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1. World Farm Animals Day Gains Strength
2. Sabina Fund Awards 25 Grassroots Grants
3. CHOICE Program Takes On California and Florida
4. FARM Engages Environment, Nutrition Groups

World Farm Animals Day Gains Strength

On World Farm Animals Day, October 2, thousands of caring folks like you, are planning educational events in all 50 states and two dozen other countries. These include tabling, exhibits, leafleting, picketing, street theater, vigils, marches, and memorials. The date honors the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a champion of humane farming. First observance was held in 1983; the last will celebrate the end of factory farming.

Here’s what we’re doing at the FARM national headquarters:
] We are sending news releases and letters to 3,000 national & local media
] We are sending mailings to 2,200 potential local event coordinators
] We are printing display banners, posters, and handouts for these events
] We are working with local activists to obtain state and city proclamations
] We are working with In Defense of Animals to put up billboards
] We are working with PETA to distribute hundreds of slaughterhouse videos
] We are working with Vegan Outreach to distribute Why Vegan brochures

Make sure that your community is represented in this important global observance.

World Farm Animals Day is the one day a year when caring people around the world expose and memorialize the needless suffering of 50 billion animals raised for food who account for 98% of all animal suffering.

Please visit WFAD.org for guidance, examples of past events, a free action kit, and to register your event, even if your plans are still incomplete.

Sabina Fund Awards 25 Grassroots Grants

This year, FARM's Sabina Fund distributed more than $20,000 to two dozen grassroots groups for promoting vegan eating in seven countries: Germany, India, Israel, Kenya, Poland, Uganda, and U.S.

The projects include raising public awareness through lectures, cooking demonstrations, video screenings, radio programs, marches, feeding the homeless, and documenting violations of animal welfare regulations.

The Sabina Fund was launched in 1999 to honor FARM President Alex Hershaft 's mother who had passed away three years earlier.

Please visit www.SabinaFund.org for a complete list of past grantees, sample photos, and current application guidelines.

CHOICE Program Takes On California, Florida

FARM’s CHOICE program has made a number of important strides to promote a choice of vegan meals in our nation’s schools.

1. The CHOICEUSA.net website contains new guidance for parents and students who wish to introduce vegan meals in their schools.
2. Vegan champion body builder Kenneth Williams has joined the program to conduct school fitness presentations that include weight lifting demonstrations and taste testing of vegan foods.
3. Nora Kramer has signed on as Coordinator of our California
Campaign that focuses on recruiting parents and others who wish to introduce vegan meals in their schools.
4. Erin Routzahn is heading up our Florida Campaign that is collecting signatures to help enact a state resolution similar to those passed in Hawaii, California, and New York.
5. A Student brochure is now available and a Food Service brochure should be available shortly.

More good news:

1. San Francisco public schools are developing new vegan entrées. A vegan chili, will be available to students K-8 this year.
2. A number of other California school districts are following suit.
3. The Vermont Department of Education is training school food services to prepare vegan lunch entrees.
4. Parents and medical and food service professionals in Milford (OH) are working together to increase vegan entrées in their schools.
5. Similar efforts are under way in Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina.

Please visit www.CHOICEUSA.net for general guidance and specific instructions. Contact info@choiceusa.net or 877-6CHOICE to volunteer for this important effort in your school.

FARM Engages Environment, Nutrition Groups

In an effort to reach out to the health and environmental movements, FARM will be tabling at the Green Fest in Washington on September 24-25 and in San Francisco on November 5-6, as well as at the Washington Natural Products Expo on October 16-18. Thousands of visitors are expected at each site.

You can help us reach out to your friends and associates by subscribing them and/or by distributing our colorful Meatout Mondays cards