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The Violence Behind Every Egg – DxE January Day of Action
DxE monthly day of action followed by social and vegan feast provided by Rara‘s (suggested $10 donation for the feast but come even if you’re broke!)
DAY OF ACTION
Whether eggs come from a cage-free farm or from battery cages, the violence is the same. Behind every egg is misery, disease, suffering, and death.
Join activists as we share with the world the reality behind the egg industry.
Watch our most recent investigation and #OpenRescue at a “Certified Humane” Egg Farm – https://www.facebook.com/
Great read on a DxE Chicago action for eggs – http://
ACTION PLAN:
Activists will enter a place of violence where eggs are being sold and setup two formations of activists representing a caged-farm and a cage-free farm. In front of both the caged and cage-free formation will be egg cartons with (fake) bloody eggs inside of them. The rest of the participants will pick up the bloody eggs and line up behind the formations, holding the bloody eggs with both hands.
Activists inside both the cage-free formation and the caged formation will do an alternating speakout with the following lines:
BC = Battery Cage
CF = Cage Free
BC: I live in a battery cage
CF: I live in a cage free farm
BC: All of my brothers were killed on the day they were born
CF: All of my brothers were killed on the day they were born
BC: My beak was burned off when I was only a baby
CF: My beak was burned off when I was only a baby
BC: I was separated from my family and thrown into a barn
CF: I was separated from my family and thrown into a barn
BC: I lay so many eggs, my body can’t keep up
CF: I lay so many eggs, my body can’t keep up
BC: My cage is so small, I cannot flap my wings
CF: There are so many birds here, I’m scared to move around
BC: I am going insane from the boredom
CF: I cannot breathe from the ammonia
BC: My feet get stuck inside the wire floor
CF: I get pecked at and literally cannibalized by other birds
BC: I live in a cage of wire
CF: I live in a cage of flesh
BC: I’m scared and I’m going to die
CF: I’m scared and I’m going to die
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ABOUT DxE EVENTS
DxE’s organizers around the world build empowered networks for animal liberation. Based on the most innovative scholarship on social change and the recent successes of the animal rights movement in countries around the world, DxE’s model focuses on building the kindling for a true social movement to be set ablaze. We do this by: (1) supporting activists locally in speaking strongly for animals under our organizing principles – http://
Animal rights activists in over 150 cities and 30 countries have united under the banner “It’s not Food. It’s Violence” since our campaign started in October 2013.
But we need your help to keep up the momentum. Join us at this event as we demand an end to atrocities against innocent animals.
SAFER SPACE POLICY – Full details here https://www.facebook.com/
DxE has a Safer Space Policy to facilitate an immediate response to any oppressive actions by attendees of our official events. Oppressive actions include: Discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, size, class, ability, reproductive choice, sexuality, and gender identity; and, promoting disrespect or violence towards nonhuman animals. We strive to create a community that is safe and welcoming, and which prioritizes the needs of people who are typically marginalized by society.
All DxE Toronto events will be drug-and-alcohol-free due to safety concerns.
CONSENT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA:
DxE events are social media intensive. Photos and videos are regularly taken at actions, open meetings, and other activities. If you do not consent to appear in photos and videos, please let our media personnel know at the beginning of events. We will also remind attendants of this policy at each event.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
As settler animal rights/liberation activists uninvited to the traditional, ancestral, unceded and occupied territories of the First Nations and peoples, we acknowledge that we are unable to do animal advocacy work without using the resources from this land, and are often complicit in colonial systems that perpetuate violence against Indigenous Peoples. We must continue to learn and take responsibilities to help decolonize.
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