Hello, my name is Walter Bond and I am a prisoner in the clandestine struggle for Animal Liberation.  I will only take up a couple moments of your time today.  It’s great that concern for Animals’ rights and welfare are finally beginning to take root and that veganism is flourishing in all parts of the developed world.

Today will no doubt be a great day for you to network with others and hopefully learn a great deal about the plight of Animals in farming, food production, entertainment, vivisection and what laughingly passes as scientific research.

You will most likely hear from a variety of hosts, organizers, speakers and book authors.  And I hope that whatever your experience is today, that it is lasting and it motivates you to help the Animals… not only to “feel their pain,” form “spiritual connections” or simply pander to people in their name, but actually to help stop their oppressions and save their lives. 

And I hope that you remember these words a week from now, a month from now and a year from now.  The words I want you to remember are:  “Animals matter.”

Animals matter, without qualification and long-winded philosophical debate.  Animals matter, whether they are cute and cuddly or angry and dangerous.  Animals matter, whether they are near or far, wild or domesticated, seen or unseen.  Animal lives matter because life is connected and life’s ultimate importance is in that connection.

There are no heroes of Animal Liberation. Simply, there are those active in the hard work, on many different levels, and utilizing many different tactics to save Animal lives. And there is the apathetic whose sphere of moral concern ends with their family, loved ones, or own species.

When we look at the terrible injustices that the Animal Kingdoms now face under the heel of human civilization and compare it to how well these same critters thrived before our meddling, it’s obvious that we who profess to be their protectors and friends owe them an enormous debt on behalf of the billions of our kind that do not care or support their tortures with their consumerism.

Animals matter, and so does the struggle for Animal Liberation. 

May every paw touch the Earth, every wing soar in the Air and every whisker wiggle with new found Freedom!

Walter Bond

A.L.F.  P.O.W.

Walter Bond is in prison until the year 2021 and cannot use Facebook or the internet.  The website supportwalter.org and the Walter Bond Facebook page were set up to support him.

Walter Bond is in need of donations to enable him to buy vegan items from the prison commissary.  For more info on sending funds to him in prison, please visit this page on the support site: https://supportwalter.org/SW/index.php/donate/  

Here is his mailing address (he can only reply to letters that include a full name and address):

Walter Bond

37096-013

USP Marion CMU

PO Box 1000

Marion IL 62959