EVENT: Bay Area Slaughterhouse Vigils (Fri, Oct. 2, 5-8P) for World Farmed Animals Day 2009

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RE-MEMBERING OUR FRIENDS

Join hearts in a peaceful, prayerful vigil for the animal victims of our food choices

 

World Farmed Animals Day 2009

Bay Area Slaughterhouse Vigils

 

Friday, OCTOBER 2, 2009

5:00-8:00P

 

Bring poems, prayers, drawings and photos of safe & loved farmed animals, flowers, rocks/stones (as in the Jewish tradition of placing them on gravestones) and your big, open hearts to any of the following slaughterhouse locations to stand up & together for the innocent & voiceless

 

Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #1:

Rancho Veal Corp

1522 Petaluma Blvd N

Petaluma, CA 94952

(cows & calves killed here)

 

Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #2:

Fulton Processors, Inc.

1200 River Rd

Fulton, CA, 95439

(chickens killed here)

 

WORLD FARMED ANIMALS DAY, observed on (or around) October 2nd, is a time dedicated to exposing, mourning, and memorializing the needless suffering and killing of the more than 55 billion cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and other sentient land animals in the world's factory farms and slaughterhouses. It is a time for all to speak out against the atrocities and brutalization of animals raised for meat, eggs, and dairy. The annual occasion is observed with activities in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen other countries and the date marks the birthday of ethical vegetarian Mahatma Gandhi. http://www.wfad.org/

 

For more info please contact: katedanaher

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Anyone want to ride share to Petaluma from east bay?  Best, Stephanie

On 9/7/09, Kate Danaher <katedanaher wrote:

 

 

 

 

RE-MEMBERING OUR FRIENDSJoin hearts in a peaceful, prayerful vigil for the animal victims of our food choicesWorld Farmed Animals Day 2009

Bay Area Slaughterhouse VigilsFriday, OCTOBER 2, 20095:00-8:00PBring poems, prayers, drawings and photos of safe & loved farmed animals, flowers, rocks/stones (as in the Jewish tradition of placing them on gravestones) and your big, open hearts to any of the following slaughterhouse locations to stand up & together for the innocent & voiceless

Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #1: Rancho Veal Corp 1522 Petaluma Blvd NPetaluma, CA 94952(cows & calves killed here)Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #2:Fulton Processors, Inc.

1200 River RdFulton, CA, 95439(chickens killed here)WORLD FARMED ANIMALS DAY, observed on (or around) October 2nd, is a time dedicated to exposing, mourning, and memorializing the needless suffering and killing of the more than 55 billion cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and other sentient land animals in the world's factory farms and slaughterhouses. It is a time for all to speak out against the atrocities and brutalization of animals raised for meat, eggs, and dairy.  The annual occasion is observed with activities in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen other countries and the date marks the birthday of ethical vegetarian Mahatma Gandhi. http://www.wfad.org/

For more info please contact: katedanaher

 

-- " Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. "   Albert Einstein

" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated. "    Mahatma Gandhi