Fundraisers for Animals/Fur Season/Movies!/Foie Gras Campaign on Hiatus

[Ottawa Animal Defense League]

 
FARM SANCTUARY WALK FOR ANIMALS 2009: September 26th
Register Today!

 
For more than two decades, Farm Sanctuary's annual Walk For Animals has helped spread the word about the treatment of animals on factory farms and raised vital funds for their rescue, education, and advocacy work. To learn more about Farm Sanctuary, their sanctuaries in New York and California, and the work they do please visit their website: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/
 
Ottawa has signed up a team for the Walk this year and we need your help to raise as much money as we can!! Please register before tomorrow, September 5th, to ensure you get a t-shirt. They were designed by Josh of Herbivore and are great. Here's a photo:
 
 
Register here:  http://www.firstgiving.com/farmsanctuary
If you need a hand signing up either email us or ottawa@walkforfarmanimals.org
Join the Ottawa Walk For Animals Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=117820443909
 
You can still register and help raise funds even if you can't make the actual walk!! Just register, set up your donations page, and send it to everyone you know. If you don't want to register, but still want to donate, you can donate to my donations page at http://www.firstgiving.com/jasonhalvorson. But remeber, if you sign up by tomorrow you;ll get the amazing t-shirt and that warm feeling in your heart that you have done a really good thing.
 
 
BUNNY HOP FOR HOPE '09: Fundraiser for New Moon Rabbit Rescue  September 12

 
New Moon Rabbit Rescue is a local no-kill rescue dedicated to giving unwanted, abandoned, neglected and abused domestic rabbits a second chance and to find them a loving home.
http://www.newmoonrabbitrescue.ca/ 
 
The Bunny Hop for Hope will be taking place on September 12. The bunny costume-clad walkers will be braving a nearly 20km journey commencing at 8am and finshing at Robinson's Your Independant Grocer in Manotick. They will be raising pledges and collecting donations along their route. More information can be found at their website above. To make a donation at their website just click on the CanadaHelps.org symbol on the right hand side.
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=115397605125
 
 
MOVIES, MOVIES AND MORE MOVIES!!
 
ByTowne Theatre downtown has some amazing animal related movies playing. http://www.bytowne.ca/
 
THE COVE  playing Sept. 5 - Sept. 13 
 
View the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5qgVp0jng
 
Review (partial): "Wow. Just wow. This is easily one of the most powerful, heartfelt, and (yes, I’ll say it) important nature documentaries I’ve ever seen. Here’s a brutally honest and effortlessly fascinating film about one specific cove in Taiji, Japan, where approximately 23,000 dolphins are killed every year. And here’s the really twisted part: Given the amount of mercury that’s found in these creatures, they’re practically poison. But where there’s money to be made, there are atrocities to be committed."
 
FOOD INC.  playing October 5, 6, 7
 
If you missed it last time you have another chance as ByTowne is bringing it back by popular demand for three dates. Watch the trailer here: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
 
PEACEABLE KINGDOM: Free to watch online at this link: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1302229573448724495&ei=P5eiSsK1IIScqAOk1pXFBA&q=peaceable+kingdom&hl=en#

A beautiful movie about farms and animals. Interviews with Farm Sanctuary, Howard Lyman (The Mad Cowboy) and many more. Meet many of the amazing animals rescued and livign out their lives at sanctuaries.
 
FUR CAMPAIGN
 
Fall and winter fashions are on the way, and sadly that means that fur will be back on the shelves. The Ottawa Animal Defense League is working on a campaign to educate the public about the realities of the fur industry. We will be out showing footage and handing out leaflets detailing the horrors animals raised for fur endure inside fur farms. We ask that you never let someone wearing fur walk by you without educating them about how that fur was produced, and the horrific way in which the animal they are wearing was raised and killed.  
 
The most common methods of killing fur animals is anal and genital electrocution, gassing, breaking their necks, and beating them into the ground. Often animals on fur farms are skinned while still fully conscious. Most animals raised for fur live their entire lives in cages, barely able to move let alone partake innatural behaviours. They often go crazy from the confinement and boredom, and will resort to chewing their own limbs or spinning in circles.
 
Many people are unaware that the trim on their winter jacket is actually real fur. Take a look at this photo:
 If you have trim like that you are actually wearing racoon dog fur. These are dogs native to China, Korea, Japan and Russia. Their fur is often used on jackets for trim but is unlabeled. We have spoken to hundreds of people who were compeltely unaware that they were wearing dog fur. So when you go shopping be vigilante. Feel the trim. Does it feel like real hair? When you blow on it does it move easily? If so, don't buy it. And tell the store clerk why.
 
 http://veganthis.org/fur.html   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7aPoDg5fDc
 
 
FOIE GRAS CAMPAIGN: On temporary hiatus
 
Thank you to everyone who joined a demonstration, made a phone call or sent an email to restaurants that serve foie gras. 10 restaurants took this cruel dish off their menus after hearing from you and learning about the horrific cruelties ducks endure inside foie gras farms. The issue made the front page of the Ottawa Citizen as well as many other Editorials in the Citizen, Ottawa Magazine, and many online news sites and blogs. Thousands of people learned of how birds are confined in cages and force fed until the point of death to create foie gras. OADL is taking a tempoary hiatus from the foie gras campaign while we focus our efforts on fur. However, we will still be contacting restaurants that serve this cruel dish, sending them facts, videos and studies. We will contineu to speak for these birds and hope you will do the same.
 
Report: The Scientific Case Against Foie Gras: http://www.spca.bc.ca/foiegras/FoieGrasScientificReport_2009.pdf
 
Restaurants that serve foie gras: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=429250124&blogId=449230550

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