{"id":20,"date":"2011-09-13T00:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.co.nz\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2011-09-13T00:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:20:37","slug":"sanctuary-adoption-and-fostering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanctuary, Adoption and Fostering:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Helping Animals NOW!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

An integral part of recognising the moral personhood of all animals is providing victims of domestication, who are each and every one of them a\u00a0moral person<\/a>, with love, protection and care for the duration of their lives, or otherwise directly supporting those victims by helping their caregivers to pay for food, shelter, veterinary care, transportation costs, adoption fees, etc. \u00a0NZ Vegan urges any advocate who is compelled to help animals NOW not to be fooled by deceitful \u201cwelfare\u201d campaigns that falsely promise to \u201chelp animals now\u201d but in fact do not at all<\/a>, \u00a0and instead to put that desire, energy, time and resources into adoption, fostering and sanctuary work*, as well as, of course, promoting veganism.<\/p>\n

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*TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release)<\/a>\u00a0work is also extremely important in that it prevents further victims of domestication from being brought into existence; and by acting as guardians for those who are re-released, you can be sure to be directly helping individuals in desperate need.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sanctuaries need to feed, shelter and care for their residents for the duration of their lives. \u00a0 Shelters also need to provide food, shelter and veterinary care, as well as have resources that enable fostering and adoption of the abandoned animals in order to find them safe homes. \u00a0As we know, unless the shelter in question is a no-kill shelter, if these individuals are not quickly adopted or fostered they are put to death, hence the word \u201cshelter\u201d is a misnomer. \u00a0These individuals are animals that can truly be helped NOW\u2014not to make their cages supposedly bigger, or the torture they endure supposedly \u201creduced\u201d, or the slaughter of them more \u201chumane\u201d\u2014but to actually save their lives and provide a forever home. \u00a0 There are millions of them, lives that can be saved, immediately and forever.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the position of many sanctuaries, even those run by vegans, is highly problematic in that they publicly support detrimental welfare campaigns and veganism is totally sidelined, which is astonishing given that they see first hand on a daily basis the victims of all exploitation\u2014including the so called \u201cfreedom<\/a>\u201d farms and \u201cfree range\u201d facilities the very welfare campaigns they support are touting\u2014and the terrible suffering and trauma of the victims. \u00a0Most \u201cshelters\u201d are run by people who are themselves not vegan, and the majority of the individuals that end up in those facilities are put to death. \u00a0These rescue organisations hold\u00a0barbecues\u00a0in which they serve the corpses of other animals to raise money and celebrate their organisations. \u00a0Of course,\u00a0fundraisers are worthwhile<\/a>\u00a0and can be used\u00a0to raise money for sanctuaries and abandoned animals, and\u00a0vegan barbecues<\/a>\u00a0are fantastic and delicious!<\/p>\n

Around the world the lack of vegan advocacy by sanctuaries is still basically the status quo, but for example\u00a0Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary<\/a>\u00a0in Colorado promote a very strong vegan message. They don’t\u00a0promote any welfare campaigns, which differentiates them. \u00a0Most if not all other sanctuaries, including those in New Zealand, heavily promote welfare campaigns and barely mention veganism, or if they do so it is just perhaps from one of the recipes on a \u201cVegetarian Food\u201d page, or it is presented as just one of many ways to \u201creduce suffering\u201d, \u00a0generally mixed in with a lot of very confusing and detrimental welfare advocacy. \u00a0As we know, the only way to truly do anything at all to combat this holocaust of suffering is for veganism to proliferate. \u00a0Anything less than veganism is torture, exploitation and slaughter. \u00a0That is the bottom line.<\/p>\n

Unfortunate as the advertising engaged in by their caregivers may be, the individuals living in those sanctuaries and other facilities need help, especially those on death row in \u201ckill shelters\u201d, and therefore we have a moral obligation to help as many as we can. \u00a0If one cannot personally provide sanctuary to an individual or individuals in need, \u00a0then donating money that goes directly to food, shelter, veterinary care, fostering or adoption\u00a0is a guaranteed way to help animals NOW. \u00a0 In doing so, we must never fail to be persistent in our efforts to educate those involved in these life-saving organisations\u2014the vegans included\u2014about the necessity of veganism as the only way to truly help animals and prevent the terrible injustices that are occurring, and of unequivocal vegan education as the means to achieve this. \u00a0 If we do not, the many billions of victims, of whom these rescuers see just a tiny smidgen, will continue year after year to live lives of unspeakable horror until their inevitable slaughter. \u00a0Only a very small percentage find life-long sanctuary, but as they themselves number in the millions we must help as many as we can, while engaging in abolitionist vegan education in order to take steps toward eradicating this unnecessary and monstrously unjust state of affairs from our planet once and for all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer<\/strong> \u2013 The following websites are New Zealand sanctuaries and other organisations that provide refuge and care to victims of exploitation. \u00a0To the extent that any of these websites promote anything other than the direct care and protection of the residents and victims being housed there, NZ Vegan\u00a0does not endorse or agree with everything on these websites. \u00a0NZ Vegan does not necessarily endorse any links that are provided on these sites, and in fact objects to many of them. \u00a0The following is not an exhaustive list by any means. \u00a0NZ Vegan urges everyone who wants to help animals NOW to abandon useless \u201cwelfare\u201d campaigning, and to instead put all that energy, time and resources into supporting and\/or engaging in sanctuary, adoption and fostering of the victims of exploitation, but first and foremost to GO VEGAN!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Animal Re-homing<\/a><\/p>\n

Pets on the Net NZ<\/a><\/p>\n

Dogwatch<\/a><\/p>\n

Adopting from the Humane Society of New Zealand Inc<\/a><\/p>\n

Adopt from the SPCA Auckland<\/a><\/p>\n

The Animal Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n

Pakuratahi Farm Animal Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n

HUHA Animal Sanctuary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanctuary, Adoption and Fostering:\u00a0 Helping Animals NOW! An integral part of recognising the moral personhood of all animals is providing victims of domestication, who are each and every one of them a\u00a0moral person, with love, protection and care for the duration of their lives, or otherwise directly supporting those victims by helping their caregivers to … <\/p>\n

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