The Animal Legal Defense Fund is celebrating their annual Justice For Animals Week by asking people to partake in a new, specific action for animals every day this week.

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For the first day, they’re asking people to help spread the word by telling friends on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere to visit their site to partake in the next six actions. But most importantly, the organization says they hope to add 10,000 signatures to the Animal Bill of Rights during this week alone.

The petition to enact the bill of rights already has over 257,000 supporters. It doesn’t ask for much — only the basic rights that every living being should have:

The Right of animals to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse. The Right of laboratory animals not to be used in cruel or unnecessary experiments. The Right of farm animals to an environment that satisfies their basic physical and psychological needs. The Right of companion animals to a healthy diet, protective shelter, and adequate medical care. The Right of wildlife to a natural habitat, ecologically sufficient to a normal existence and self-sustaining species population.

The Right of animals to have their interests represented in court and safeguarded by the law of the land.

The organization has chosen a mascot for the week — a cat named Adam who was horribly burned by two teenage girls when he was only eight weeks old. Learn more about his story in this video:

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