Students Toward Animal Rights in Tennessee (START) aim to raise awareness about animal maltreatment and slaughter. We also aim to take action at the University of Tennessee and in the community.

nonviolence (in Sanskrit ahimsa) in thought word and deed (we speak what we must learn), reduction of media violence, peace, amnesty, armistice, videos, movies, radio shows, music, diet vegan vegetarian fruitarian talking journaling alcohol abstention Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step Arun Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Federal Trade Commission, no killing or serial killing, abolition of the death penalty, animal rights, transference, Green Party, Libertarian Party, Reform ...(more)

Five_State_Rescue (Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina) alliance - to be used by rescuers, rescue groups, fosters, transporters, and shelters. The goal of Five State Rescue group is to connect and unite rescue workers of the five states into a regional cooperative network, with membership restricted to those who primarily do most of their rescue efforts in those states. Some exceptions are being made, allowing persons residing outside the 5 states to join - primarily ...(more)