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World Animal Week and the Universal Declaration for Animal Welfare
This week I’m dog sitting for an adorable little Japanese Chin named Xiao. He is sleeping on my bed and looks like he’s lived in my apartment since he was a pup – even though he only moved in a few hours ago. For all of us with pets – cats, dogs, horses, and mice – they’re an extended part of our families. Yet millions of animals in the world get a bad deal because there is so little legal protection for them. Whether they are in factory farms, circuses, vivisection laboratories, living as strays or in danger of extinction due to our ever-rapacious desire to chop down tropical forests, these animals need our help.
So as we approach World Animal Week (October 4th to 10th), we’re launching an amazing new website, Make Yourself Beautiful.org, that can help bring legal protection to animals everywhere on our planet. Just by signing this petition we can join more than one million people who’ve already signed up to say that they want a Universal Declaration for Animal Welfare.
It’s a great opportunity to unite people, charities and businesses on the issue. International animal welfare groups everywhere are supporting this campaign, as a Universal Declaration will help to raise the status of animal welfare as an international issue and put pressure on governments to create or improve existing laws. Some caring celebrities have already signed up including Dr. Jane Goodall, Ricky Gervais, Bo Derek, Daryl Hannah and Jackie Chan.
The Body Shop has campaigned for animal protection for years so it makes absolute sense for us to partner with the World Society for the Protection of Animals on this campaign. Our ‘Against Animal Testing’ campaign gathered more than four million signatures supporting an end to animal testing for cosmetics in Europe and a recent effort to use sustainable palm oil in its products has made it a leader on animal protection issues in the beauty industry.
So, with a simple click of your mouse (no pun intended), join this growing band of supporters and please do something beautiful this week by signing up to support the campaign. Visit www.makeyourselfbeautiful.org.
let animals live natural and good lives
Comment by Linda Kenyon — October 8, 2008 @ 2:41 am
Let them live free, is time to stop been the worst animal in earth!!!
Comment by Lizeth Gomez — October 8, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Be kind, loving and gentle to your animals. We are all part of a larger earth-family, all inter-connected, all as one. How you treat your animals very much reflects how you feel about yourself, others, and life in general. Animals need our love and protection now, more than any other period in perhaps all of human history. Be well, be good to your selves, and be good to the animals. They need us; we need them……
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