Saving Our Planet - One Bite at a Time -- October 2005
Table of Contents
- Gentle Thanksgiving Registration Open
- World Farm Animals Day Observed Abroad
- FARM Conducts Slaughterhouse Vigil
- FARM Reaches Out to Other Movements
- FARM Launches Vegetarian Kit Website
Gentle Thanksgiving Registration Open
Registration of public vegetarian Thanksgiving observances is now open at GentleThanksgiving.org. Last year, the website listed 90 events in 27 states, and, with your help, we hope to improve on that record.
Other items available on this website include:
j Guidance for event organizers
j Thanksgiving recipes
j Listing of events by state
j News releases
Here's what else we are planning:
j A mailing to our grassroots coordinators to promote public events
j A contest to promote college events
j Printing of colorful postcards citing reasons for a Gentle Thanksgiving
j Solicitation of mock turkeys from manufacturers for the media
j A media blitz listing all public events and inviting interviews
Please visit GentleThanksgiving.org for guidance and to register an event. Contact Jen at 800-MEATOUT to request free TG postcards.
This year's World Farm Animals Day on October 2 (Gandhi’s birthday) was observed in 20 countries, in addition to all 50 states.
Our Canadian neighbors held a dozen events, including a massive vegetarian fair in Toronto as well as a march, information tables, and vegetarian lunch in Hamilton.
The United Kingdom hosted nearly 50 events. Croatian activists arranged vegan food sampling, awareness games for children, and a concert. A German group reported animal transport violations.
The Israelis conducted a large march in Tel Aviv with coffins and signs reading ‘meat is murder.’ They followed with a ‘die-in’ and a McDonald’s vigil.
Nigeria focused on hunger relief, with feeding programs, videos, and concert. Seven groups conducted educational events in Uganda. Dozens of Indian groups held school contests, lectures, marches, bicycle rallies in a hundred villages. Other countries involved were Australia, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Tanzania.
Visit the WFAD website for a report and listing of WFAD events.
FARM Conducts Slaughterhouse Vigil
A dozen activists held an all-night vigil at Virginia’s Smithfield Packing slaughter-house that slaughters 18,000 pigs a day. Huge trucks filled with hundreds of terrified screaming pigs kept pulling up and unloading at the two facilities across the street from one another. One activist noted that the vigil really brought home what she had been fighting for.
In the morning, FARM President Alex Hershaft was arrested for blocking one of the trucks from entering the plant. He was released on his own recognizance and paid a small fine at a trial later that week. Hershaft recalled that he had committed a similar act of civil disobedience at the same plant 18 years earlier, when such actions were much more common.
FARM Reaches Out to Other Movements
In addition to our massive grassroots campaigns, we seldom miss an opportunity to bring a personal vegan message to other movements. In the past year, we had information tables at peace rallies, the DC and San Francisco GreenFests, the DC and Anaheim Natural Products Expos, university job fairs, health fairs, and of course, vegetarian conferences and festivals.
FARM Launches Vegetarian Kit Website
We have launched a new website designed to help you sign up your family and friends for a free Vegetarian Starter Kit and Meatout Mondays.
Meatout Mondays is a free colorful electronic newsletter that each week brings a new recipe, product review, health news, and an inspirational story. The Starter Kit is a one-time mailing that contains a 24-page Vegetarian Starter Guide and assorted other materials.
Please visit VegKit.org and sign up your family and friends
FARM Heroes
This space recognizes the people who ensure FARM's survival and effectiveness.
Andrea Carvalho is a Brazilian animal activist who has been interning with FARM for the past five months. She was trained as an electrical engineer and currently lives in Manhattan.
Doll Stanley runs the In Defense of Animals Project Hope Sanctuary in Mississippi, and is a major supporter of FARM. She was heavily involved in animal rescue in the wake of Katrina and Rita.
FARM is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) public interest organization that advocates vegan eating and humane treatment of farmed animals. To learn more about our national programs, visit us on the web.
FARM is supported by donations from caring folks like you. Because our staffers get reduced or no compensation, our overhead is below 5%, and your donations go directly to support our programs.
You can also help FARM through your workplace payroll deduction plan.
CFC # 1805
Please sign up your friends to keep them abreast of our work.
Caring Gifts
For t-shirts, books, and other fun stuff, check out our gifts page.
FARM mouse pad
"Animal Rights Now!"
awareness bracelets in pink and burgundy.
Each item $2 ;
$5/3
