i understand where you are all coming from, and i agree wholeheartedly, that the way breeders and pet-stores keep their animals is appaling. but chatting away online about how you should adopt isnt stopping the thousands of animals being bred in terrible conditions and being sold as commodities, they are just oging to keep selling, and people are going to keep buying.
i dont know if you are familiar with the diamond crisis in sierra leone, but about 30% of the worlds diamonds came from region which used brutal slave labor to mine them. i could have just sat at home and rufused to buy "conflict diamonds" but that wouldnt have stopped anything. i joined Amnesty International, a human rights group, and fought to have the kimberly process established, a system by which all diamonds coming into this country come from a fair trade background.
thats an example of making something better, but you all just complain. there are a lot of people here with strong feelings, and in solidarity much could be accomplished. campaign for higher standards for breeders, stricter guidelines for petstores, i dont know exactly, animal rights is not my forte. but i do know this is an issue, and something needs to be done, and we arent doing it...
i dont know if you are familiar with the diamond crisis in sierra leone, but about 30% of the worlds diamonds came from region which used brutal slave labor to mine them. i could have just sat at home and rufused to buy "conflict diamonds" but that wouldnt have stopped anything. i joined Amnesty International, a human rights group, and fought to have the kimberly process established, a system by which all diamonds coming into this country come from a fair trade background.
thats an example of making something better, but you all just complain. there are a lot of people here with strong feelings, and in solidarity much could be accomplished. campaign for higher standards for breeders, stricter guidelines for petstores, i dont know exactly, animal rights is not my forte. but i do know this is an issue, and something needs to be done, and we arent doing it...