Viva!USA Alert 12/2/05

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Viva!USA Alerts 12/2/05

1.  You Can Help Raise Awareness for Turkeys  

2.  Honeybaked Horror for Christmas

3.  Chicken campaign launch a "Little" success

Our new turkey PSA with Heather Mills McCartney raises awareness of the horrific conditions that turkeys endure prior to slaughter, including having their toes amputated to prevent stress induced fighting. 

We want to reach the largest audience possible with this message over the holiday season!  You can help by donating to run the PSA on Animal Planet in cities like San Francisco.  For $100, the PSA will run 5 times (prime time), reaching thousands of viewers! 

Donate at: www.vivausa.org/donate/index.html and mark it is for the PSA.

View the PSA on our turkey website: www.vivaturkeys.com

In other turkey news, last week, the Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy organized UC Berkeley's annual vegan Thanksgiving event and managed to get donations of 27 Tofurkies from Turtle Island, a gift certificate from Berkeley Bowl, a box of vegan cookies from Sunflour Baking Co., and almost 100 patties of Field Roast's Country Cutlets. They set up a huge display on Sproul Plaza with a turkey facts poster and a cow costume to invite people to sample free vegan Thanksgiving food and take literature on going veggie.Yay for Thanksgovegan!

2.  Honeybaked Horror for Christmas

It is ironic that a holiday that focuses on giving and sharing with loved ones should be celebrated with the violence and horror that turns pigs into Christmas ham. Each year, Viva!USA activists across the country organize to protest the treatment of pigs on factory farms and at slaughterhouses by leafleting outside Honeybaked Ham.  And each year, activists convince some customers to choose another way to celebrate the holidays. 

If there is a Honeybaked Ham near you and you would like to participate in this event, please send an e-mail to info@vivausa.org. Include your name, address, and let us know if we can share your contact information with activists in your area. We'll send you 100 leaflets.

3.  Chicken campaign launch a "Little" success

Thanks to everyone who made the launch of our chicken campaign a big success! In 40 cities across the country, activists handed out our new leaflets on the chicken industry at the opening of Disney's Chicken Little on Nov. 4th. Press coverage of the event spread the word to those who didn't go to the film. Check out one article on our website:

www.vivausa.org/campaigns/chickens/newsarticle.html

For more information about our chicken campaign, or to order leaflets and campaign materials, e-mail us at chickens@vivausa.org.

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