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Scadding Court Slaughter Protest
Join Toronto activists, in conjunction with PETA as we demand the cancellation of the Gone Fishin’ event scheduled to begin on June 10. If you haven’t signed the petition, please do so and share!
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For the past 14 years, the Scadding Court indoor swimming pool has been turned into a slaughtherhouse for fish. The photo above was taken last year on the day the pool was drained and the fish who had survived the hunt, suffocated and died in a slow, horrific way.
For the past 2 years, with the help of PETA, we have tried to educate the public about the cruelty of fishing and appealed to the community centre to cancel the event. The executive director ‘welcomed’ our information but insisted that the program will never end.
This Friday, city councillor Joe Cressy, will be doing a ‘meet and greet’ at Scadding Court. We plan to take advantage of this opportunity to let him and the administrators at the community centre know that offering school kids and families the opportunity to participate in a ‘canned hunt’ is not only cruel but not the most effective way to teach ecology. We plan to have a representative speak with Mr Cressy while the rest of us hold signs and ‘be loud’ outside the community centre.
Please help us shut down this disgusting event and let the world know that fish deserve respect!
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