I received an anonymous report that there are terrible conditions at this place:

Pet Supermarket at 4181 S Tamiami Trail Bay 39a, Venice, FL 34293

The tipster informed me that animals are dying, improperly housed and fed, along with a whole host of other problems. If you can check it out and post your findings, maybe we can do something about it. Thanks!

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I have a deep love for animals and It's frustrating to see such disparities in consequences for harming animals versus harming humans.

Laws protecting animals vary from country to country & state to state. In New York City, a person who overdrives, overloads, tortures, cruelly beats, unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates, or kills any animal, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food, or drink, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This offense only carries a punishment of imprisonment for up to one year, a fine of up to one thousand dollars, or both.

Compared to the potential life sentence for taking another human life, this disparity in consequences doesn't make sense to me. Human life is just as precious as animal life. It's mind-boggling because, without animals, our existence would not be possible. All life, humans and animals, should be equally valued and protected under the law.

https://slaughterfreeamerica.substack.com/p/electric-cars-cultivated-meat-and

Strategies for Ethical and Environmental Development (SEED) needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

Looking for developer to create page on our site for the release of new investigation series

Website: https://www.ethicalstrategies.org/

Compensation: This is a volunteer role, please help the animals!

Description: Current Site: https://www.ethicalstrategies.org/ Uses Wix and Bluehost

Former Site: https://www.seedundercoverinvestigations.com/ Uses Squarespace

Needs & Timeframe:

Create a page for the release of the new investigation series that will be accessed from here: https://www.ethicalstrategies.org/erath-county-dairy-sales. (I need to change the name of this landing page from “/erath-county-dairy-sales to” “/investigations"). Content and assets are ready to go, we just need help building the actual page.

Timeframe: June/July 2024

We are also planning to update our website, integrate our old site content to the current site, and then migrate everything from Wix to Squarespace, but that is a much bigger project. For now, we are only seeking immediate support in the creation of a new page on our current site to support the new investigation release.

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

Click here: Link to request

Thanks for your activism for the animals!

VH: Playground by Vegan Hacktivists

Find other requests to help animals, click here!

The Mission Motor needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

3-person communication team (~4 hrs/week each) for LI, newsletter, website until Dec

Website: http://www.themissionmotor.org

Compensation: This is a volunteer role, please help the animals!

Description: We are looking for three communication volunteers until December 2024. They will cooperate but work on separate communication channels and tasks. The volunteer team will be coordinated and supported by co-director Nicoll Peracha.

1. LinkedIn and Slack, 4 hours per week

• LinkedIn posts ~ 3 times per month (events, MEL-knowledge, team, participants)
• Slack cross-posting when relevant
• Interviews with participants and stakeholders

Profile:

• Proficiency in English
• Engaged writing: professional, but friendly and easy to understand
• Basic graphic skills, using Canva to create images
• Being energized by working together with the other coms volunteers

2. Website update and maintenance: 2-4 hrs per week (or 4-8 hours bi-weekly)

• Intermediate English speaking and understanding
• Refreshing of the layout (activity overview, adding a transparency page, adding possibility to subscribe to the newsletter, testimonies, interviews and/or case-studies)
• Adding content provided by others
• Keeping the website updated

Profile

• Experience or affinity with Squarespace
• Graphic and web design experience
• Share knowledge and materials with the other volunteers
• Being energized by working together with the other coms volunteers

3. Newsletter: ~16 hrs per quarter

• Design the layout for a quarterly newsletter (new)
• Create the newsletter system (possibly Mailchimp, could be another program)
• Keep the recipients list updated
• Assemble the newsletter quarterly, based on materials provided

Profile

• Proficiency in English
• Engaged writing: professional, but friendly and easy to understand
• Basic graphic skills, using Canva to create images
• Being energized by working together with the other coms volunteers

Based on interest, the above mentioned task division can be split differently, e.g. website layout as a temporary project and other tasks as ongoing activities until the end of the year.

We plan to have a short online meetup with the volunteer team every two weeks: one meeting to plan activities, and one to discuss progress and necessary support. This can change if another system is more useful. The volunteer communication team is welcome to further develop our current, basic communication style (subject to approval).

By the end of November, we should know if and what kind of activities we will engage in in 2025 and can assess with the volunteers if they want to continue.

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

Click here: Link to request

Thanks for your activism for the animals!

VH: Playground by Vegan Hacktivists

Find other requests to help animals, click here!

I know it's a very common thing, but I am very hopeful. How do you even know if it's legit or not?

https://www.youtube.com/@caringanimalshelter

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Please explore this page to learn more about what you can do to help fight animal cruelty on social media platforms.

Regardless of what type of cruelty you find on social media, the best actions to take are always the same. Follow these five steps and you can play a role in ending online animal cruelty content. 

If you would like to tell us about cruelty content that you have seen, please head to our public reporting page.  

1. Be aware

By visiting this page you are making a good start! The more you know about animals, the more easily you can spot problematic content on social media.

Sometimes animal cruelty is less than obvious, such as an elephants being bathed with a trainer, slow loris being 'tickled' by a human or monkeys dressed in clothes. These examples involve serious animal suffering behind the scenes.

SMACC has created a series of videos named “Ask Yourself!” which gives helpful tips on how to spot different forms of animal content (no graphic images used).

You can also learn more information on the issue and types of cruelty here.

ASK YOURSELF! videosWHAT'S THE ISSUE?

2. Do not watch

It is really, really important not to intentionally watch animal cruelty videos. The more views content receives, the wider its reach on social media becomes, spreading the cruelty content to more people. Look out for clues in the video title, the post itself and any comments from other viewers before pressing play.

Check out our FAQs to learn more about why watching the content adds to the problem.

3. Do not engage

Whatever you do, no matter how outraged you feel at seeing animal cruelty, do not engage with the content. Any form of engagement, positive or negative, feeds the algorithms on social media platforms and leads to the content being boosted to even more people. 

4. Do not share

Just as above, sharing animal cruelty content, even to raise awareness or express outrage, increases its reach. Please do not share such content!

Read more about how engaging and sharing such content may make it popular and profitable in our “Reporting Matters” guide.

REPORTING MATTERS

5. Report it!

Reporting online animal cruelty content is still the best tool available to tackle animal cruelty content. Each platform has its own reporting function, and SMACC have created some short video guides, showing you step-by-step how to report on some of the biggest platforms. 

Reporting may seem like a small act and you may not see the video removed immediately, but from our conversations with the platforms, we know it is incredibly important. What’s more, your report will be a crucial one amongst many which will eventually lead to the content being removed - so do not give up!

Visit our Report It! Hub to find out more about why reporting is so important, how it works, and much more.

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The media continuing to highlight this sick behavior. It just never seems to end over there.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cambodia-youtube-monkey-abuse-angkor-world-heritage-site-youtubers/

A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. In another video clip, a person plays with the genitals of a juvenile male macaque sitting on a limestone block from an ancient temple to get it excited for the camera.

The abuse of monkeys at the Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwestern Cambodia is not always so graphic, but authorities say it is a growing problem as people look for new ways to draw online viewers to generate cash.

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