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Join us in a demonstration against Hatfield Meats
When: July 14, 2007, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: The intersection of Rt. 63 and Forty Foot Road, Hatfield, Pa.
Directions: Rt. 63 and Forty Foot Road are one coming from the turnpike and then 63 splits and turns right to Lansdale. Rt. 63 is also called Welsh Road and also Main St. View a map of the intersection. It is where Forty Foot road intersects with Welsh Road.
Contact: Georgia Smith at
[email protected] or 610-970-4539
Why: Animals in factory farms suffer terribly, and pollution, deforestation, global warming, and resource depletion are rapidly destroying the planet.
Animals on a modern factory farm lead lives of unimaginable suffering and die cruel deaths before ending up on the dinner table. Intense competition drives farmers to value efficiency over natural desires. Animals are squeezed into ever smaller living quarters, even as new biotechnology is used to make animals grow bigger and produce more meat, milk or eggs. Lowering the cost per unit is the overriding goal.
Pumped up with hormones and drugs, dairy cows spend a few years in a concrete stall or filthy feed lot before they dry up and are sent to slaughter. Most calves born to dairy cows are quickly separated from their mothers, confined in tiny pens, and then killed for veal after only a few months of life. Chickens are crammed together in tiny cages and have their breaks clipped to prevent them from self-mutilating due to stress. Death is merciless and inevitable: a bolt gun or a knife ends a life spent in hell.
Thousands of people across the country are standing up for animals and the environment by adopting a vegan lifestyle. Vegans take personal responsibility for making the world a better place by giving up meat, dairy products, eggs, and other animal-derived items.
That simple choice has powerful consequences. Veganism saves animals from the horrors of the slaughterhouse, reduces pollution from factory farms, and preserves soybeans and grain--which would otherwise be fed to animals being raised for food--for the millions of malnourished people in our hungry world.
In Defense of Animals 3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901 Tel.: 415 388 9641 Fax: 415 388 0388
email:
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