Mission: Bringing an end to animal exploitation and suffering
through advocacy, awareness, and the arts
Why privilege one species (humans) over all other animal species, when we all breathe and share the same earth?
We are in a pivotal moment with respect to species outside of our own, with an extraordinary opportunity to create a profound kinship with those whom our fates are tied, with whom we share a spirit of consciousness. Over the last three years, more than 30 countries have formally recognized other animals including gorillas, lobsters, crows, and octopuses as sentient beings. Aren’t they all sentient?
Arukah Animal International envisions a world where we don’t differentiate between all who live, all who breathe, where we transcend all borders, to be the equal of all living beings, in our astonishing variety and diversity, that we are in fact all a part of a natural evolution of life forms. We are in fact not a thing apart.
Arukah Animal International sees more-than-human animals as creators of their own lives, as subjects, to thrive, to live, in all their richness and complexity, their individual and insistently singular and purposeful selves in all their marvel, flooding us with wonder.
Arukah Animal International
Envisions an ebullient radical empathy, a resistance to the old ways of hierarchical thinking where humans take center stage. Rather, we believe in the inviolable sanctity, the dignity, and the dazzling essentialness of more-than-human animals.
We recognize that their time on earth is meaningful, and they love their lives as we do ours.
It was a dream conversation about more-than-human animals from wide-ranging perspectives and on a variety of topics—from California’s Prop 12 to pluralism to using art, literature, poetry, and music for inspiration to falling in love with a pig to seeing animals as individuals—an exhilarating flow of ideas and capaciousness in thought, indelible, rare, and magical. Incandescent stories told. The celebrated Esther the Wonder Pig was even there! Our other esteemed guests included Marc Bekoff, Jeff Sebo, Dana Ellyn, Annie Potts, Steve Jenkins, and Claudia Hirtenfelder. To watch the entire event, click here
Arukah means Healing, Restoring, and Repairing
