About ADAPTT
ADAPTT is a non-profit 501(c)4 animal rights organization that was established in 1996. ADAPTT’s goals are to assist in the abolition of animal use in medical research, product testing, circuses, rodeos and other forms of entertainment. We are uncompromisingly opposed to the bloodsport of hunting and the wearing of all animal skins, including fur, leather, wool, silk and down. Moreover, ADAPTT is an ethical vegan organization, which means we unequivocally oppose the meat, dairy, egg and honey industries. ADAPTT is also an unwavering supporter of human rights, and we are seeking an end to discrimination of all kinds (racism, sexism, heterosexism and, of course, speciesism). With your help, we can end the unnecessary bloodshed, malicious treatment and injustices that all beings endure.
ADAPTT
P.O. Box 725
Royal Oak, MI 48068-0725
Founder
Gary Yourofsky at GaryTofu@earthlink.net
Community Outreach
Jim McNellis at aveganman@yahoo.com
And Justice For All?
Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT) believes that all animals have an inherent right to be free and live completely unfettered by human dominance. Sadly, most humans continue to embrace animal slavery, animal torture, and animal murder. Billions of animals are killed every year in a premeditated, systematic massacre. Remember, without universal equality, one type of equality will always create another type of inequality.
Surprisingly, animal rights is not a new concept. The notion that animals deserve absolute protection has been around for thousands of years. Pythagoras uttered the following comment around 550 B.C.: "As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
ADAPTT’s mission statement is clear and unambiguous (above). While we used to employ a wide array of tactics to facilitate substantive change, ADAPTT has realized—through hands-on activism—that EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. As of 2008, ADAPTT founder and president Gary Yourofsky has given 1,524 lectures in 135 schools in 27 states to more than 35,000 carnivorous students (check out the ADAPTT Lecture Tour page of this website). ADAPTT also believes that civil disobedience and direct action—violent and nonviolent (check out the What’s Wrong With Violence? section of this site)—along with TV advertising, are the other effective ways to achieve animal liberation (check out Fur, Liberations, and the ALF). Lobbying, demonstrating, letter-writing, media interviews, and welfare concessions/campaigns are counterproductive and ineffective.
Please help free our planetary companions by reducing and eliminating cruelty from your life. Stop donating money to animal-researching charities like the March of Dimes and MDA. Instead, visit PCRM's Humane Seal of Approval for a list of charities that neither condone nor participate in animal-based research. Buy cruelty-free household and hygiene products. Visit this Web page of the National Anti-Vivisection Society for a list of companies that neither use animal-based ingredients nor test their products on animals.
Stop donating to ineffective, welfare-based animal rights corporations like PETA and HSUS. Only support grassroots animal groups like SASHA Farm Animal Sanctuary, New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, Mercy for Animals, and Animal Defense League—Los Angeles. (Be sure to see our Books and Websites page for other worthy organizations too.)
Condemn the bloodthirsty tradition of hunting. Curse the Ringling Bros. and Shriners next time they come to town. Throw out that fur-trimmed jacket and burn that full-length mink. Toss those leather shoes, belts and jackets. And, most importantly, go vegan and refuse to consume anything that once had a face, a mother or a bowel movement. Veganism is the only way to live in absolute peace with all of our planetary companions.
Don’t get caught up in apathy and inaction. You can make a difference to thousands and thousands of innocent animals. The following quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. should give you the strength to embrace animal liberation: "Cowardice asks the question, ’Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ’Is it polite?’ Vanity asks the question, ’Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ’Is it right?’ And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells him or her that it is right."