A door to the land of change
Ending animal exploitation and suffering through advocacy, awareness, and the arts.
Through film, art, poetry, and conversation, we invite people to see other animals anew — not as resources, but as individuals with lives, feelings, and a world of their own.
Arukah Animal International
See
differently
Film, poetry, and creative expression that invite us to see other animals in a new light.
Challenge
the system
Challenging animal exploitation and confronting the systems that treat animals as commodities.
imagine
change
Creating space for new perspectives, deeper understanding, and a more compassionate coexistence.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
With our focus on arts advocacy, the art of looking anew, our events feature luminaries from the animal-rights universe—artists, activists, scholars, authors, philosophers, even a legendary pig—to inspire behavioral and cultural changes toward a more compassionate coexistence in a multispecies universe.
Arukah Animal International’s events and films are an expression of art as resistance, to remove the veil of invisibility cloaking the mechanized, industrialized, systemic destruction against other animals seen as mere resources or products or commodities subjected to the appallingly cruel demands of profit. It is impossible not to imagine the terror and dread they experience every moment of their terrible lives.
The Door to the Land of Change means to live in freedom, the experiment or practice of freedom, to see all individual animals as sacred, valued, and dignified members of the planet we share—to want to be free, with the heart and mind open to the trauma of more-than-human-animal suffering. Activist art resists and challenges, advancing cultures, and political systems, and meaning.
BIG
NEWS
nueva pescanova abandons first octupus farm plans
Dr. Jane Goodall has said that “every species plays a role in the whole majestic mosaic of life.”
“…the animals which you slew and at your feasts, were also you.... Life is one in them all, and yours is but a portion of this same common life,” the old sage tells the King of Esarhaddon. Leo Tolstoy, “Esarhaddon, King of Assyria.”
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. …For the animal shall not be measured by man. …They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” Henry Beston, “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on The Great Beach of Cape Cod”
When the poet and nature writer Diane Ackerman was asked if she preferred whales to bats, she replied, “I prefer life.”
"Octopus" by Marie Loeb
