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Teaching Positive Values
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....BACKGROUND READING FOR TEACHERS
 

 


Animals and Us

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
Charles Darwin


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

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living
things, man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Immanual Kant

  

Background reading for teachers. Some good places to start to find out the facts about how animals are being treated in Australia.
Animal Australia
Voiceless
WSPA
Animal Liberation NSW
Animal Liberation Victoria
Animal Liberation Queensland
Animal Lib South Australia
Animal Rights Advocates Western Australia
Animal Lib ACT
Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania
RSPCA
Humane Research Australian

To educate yourself about how humans relate to non human animals, so you can educate others, a film that gives an excellent overview is 'Earthlings'. See the interviews with the Director, Shaun Monson.

 


  

Download the movie 'Earthlings' for free here