Reflection

Last Friday, we had the last presentation about animal fur. We established imaginary NGO "L&L" which protect animal rights. After the presentation, we got many comments by our classmates, so I will talk about them.

Everyone listened to our presentation seriously and they seemed to understand L&L.
Most of them said,
 "I wanna join your NGO because it is easy to join"
 "I want to join because I want to know more about animal furs"
I was so happy to hear these voices because L&L's target is young people especially students,
so the fact that classmates are interested in L&L means that we could achieve our purpose.
And also, we don't force them to join radical strikes or demonstration toward the people
who buy animal furs for their fashion, that point might be the key to success to catch the young people's mind.

We made a promotional video about animal furs and classmates said,
"That's interesting!"
" Easy to understand your NGO"
I was glad to hear that because we took the video about 10 times!!!!!
 It was sooooooo hard!!!!! I was satisfied with the video because audience said, " That's nice!"

One classmate said, " If I join L&L, I can argue it with more extensive view because animal fur problem is big problem and which is related to eco-terrorism.
Before reading this comment, I did not notice that Animal fur problem is so controvercial.
However, we can argue and develop this problem in L&L because there are many animal rights problem in the world like eco-terrorism. If you join L&L, you can know about animal fur problem and get the chance to think about eco-terrorism and other animal right's problem.

I hope more and more people to get knowledge about how animals are killed and how cruel animal farms are through joinning L&L.
We want people to notice that we should not buy animal furs and expand the information and knowledge about them to their friends.
If the number of animals which is killed would decrease, we are so happy.

A Description About Our NGO

The name of our NGO is L&L, which is stands for "Love animals, let them Live peacefully." Our mission statement is "We make people, especially young, know about animal furs throughout our small activities." We will be working hard to make people know about the issue of animal furs and eventually, we hope we can eliminate the cruelty toward animals. Holding seminars including activities with special guests at universities, appealing fake furs so that people can realise the attractiveness of fake furs, and donation, will be our basic activities to achieve those goals of ours. The points where we are different from other NGOs are here.

1. We focus on the activities for STUDENTS.
2. Our activities are rather EASY to participate in.
3. People can get BASIC knowledge about animal furs.

We will give out leaflets to make media interested in our activities, and we will also advertise at universities at their school fes.

Many of classmates said that they were interested in the issue, and wanted to join us. Some of them even said about what they think about the cruelty toward animals, including their feelings. I'm really glad see those comments from my classmates.

The Survey Results

To make a presentation about animal rights and animal furs, we got much information through survey monkey.
I'll show you the datas we got.


Many people cooperated with the survey, and most of them were the same age as us, about 19,20,21 years old. Also, over half of them were female and more than half of answerer did not have animals as pets.
Almost all people seemed to have interests in the issue of animal furs. This was important information for us to produce a NGO, because there is no meaning of the existence of our NGO if people don't have it.

 

 

 About 60% thought rabbits are kept for their fur and fox and raccoon are the same proportion, 13%.  It might be said that the impression that fur materials are made from small animals with fur might be strong. Next, about the way to keep the animals. Answerers thought animals are kept by cage and bait.  These are certain ways to keep them without hurting.

 Do you know the existence of fur farms? To this question, about 70% of answerers don’t know it. Some animals are born to be sacrificed for their fur. Also, it is not common information among people that many fur products are mislabeled. I did not know those information, as well until I researched on this issue. We thought it was important to let people, especially young people, know the truth of a issues of animals.

 

 

Almost answerers thought fur products are being produced in China and Africa. America was a minority view. Many clothes are made in China, so I think the impression of it leads to this results. Also, they got the information by television and the Internet. Some web sites about animal fur put some images and movies which is very shocking, so you should prepare mentally to see it.

 

Above 75% of them have fake furs and they are satisfied with them. But some people said they wanted real fur because it keeps them warm and is cuter, cooler and softer than fake furs. It seems they regard qualities as important things when they choose fur materials

 

93% know the term “animal right”, but about 40% don’t know the meaning of it. The term eans "the rights of animals, claimed on ehical grounds, to the same humane treatment and protection from exploitation and abuse that are accorded to humans" (quoted from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/animal+rights)
 

 

About 80% thought animals have same rights as humans. I was surprised about 20% of them don’t think animals have same rights as humans. Also,a number of people who know some NGOs dealing with animal rights were small. They know PETA, ALF and greenpeace.


These are the results of our survey. It is hard to know the issue of animal rights and animal furs because there is no oppotunity to know it, even thought people use the Internet. However, I think people can do it to think animals have same rights as us and live as us...

 

 

 

 

NGO "L&L"

We made a NGO named L&L, which means Love animals, let them Live peacefully. This NGO is an imaginary organization, it does not exist in real.

Now, I'll explain what it is.

Specific Issues: ・Cruelty towards animals
                          ・Existence of fur farm
                          ・People's lack of knowledge about animal furs
　　　　　　　　　⇒Especially among young people, students

Mission Statement: We make people, especially young, know about animal furs throughout our small activities

Our Goals: ・To make young people know about animal furs
                  ・To eliminate the cruelty toward animals
　　　　　　⇒Concrete ways to achieve these goals...
                  ・Donation
                  ・Appealing fake furs
                  ・Holding seminars

Network: ・Cooperating with many universities to hold seminars
                ・School festival

Way of Running: Donation

Recruits: ・Through seminars
                ・Call guests

Appeal to Media: ・Giving out leaflets, posters
                             ・Seminars at famous universities

Points to motivate: easy to join for people

Podcast about animal fur

I searched a podcast about animal fur, the title is "Alec Baldwin Anti-fur".
This podcast is from PETA's point of view, they are against killing animals for their furs.
There are many ways to express fashion, fur is one of them.
For fashion of human, every year, many animals are taken  from the wild and taken to the fur farms and they are killed. They are forced to stay in narrow cage, treated cruelly.
PETA wants to reduce the number of animals which have to die for human egoism.
There are many artificial furs in the world, so people can wear them to express their fashon and no animals would be killed.

Ethical Reasoning

I found a site that is good to explain the term "ethical reasoning". It is the official website of an organization claims animal rights, PETA.
PETA Official Site

I think the website provides us information from the perspective of respecting animal rights, as they say on the top of the site. Respecting animal rights, not regarding them as humans', is a good example of ethical reasoning. Because it has the perspective based on if the thing is right or wrong, which is define the term "ethical reasoning". This organization has many ethical reasoning sentences or claims on the website, so please check them out.

Podcast about the Fur Trade

I found a podcast about animal furs.

The title of the podcast is "Driving the Fur Trade Out of Ireland: Laura Broxson of the National Animal Rights Association", and this podcast was made by ANIMAL VOICES in Feb 19, 2013. This organization is an animal liberation radio show broadcasting in Toronto.

This podcast expresses the fur trade out of Ireland. Ireland banned fur farms once, but they changed suddeny. NARA, National Animal Rights Assocation, is preparing to convince store to stop sellimg furs and to convice the city council to ban fur sales for its profits. Also, they go to countryside which has mink farms to pressure the owner of it to quit produce furs.

ANIMAL VOICES sends us message related to animals. You can understand animals' real by searching the organization like it.