{"id":136078,"date":"2023-08-02T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136078"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:54:22","slug":"let-us-be-a-voice-for-sri-lankas-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/08\/02\/let-us-be-a-voice-for-sri-lankas-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us be a Voice for Sri Lanka&#8217;s Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eileen Weintraub<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Founding Director <strong style=\"font-size: revert;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/b0b851fb7bd98e9f01a91a672100784624d12d37?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.helpanimalsindia.org%2F&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=ad3edff4d2b5f6d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Help Animals India<\/a> <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Seattle, WA \u00a0USA<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This Anti-Animal Welfare Act of 2022, IF passed AS IS is all that Sri Lanka needs now to damn it Internationally as the first Buddhist country in the world to grant &#8220;State-Sanctioned Animal Cruelty sans legal redress&nbsp; to the voiceless&nbsp; via a supposed &#8220;Welfare&#8221; Act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trade profts envisaged&nbsp; by removing protectIon from this Act for animals used in the meat and egg industries, denying these sentient beings modern, ethical, and humane mothods in slaughter, will be eclipsed by the loss of economic gains which are accrued to the country by keeping intact its gentle image as a Leading Buddhist Country in the world, philosophically and legally providing protection to All Living Beings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing ethically unsanctioned &#8220;futile&#8221; live animal research (futile as none of such research will qualify to be&nbsp; published internationally or even locally ) will tarnish and damn the high academic esteem with which Sri Lanka&#8217;s academia is held internationally. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eileen Weintraub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founding Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/b0b851fb7bd98e9f01a91a672100784624d12d37?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.helpanimalsindia.org%2F&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=ad3edff4d2b5f6d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Help Animals India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seattle, WA &nbsp;USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up for our infrequent newsletter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/43ddd772c134c74a32dcacc201dce31d97aa33b9?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhelpanimalsindia.org%2Fsignup&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=3ebdd1dd4a79eced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/62f716cb150f04b1b2dfd758e600ed6625d0807c?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhelpanimalsindia&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=dfee1bf942f6497a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/66246a5ff23cd4ed646dd9a874c2c1987bc08458?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fhelpanimalsindia&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=44c9001f97b18b03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/f7d8ef6f3946271fed26b220a6ef3dbf65a95122?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fhelpanimalsindia&amp;userId=2580503&amp;signature=4d57a4d8b9098a4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Weintraub Founding Director Help Animals India Seattle, WA \u00a0USA &#8220;This Anti-Animal Welfare Act of 2022, IF passed AS IS is all that Sri Lanka needs now to damn it Internationally as the first Buddhist country in the world to grant &#8220;State-Sanctioned Animal Cruelty sans legal redress&nbsp; to the voiceless&nbsp; via a supposed &#8220;Welfare&#8221; Act.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}