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1. HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Human rights are those basic rights that belong to people because they are human beings, regardless of their nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and without which people cannot live in dignity.The human rights that are considered by most societies to belong to all people include the rights to life, justice, freedom, and quality. Social justice is the concept that community and state activity should be based on just and equitable treatment of all people regardless of color, race, socioeconomic class, gender, age or sexual preference.

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2. THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE, MEDIA AND CONSUMERISM.

Every day we are bombarded with consumerist publicity that wants to get into our heads and our pockets. Skinny beauty patterns cause people to go under strict diets that may cause them get sick and in many cases lead them to death. Fashion becomes an addiction. Shopping Malls become cathedrals where people find fulfillment in shopping. Shopping beyond our true needs and poor money management skills bring us to an almost eternal debt. Peer pressure pushes people to live and act against their true selves, it pushes people to drink, to get high, to hook up, in order to fit in the group. At the Humane Foundation we raise awareness on how media, peer pressure, and other cultural manipulators try to control our decisions so that we can make informed choices based on proper information.

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3. ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Many scientists agree we are living in a critical moment. Mostly man caused environmental problems are sending an alarming alert that if every individual in the planet don’t live in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way, the world we know today maybe quite different in the near future. Global Warming may change the current geographical configuration of our planet. Animal species keep disappearing. Forests continue to be cut destroying entire ecosystems. We continue using home chemicals that reach water streams and oceans contaminating them. The Humane Foundation promotes a sense of environmental responsibility so that our planet can continue sustaining life as we know it.

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4. ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND NATURAL HEALTH.

Animal Welfare and Rights Animal welfare involves a respect for and a commitment to the humane treatment of all nonhuman animals, which includes proper housing, adequate nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, and humane handling and can include humane euthanasia when necessary. Animal rights are those rights that some people consider to be inherent to animals, which should not be violated by humans, such as using animals for testing cosmetic products. Animal welfare organizations focus on laboratories testing facilities, zoos, moviemaking, domestic animals (e.g. slaughterhouses, feedlots), and pets, with facilities for injured wildlife.

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