Just a quick memo to all of you getting ready to head back to school.
A great venue for leafleting is on your high school or college campus. On a big college campus there are almost always hundreds of kids wandering about, their minds clogged with calculus and Spanish lessons, who might welcome some literature that they actually wonʻt be tested on.
If any of you feel that you could spend just 15 minutes of your time--seriously, thatʻs all it takes, the leaflets practically disappear from your hands--please consider adopting a college, and it doesnʻt even have to be your own! If you feel funny leafleting with friends around, just head on over to a local college campus and try your hand at distributing great little booklets depicting the horrors of animal agriculture.
To order free literature for distribution, visit Vegan Outreach.
Tip: A good way to approach people when leafleting is to say, ʻInformation about animal abuse?ʻ.
Thanks for all you do to help the creatures of this world, both human and non.
Have a compassionate day!
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Why Wool is Bad News
Many times when people think about veganism, they only think about food. True vegans do not use animal products of any kind, and thus leather, wool, fur, silk, and down are all out. Sheep are often factory farmed for their wool coats. Here is an excerpt from PETA's website:
What’s Wrong With Wool?
Shearing sheep involves more than just a haircut. Sheep need the wool that they naturally produce to protect themselves from temperature extremes.
Because shearers are usually paid by volume rather than by the hour, they often work too fast and disregard the animals’ welfare. Sheep are routinely punched, kicked, and cut during the shearing process.
Much of the world’s wool comes from Australia and New Zealand, where almost 140 million sheep each year undergo a gruesome procedure called mulesing, in which shears are used to slice dinner-plate-sized chunks of skin off the backsides of live animals without anesthetics.
Millions of sheep raised for wool in Australia and New Zealand are shipped to the Middle East for slaughter. These animals are placed on overcrowded, disease-ridden ships with little access to food or water for weeks or even months. During their grueling journeys, they suffer through weather extremes, and temperatures on the ships can exceed 100°F. Many fall ill when they become stuck in feces and are unable to move, and many others are smothered or trampled to death by other sheep.
Intensive sheep farming, especially in Australia, is responsible for the degradation of natural waterways and land habitats and for the emission of greenhouse gases, such as methane, into the atmosphere.
When you buy wool products, it is likely that you are buying wool from sheep who were raised in Australia or New Zealand, and since most wool is routed through China or Italy for processing, product labeling rarely indicates where the wool originated.
Visit SaveTheSheep.com for more information on the wool industry.
And please, take the pledge to 'Go Faux for Fall', avoiding all fashion that does not show compassion.
What’s Wrong With Wool?
Shearing sheep involves more than just a haircut. Sheep need the wool that they naturally produce to protect themselves from temperature extremes.
Because shearers are usually paid by volume rather than by the hour, they often work too fast and disregard the animals’ welfare. Sheep are routinely punched, kicked, and cut during the shearing process.
Much of the world’s wool comes from Australia and New Zealand, where almost 140 million sheep each year undergo a gruesome procedure called mulesing, in which shears are used to slice dinner-plate-sized chunks of skin off the backsides of live animals without anesthetics.
Millions of sheep raised for wool in Australia and New Zealand are shipped to the Middle East for slaughter. These animals are placed on overcrowded, disease-ridden ships with little access to food or water for weeks or even months. During their grueling journeys, they suffer through weather extremes, and temperatures on the ships can exceed 100°F. Many fall ill when they become stuck in feces and are unable to move, and many others are smothered or trampled to death by other sheep.
Intensive sheep farming, especially in Australia, is responsible for the degradation of natural waterways and land habitats and for the emission of greenhouse gases, such as methane, into the atmosphere.
When you buy wool products, it is likely that you are buying wool from sheep who were raised in Australia or New Zealand, and since most wool is routed through China or Italy for processing, product labeling rarely indicates where the wool originated.
Visit SaveTheSheep.com for more information on the wool industry.
And please, take the pledge to 'Go Faux for Fall', avoiding all fashion that does not show compassion.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Be a 'Caring Consumer'
'An animal dies in a government-mandated toxicity test every two seconds in this country. There is a way to stop this, and you can help.'
Make sure you are buying products that are NOT tested on animals. Check out specific companies at CaringConsumer.com.
And please TAKE ACTION to stop animal testing!!
Thanks for all that you do to alleviate animal suffering, and have a compassionate day!
--Sarah
Make sure you are buying products that are NOT tested on animals. Check out specific companies at CaringConsumer.com.
And please TAKE ACTION to stop animal testing!!
Thanks for all that you do to alleviate animal suffering, and have a compassionate day!
--Sarah
Friday, August 3, 2007
Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating
Hey if anyone out there reading this is not yet vegan, go to Vegan Outreach and request the pamphlet 'Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating'. It's a great myth-debunker, recipe source, and nutrition advisor. After looking through this booklet, you'll realize that there is really no ethical reason to eat meat.
And while you're at it, try order several of Vegan Outreach's other leaflets and do some leafleting in your neighborhood!
And while you're at it, try order several of Vegan Outreach's other leaflets and do some leafleting in your neighborhood!
Leafleting
As many of you probably know, Vegan Outreach provides several colorful and VERY informative leaflets that you can order for free or with a small donation to VO. Great venues to pass out leaflets are county fairs, concerts, festivals, sporting events, etc. -- pretty much any high-traffic event. Sign up for VO's newsletter to get weekly activism updates!
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