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                    The Animal Rights & Freedom Association


A.R.F.A  "The Animal Rights & Freedom Association" has now joined up with the ethical and aspects of ULOVE so that we are more equipped to benefit all abused animals. The organisation will now be known simply as A.R.F.A. We hope you like the new look website, and do please check out all the subjects.
As you may understand our work is not easy, we campaign to government ministers MPs, industry regulators, on the streets and in debates on TV websites . Our work is undertaken on a purely voluntary basis, so supporting for our work (by helping out in street campaigns) or by way of financial contributions is very much appreciated though never asked for. Many are unaware of the mountain of work those like us in the animals rights movement have to do to help secure better conditions for animals, but with more help and assistance we can make a real difference. Many of our predecessors laid down the basis for change in their quest for better treatment of animals and this is highlited through their quotes, be assured  we will do our level best to carry the baton and continualy labor for better animal welfare.  

One of the distinguishing factors of a noble person and country is that they have consideration for animals also, and it was Ghandhi that set this out as the ultimate yardstick of national moral advancement. Governments that will not seek to improve the lot of animals will not improve themselves, or the health and happiness of their countrymen. 

                                                                   “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress 
                                                                 can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. 
                                                                                      Mahatma Gandhi

  

         “There is no fundamental difference between man and 
                  the higher mammals in their mental faculties... 
      The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, 
         great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
                                      Charles Darwin

                                                                 We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, 
                                                                             that man with all his noble qualities... 
                                                                       still bears in his bodily frame the indelible 
                                                                                   stamp of his lowly origin. 
                                                                                           Charles Darwin


             We have no right to cause unnecessary suffering ?  

           
                                I am in favour of animal rights as well human rights,
                                         that is the way of a whole human being.                                 
                                                      Abraham Lincoln 

The uncertainty of life and our hope for the future has caused many people to think carefully about how they live  and how much unnecessary suffering to sentient creatures we have perpetuated by what we have chosen to eat throughout life.  The Buddha himself pondered these very things and concluded that the path to a bliss full existence can only be traversed by those who cease to harm animals as well as humans, and many such lights of kindness concluded the very same. 

Since the time these people came and went the powerful concept of vegetarian ethics has been sadly overlooked or dismissed by the worlds governments yet it now emerges at this potentially cataclysmic point in time as one of the most viable ways of helping us in our quest of restoring a healthy ecosystem, and can promote greater peace on earth among humans.

 Petitioning For Improved Animal Welfare

                    "If to be feeling alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures
                      is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics
                                       ever permitted to be at large"
                         William Wilberforce Abolitionist founder of RSPCA


Certainly Abraham Lincoln measured up to this criteria and also many others too. In the 1800s many in America were seeking to end the enslavement of their own kind, this was not there only concern however as over in England another great politician was setting the scene for improved animal welfare conditions which would become enforceable by the law of the land.  William Wilberforce was one of the better known campaigners who petitioned for great changes, he had earlier been instrumental and highly successful in petitioning for the end of human slavery, little did he know that a new and more far challenging quest beckoned. We know though that seeking the end of cruelty to animals did not begin with or end with him, no, but it goes on. In this time period it is left to us to carry the flag through to the end, but before we can do that effectively though there are certain things we must equip ourselves with.

It is important that we understand;

1)      The cruel conditions in intensive farming and vivisection.

2)      An animals basic needs.

3)      What is and what isn't Injustice.

4)      The benefits to our own species and the planet by helping end cruelty to animals.


            Image right: Where do we come from?, What are we ?. Where are we going?

                          

These Noble Truths are the key to attain Nirvana
        
The proper understanding of Suffering, 
   
Cause of Suffering,

Relief of Suffering, and way to end Suffering, 
              
These are the four Noble Truths."
                                  Buddha