Hi everyone.
With the summer weather here things are also heating up with animal rights campaigns in Ottawa! There are various events coming up and it would be great to see as many people as possible to show up for these. There's power in numbers and the animals need our help. If you've never been to a demonstration before give it a try! You'll meet some amazing and compassionate people who share your ideals of a world without animal abuse. There are also experienced activists there willing to help you out and make you feel comfortable or answer any questions you might have. Demonstrations range from quiet outreach and tabling events to full on protests. By coming out you can figure out what you are comfortable with or maybe try a new form of activism. Every little bit helps. Billions of animals are tortured, imprisoned, and murdered everyday around the world. They need us to speak for them
FOIE GRAS
The campaign to make Ottawa foie gras free has been getting alot of attention, and with your emails and phone calls many restaurants are making the choice to take foie gras off their menu. 8 restaurants have officially contacted OADL to say foie gras is permanently off their menu. One restaurant has told us they are going to stop ordering it once they run out of their current supply. And our most recent research has shown that foie gras has been taken off many other restaurants menus, though we are currently verifying if this is permanent or just a seasonal change. An OADL spokesperson has been a guest on two radio call in shows in the past month and received a very positive response from the listening public. On both of these talk shows OADL shared the time with Charles Beauregard, the owner of Canvas Resto-Bar, and a man who refuses to stop serving foie gras despite growing opposition to the violent practice of force feeding ducks to the point of death. Your emails and phone calls have worked in the past. Please keep it up!! Even if you already have, take a moment to call and email Canvas and tell them why you will boycott them until foie gras is off their menu for good. Here is their contact information:
Canvas Resto-Bar
Phone# 613-729-1991
Email: charl...@canvasrestobar.ca jam...@canvasrestobar.ca
Join us for another educational demonstration outside Canvas tomorrow, Wednesday June 24 at 6:30pm at 65 Holland Avenue.
Be sure to join the OADL Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=49537648777 You will be sent updates on demos and other events.
PROCTOR AND GAMBLE TORTURES ANIMALS
An activist with OADL organised a demonstration in early June urging consumers to boycott all Proctor and Gamble products until they stop testing cosmetics and household products on animals. There is simply no excuse for a multi-billion dollar corporation like P&G to continue to conduct horrific animal testing when they are not required by law to do so. Proctor and Gamble makes hundreds of products such as Gilette, Oil of Olay, and Pringles. See a full list of P&G products to boycott by clicking on this link: http://www.pandgkills.com/boycott/index.html
We need to educate others about the torture Proctor and Gamble inflicts upon millions of animals. Please join us for a protest and media event on Friday, July 10 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm at the corner of Elgin and Rideau Street. Here is a Facebook events listing:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=88886388061
TEJAS ANIMAL REFUGE :
A note from an OADL member who recently visited an amazing animal sanctuary near Cornwall and how you can help them build a shelter for rescued chickens and other birds.
Guys, if you want an amazing experience just outside Ottawa, volunteer at (and PLEASE donate to) Tejas Animal Refuge, a sanctuary for scores of animals rescued from factory farms and other misery.
When you arrive at Tejas on a sunny Sunday afternoon, you're greeted by a beautiful menagerie of hens and roosters and pigs and cats, all curious about you, all needing you to volunteer for them and give them some bucks. You get out of your car, and Harry the Pig and Winston the Rooster and Emma the Hen and their buddies descend upon you, wanting you to pat them, scratch them, play with them, wanting you to show them that some humans are good.
And it's heartbreaking, too. The battery hens look like they've been through war, their bodies so battered and ravaged. The foie gras ducks ... their eyes are so very haunted ...
Their hero is Nicole, a 70-something lady living on her own, on a pension, who takes in these rescued hens, ducks, pigs, cows, horses, goats, dogs, cats, and more, all abused. AND SHE URGENTLY NEEDS A THOUSAND BUCKS TO BUILD A PROPER HOME FOR HER RESCUED CHICKENS AND OTHER BIRDS.
Check out www.tejasanimalrefuge.ca, and please give Nicole ten bucks, twenty bucks, a hundred bucks, through PayPal on her website.
It would be so heartbreaking to see these chickens go without a proper home ... a proper home just like you and I have ... after all the degradation and misery they've suffered....
Lennox
www.tejasanimalrefuge.ca
Thank you for all your help and we hope to see you at an event soon! If you ever have ideas or questions always feel free to send an email.
Ottawa Animal Defense League
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." ~Alice Walker
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