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    Animal rights group targets children in education campaign - 02/05/2006

    An animal rights group has announced plans to target 3 million children in 9,000 schools with a program it says teaches compassion and respect for animals.

    Voiceless has launched its Animal Club project on the Internet, encouraging children to speak out against factory farming, live exports, and kangaroo culling. Education Manager Elaine Morris, says it is the first national animal education initiative for children.

    "All Animal Club really wants to do is just provide children with the opportunity to harness that natural empathy that most children have for animals, and look at them through a child's eyes," she said. "Farmers are the first people who stand up and say they care about their animals so it's really important for us that we have farmers on board, getting involved with us."
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    For anyone unfamiliar with Voiceless, it is a wonderful organisation that every year gives financial support to groups helping animals.
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    That's great. I think it's really important for people to become aware of these issues at an early age.

    I'm quite impressed that children's text books in this country often have fox hunting, farming etc as topics for debate. The 'natural empathy that most children have for animals' means that the convincing arguments (well, of course) are on the side of the animals

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    Thanks Eve. It looks good: http://www.animalclub.org.au/

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    I'm so glad this is happening. Sometimes I think my children are the only one's who know what a cruel practice animal consumption is. I get canned all the time because my kids know what meat really is.

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