CSR is meant to be a bridge between companies and the community.

It is impossible for the government to bring about change as the needs are so many. NGOs have the focus, know-how, strategic thinking, and commitment but they need the financial strength to enable widespread social transformation. Partnerships between corporations, NGOs and the government will speed everything up.

Appeals to companies to be included in the CSRs are always turned away with the stock response that humans need it more. But animal welfare is in fact geared towards human welfare.

For CSR, please contact our fundraiser:

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

  • Plant fruit trees in/near jungles: this will help keep monkeys away from the cities.
  • Building/running small rural hospitals for farmer’s animals. Government has no infrastructure at all. The cost of a cow is now Rs.50,000. If it dies, the farmer is bankrupt. Most of UP‘s villagers still travel in ox or horse-drawn carts. Horses that go lame are thrown into ditches to die.
  • Holding workshops to teach farmers organic farming.
  • Supporting the dog sterilization programme in smaller towns. This will end rabies once and for all and lessen the population dramatically, and reduce bites.
  • Redesigning carts to make them puller friendly. At the moment 33% of oxen die in 3 years of neck cancer, placing a huge financial burden on the farmer/villager.
  • Building veterinary colleges. At the moment 2,600 vets are produced every year in the worst colleges in the world. No wildlife vets, no zoo vets, no bird vets, very few small animal vets. The emphasis is only on producing animals for meat and milk. But veterinary colleges could teach actual medicine.
  • Teaching veterinary compounders who will then get jobs in their own village.
  • Give money to make bureaus catch wildlife poachers/traders who are denuding the forests.
  • Making rescue centres for elephants / injured birds like peacocks / leopards, and running them. Run campaigns for bringing back endangered species like sparrows.
  • Pay for turtle nesting sites: this will keep the rivers and oceans clean.
  • Pay for animal rescue during floods and cyclones. The man who has lost his house AND animal will never stand on his feet again.
  • Making one shelter / hospital in each city to manage the animals there.

Each one of these will have a profound effect on the economy.

For those companies that are hesitant because they feel they will not get enough goodwill mileage out of their CSR, here is a survey:

A comprehensive survey was done by the Humane Research Council (HRC) in 2012, on which social cause is viewed most favourably in America. Animal protection came out on top, along with workers’ rights. Six other causes came far below in public opinion.

This shows that the animal welfare movement is having an impact on the way that society thinks about animals.

Despite current economic and political concerns, the animal protection cause is retaining support, though support for all other social justice causes have decreased significantly since 2008. Not only is the movement viewed favourably, but the protection of animals is considered important by a majority of U.S. adults and this includes animals used for profit, such as animals used for food and animals used for research and testing.

HRC conducted a representative survey of thousands of U.S. adults over 2 months regarding attitudes toward various social justice causes. More respondents rated their opinion of animal welfare movements as “more favourable” than any other social movement listed on the survey, including tax reform, homeless advocacy, immigration reform, gay / lesbian rights, environmentalism, and the pro-life (anti-abortion) cause. Further, the animal protection movement is the only cause for which support has not decreased since 2008 when the first survey was done.

After decades of struggling for recognition, the animal protection cause is now considered one of the paramount social justice issues of modern times. Any company that takes the step towards supporting this movement is sure to increase its goodwill. Animal NGOs are very vociferous in India. Why not get them on your side?