Who Speaks For the Animals?
Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 (Original item from 2007)
Companion Animals | General Animal Protection | Animal Advocacy | Animal Welfare or Living Conditions | Legislation, Voting, Political Candidates | Pet Adoption, Rescue or Shelters | Pet Overpopulation | Pet Ownership
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The vast majority of feral cat caregivers, in the order of 80%, are women who have a unique voice that needs
to be heard in the public policy debate on legal protections
for animals. In particular, the public needs to know that
their definition of protection is rooted in sterilization, not "humane" killing; and, moreover, that they are dedicated to protecting individual animals, and do so at great personal cost. That women have long been marginalized is a historic fact, and that the legal remedies have been incomplete is a present reality.
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