How We are Affected by Cruelty and Violence
How we treat animals and their habitats define us personally and as a society and how to help flora, fauna, food, farming and freedom
Welcome to Wildlands and thank you for listening, or reading about elephants, canids and felids and jaguars- oh my!
Wildlands tackles tough topics, asks tough questions and works diligently to shift paradigms, increase collaboration and reduce harm.
How many people are making a living, or getting “attention” through the exploitation of beings?
If we are going to heal, we have to get real. This essay is a summary of the problems animals are facing, how humans are involved and how we are all affected by cruelty and violence— and how to fix our mismanagement of self and others.
Wildlife, and animal management in general, are increasingly coming under scrutiny. Personally, I have witnessed it through my work with wildlife, animal organizations and government. Public outcry, as well as the legal environment for animal welfare and well-being are increasing. How we treat animals and their habitats define us personally and as a society. Improved animal welfare is improved human well-being because we are interconnected— what we do to one, we do to ourselves.
Animal welfare is also growing in science-based research. Common sense, our personal experiences and science proves that animals experience pain and suffering. Sentience is not just a human characteristic. Creatures are intelligent and they have a range of emotions from glad, mad, afraid, and love. And, they have needs like food, family, community, homes, purpose and opportunity.
So, how can you help, you ask?
Help stop “breeding for bullets” and sign a petition to stop captive hunting.
Did you know… sentient beings are sedated and released, then shot while still drugged, within an hour of their release, in some cases? And, other exquisite animals are starved intentionally to save money during non-hunting seasons. We must ensure that canned (captive) hunting and their facilities do not exist! Canned hunting and trophy hunting are separated by a bottom line.
Trophy hunting funds conservation and lobbyists.
Remember Cecil?
There are clear links between animal cruelty and human violence.
The toxic triage of animal cruelty, violence and crimes are well documented. Animal abuse is a predictor of domestic abuse, neglect, and other violent crimes. Early warnings of abuse often go unchecked until even more heinous crimes are enacted. "Agencies must investigate claims of animal cruelty because if not taken seriously, they have the potential for an adverse ripple effect."
How does domestic violence affect women's mental health?
Abuse of children and partners are common in animal abusers. People who work in slaughterhouses are also at risk of enacting cruelty and violence in their families and communities.
The Psychological Impact of Slaughterhouse Employment: A Systematic Literature Review reveals more true incidences and the need for reform.
Animals are treated like products in industrialized farms called CAFO’s. Animals are enslaved without natural conditions or care for their well-being.
Our brain-heart-gut microbiomes are connected— what we consume, think, feel and do are connected.
It is common sense that if it is not good for animals, it’s not good for people.
Cancer and other diseases are rising due to industrial farming. Nitrates and harmful agrichemicals are polluting water, air, soil and food— and our bodies, minds and spirits. Many States are not addressing the issues. We are headed toward mega-farm monopolies— and that would be disasterous for All.
Good News: Your Hired! How We Fix Food, Farming and Freedom and You are Needed
Advocate for healthy food, environment and ethical treatment of animals, contact your Representative and demand the following:
Healthy environment with healthy food for All.
Support small farmers and let’s plant native pollinator farms next to all of our new, diversified regenerative food and herb farms. (I have a plan and I need you to help do your part.)
Support growing hemp, ancient foods, grains and plant medicines to help farms. Help Regeneration Nation to Make Anima Mundi Healthy Again.
With this plan, we restore soils and souls and celebrate collaboration, peace and prosperity.
In order for humanity to succeed, we MUST restore our care of animals- finned, four legged, two-legged, winged, crawling- all beings and all habitats.
We must create an accounting system that values nature and all her beings. No hierarchy, no hypocrises allowed! We need YOU to be of Service to Anima Mundi.
Courageous Ones Apply Within Wildlands. Please help Make Anima Mundi Healthy Again.
Remember, treat others as YOU wish to be treated. Do you love self? Do you want compassion and empathy?
Think about what you are ingesting. Do you want to consume abuse, cruelty and violence? How does consuming toxic food affect you? How does witnessing the destruction of forests, wildlands, waterways and wildlife affect you? Reform takes honesty, courage and generosity of heart to learn how much of a horror show we have created. Read the Detailed Discussion of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Concerns and Current Legislation Affecting Animal Welfare.
My work is to ask why are communities allowing animals and all of us to suffer?
Regulations, overwhelm, lack of care, lack of resources, accountability, monitoring, lack of empowerment, enforcement, employment, funding, lack of energy, lack of will. Lack.
That’s unacceptable behaviors of a civil society.
My mission is to rebuild communities in rural and urban areas through regenerative living, working for regeneration of wildlands and wildlife.
I love you All, and my work is in Service of US!
Let’s explore some natural progression of how our behaviors and mindsets have created devastation, death and destruction. It is each of our duty to restore our ecosystems for All. I’ll show you how to restore soils and souls— we need nature and nature needs us.
Did you know people who enact cruelty and violence in our society have a negative inner critic? The Neuroscience of Violence shows that the inner critic needs to be calmed and loved.
Anger and fear can be transformed into something positive by being of Service.
Asking ourselves questions can help us fix problems.
What is causing harm?
What is the impact?
How can I help? Being of service heals self and others.
We need to communicate with compassion and empathy. Here are some inner reflections for YOU! What if:
We stop creating and watching violent “entertainment” and “news”.
We stop treating animals like objects and machines who don’t feel.
We stop breeding, selling, trading and keeping animals in enclosures.
We live interconnected with nature and her beings and do not fear, control or harm them.
Animal Rights and Nature’s Rights are the norm.
We rectify harm with funding and support for reform, reintroduction, restoration and re-wilding projects, creating jobs and volunteer opportunities for YOU and me.
There are many “well known” practices that are controversial to welfare issues of animals, whether they be wild, farm, or domestic. Moratoriums have been placed due to public outcry. The legal and illegal grey areas can be reformed with clarity of goals and boundaries with no hypocrisies.
Never under-estimate the power of YOU, your voice matters!
Speak up for compassion and empathy for sentient beings! They speak loudly, hear their pleas and their cries. They want to live freely, just as we all do.
The ones who do not speak words need you!
Power to the people: The International Wildlife Museum is closed for good in Tucson, Arizona.
I personally know some of the dedicated people, including a City Council member, who ensured that the Wildlife Museum closed their doors for good. There are efforts to return the taxidermy to organizations. Do you see the issues? This is a tough love message. Please think and act with compassion and empathy. How would you like to be valued?
Will these “stuffed” animals be accepted by the donors, stored, buried or sent to landfills? Animal heads placed on walls like medallions enshrine murderous acts. The murders are meaningless and valueless, literally. All the killing and now nobody wants the dead trophies once in the “museum”.
When we know better, we do better.
The human brain is struggling to cope with an environment it was never designed to confront. The pressures of modern life constantly press on these triggers of rage.
Violence has become a major and growing public health problem internationally, including on college campuses. Aggression to others and suicide- extreme aggression directed at self are increasing.
Personally, my partner and I moved when he no longer felt safe at a college campus where he was employed. It proved to be a good decision, as violence increased, including the murder of one of his colleagues. Suicide is also increasing, especially among young people.
Our bodies, minds and spirits need kindness and connection with others. Extending compassion and empathy to all creatures and our environment will help heal us.
Do you want some great natural news?!
You can shift paradigms! Love is the way and the goal, without fear of punishment or reward. Love from Something Greater than Ourselves, the Infinite, is freedom to love others and ourselves. Prayer is symbiotic—that’s an example of love in action.
Forgiveness, not comparing self to others, and gratitude are all transformative. Gratitude shifts our brain into positivity, and increases health and well-being.
Everyone benefits from love, including all creatures great and small.
Power to the people who care and get good things done. No longer are whales held in captivity. “Mega fauna” are no longer in traveling circuses. Coalitions and organizations exist to save birds, fish, bees and many other beings. It is up to us to stop corrupt organizations, captive breeding, trophy hunting, canned hunting and industrialized farming. You are the vessel in which action flows.
Be love in action and the whole world heals with you. Love is our Super Power!
Do you want some more good natural news?
A legless lizard and hundreds of other new species were discovered in 2023.
We visited Turpentine Creek in the U.S., where many of Tiger King’s cats were rescued and taken to the big cat sanctuary. This place is proof that it’s possible to regenerate bad into good, tragedy into triumph, and regenerate and conserve flora and fauna.
Help stop the corruption of animal organizations that are dumping animals in the desert and increasing problems for companion animals, instead of helping them— and, they are making millions. Help stop this hypocrisy and greed— this is fraud- illegal, immoral, and unethical!
Want to learn more about wildlife?
I recently attended an online meeting that discussed captive hunting through Leadership for Conservation in Africa.
The experts agree that tourism is more costly than trophy hunting.
Policy gaps and mandates in legal framework in South Africa’s, Animal Protection Act of 1962, must be fixed.
Wildlife markets, wildlife sellers, wildlife trade also need reform.
Proper conservation means keeping animals wild and free, while keeping their families and communities together. Habitats must be healthy and accessible. We cannot allow commercial purposes and politics to interfere and blur the lines. We must uphold morals and ethics and be very cautious of what is allowed. Once captive big cats are no longer allowed, another species will replace them. The cycle will continue with the same problems and conversations, unless fundamental changes in mind-sets and actions happen.
Closing the canned hunting industry means a moratorium on breeding and an increase funding for public education. According to the experts, captive bred animals have many challenges in returning them to the wild. Funding, land and employees are lacking in South Africa. Pro-active practices are best yet, humane euthanasia is what going to happen, due to lack of sanctuaries.
Poaching for “medicine”- bones, and other animal parts are increasing in Kruger National Park and in other places. Perpetrators poison captive lions for their feet, jaw and front of their face, teeth and claws.
In 2016, US Fisheries and Wildlife changed their policies on imports of captive bred animals. Prior to 2016, trophy hunters were predominantly Americans. Currently, BRICS Countries have increased numbers of trophy hunters.
Voluntary exit strategy for those in the captive hunting industry can enact change quickly. We can not allow industries to grow— rapid growth is a red flag. There is support from hunting groups who are against captive hunting.
What’s needed and why:
Resources, follow-through on regulations and enforcement. Adding more bureaucracy to monitor, regulate and enforce a commercial industry that is underfunded and unsupported are being funded through tax payers. Vote!
Global Ecology and Conservation states, “Reputational damage to South Africa from supporting captive predator breeding is quantified at $2.79 billion NPV over the next decade.”- Harvey, R.G., 2020.
The New York Time’s End of Panda Diplomacy summarizes the symptomatic, 10 year agreements— the secretive documents do not allow people to speak against mismanagement, ill health, or anything the public may want to know but “cannot” as it will affect reputations and bottom lines.
Silence, allowing and doing nothing must change. Your voice and actions matter— help change paradigms and reduce harm for animals and habitats.
About Robin
I’m a Poet with a Purpose— Protecting, establishing and conserving wildlife, advocating to rebuild ecosystems with an abundance and diversity of creatures is a healthier planet for people. I serve flora, fauna, fungi, food, farming and freedom, and help care for wildlife who cannot be returned to the wild.
I have been asked to run for office more than once. And, a Senator called me to thank me for helping him protect animals.
Wildlands teaches that we are nature, all species have a purpose and a job to do, and it is in humans best interest to be compassionate, empathic stewards. We are a piece of the peace. What we do to one, we do to ourselves. We are all interconnected. Good animal welfare results in good conservation and a world of well-being for All.
We can each participate in Regeneration Nation, to restore soils and souls and celebrate Re-new-All. Wildlands shows how to fix problems for good to Make Anima Mundi Great and Healthy Again!
My work in animal and environmental politics helped get a ban on wildlife killing contests in Arizona. I’m also helping to reform the corruption of domestic and wildlife organizations. Moral and ethical issues with executives, consultants and governments keep us questioning them and holding them accountable when they go astray.
See a recent poll in Wildlands regarding, “Should we ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon?”— You overwhelmingly said Yes (100%), on every platform the poll was shared.
Wildlands Hunger and Waste; Health and Prosperity; Want Health? and my other essays explore our health and interconnectedness, and how to generate love and service to others.
Read My Guest Column.
Please support my work to reduce harm by shifting paradigms and increasing collaborations. I work with State and local leaders. I also lead conservation projects to help educate people on the value of animals, habitats, pollinators, farms and organic land care. Pollinators are responsible for 30% of our food. Let’s restore soils and souls and Make Anima Mundi Healthy Again!
A Short Empowerment Poem for Peace for All Beings
We cannot count on the UN or other globalists to do what is right, good and true.
We must count on us, and empower me and you.
What if We the People stopped their harm?
Be of service- Love in Action is the charm.Protect and conserve our biota through patriotism. Every being has a purpose and a job to do— that’s sustainable! In honor of Harambe and all beings in captivity and in the crosshairs. Your support of Wildlands is creating a world of well-being.
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