Good point Whoever. Hence the reason I do volunteer work as well and have my OWN animal friendly traps, do animal trapping/rescuing/spay neuter/adoption. such a great feeling to get a homeless stray fixed up and get them a proper home!

Again http://LastChanceForanimals.com (he’s a strict vegan over 29 yrs and a dear friend) is the only one I know where the money REALLY is all put to work. He and his wife (also vegan) still live in their tiny 400 square foot apartment in L.A. next to their office (they rarely even have to drive!) since 1974.. now that is dedication. same car for 20 years. There aren’t many like them…
And they’ve been featured on many national shows many times. but still stay the same… yet get the work done.

Peace ya’ll on my way to see Joe Cocker!

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I think those who volunteer in these organizations have the best and the purest intentions and are helping because they truly believe in what they’re doing.

However, the ones in charge of all those organizations aren’t the ‘saints’ they seem to be – at least most of them.

A few months ago I sent an e-mail to dozens of animal rights and environmental organizations (including the ones mentioned above) worldwide urging them to set their differences aside and unite to create one global organization that would fight for animal rights and for the protection of the environment. Now that would surely make a real difference in this world!!
I gave them the example of corporations that merge in order to survive through financial crisis and become more powerful!

Guess how many replied to my e-mail?
TWO and their answer was that they were small organizations and weren’t interested!

What’s really ‘interesting’ is that a few days later I started receiving newsletters and e-mails from some of the other NGOs asking for donations!

That really pissed me off! I mean, they took the time to include my e-mail address in their database but they didn’t even reply to me! I sent another e-mail to all of them saying that I admired and respected all the great work they did but that I really had to conclude that their main goal was to get as much money from people as possible!
(Sure they do a lot of great work – they have to show some results, right? Otherwise why should people support them?)

Two of them sent an e-mail to me kind of insulting me and the remaining NGOs just ignored me.

Therefore I decided to never again support any organization whatsoever, including those in my country.

Right now I prefer to do direct work by volunteering at my local shelter which has nearly 550 animals! I was there today and although I can’t earn a living doing this (not profiting from it!) in my country, this is my true calling and nothing would make me happier than to spend the rest of my life protecting animals and the environment.

So I truly believe that if things don’t change a lot faster is because there are too many separate organizations fighting for the same cause…! Wouldn’t things be more effective if they all fought together!?

GREAT point. I know they have groups (nature conservancy?) or another one I support that buys of tons of acres of land so people cannot develop it beyond a certain extent (though I just found this article and think i’ll no longer be giving to them http://www.sovereignty.net/p/ngo/A17955-2003May5.html)

I wish I could start a non prof that bought up ALL the land so no developers could build anything. There are already more than enough homes apartments and buildings in this parking lot, I mean.. great green land… no more need to be built. I’d buy every acre and do just that…. leave it natural and completely undeveloped..

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