The future of animal welfare has to be collaboration and animal welfare organizations must move away from these baseless attacks that draw us away from our core beliefs and values. It is easy to be passionate about animals; however, passion doesn’t always lend the way to logic. Be passionate but do not make noise solely to make noise. Make noise to make a difference. Make it productive. Believe you can make a difference…then do it. And since we began this note with one great leader of our country (albeit in humor), I do want to end with the words of another great leader who accomplished so much for so many – and not with words but with action. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt michiganhumane.wordpress/2014/12/11/a-note-from-matthew-pepper-on-the-state-of-animal-welfare/
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