Saving the world. Today.

I'm currently drying my eyes from tears, because I just watched a video of a stray dog being rescued and nursed back to health after having lived in a dump for many months. He even found a little doggy-friend while recovering, and now they're best buddies and looking for a home. (see the video HERE )

I also saw another video this morning that made me feel like an ass for being human. You can see the clip HERE.

I've always been very sensitive when it comes to animals and nature, and tried to do my best in helping out. When the volunteers of Amnesty International approach me on the street for donations, my response to them was always "no thanks, I'd like to help animals and nature first, don't you have any of those WWF guys around today?". 

In fact that's the true story of how I became a donor member of WWF . The WWF guy was just around the corner and the Amnesty-girl took me to him. The Greenpeace guy was also there, but I've always thought they were scary and might make me attack some fishing boat in the Pacific sea if I joined.

I've always felt that people are evil by nature, and don't always deserve to be helped. Animals are innocent by nature, and often suffer because of the before mentioned evilness of humans, so in my book the animals should be helped first and the humans second. I'm not saying that there isn't a whole lot of injustice among us people as well that should be dealt with, but you have to pick your battles, and I've chosen to fight for the animal kingdom first.

A few times I've tried to be a vegetarian. The problem is that I'm not much into cooking to begin with, and having to think before hand what to eat and how to prepare it seems like too much work. That's a real lame ass excuse, I know. I plea on the fact that I'm an evil human.

Then one day I read from somewhere about the method they use to kill the foxes in Finland that they grow for the fur. I'm against using animals for fur (unless you live in Eskimo-land, and you caught that animal with your bare hands, you ate the meat, used the fur to keep you warm at night and made a toy out of the tail for the kiddies, =  used the whole animal and nothing was being wasted). I'm a super fan of foxes, I think they're really pretty and interesting animals. I'm not going to explain how they kill these foxes in Finland, I'll just say that when I went to the supermarket later that day, I couldn't bare to buy any meat. Fox or otherwise. I felt too guilty.

So this is what it took for me to become a vegetarian, huh?

Lately I've become really interested in this animal rights thing. I don't know if it's because I have a somewhat of a rescue cat at home which I love to peaces, or what's the deel-io here, but I feel an increasing need to help out and do something. Anything. 

Found an abandoned orangutan outside the parking lot this morning.
Offered to took him to the monkey shelter,
but he said that actually he was just waiting for a friend.

A few days back I watched a documentary about the situation of the seas on our planet. And again I was crying in the end. I'm not one of those people who's trying to save our planet for the future generations, I'm trying to save the planet for ME. Now. Today. I'm afraid of eating a freakin tomato because it has so many pesticides in it. I'm not trying to save the world for my unborn children, I'm trying to save myself from dying of cancer and other diseases caused by pollution. If I die of cancer, it should be because I smoked too much or tanned too much, not because I ate too many tomatoes.

Now, I'm no saint either. I drive to work even though I could just as easily walk. I buy stuff that I don't really need, most of them made of plastic. I think I even own a leather coat, which I bought years ago not even thinking about the fact that it's the skin of some animal (probably because I can usually afford only the fake ones). I fly to see foreign places, and quite often I might add. But you can't fix everything right away, so you gots to start somewhere.

I  have already some bigger plans for the future that will hopefully benefit the animal kingdom in some way, but for the moment I'll do these very concrete and easy things.

1) this weekend I'm going to donate some supplies to the local pet shelter 

2) I'm going to become (again) a donor for WWF (I stopped when I came to Italy because I didn't know if I'd have the money for it. Stupid me)

Oh, and of course I'm trying to keep up with my newly found vegetarianism. Thinking about the little foxies while shopping for food is a nice meat-repellent. I might eat an egg every once in a while, but only if it's marked "bio" and there's a picture of a chicken that's running around outside with other chickens.

It's been raining for two weeks here, non stop. Not even a 5 minute break. This morning finally it stopped. And even the sun is out, just slightly, but it's there. It's going to be a good day today, the kind of a day when you do good things. 

So go for it. Save a little bit of the world you live in. Your world. Today.