People for Animals (PFA) campaigns for animal rights. It spearheads a popular movement for respecting all life on this earth and it is a small but crucial part of India's growing environmental awareness. PFA started in 1994 by Smt. Maneka Gandhi in Mumbai. PFA, Bhubaneswar started in 1998 by Jiban B. Das under the advice of Smt. Maneka Gandhi to extend the services to the animals in distress in Orissa.

Ahimsa may be central to our world view. Yet millions of animals are battered, blinded, force-fed steroids, dissected, mutilated and eventually killed every year, often for no reasons at all. Many more are condemned to a lifetime of backbreaking slavery and then, in their old age, sent off to slaughter or thrown out on the street. Millions are killed in legal and illegal abattoirs or hunted down as easy game. Superstition and religious rituals take an easily large number of lives. Laws framed to protect animals against cruelty are openly flouted.

People for Animals believe that things can change. But they can only change when people from all communities, all faiths come together on a popular platform to try and overhaul attitudes, laws, lifestyles. The media must also be persuaded to see the direct nexus between animal's rights and public health. This is the purpose behind People for Animals. Since animals cannot speak for themselves or fight back, they have only one ally. People who are sensitive to their plight.

How could you help ?

You can change the way animals are treated by making your protest heard. You can stop eating meat, to start with. If you knew how unhealthy dead meat is, it would be an easy decision to take. You can stop using animal products and choose better, more environment friendly, healthy alternatives.

In the process, you will reduce the violence in our lives and create a healthier, more humane society for your children. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. People worldwide are doing this. Why should you be?

Join the Movement for a more humane world and campaign against cruelty towards all of those who share the earth with us.