Campaign To End Universities'
False Teachings about Animals!

10,000 Years Is Enough: Quick Links

• University presidents you can contact -- support RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry.

• Governors: Get Our Universities Out of the Meat Industry! See RPA's letter to the governors of all 50 states!

• The Governors of all 50 states - Tell them to get their states' land-grant universities out of the meat business!
  
  
• Learn the devastating impacts of our land-grant universities' meat-industry courses -- in brief!
  Get Our Universities Out of the Meat Industry (or click here for the printable, PDF version).
  
  
• RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign -- to get our universities out of the inhumane, health-threatening, ecodestructive, global-warming meat industry -- is a leading example of political vegetarianism in action! See RPA's brochure Political Vegetarianism: Why Plants-Only Eating Is Necessary and How Political Vegetarians Can Make It Happen (or click here for the printable, PDF version).
  
  
• Click here for factsheets about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to end our land-grant universities' teaching of "animal science" and other service to the flesh, milk & egg industries.
  
  
• Click here to see letters RPA sent to 50 university presidents urging them to help end the teaching of "animal science."
  

Human beings evolved as herbivores - plant-eaters. (See physician's article.) So it is no wonder almost every disease we can name is linked to eating from animals - meat, dairy, fish, and eggs. Raising animals for food also produces the most global-warming gases and is linked to the other big ecological assaults by humans and their industries.

But many of our renowned universities - Cornell, University of California, University of Wisconsin, University of Florida, Penn State, Texas A&M, Iowa State, Michigan State, and most of the other 97 land-grant universities (LGUs) - teach that it is natural, healthful, ecologically sound, and "humane" for human beings to use other animals for food.

Under the guise of "animal science," our LGUs promote meat, dairy, fish, eggs, and their allied industries - toxic pesticides and fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, slaughter, oil, monoculture feed crops, and others - keeping the standard American diet a scourge on life and what sustains it.

You cannot teach "animal science" without falsely teaching that it is natural, healthful, ecologically sound, and "humane" for human beings to use other animals for food. Science shows that those beliefs are false industry ideology foisted on the public through news and public relations - not science. And the impacts are enormously harmful.

People do not independently choose what they eat. That is determined by institutions: family, school, religion, civic group, industry, workplace - and, linked to all of those, our immense LGUs occupying public land, trusted by the public, and unfortunately serving nonliving corporate and industrial interests over the public interest. "Animal science" our reinforces eating habits that cripple our society through disease, pollution, global warming, and injustice against nonhuman animals - intelligent, feeling, family-oriented beings who should be treated as persons, not as commodities or industrial products.

Agriculture means cultivation of fields, not raising animals for slaughter. President Lincoln and the legislators who established the LGU system to create colleges of agriculture knew that. "Animal science" corrupts our universities' truth-seeking and educating functions by corrupting words and the minds they shape. We have got to get "animal science" and other conflict of interest out of our universities.

Delusional and harmful "animal science" is not instructors' and students' fault! In eliminating "animal science," our LGUs and government should treat them fairly. Their minds are skillfully managed by the same news and public-relations industries that mislead the rest of us to serve nonliving over living interests.

Unalienable equal basic autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals - the only likely remedy to the big problems we face - must include a human right to institutions that do not systematically deceive the public in service to nonliving corporate interests. To those ends, Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign …

… demands that LGU presidents, trustees, alumni, students, and parents take necessary steps to end "animal science";

… urges the states' governors, other officials, newspersons, and people at university publications to help eliminate "animal science";

… teaches the public the need to establish basic rights of all animals; and

… shows concerned people how to help.

By becoming an RPA member, you can support the pro-life* 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign. As citizens rather than consumers, we can free ourselves from mental slavery, embrace reality, and create a world closer to the one humans and the other animals evolved in, a way of life closer to human nature, a high quality of life for all.

Thank you!

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* "Pro-life" does not mean anti-abortion as the public is misled to believe. "Pro-life" means respecting a mouse more than General Electric; minimizing the impact of humans and their nonliving inventions - corporations, industries, the military - on nonhuman beings; and promoting unalienable equal basic autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals.

• List of land-grant university heads and their addresses
  
  
• Time to Cut Classes, Not Animals' Throats: Our Land-Grant University "Animal Science" Problem
  
  
• RPA Factsheet #1: 10,000 Years Is Enough: Time To Stop Teaching Animal Agribusiness
  
  
• RPA Factsheet #2: Time To Stop Teaching Animal Agribusiness: Researchers Outside of the Industries Know the Problems
  
  
• RPA Factsheet #3: Why Environmentalists Should Support RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough Campaign