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Walkin’ and talkin’ for animals

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Today was simply packed with activity.

First, we had the Walk for Farm Animals. About 50 people were pre-registered and many more showed up for the walk and registered on the spot. All told, we had over 70 people walking (someone said they counted 80 people)! The biggest walk we’ve organized so far!

We don’t yet have the final count of money raised for Farm Sanctuary, but I’m sure it will be over $4,000, which is great.

The walk route went along Broadway and a section of 4th Avenue, so many people saw us walking. We got lots of honks and thumbs up along the way. We even had a police escort, and they were very helpful making sure we all got across intersections safely. A guy whose name I don’t remember did an amazing job leading chants on the megaphone.

Here are some photos from the walk:

Getting set up

Chatting before the walk starts

Finding signs for everyone

Marty Gras is representing!

Walking past Fuel

Marie and Lesley

Roxy!

Dave and Michelle

Alison and Ben (and Dave)

Thanks everyone!

After the walk many of us headed out to UBC to hear Jon Camp (of Vegan Outreach) speak about leafleting. We’re not sure on the exact count of people, but it was a little over 90 people.And we raised more than $350 for Vegan Outreach. Thanks a lot to the UBC Veggie Club for helping organize this event.

The talk was really good too. Here’s a couple of blurry photos:

Eva introducing the event

Jon Camp speaking

After the talk: dinner! Tofurkey donated 10 roasts for the event, and many people made veggie dishes. We planned for 50 people and managed to feed 90-something people. Veganmania donated desserts for the dinner, which were amazing, as always. Karmavore donated a gift bag for a door prize, and Spud donated some prizes as well.

Thank you Tofurkey!

All in all, a really fantastic day. Everyone involved did a wonderful job pulling it all together. Thanks!

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Countdown to the Walk for Farm Animals

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Only one week to go until the Vancouver Walk for Farm Animals!

2008 Walk for Farm Animals

This year we have an exciting time planned. The walk will be starting near Broadway & Granville and the route takes us along Broadway & 4th. The past couple of years many people were concerned that walking near Second Beach in Stanley Park wasn’t visible enough, so we’ve decided to do the walk along two busy streets with lots of car and foot traffic.

The Walk is only the first part of the fun, though. Jon Camp of Vegan Outreach is giving a talk on animal activism at 3 pm at UBC, so after the Walk everyone is invited to that – which will be followed by a vegan Thanksliving dinner. Tofurkey is donating a whole slew of Tofurkey roasts, a whole bunch of people will be preparing side dishes, and Veganmania is donating dessert!

The whole point of the walk is to raise money to support Farm Sanctuary’s important work. If you don’t know about Farm Sanctuary, have a look at their website. They do some really amazing work, including running 2 sanctuaries for rescued farm animals. I’ve spent time at the sanctuary in California. Being able to visit with animals who don’t live in fear, who are not headed for an early and painful death, was just incredible.

More importantly, Farm Sanctuary does loads and loads of advocacy work – working towards a world where animals are not exploited for human pleasure.

If you can, please support our local walkers:

Rebecca Gindin-Clarke