All Day Cow and Chicken Vigil for WDFA

Join us at Ryding Regency, St Helens and Maple Leaf Poultry for an all day vigil for cows and chickens.

Schedule:
9am – 2pm: Cow vigil at St Helens and Ryding Regency
2:30pm – 5pm: Outreach at St. Clair and Keele
7pm – 10pm: Chicken vigil at Maple Leaf Poultry

Aside from the obvious reasons of increased activity and promotion, there is a great deal of history as well. The WDFA observance, first launched in 1983, has nearly always involved some sort of vigil, march, or street theater at a slaughterhouse or other symbolic location, like a government office.

FARM’s first visit to Vernon, CA, in the early 1980s, involved a rally at the police station and a march, led by Alex Hershaft and Cleveland Amory, to theFarmer John slaughterhouse. They have been back there several times since. They have visited the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Virginia at least four times, usually blocking trucks and risking arrest as well as several other slaughterhouses in Northern Virginia. Nearly every year, they’ve done some sort of street theater at the USDA headquarters in Washington.

World Day for Farmed Animals (WDFA), founded in 1983, is dedicated to exposing the needless suffering and death of sentient animals raised and killed for food. Each year, approximately 65 billion animals are killed to produce meat, eggs, and dairy. Most of these animals are raised on factory farms, where they are confined, mutilated and raised to grow so large, so quickly, that many of them literally suffer to death. Even animals raised on small family farms endure many of these abuses. Regardless of how they were raised, all animals raised for food face a gruesome slaughter. We envision a kinder, more compassionate world where animals are no longer seen as commodities, raised for their flesh and by-products.

On October 2nd, activists around the world hold events including vigils, memorial services, demonstrations, die-ins, cage-ins, and leafleting to speak up for all the animals killed for food.

#FastAgainstSlaughter
Each day there are 160 million farmed animals being transported to a gruesome death at slaughterhouses around the world. These beings are caring, sensitive individuals. They are denied food, water, and comfort on their journeys which range from several hours to days. Their last hours are spent suffering in terror and starvation, silenced by an industry that fights against people knowing the truth.

Join the World Day for Farmed Animals movement by taking the #FastAgainstSlaughter pledge: dayforanimals.org/unite

Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.