In eighth grade, Brittney's hunting essay won second prize in the Fund for Animal's humane teen contest. (Check out some of her other work at the KARE Online Essay Archives). To learn more about her animal rights causes, check out Brittney's  teen spotlight at HumaneTeen. Contact Brittney by emailing her or IMing her at brit05oscars for more information.

A b o u t   t h e   P r e s i d e n t Brittney Buckley, 15, founded KARE in September of 2000. More than a year later, it has over 170 members and is growing. Brittney is a sophomore in Bartow, FL's International Baccalaureate program, where she is a staff member for her school's section in the county newspaper.

VegeCyber -- Browse their wide selection of animal-free products. Be sure to use the code "KA2047" when you make a purchase and KARE will receive a portion of it. The Fund for Animals - The Fund was created by best-selling author Cleveland Amory. Learn more about their Black Beauty ranch in Texas or read up on animal rights information. 4 the Animals - An animal rights organization started by KARE member Danny Stauffer. Fur and Feathers - A Nevada-based animal rights group founded by a KARE member. Animal Liberation Front - An organization that covers many topics of animal rights and provides helpful resources for activists. CompassionFest - An annual animal rights convention started by 16-year-old activist Ryan Courtade. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - For years PETA has been fighting for various animal rights causes, and hundreds of prominent celebrities have joined their battle. Send for a free Vegetarian starter kit at their site.

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Every month, I award a new website with the KARE Humane Site award. The award goes to a website created by an animal lover that is easy to access, packed with helpful information, and influential in spreading the word about animal rights. You don't have to be a KARE member to win it. It can be an anti-hunting page, an online vegan food store, or even just a personal page about your favorite pet. If you think your site fits this criteria and you'd like to win this award (as well as a permanent place on my links section), submit your website in the form below. I will get back to you as soon as I can.

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Welcome to the Kids 4 Animal Rights & Education homepage. While you're here, take the time to browse our mascots page, fill out a membership form, learn more about the president or our favorite animal-loving celebrities, or chat with other activists. Feel free to link to our site if you like what you see! Thanks for visiting.

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Every year, millions of innocent lives are taken for fun, millions more to satisfy human appetites, and even more for the sake of unnecessary testing. The victims of these countless murders have unmarked graves in the stomachs, closets, and kitchens of human beings who are too heartless or too ignorant to see that all creatures, human or non-human, are deserving of a painless, peaceful life on the planet on which we were all once able to live in harmony. Kids for Animal Rights and Education was created in order to reach out to the people of the world -- adults and children alike -- and to inform them about the horrible, painful lives of the millions of creatures we share this planet with. KARE is an organization of kids from across the world who are willing to dedicate their time and love to making a difference in these innocent creatures' lives, and changing the hearts of millions of people in order to ensure that someday, we will all once again be able to live in a world free of blood sports, needless slaughter, and endless pain and suffering.

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ATTENTION KARE MEMBERS: I recently sent out an email to every member of KARE.  In it were our upcoming projects, a club update, and more information.  However, a few of the emails came back to me marked "error" -- several of you have changed your email address or gave me a wrong one when you signed up.  If you've ever filled out a KARE membership form, and you didn't receive an email in March from me, please check to see if your name's on the list below.  If so, email me at KAREBrittney@yahoo.com and give me your updated location so that I can continue to bring you KARE news as efficiently as possible.  Thank you very much! KARE members with faulty email addresses: L. Alfaro                        J. Bagniewsko M. Biehl                        B. Bishop B. Brandt                      A. Chandley A. Claiborne                  A. Cook A. Daniel                       I. Davis A. Devoe                       V. Dixon A. Dowling                    N. Dudley C. Edwards                   H. Fonte K. Foster                       J. Glosch K. Holcomb                   B. Hughes E. Kirby                         P. Koenigs   B. Lau                           R. Lundsten   K. McDougall                 E. Perez M. Verner                      A. Wright D. Wu                           C. Young >>Mystery screen names:  buderfly24, redbear212

VegeCyber -- Browse their wide selection of animal-free products. Be sure to use the code "KA2047" when you make a purchase and KARE will receive a portion of it. The Fund for Animals - The Fund was created by best-selling author Cleveland Amory. Learn more about their Black Beauty ranch in Texas or read up on animal rights information. 4 the Animals - An animal rights organization started by KARE member Danny Stauffer. Fur and Feathers - A Nevada-based animal rights group founded by a KARE member. Animal Liberation Front - An organization that covers many topics of animal rights and provides helpful resources for activists. CompassionFest - An annual animal rights convention started by 16-year-old activist Ryan Courtade. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - For years PETA has been fighting for various animal rights causes, and hundreds of prominent celebrities have joined their battle. Send for a free Vegetarian starter kit at their site.

A b o u t   t h e   P r e s i d e n t Brittney Buckley, 15, founded KARE in September of 2000. More than a year later, it has over 170 members and is growing. Brittney is a sophomore in Bartow, FL's International Baccalaureate program, where she is a staff member for her school's section in the county newspaper.

In eighth grade, Brittney's hunting essay won second prize in the Fund for Animal's humane teen contest. (Check out some of her other work at the KARE Online Essay Archives). To learn more about her animal rights causes, check out Brittney's  teen spotlight at HumaneTeen. Contact Brittney by emailing her or IMing her at brit05oscars for more information.

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"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight." ~ Rev. Andrew Linzey "Beautiful furs belong on beautiful animals, not beautiful people." ~ Anonymous "The love for all creatures is the most noble attribute of man." ~ Charles Darwin "The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?" ~ Jeremy Bentham "Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, they set forth a ripple of hope." ~ Robert F. Kennedy "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." ~ Thomas Edison "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Gandhi "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." ~ Albert Einstein "Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment, a piece of meat, an "it," without degenerating into cruelty towards that creature?" ~ Karen Davis, PhD "With increased knowledge of the behaviour and cognitive abilities of the chicken, has come the realization that the chicken is not an inferior species to be treated merely as a food source." ~ Dr. Lesley J. Rogers "Slaughterhouses should be in restaurants and grocery stores. They should have a glass wall so people must see the animals and choose. Look into the animal's eyes and say, 'OK, slit his throat.'" ~ Ingrid Newkirk "The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffe's milk." ~ Michael Klaper, MD "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." ~ Alice Walker "We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope ithis world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?" ~ George Bernard Shaw "Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." ~ George Bernard Shaw "All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals." ~ Peter Singer "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties...the lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery." ~ Charles Darwin "Look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places, their life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as them. Now smile if you believe all animals deserve our respect and our protection, for in a way, they are us, and we are them." ~ Philip Ochoa "Thou shalt not kill." ~ Exodus 20:13 "He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man." ~ Isaiah 66:3 "If you have men wHo will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ~ St. Francis of Assisi "There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a kinfe or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." ~ Froude "When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity." ~ George Bernard Shaw "Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no jusification in indulging in such acts of brutality." ~ XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet "The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest." ~ Henry David Thoreau "When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." ~ Ingrid Newkirk "As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer "Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." ~ George Bernard Shaw "I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "The human commitment to harmony, justice, peace, and love is ironic as long as we continue to support the suffering and shame of the slaughterhouse and its satellite operations." ~ Karen Davis, PhD "Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep, and kill for food?" ~ John Harris "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill eachother. Indeed, he who sows the seed of muder and pain cannot reap joy and love." ~ Pythagoras "To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body." ~ Mohandas Gandhi "When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings." ~ William C. Roberts, M.D.

She has been involved with animal rights practically her whole life. In second and third grade, she and three friends organized a bike-a-thon by themselves and collected over one thousand dollars for the local humane society.  She now volunteers at her own local shelter. She has appeared in magazines including Skater, Writer's Digest, and most recently, the Dec. 2002 issue of YM, for (respectively) her figure skating, writing, and animal rights.

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KARE recently welcomed its 196th member to the group.  Keep 'em coming, and remember, KARE isn't just for kids -- teens and adults are welcome too!

Our next project: KARE awareness ads for lockers, offices, etc... help needed!

I recently got access to the site, so I'll be updating it for the next few weeks and informing new members of their acceptance.

Members: Please check out the guestbook and let them know we're all for free speech.

<-- Pg. 42 of December's edition of YM Magazine... More photos and information coming later... Thanks for checking out the site!! A HUGE thanks to Molly Rosen and the YM staff for the attention the magazine has brought to our site.

Voltaire said, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."  Keep that in mind in the guestbook -- no matter whose side you're on, your opinion matters, as long as you remain tasteful and aware that this a site visited by children.