Help for sanctuaries
As we all know, it takes many people working hard to achieve freedom and happiness for animals. None work harder than those people running animal sanctuaries, full of ‘useless’ animals the industry are so quick to slaughter. Many animals have been given a new lease of life thanks to these places. And this is why it is so vital to support and fund them – taking care of so many needy animals
comes at quite a price! We felt moved to appeal on the behalf of two such sanctuaries – Green Meadows, in Pattingham near Wolverhampton, and Woolly Park, in Cambridgeshire. Green Meadows holds over 100 rescued animals, including sheep, goats, horses, chickens,
geese and ducks. The future of the sanctuary is hanging in the balance – finances are tight, so they can’t rescue any more animals and if they can’t secure more funding they may have to close it down. To check out what they do, and how you can help, head over to their website
www.greenmeadow.org.uk. Woolly Park has almost 500 rescued animals that they care for. The freeze, in winter 2010, hit
them hard and food prices have sky rocketed. They need funding to stay open and provide a forever home to their animals. Head over to their supporting charity’s website to find out how to help
www.friendsoftheanimals.co.uk. Please consider lending your support to theses sanctuaries, as
well as to our own Adopt a Farm Animal scheme, working with the wonderful Farm Animal Sanctuary in Worcestershire. We run the adoption scheme featuring the likes of Molly the pig and Paul the goose.
www.adoptafarmanimal.org.uk.
Only the wellies are green
Farmers are fundamentally anti-environment and at almost every opportunity choose the option which will harm the environment – they are weak on greenhouse gas reduction, in favour of biofuels, argue against improving the effectiveness of farming grants, refuse to clamp down on pesticide use and want to carry out what will be an ineffective cull of badgers. You may be surprised to know that this is not Viva! speaking but Mark Avery, the newly-departed director of conservation at the RSPB. For real effect, we await the expression of similar views by serving officers.
Obituaries
It is with great sadness that we announce the deaths of long-time Viva! supporters, Pauline Stainsby of Wetherby, Yorks, and Michael Keeton, of Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Pauline was extremely active, leafleting and joining
in with practically all our campaigns on a local level. She promoted Viva! whenever and wherever she could. It is people like Pauline who have helped to make Viva! a force to be reckoned with. Michael joined Viva! at our launch and
donated £6,000 over the years, always writing letters of support and encouragement with each campaign. Again, it was the kind of dedication to Viva! and its aims that have helped us grow from very small beginnings to become the largest vegetarian campaigning group in Europe. They will both be sorely missed.
6 viva!life
It is with great regret that we also report the death of June Whitehouse, who was almost 87. She became a vegetarian before the Second World War, much to the annoyance of her mother who blamed any cold or minor ailment on a lack of meat in her diet. It must have taken strength and that was shown throughout her life, being active in the anti-war movement and campaigning against vivisection at Oxford University. Later in life she became vegan and raised eyebrows with her idiosyncratic breakfast – toast accompanied by Brazil nuts and radishes! She was an active and ardent supporter of Viva! and took part in our national and local campaigns. She will be missed by many.
June with her cat Zorba A goat resident at Green Meadows
Nutrition site New Veg
We highly recommend Dr Michael Greger’s new nutrition site, which has video-of-the-day uploads – quick, easy to understand,
accurate, interesting, entertaining and informative. Check out the site
www.NutritionFacts.org and please tell friends. You can also subscribe to the daily video feed:
www.nutritionfacts.org/videos/feed or follow it on facebook:
www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org and twitter
www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts
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