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February 27, 2004

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AR2004 Early Registration Rate Ends Mar 1
Last Call for Meatout 2004 Registration
Meatout Mondays Gains New Website
CHOICE Urges CA & NY Veg School Options Congratulations to Sabina Award Recipients

AR 2004 Conference Update

Early registration rate for the Animal Rights 2004 national conference ends on Monday, March 1. Please visit http://www.mailermailer.com/rd?http://www.ar2004.org and don't be left out of this special election year event.

The conference will be held on July 8-12 at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Vienna, VA, just outside the Washington Beltway. This facility is larger than our previous ones and offers reduced room rates and more amenities, including free dog beds. A thousand participants are expected.

Sixty speakers representing fifty organizations have already signed on. They include Steve Best, Lawrence Carter Long, Karen Davis, Karen Dawn, Caryn Ginsberg, Michael Greger, Alex Hershaft, Steve Hindi, Elliot Katz, Howard Lyman, Anthony Marr, Jim Mason, lauren Ornelas, Dan Piraro, Norm Phelps, Heidi Prescott, Sherry Schlueter, Paul Shapiro, Paul Watson, and Zoe Weil.

The program structure will be similar to those of past years, but more punchy, allowing more time for socializing and networking. The program will begin with the opening reception and plenary on Thursday evening and close with the Sunday evening banquet. A number of post-conference activities including lobbying, demonstrations, seminars, and special interest meetings are planned by several groups for Monday, July 12.

For more details, please visit http://www.mailermailer.com/rd?http://www.ar2004.org.

Be there for the animals and bring a friend!

Bring Meatout 2004 to Your Community

Join thousands of caring people in all 50 states and around the world by hosting a Meatout event in your area. Meatout provides a special opportunity to get your friends, neighbors, and co-workers to save thousands of animals, without engaging in awkward arguments.

No, it's not too late to get started. Three people can arrange a cooking demonstration in a community hall or church in three days. Two people can set up an information table in a high-traffic area in two days. One person can put up a library exhibit in one day. Anyone can pick up some veggie hot dogs or lunch "meats" at the local supermarket on the way to work and put up them up in the lunch room with a Meatout poster and literature.

Please visit http://www.mailermailer.com/rd?http://www.meatout.org to register your event, even if your plans are not yet finalized. This will enable us to send you posters, banners, and handouts and to post your event on the meatout website for local media and activists.

Don't let the animals down on this special day!

Sign Up Your Friends for Meatout Mondays

Why just send a greeting card, when you can sign up your friends to receive Meatout Mondays, a colorful weekly e-mail containing veg recipes, new dietary developments and products, and an inspirational message. If you provide a mailing address, we will also send a free Vegetarian Starter Kit to help them kick the meat habit!

CHOICE Promotes Vegan School Lunches in CA and NY

IIn the past few months, our CHOICE (Consumers for Healthy Options In Children's Education) has witnessed some remarkable breakthroughs.

Last year, the California Legislature enacted a resolution recommending that that schools offer a daily vegetarian option to each child. Shortly thereafter, the huge Los Angeles Unified School District made this mandatory. The CHOICE team, working with In Defense of Animals, is now helping other California school districts achieve similar breakthroughs.

The CHOICE Team is working with the Animal Welfare Trust to enact a similar legislative resolution in the State of New York.

To get involved, visit http://www.mailermailer.com/rd?http://www.choiceusa.net or contact Susan at info@choiceusa.net or 877-6CHOICE

Congratulations Sabina Recipients

Congratulations to last year's 70+ grassroots recipients of Sabina Fund Awards. They included Animal Friends, Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animals' Angels, Anonymous for Animal Rights, Aquarius Association, CAAT, Chelma Advisory Institute, Compassion Over Killing, Eco-Animal Allies, Empatia, Empathy Project, Fauna Society, Four Feet Forward, Mercy for Animals, Namukong Development Group, Nigerian Vegetarian Society, Northwest Animal Rights Network, Protecting Animals - USA, Siteo Vegetariano, Society for Animals, Sunrise Education Trust, Veg Video, Vega! POL, Yes Future!, and a dozen Indian coalitions encompassing 50 local groups.

FARM's Sabina Fund provides grassroots grants for promoting plant-based eating and exposing the devastating impacts of animal agriculture. The Fund honors President Alex Hershaft's mother Sabina who died in 1996.

Sabina Fund projects must be innovative and reduce animal consumption in your community. Click here for detailed application guidelines. The next application deadline is July 15, 2004.

Thank you for your generous support in 2003! Let's do more in 2004!

Tell a Friend about FARM

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FARM (Farm Animal Reform Movement) is a national, tax-exempt, public interest organization advocating a plant-based diet and humane treatment of farmed animals through eight national grassroots programs.

You can reach us at 10101 Ashburton Lane Bethesda, MD 20817; info@farmusa.org
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