Resoconti della prima Giornata per l'Abolizione della Carne in Italia The Italian Coordination thanks all those who participated and helped to organize efforts
on the occasion of World Day for the Abolition of Meat January 31 in Bari, Caserta, Florence and Milan .
Here, the detailed reports from the cities. (If you wish to send pictures to publish, please write to abolizionecarne@gmail.com)
A fifteen Bari Puglia animal rights activists have joined the mobilization planning a leafleting, a table of information, a photo exhibition, cartels luminini funeral mourning with the numbers of animals sacrificed and viewing on a laptop video of what really happens in slaughterhouses in Europe.
Many leaflets and comprehensive material distributed, many people attracted by the projection of video and photographic exhibition that they stopped to learn more.
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A Caserta for the World Day was organized a screening of the documentary "Earthlings" and the video "A Life Connected", edited by
Valley Vegan and Country AIP, which was attended by more than 30 people. The participants then took part in a debate on nutrition carnea and exploitation of nonhuman animals.
In Florence
about 30 people gathered in Piazza del Mercato Nuovo for a garrison of Animals organized by
Tosca. Following the report of a task.
"January 31, 2009 date of great importance in the history of the movement of awareness of what are the rights of animals.
first international day rally to abolish the food meat: produced since the killing of a living being whose fault is that of being born cow, pig, horse, sheep ...
Brushes, posters, balloons, matches and a lot of grief determination in the eyes of people like me who was there to remind passersby that six million sentient beings are killed in the world every hour! We were there, a spokesman for the suffering and injustice as MEAT = DEATH.
I wonder why only a minority can not connect the food meat with eyes, ears and legs of a living being?
Many people stopped and gave us reason, the other was intrigued, and looked certain to remove the images of violence done to a cow on a poster stretched up as if to remove, as if they wanted to hear, but we feel, we feel the screams of animals going to slaughter, we hear the cows calling their calves taken away, we feel the injustice against living beings like 150 years ago a minority felt the injustice done to men with a different skin color.
This event comes from feeling and not accepting shared an aberration, a strong NO exploding in dormant consciences and lazy and that when asked, "you know that meat is equal to death," they answer: "I this world I found so "!!!»
Milan the organizing committee of the Veggie Pride 2009
chose to symbolize mourning for the daily slaughter of nonhuman animals with a garrison silent in Piazza Mercanti (Piazza Duomo ) garrison that - despite the cold - was attended by about 80 activists Lombard and Piedmont.
were distributed over 1,000 flyers on the abolition of the flesh, as well as comprehensive material present at the banquet.
The reactions of several passersby, in this Saturday for shopping, have been a surprise and curiosity, because of the unusual choreography, sometimes militant solidarity with the victims and supply meat products, but also of disappointment or open criticism. We carry home, in a sense, the awareness has begun to express publicly and bluntly, with the demand for abolition of meat, our striving for a world without farms and slaughterhouses without.