Links to other valuable web sites

Following are links to other web sites concerned with the wellbeing of animals.

All-Creatures.org is dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. Unconditional love and compassion is the foundation of our peaceful means of accomplishing this goal for all of God's creatures, whether human or otherwise.

www.mercyforanimals.org is a voice for animals through proactive consumer education and advertising campaigns, research and undercover investigations, rescues, working with news media, and grassroots activism.

www.vegetarianhome.com Vegetarian Web Directory. A good place to start your search for all things vegetarian on the Web.

HIPPO, Help International Plant Protein Organization, aids third-world peoples to help themselves by developing plant-based agriculture. See www.ivu.org/hippo

quaker-animals.org.uk Quaker Concern for Animals, an association of British Friends, first titled Friends Anti-Vivisection Association, was founded in 1891. It continues to be active today seeking justice for animals in several areas of life.

www.christianveg.com The Christian Vegetarian Association is a rapidly growing network of Christians, largely Protestant and evangelical, who advocate a plant-based diet as beneficial for human health, the environment, the world's poor and hungry, and animals.

www.farmsanctuary.org Farm Sanctuary is the largest farm animal rescue and protection organization in the United States.

www.circleofcompassion.org Circle of Compassion is a prayer network with particular focus on compassion for animals.

www.cok.net Compassion over Killing is a non-profit animal-advocacy organization, working to end animal abuse in agriculture and promoting a vegetarian diet as a way to build a kinder world for both humans and non-humans.

www.theoservice.org The Theosophical Order of Service is a network of individuals demonstrating practical and humanitarian actions in a theosophical spirit.

www.animalsvoice.com The Animals Voice is the premiere online resource network for animal activists.

jewishveg.com/schwartz More than one hundred vegetarian essays with environmental emphasis, by leading Jewish activist Richard Schwartz.

www.peta.org People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is the largest organization dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights for all animals on factory farms, in labroratories, in the fur trade, and in entertainmant.

www.pcrm.org Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is an organization of physicians and supporters conducting diet-linked health research, working to phase out animal experimentation, and promoting a plant-based diet.

www.farmusa.org Farm Animal Reform Movement is an educational organization advocating a plant-based diet and abolition of human enslavement of farmed animals.

www.veganoutreach.org Vegan Outreach promotes a plant-based diet chiefly by distributing literature to young people.

www.careforcows.org is the site of an Indian orgainzation that rescues neglected cows.

Links to informative essays

"Is There Gospel Good News For The Animals?" Read the survey of some of the literature concerning Christianity and animals, by Elizabeth Farians, Ph.D., pioneer woman theologian. See www.allcreatures.org/articles/ar-gospel.html

To read about C.S. Lewis's theology of animals in an essay Andrew Linzey from the Anglican Theological Review, visit www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_199801/ai_n8802633

Tom Regan, philosopher, ethicist and animal rights activist, is convinced that those Christians who are concerned with the exploitation and mistreatment of animals, are faced with a choice: to continue supporting the hypocrisy or to actively participate in correcting the wrongs and the religious institutions which support them. To read the full essay visit http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2326

In an essay series subsequently published in book form, Dr. Stephen Kaufman of the Christian Vegetarian Association applies the concepts of cultural anthropologist Rene Girard to Christianity and animals. Girard has argued that rivalries lead to scapegoating violence. A main theme of the Bible is that God cares about all creation and does not want victimization. See www.all-creatures.org/living/cphv.html

In a narrative essay that reads like a Tolstoy story, John Robbins tells what he learned about the depths of the human heart from his encounter with a hard and even frightening pig farmer.

Click here for a report on the findings of Bristol University scientists regarding the complex friendships, anxieties, grudges and enthusiasms of farmed animals.