I am delighted to bring you a piece that Marian Hussenbux has written for 'Under The Green Hill' where she talks about the work of Quaker Concern for Animals
Towards the end of the 19th. century, Friends were led to be concerned at the practice of vivisection and on May 22nd, 1891, the Friends’ Anti-Vivisection Association was founded, with Joseph Stores Fry as its first President and among its members, the Quaker Member of Parliament, Joshua Rowntree; we think that, as a British religious-based animal protection group, only the Unitarians pre-date us.
Towards the end of the 19th. century, Friends were led to be concerned at the practice of vivisection and on May 22nd, 1891, the Friends’ Anti-Vivisection Association was founded, with Joseph Stores Fry as its first President and among its members, the Quaker Member of Parliament, Joshua Rowntree; we think that, as a British religious-based animal protection group, only the Unitarians pre-date us.
In 1978, the group became known as Quaker Concern for Animals. QCA members have been active in campaigns against hunting and hare coursing; we continue to oppose factory farming and the export of live animals for slaughter and the practice of using animals in laboratory experimentation. The committee contacts many government bodies, both here and overseas, joining in protests against a wide spectrum of animal exploitation, such as bullfighting in Spain, Portugal and France, fur farming in Ireland, seal slaughter in Canada and Russia and the live export of animals from Britain to the mainland of Europe and from Australia to the Middle East.
Donations and legacies we receive are disbursed to many animal protection societies both here and overseas and our emphasis is increasingly on the smaller groups. At this time of conflict in the Middle East, we have made available emergency donations to Lebanese and Israeli animal protection societies. We produce a Newsletter twice a year.
Donations and legacies we receive are disbursed to many animal protection societies both here and overseas and our emphasis is increasingly on the smaller groups. At this time of conflict in the Middle East, we have made available emergency donations to Lebanese and Israeli animal protection societies. We produce a Newsletter twice a year.
Interfaith Celebration of Animals, September 10th 2006
QCA cooperates with other religious and secular animal welfare groups. For the last two years, we have supported the Unitarian and World Congress of Faiths - sponsored Interfaith Celebration of Animals, Golders Green Unitarian Church, London, at which speakers represent the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh religions. On September 10 2006, at this event, we shall also be launching a permanent Interreligious Kinship Fellowship and Fund to benefit the humane research of The Doctor Hadwen Trust. Our patrons are Nitin Mehta, founder of The Young Indian Vegetarians, a Jain society, and the poets and Friends, U A Fanthorpe and Rosie Bailey.
Many members are vegan or vegetarian and campaign for those lifestyles. Most also try to quicken the Quaker conscience towards the destruction of the environment and loss of biodiversity and we strongly support efforts to bring in more effective legislation to protect animals.
“Let the law of kindness know no limits. Show a loving consideration for all God’s creatures.”
A cordial invitation to the Interfaith Celebration is extended to you all.
Details available from:
Marian Hussenbux.
mhussenbux@btinternet.com
www.quaker-animals.org.uk
"Dartmoor Sheep Have Long Tails"
by Ann Johnson
by Ann Johnson
Marian has passed onto me an oil on canvas work by Quaker and Artist Ann Johnson called "Dartmoor Sheep Have Long Tails", which I'm glad to share with you all here.
