People For Animal Welfare

Perception and policy are barriers in the fight for animal rights. Miss Yeow Hui Qi, president of SMU People for Animal Welfare and a second-year accountancy student said, “We've seen big-scale fund-raising events for the less fortunate people. How about one for the animal shelters?”

Indeed, despite the improvement in the animal welfare movement in Singapore, we still have a long way to go before truly being a society that treats all beings equally. Animal welfare activists can help fuel the improvement, but the government has to play a strong supporting role as well.

Ghandi once said, You can judge a person's chartacter from the way he treats animals. How would you judge Singapore's character, then?

Read more from The Sunday Times (Jun 21) page 8