Welcome to the People for Animal Welfare website.

Go to the about page to learn more about us, or check out the weekly schedule. Get some more info on our "Hey Don't Eat That!" fundraiser as well as the Subversive Thought Award. If you have any comments or questions email Jeff.


It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
- Peter Singer, Practical Ethics


The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. … The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
- Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation


A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein, letter dated 1950


There are times, and these not infrequent, when tears come to my eyes when I see, or read, or hear of the wretched plight of animals in the hands of humans. Their pain, their suffering, their loneliness, their innocence, their death. Anger. Rage. Pity. Sorrow. Disgust. The whole creation groans under the weight of the evil we humans visit upon these mute, powerless creatures. It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call for an end to it all, that demand of us that we overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind their systematic oppression.
- Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

What's New

PAW presents:
A Night of Infamous Rock-n-Roll With the Soothing Sounds of … The Man-Faced Ox Progeny (featuring various professors from the Philosophy Department) and special guests: Catfish Whiskey @ Scooners!!! Wednesday, December 10th,  9:00 18 and up welcome, $5 cover All proceeds go to PAW!!!


Subversive Thought Award
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