But this is about the animals, and not allowing them to suffer for something we certainly don’t need. It’s unnecessary violence, and that’s not an opinion or a belief.
~ Wendy