Plans are underway across the USA for Gentle Thanksgiving events! We invite you to choose compassion this year and make a turkey thankful too. Meatout Mondays will begin focusing on delicious fall recipes to help with your holiday plans.

Help even more by giving FARM CFC fliers to your coworkers and placing them in your lunchroom. For more information, please visit us at http://www.farmusa.org/.

Click here to download a CFC flyer for your workplace

CHOICE is also pleased to announce that we are currently working with activists in New York and Florida to introduce Healthy School Lunch legislation in these two states. This legislation will request schools to provide veg options daily in schools. Chas Chiodo has offered to work with CHOICE to head up the effort in Florida, and Rosemary Benedict, of the Ful-Mont Veg Group in Johnstown, New York has offered to head up a similar effort in New York. Many activists, encouraged by the California success have come forward to assist these activists in both states. If you are interested to get involved, or head up a similar effort in your state, contact CHOICE by phoning 1-877-6CHOICE or emailing info@choiceusa.net.

CHOICE would like to welcome Barbara Gates of Project Healthy Beginnings to our team. Barbara, who spearheaded ACR 16, the Healthy School Lunch resolution, which passed through the California State Assembly last spring, will be working with CHOICE activists to introduce similar legislation across the county and support follow up efforts in California.

Are you a parent? If you are, you may enjoy sharing “The Beautiful and Yummy Garden” with your young children. Log on to www.choiceusa.net/BeautifulGarden.htm for an enjoyable story. Let your child join with Ricky and Randi as they learn new, fun-filled facts and experience the magic of delicious fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Our most recent letter on the National School Lunch Program, was published in 30 newspapers. Please use these talking points to generate a letter to the editor to your paper. Be sure to let us know if it is published!

Meatout Mondays is a weekly email sent to 2,500 subscribers who get veg recipes, inspiration and nutrition. This week, we featured Four Feet Foreward, a group in the Portland area that has launched a Choose Veg billboard and website campaign. We thought everyone would enjoy this great billboard! For more information, check out http://www.fourfeetforeward.org/ or www.chooseveg.org.

If you know of a group that will inspire Meatout Mondays subscribers, email kelcey@meatout.org

Another record set!! On this 20th anniversary observance of World Farm Animals Day, over 350 events took place on or around October 2nd in all 50 US states and 20 other countries.

A heartfelt thanks to event coordinators everywhere who joined together to expose, memorialize, and mitigate the tragic and unnecessary animal suffering in the world's factory farms & slaughterhouses.

Featured events of WFAD 2003 were cage-ins and video screenings. Working in collaboration with PETA’s campaign against fast food giant, Kentucky Fried Chicken, WFAD participants were also asked to choose local KFC outlets as the location for their demonstrations.

Stay tuned, as a detailed events report is forthcoming.

On April 1, 1999, FARM announced establishment of the Sabina Fund to fund grassroots projects promoting a plant-based diet and publicizing the devastating impacts of animal agriculture. The Fund honors the memory of FARM President Alex Hershaft's mother, Sabina, who passed away on February 14, 1996.

Sabina Fund projects must be innovative and reduce animal consumption in your community. The guidelines for applying are on the FARM website. The application Deadline is Dec. 15, 2003. Email sabina@farmusa.org if you have any questions.

Please consider making a tax deductible donation to FARM to support these campaigns. We couldn't do it without you and your compassion for the animals. Thank you for your support.