Campaigns in which you can help to stop animal cruelty and show your love for animals
Guide to recognizing fur - A new Liberation BC publication!
If you or someone you know owns an item with real fur on it, please snap a pic and send it to info@liberationbc.com. We are working on a guide to recognizing fur for the fall shopping season, and your photos can help to provide necessary visuals. If you would like to help in any way with this project, or would just like more information, please send an email. It’s important to get information out there so that people can distinguish real fur from fake fur, before they buy it, and you can help.
If you are willing to part with any fur or fur-trimmed items (either on a permanent or temporary basis) they would be invaluable as visual aids when tabling.
If you have an item that you’re unsure of, contact us and we may be able to help. Tips can also be found here.
Pappas Furs Campaign
Every Saturday
1-3pm
Aberdeen Centre (4400 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, located conveniently on the 98 B-Line bus (Cambie Road stop))
These protests at Aberdeen Centre are continuing until Pappas Furs is shut down. Pappas Furs is a Canadian furrier that specializes in clothing of the cruelest kind — enormous fur coats, wraps, and muffs made from the skins of suffering animals.
How many animals are there in a standard full-length fur coat? Anywhere from 10 to 20 foxes, 18 to 20 lambs, or 130 to 200 chinchillas!
How can you help?
Come out to one of these Saturday events and join other compassionate people in speaking out against this cruelty. These events are friendly outreach events. All you need to bring is hope and a smile!
If you can’t make it out to Richmond, you can still help by contacting Aberdeen Centre and politely telling them that you don’t want Pappas Furs in the mall!
Telephone: 604.270.1234 or 604.273.1234 ext 12
Email: info@aberdeencentre.com, leasing@aberdeencentre.com, promotion@aberdeencentre.com
Address: Fairchild Developments Ltd., Suite 130,
4400 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, BC, V6X 3R8
Foie Gras Outreach Event
Friday, May 30th,
7-9 pm,
Café de Paris Bistro, 751 Denman St.
The ducks and geese need your help! The campaign has been really successful so far, and many people have stopped to sign the petition. Best of all, more and more people are becoming aware of this issue.
Can’t make it out? Please give Café de Paris a call at 604-687-1418 and let them know that there’s no excuse for foie gras!
If you haven’t contacted the other restaurants on the list of foie gras offenders, now is the perfect time! All it takes is a few minutes and an email account or a phone! The list is constantly being updated, so check back often!
If you learn of a restaurant or store that is carrying foie gras, please send an email to info@liberationbc.com so that they can be added to the list. Thanks!
Respect for Chickens
International Respect for Chickens Day may have been celebrated a few weeks ago, but we know that any day is a good one when it comes to celebrating chickens. Did you know that chickens are intelligent birds with cognitive abilities rivaling those of small children? It’s true! Did you know that they are very social birds who recognize each other by their facial features and have 24 distinct cries, including separate alarm calls depending on whether a predator is approaching by land or by sea? They are also good at problem-solving!
“As a trick at conferences I sometimes list attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys,” says Dr. Chris Evans, Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University.
Learn more about the remarkable chicken at GoVeg.com and CompassionOverKilling.
Eat Less Meat!
The Vancouver Humane Society has issued a challenge on the newest page of their website:
Stop animal suffering.
Protect the environment.
Stay healthy.
Save vital resources.Eat less meat.
We couldn’t agree more! Rising meat consumption is the driving force behind the growth in factory farming that’s ruining our environment, harming our health and condemning billions of animals to misery. Learn what you can do to stop it!
You can help put a stop to the suffering by speaking flickout against it. Please consider joining other activists at any of the friendly outreach events listed below.
If you can’t make it to an event, there are many other ways to help. You can write letters, send emails, or make phone calls. If you would like to start your own leafletting or outreach event, or if there’s some other way that you feel you can help, send an email to info@liberationbc.com.
Also, consider making a donation to Liberation BC. Your donations help to cover the costs of printing leaflets and signs and purchase important equipment like the tent, the television, and the portable battery. Liberation BC is an all-volunteer organization with no funding, except from donations. Your support is vital to continue to spread this message of compassion and concern for the millions of voiceless animals who are suffering right now.
The animals need you.
Please, donate now.
Source: Liberation BC at http://www.liberationbc.com/ .