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Saving Lives... One Bite at a Time - Jan. 8, 2008

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AR2009 Website, Registration Now Open

Join Meatout 2009 – It's Time For Change!

Vote For Vegan School Lunch By Jan 14!

Get Your New Inauguration Handouts

Help Us Promote Meatout Mondays!

 

 

AR2009 Website, Registration Now Open!

After extensive negotiations, we have signed the Hilton Los Angeles

Airport for the Animal Rights 2009 National Conference on the weekend of July

16-20, 2009.

The Hilton offers a number of advantages over competing venues:

 

Affordable rooms ($95/$95/$105/$115), with complimentary internet access

Affordable prices ($12/$15/$20) for buffet lunch, dinner, and banquet

Affordable parking ($5 compared with the usual $18 rate)

An elegant, cheerful lobby with lots of lounges for networking

All our functions on the same ground level

A beautiful ballroom for our exhibits and plenary sessions

A separate dining room for our meals and a 24-hour vegan snack bar

A carpeted aerobics room and weight room for our morning workouts

An outdoor swimming pool and an open terrace for relaxing in the sun

Dogs are welcome and provided with open terrace for running around

Visit the AR2009 website and take advantage of the half-price

registration rate ending January 31.

 

Join Meatout 2009 – It's Time For Change

Get ready for Meatout this March! FARM’s largest annual campaign, the

Great American Meatout publicizes the benefits of plant-based eating.

Caring people in a thousand communities throughout all 50 U.S states

and two dozen other countries will welcome spring with educational activities…

they’ll ask friends, family, and community members to " kick the meat habit on

March 20th (first day of spring) and explore a healthy, nonviolent diet

of vegetables, fruits, and grains. "

Meatout activities range from elaborate festivals and walks to public

dinners, cooking demos, exhibits, information tables, video screenings,

leafleting, and more.

Join us as we mark the 25th annual observance of Meatout. In honor of

our President-Elect's campaign theme, this year’s slogan is " Change Your

Diet. Change The World. "

We provide guidance, materials, media, and an online directory of

events. You provide a few hours and lots of heart. Start planning now!

Visit the Action Center and download the Action Guide for guidance.

For inspiration, take a look at last year's report with photos.

 

Vote For Vegan School Lunches by Jan 14

Because of your overwhelming support, our proposal to have the USDA

facilitate daily vegan school lunch options qualified for the second

round of voting. This round, ending on January 15th, will select the 10

most popular reforms for presentation to the Obama transition team.

Please take a minute to expose the concept of a vegan diet to hundreds of

thousands of social reform activists and perhaps to the new Obama

administration

Sign up on the Change.org website, then visit our vegan school lunch

proposal, and click on the number to cast your vote.

 

Get Your New Inauguration Handouts

We’ve created special handouts for your outreach at the

Inauguration on January 20th and the many Inauguration parties around the

country. We have borrowed President-Elect Barack Obama’s slogan is “Change Can

Happen” and we’re asking Americans to change to a healthy, compassionate

vegan diet.

To request the new handouts, visit FARM's Handout Request page.

 

Help Us Promote Meatout Mondays

Gaining popularity, FARM’s colorful weekly e-mail newsletter Meatout

Mondays is distributed to nearly 17,000 people every week. Each issue

delivers a delicious vegan recipe, product or book suggestion, health news, and

an inspirational message. It's a fun, informative resource for longtime

vegans and newcomers alike.

Sign up your friends, family, co-workers and anyone else you think

would benefit. It’s an effective way to encourage a healthy, compassionate

plant-based diet. Each person you sign up will receive a confirmation to verify

interest and can at any time.

 

Visit the updated Meatout Mondays website and sign up your friends .

 

Some of FARM's Favorite Links

FARM Heroes

Here we feature key supporters of FARM and the animal rights movement.

 

Evelyn Kimber has been an animal advocate for 25 years and is a longtime

activist for FARM's annual campaigns. As President of the Boston Veg. Society

(BVS), she has focused on education, out-reach, community building, and

bringing veganism to the mainstream. BVS organizes the Boston Vegetarian Food

Festival, now in its 14th year.

 

Anthony Marr founded the HOPE-CARE Foundation in 1999 to preserve

biodiversity, marine mammals, & Bengal tigers. As the leader of HOPE’s

Global Emergency Operation (GEO) on climate change & mass extinction, he

travels and speaks extensively on these topics. Anthony will be a speaker at

this summer’s AR2009.

 

 

 

 

 

About FARM

 

FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a national 501©3

public-interest group advocating a vegan diet and animal rights.

FARM is funded by donations from caring people like you.

Donations support our work directly because we raise our own funds and our

overhead is less than 5%. We operate from the nation's capital with a

volunteer network of grass roots activists.

 

 

 

Caring Gifts

For T-shirts, books, and other fun stuff, visit FARM Store.

 

Animal Rights Now bracelet - $2

www.FARMUSA.org | 10101 Ashburton Lane | Bethesda, MD

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Enjoy life and smile.