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Dear Animal Times Reader,
Thanks for sending your personal stories about what inspired
you to help animals. Some of my favorites are on page 13.
Keep them coming!
Myriam in Ontario sent me this incredibly moving passage from
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen:
“In the harbour of Mombassa, Kenya, lay a rusty German
cargo steamer. On the deck stood a tall wooden case. Above
the edges of the case rose the heads of two giraffes. They
were going to Hamburg to a menagerie.
“The giraffes turned their delicate heads from one side
to the other, as if they were surprised, which they might
well be….They only had room just to stand in the narrow
case. Their world had suddenly shrunk, changed and closed
in around them. They could not know or imagine the degradation
to which they were sailing. For they were proud and innocent
creatures, gentle amblers of the great plains: They had not
the least knowledge of captivity, cold, stench, smoke, nor
the terrible boredom in a world in which nothing is happening.
“Crowds will be coming…to gaze on the giraffes.
They will point and laugh at their slim necks when the graceful,
patient, smoky-eyed heads are raised over the railings….The
children will be frightened and cry, or they will fall in
love with the giraffes and hand them bread. The parents will
think the giraffes nice beasts and believe they are giving
them a good time.
“In the long years before them, will the giraffes sometimes
dream of their lost country…the grass and the thorn-trees,
the rivers and waterholes and the blue mountains, the high
sweet air over the plains? Where have the giraffes gone to,
that were side by side with them when they cantered over the
undulating land? They have left them, and it seems that they
are never coming back.
“Goodbye, good-bye, I wish that you may die on the journey,
both of you, so that not one of the little noble heads that
are now raised, surprised, over the edges of the case against
the blue sky of Mombassa shall be left to turn from one side
to the other, all alone, in Hamburg, where no one knows Africa.”
Words are powerful tools for changing minds. We can all write
letters, give books, pass along stories, show videos, and
hand out leaflets. Please, speak up for animals, and start
by passing along your Animal Times!
For all animals,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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