JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum Help the animals In Japan!!!!!!!!so sad

I agree with Marc 100%. I have traveled across Europe expecting a wave of awesome stories of great and better medical care. I found 1 single story of positive news of a man whose wife was saved from breast cancer in Scotland. BUT.... he was a politician at the time. Hmmmm.. What a surprise. 100% of everyone else fell into one of two categories: Young and healthy with no real health problems who were fine with it and Everyone else who ever had a problem or had a family member with a serious problem who had sad stories to tell. That was true across all of Europe (we visited 18 countries, which is a fair cross section to get a consistent idea). I got the same complaints in Canada. In Europe, most people told me they bought their own EXTRA insurance for anything serious which cost a LOT of money, especially where yearly incomes were far less than in the USA.

I'd also like to say that although it's always nice to have a cause and help, there are people in your own home town who need help and I'd put 1 human life over a million animal lives without blinking. Before you are outraged by that comment, would you sacrifice your life or that of your child or parent to save a million cats? I sure wouldn't. Everyone is someone's child and/or parent.

Animala, by the way, are excellent are surviving in places humans could never make it, including disaster areas. I fear far more for Sudanese children still being murdered and starved in refugee camps than all the dogs and cats in the world. And that's but 1 place much more desperate than Japan.

Just a different perspective I think. Some of us value humans more and some value animal more. To each their own as long as it is their money (and not OUR money from the government), they can send it where they want or burn it for all I care.

Brian