Sick of Comic Relief (and some alternatives to support)!

[Guest guest]

For how many reasons, now let's see,

 

1. The real fur red noses that were made for Comic Relief - I found

it almost unbelievable that Comic Relief did something so stupid and

cruel because even many meat-eaters are anti-fur, and this above all

for me shows that the top brass of this charity have no respect for

animals at all, and are out of touch with public opinion on fur.

 

2. Gordon Ramsey is a big supporter of it as well as hater of

vegetarians, maybe not a logical reason really but it did start to

get me thinking more about boycotting it because of his anti-veg

comments which were in an interview promoting Comic Relief, so what

does that say about Comic Relief's level of respect for vegetarians

that the charity did not publicly dump him immediately in disgust?

 

http://www.skynews.co.uk/skynews/article/0,,30500-12262818,00.html

 

3. People directly exploit animals to raise money for it, and

apparently this is OK with Comic Relief.

 

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_218656.html?menu=

 

4. It is coercive the way we are being practically forced to give to

it, all the schools are supporting it and you feel you have to opt

out rather than opt in. It is not appropriate in my opinion for

charities to do this, because some of us might prefer to give to

other charities. Charity should be supported as a matter of freedom

of choice not coercion, and I shall be contacting both my children's

headteachers with the reasons why my children will not be bringing

money in for this on Friday, but it is a big headache for me having

to explain and I would prefer not to be put in this position.

 

5. There is of course no guarantee that the money will not be used to

fund animal farming projects so we would rather give to Vegfam, or

HIPPO charity.

 

http://www.ivu.org/articles/net/hippo.html

 

Any other thoughts?

 

Lesley

[Guest guest]

I agree that we are forced via our children to give to Comic Relief .

Just refuse to give and make sure your kids are happy to stand out and

say that they are giving their money to ----.

I have always done that with cancer collections , Comic relief always

sememed ok to me until now (fur ). I have never given moneybut I think

my son will to avoid being different . I think it needs letters to the

newspapers to comment on the coercion parents feel if kids have to pay

50p to wear non uniform I would send them in non uniform and send a note

to the teacher to say that-- I would not allow my kids to be the only

ones in uniform as that might encourage bullying

 

Of course the school is actually bullying the parents anyway " Pay 50p

or else your kid will have to stay in uniform and be laughed at by all

the other kids "

 

Sick of Comic Relief (and some alternatives to

support)!

 

 

 

For how many reasons, now let's see,

 

1. The real fur red noses that were made for Comic Relief -

 

 

4. It is coercive the way we are being practically forced to give to

it, all the schools are supporting it and you feel you have to opt

out rather than opt in.

 

Lesley

 

 

 

 

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