We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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7. What else can we do for promoting animal compassion...
In India, our work for promoting animal compassion is mainly restricted to supporting 'animal shelter' activities, whereas world over, many institutions are working to promote animal compassion. They do lots of research on adverse impact of animal products on health and environment. We also need to see animal compassion in larger context and should try to increase scope of our activities.
To educate people against use of milk, leather and meat products; let us publicise health and environmental impact of consuming too much animal products.
We provide financial assistance to farmers who take care of animals for their entire life.
We also develop more animal shelter houses and also specifically for old and disabled animals.
We do not tag 'animal compassion' work as work for any particular religion. Let us keep this work solely for 'humanity' religion.
There are so many institutions are working to promote animal compassion in India. We need to divert our donation flow to these organsaitons.
World billionaires like Mr. Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mr. Li Ka-Shing (the richest person of Asia), Promoters of Yahoo and Paypal- all are investing their money in companies like Hempton Creek foods (a company which produces new tasty foods without using any animal ingredients) and Beyond Meat (a company which makes artifical meat). These billionaires are aware that these cruelty free companies are going to do very well in coming days. We also need to support such companies and also earn decent return on our investment.
There are some scientists and NGOs trying to develop artifical meat in foreign countries. This task is huge in terms of time and money. They need financial support to sustain reserach work.
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity".
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Noble Prize winner)
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