About S.M.A.R.T. - Southeastern Michigan Animal Rights Team

After reading about SMART, please scroll down and view our monthly spotlight video~

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S.M.A.R.T. is an assemblage of diverse individuals who share similar beliefs. We feel that animals have been mistreated and enslaved long enough, and it's long past time for things to greatly improve. We believe that animals are worthy of more than just the 'essentials,' like food and shelter?. that they also deserve absolute kindness and compassion, and perhaps most of all, love and protection.

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S.M.A.R.T. meets often at various locations for events, and we try to have a 'sit-down' meeting once every few months. The next meeting could be at a cafe in Detroit, a park in Royal Oak, or a coffee shop in Berkley. Meetings are invaluable for us to get together, share ideas, discuss upcoming events, and simply BE with others who appreciate and respect animals as much as we do.
We also have demos, protests, tabling events, etc. on a regular basis. Events have taken place from Rochester to Chelsea, Detroit to Novi, and nearly everywhere in between. We especially need help with those!


Our goal is to educate.
We believe that peacefully informing the public of the atrocities animals face is of the utmost importance. With more thorough a knowledge of the horrible things that take place in animals' lives, comes less tolerance for those horrible things and more action against them.


We believe laws must be enacted and enforced to prevent the suffering of animals, and we are just as strongly against the needless misery of a dog who lives his life on a chain in a backyard as we are against the tearing of fur from a beautiful, wild animal, only to wear it as one's 'coat.'

If these sound like your opinions and goals as well, please consider joining! We've done away with membership dues and now ask only for PARTICIPATION. We need ACTIVISTS, not inactive members. We ask that members participate in at least one event every three months. With several events from which to choose, finding one that suits you (in activity and location) should not be a problem.

If you are unable to attend any S.M.A.R.T. events, we ask that you get out and do something on your own for animals and let us know about it; consider leafleting outside your local grocery about the benefits of a compassionate diet, hand out literature at an animal-unfriendly event taking place in your town, start a letter writing campaign- the possibilities are endless. Just do something on behalf of animals.

Please read our 'Frequently Asked Questions' page for more information, and consider joining the group. The animals need your voice!

Thank you for your time and consideration,

~kelli
Founder, S.M.A.R.T.
Email: Info@GoSmart.org

July Spotlight: Nutrition through Veganism

Among other things, this video challenges what we've learned about where we get the most nutrients, at what cost, and brings up some great questions about where we learn about what's 'good' for us.




The links mentioned at the end of the video:

Calcium: http://www.vrg.org/nu...
Iron: http://www.vrg.org/nu...
Zinc: http://www.vegsoc.org...
B12: http://www.vrg.org/nu...

Enjoy!