Please help by sharing the words of Miss Raymonde-Hawkins, founder of Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, so that those now in charge of the sanctuary can't continue to ignore her.

In the seventh of these excerpts from her books she makes clear that someone who looks the other way when animals are being cruelly treated is as guilty as the perpetrators.  Would you breed and slaughter animals at your sanctuary Raystede?  No?  Then why are you paying for someone else to do it?

“We must be less cautious, we must forge ahead with less timidity and decide that all cruelty is wrong and that all cruelty should be punished and eliminated. Although we know that human beings will go on being greedy and go on being selfish, there should at least be the full use of legislation which can punish them when their greed causes suffering and cruelty to any animal. It is their inability to express themselves in words, that creates the impelling urge to speak and act for them. To watch a lame horse worked and to say nothing is almost as great a crime as that caused by the rider.”
from Sensible Pets and Silly People [1990], page 184, by Miss M Raymonde-Hawkins MBE.

As always, thank you all so much for continuing to share these messages on social media and with Raystede directly.

For the animals.

Ed.