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A lot can happen in 48 hours—including the slaughter of approximately 50 million animals (not including fish and other sea animals) for food in the United States alone. While ag-gag laws are indeed bad for all the reasons that people have pointed out, including that it often takes much longer than 48 hours to document a pattern of law-breaking, it is simply not true that without these videos we will be completely blind to the violence in animal agriculture, much of which is perfectly legal—unless we’re talking about willful blindness to the fact that, even if those pigs had not been punched, those turkeys not been beaten, and those cows been able to walk to slaughter, all of these animals would still have had their throats slit. Whistleblower attorney Gordon Schnell put this point well, if unintentionally: “Afterall [sic],” hewrote, “we cannot rely on the animals to tell us when farmers behave badly. …Until we can talk to the animals, the furtive photo or videotape is the best we can do…”
But what about when farmers aren’t misbehaving? What about when they are just doing their job of killing animals for us to eat? If we could talk to the animals, would they ask only that we not beat them or keep them intensively confined, that we not let them enter our food supply if they have gotten too sick awaiting their slaughter to walk to it? Or would they beg us not to slaughter them at all, plead with us to eat plants and leave them alone to live out their lives? Undercover videos are extremely important to trigger the emotions that might allow these very rational concerns to resonate. When we watch those videos, however, we should not let revulsion at particular acts of cruelty blind us to an entire system that is violent at its core, one in which we can’t help but participate when we eat animals. If we have no better explanation for why we eat some animals but not others—“[F]ine we eat cows and everything, but horse meat? No.”—perhaps we shouldn’t be eating animals at all.
Information from the Food Empowerment Project about their new app that shows you which chocolates are both vegan and not a product of child slavery.
Mother’s Day / Anti-Dairy Leafleting - Volunteers Needed!
Mother’s Day is May 12th and provides a great opportunity to educate people about how mother cows used for dairy production are impregnated on what the industry itself refers to as “rape racks” and have their babies stolen and sold to be slaughtered for veal.
Action for Animals has a new flyer titled “Milk Comes from Grieving Mothers.”
Can you pass out 100, 200, 300, or more of these new flyers on or before Mother’s Day?
If so, email us at info@afa-online.org with your first and last name and mailing address (don’t forget apt # if applicable), and we will send you a pack of flyers (USA only, please)!
Please let us know how many you would like (options: 100, 200, 300*) and how you plan to distribute the flyers.
*If you would like more than 300, we can send them; just let us know your plans for distribution and how many you would like.
Good places to leaflet include: Mother’s Day events (5k & 10K runs, walks, half-marathons, etc. - at the finish line), colleges, downtown shopping areas, events, fairs, festivals, art walks, craft shows, concerts, church, grocery stores, subway or train stations, the beach, parks or walking trails, or any place with lots of people!
Thank you for taking action for mothers and their babies!
Today Action for Animals is having a protest at the headquarters of SNBL USA, a contract animal research facility. Each year, SNBL tests on thousands of animals—dogs, rabbits, mice, primates, and others—who are subjected to violent and careless treatment, including hundreds of violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and an incident in which a monkey was boiled alive.
Please help us make this protest more powerful and join us in speaking out for all the animals who are tortured and killed by SNBL by calling them NOW and demanding that they stop testing on animals!
Protest at SNBL USA Headquarters for World Week for Animals In Labs!
When: Friday, April 26, 3:30 - 5:30pm
Where: SNBL USA Headquarters at 6605 Merrill Creek Parkway, Everett WA
Join Action for Animals during World Week for Animals In Labs for a protest at the headquarters of SNBL USA, a contract animal research facility. Each year, SNBL tests on thousands of animals—dogs, rabbits, mice, primates, and others—who are subjected to violent and careless treatment, including hundreds of violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and an incident in which a monkey was boiled alive.
Signs and flyers will be provided; all you have to do is show up!
Please also contact SNBL! Let SNBL know that torturing animals does not go unnoticed and people are demanding an end to animal testing. Tell them to explore alternatives because vivisection is scientifically outdated and morally unacceptable.
SNBL USA, Ltd. – Headquarters
6605 Merrill Creek Parkway
Everett, WA 98203
Tel: 425.407.0121
Fax: 425.407.8601
Email: info@snblusa.com
The label of “research” does not excuse or mitigate torture. Take a stand against animal cruelty and exploitation. The animals inside of labs are fighting for their lives—they are crying and trembling, screaming and dying. Make sure that their fight is heard and demand an end to vivisection.
How Dairy Hurts — and Kills — Cows
On most dairy farms, cows live in concrete stalls or filthy sheds and are milked by machines three times a day. Like humans, cows must have a baby to produce milk, so they are repeatedly impregnated on a “rape rack.” after only 4 to 6 years of their natural 20 year lifespan, they are worn out and sent to slaughter. Some are so sick they cannot even walk. Consuming dairy products —even organic—supports the veal industry. Without a supply of calves from dairy farms, most veal farms would not exist. The calves are taken from their mothers just days after birth so their milk can be sold to people. Mother cows often cry for days for their missing baby. On veal farms, the calves are chained by the neck in crates. when the calves are just 12 to 16 weeks old, they are slaughtered.
Can you pass out flyers for Earth Day?
Earth Day Leafleting — Volunteers Needed!
Earth Day is April 22nd and provides the perfect opportunity to remind people that one of the best ways to help the planet is to stop consuming animal products!
Can you pass out 100, 200, or even 300 “Go Green, Go Vegan” flyers in the next few weeks?
If so, email us at info@afa-online.org with your first and last name and mailing address (don’t forget apt # if applicable), and we will send you a pack of flyers (USA only, please)!
Please let us know how many you would like (options: 100, 200, 300) and how you plan to distribute the flyers.
If you want some flyers but can’t pass out at least 100, or you live outside the USA, please print them out yourself from the PDF here.
Good places to leaflet include: Earth Day events, colleges, downtown shopping areas, events, fairs, festivals, art walks, craft shows, concerts, church, grocery stores, subway or train stations, or any place with lots of people!
Thank you for taking action for animals and the planet!
