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RPA: Educating the Influential
  1. Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc. (RPA), explains to those in a position to influence others how they can protect nonhuman animals and prevent animal suffering. Human enterprise developed almost entirely without responsible policies for animals. Naturally, since animals live legitimate lives, have their own needs, and can suffer, responsibility includes taking account of our effects on them in addition to meeting obligations to people and society. With today's technologies, people constantly affect animals for the better or for the worse. RPA works to ensure that businesses, organizations, agencies, and influential individuals will establish and adhere to responsible policies for animals so that others will follow.

  2. Those whom RPA makes a priority of communicating with are administrators, executives, managers, communications professionals, and others whose choices tend to affect others' choices. They can casually be referred to as "leaders" without attributing any particular degree of leadership ability or popularity. RPA does not lobby to pass or defeat legislation; RPA focuses on voluntary policies and practices rather than those required or prohibited by law.

  3. RPA works under the assumption, based on many years of experience and research, that responsible policies for animals are also responsible policies for ecosystems and human beings. In some situations, ending animal exploitation will protect ecosystems and human health and decrease related expenditures. In others, preventing or ending abuses will reduce social strife or help prevent violent crimes. Despite perceived losses for some who must cease their animal exploitation, human beings, families, communities, and societies will fare much better when freed from animal exploitation and abuse.

  4. RPA is an abolitionist organization: It works to end all forms of animal exploitation and abuse. These include the breeding of animals by human beings for any purpose; the destruction of animals for alleged conservation or pest control purposes; and all other human uses and abuses of animals, alleged human benefits notwithstanding. For every human use or abuse of animals, better practices are available that meet human needs without harming animals.

  5. RPA works principally in the United States without strictly limiting its work to the U.S. Although vast amounts of animal exploitation and abuse occur in other countries, the U.S. is the most influential country on Earth. The U.S. has produced most of the technology that defines the modern world and influences, more than any other country, what are considered acceptable practices. The technologies that define modern life depend largely on the U.S. either for their existence or for their widespread international marketing. That makes the U.S. the most important country in which to eliminate animal exploitation and abuse.

  6. RPA works with organizations that exist to oppose animal exploitation and abuse as well as organizations with other purposes. RPA values and appreciates all measures taken by individuals, organizations, businesses, and government that reduce animal exploitation or abuse, regardless of whether additional measures are needed to end exploitation and abuse completely. Thousands of years of agriculture and civilization without responsible policies for animals ensure that eliminating animal exploitation and abuse requires long-term organized efforts. RPA wishes to see the U.S. lead the world in placing animal exploitation and abuse on the course of ultimate extinction.

  7. The work of RPA is inspired by many individuals and organizations whose work on behalf of animals predates the existence of RPA. RPA is grateful to the many volunteers, employees, managers, leaders, researchers, authors, publishers, and others who have worked to improve the lot of animals in recent times and throughout history. In the interest of expediting the elimination of animal exploitation and abuse, RPA welcomes financial support, useful information, constructive suggestions, and voluntary efforts aimed at enabling the organization to fulfill its mission.

  8. RPA is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as of November 5, 2002.

  9. RPA is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational nonprofit organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service as of March 6, 2003.

  10. All donations to RPA are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Revised April 2003

Donations to Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc., are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc., P.O. Box 891, Glenside, PA 19038