Update on Viva!USA

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Viva!USA Alerts 11/24/03

 

1. Update on Viva!USA

2. Register Holiday Events for pigs

 

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1. Update on Viva!USA

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Viva!USA started in September of 2000. We have conducted

investigations of factory farms, written well-researched reports on some of

these industries, and sent out hundreds of videos and thousands of leaflets

of our findings to help others spread the word. We have also sent out our

educational guides that focuses on the animals, the environment, and health.

 

We have created campaign materials specific for students, run ads in

high school newspapers encouraging teens to explore vegetarianism, and

developed a special packet and website geared towards students.

 

Our guide, Vegan Basics, was reviewed in major newspapers across the

USA.

 

Viva!USA has achieved victories with our campaign-based approach of

spreading vegetarianism/veganism. We have been able to convince grocery

stores to stop carrying duck meat raised from inhumane farms. And as many of

you know, the offshoot to our campaign against Whole Foods has caused them

to initiate creating new standards for farmed animals: " We don't want

incremental change that leaves the industrial factory-farming model still

operational within our company. "

 

We are very excited to also have played a role in getting the CEO of

Whole Foods, John Mackey, to go vegan.

 

We played a major role in preventing a mega dairy from moving to a

nearby (CA) community. Since then, we have continued our efforts while

creating

awareness of the suffering of the cows and the environmental impacts of this

industry.

 

Despite all our successes, Viva!USA's largest supporter, Viva! in

England, is no longer going to be able to sustain us at the level they have

been. Because of this, Viva!USA needs to count on our members in the USA to

help sustain us for the future. We are a registered non-profit organization

and donations are tax deductible.

 

Due to this cut back, Viva!USA is going to be making some changes. We

will be keeping you alerted to these on-line.

 

We ask you to please give generously to Viva!USA and know that every

penny you put into our organization is used almost immediately for our

campaigning and outreach efforts. We are counting on your help. Thank you!

 

Please use this link to find out how you can donate to Viva!USA:

http://www.vivausa.org/donate/index.html

 

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2. Holiday Events for Pigs

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As many of your know, every Christmas & Easter Viva! asks people to go

out and leaflet on behalf of the pigs. We cover grocery stores and

Honeybaked Ham locations throughout the country. (For Honeybaked Ham

locations go to: http://www.honeybaked.com/).

 

At these events we have succeeded in getting customers to turn around

and not buy the ham. We have reached young kids who love pigs as well as

many people young and old who have considered vegetarianism.

 

This year, we want to do the same. However, due to the cutbacks, this

is the first year Viva!USA is going to have to request a donation to help

cover postage and printing costs.

 

If you would like to participate, please e-mail us with your name,

address, and contact information that we can give out to others who are

interested in participating, and please confirm that you can send a $5

donation to help cover costs.

 

We will send you 100 of our When Pigs Cry leaflets (if you would

prefer a different leaflet, please specify; see

http://www.vivausa.org/activistresources/leaflets/index.html

for our leaflets), 1 pig poster, and a copy of Vegan Basics.

 

E-mail this information to whenpigscry.

 

Deadline to orders materials at $5 is December 7. If you cannot afford

the $5 we will try to work something out.

 

 

Please use this opportunity to speak out for the millions of pigs who

are killed at 6 months old and whose mothers are kept in crates so small

they cannot walk or even turnaround. They live in factory farms where

disease runs rampant and they are treated as mere objects, tossed in the

middle of isles when they are sick to die without food, water, or comfort.

Please speak out for these wonderful, sensitive, and intelligent animals.

 

More about our pig campaign can be seen here:

http://www.vivausa.org/campaigns/pigs/index.htm

 

For ordering materials: orders

To sign up on our e-mail alert list: list

For student e-mail list or materials: ACT