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TORONTO PIG SAVE'S NEWS UPDATE


Dear friends,
Don’t turn away. Join us! Bear witness at our weekly vigils.
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BlogTO: Ryding-Regency "Meat" Packers cow slaughterhouse license suspended. Toronto Cow Save has been calling upon the feds to shut down Ryding-Regency "Meat" Packers cow slaughterhouse for years. Animal rights activists call this killing facility the most violent place in Toronto. The Toronto Star published an article in December 2017 by journalist Linda McQuaig exposing horrific cruelty at Ryding-Regency captured by Len Goldberg, Chris McGinn and Toronto Cow Save activists, which exposed on film cows being hoisted and skinned while conscious.
We launched a petition called "Shut down Ryding-Regency slaughterhouse now" which has over 200,000 signatures. Please sign if you haven't and help us get to 300,000!
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Please join us for our upcoming events, in addition to our weekly vigils:
• Wednesday, October 2, 9 am – 7:30 am, Toronto Save groups' World Day for Farmed Animals, Fearmans Pork Inc. - 821 Appleby Line, Burlington
RSVP: event page
• Saturday, October 5, 7 pm - 9 pm: Anniversary Memorial for Bonnie & Clyde, Fearmans Pork Inc. - 821 Appleby Line, Burlington
October 5, 7 PM – 9 PM, Fearmans
RSVP: event page
• Saturday, October 5, 7 pm - 7 am: Nuit Blanche: Remembering the Victims of Quality Meat Packers, at Quality "Meat" Packers, Ltd.
RSVP: event page
OCTOBER ANIMAL REBELLION
October 7, 7:30 am - 12 pm, Toronto
RSVP:
event page
Our message is urgent: we need to end animal agriculture and fishing entirely, and transition to a sustainable plant-based food system to avert climate catastrophe.
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At Toronto Pig Save's vigils, the pigs are given water - a simple but powerful act that tells the world about the pigs' importance as sentient beings who deserve respect and a life in peace. 
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Please read MaClean's magazine excellent article by Jessica L. Scott-Reid, writer, animal advocate and plant-based food expert. Her work appears regularly in media across Canada and the U.S.
Animal and climate activists are merging—and for good reason
"Last year, global animal rights group the Save Movement created a new branch—the Climate Save Movement. 'There was a recognition that the animal rights movement needs to work with environmental groups in a movement of movements,' says Toronto activist Anita Krajnc. 'Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, says ‘If we don’t work together, we are going to die together.’"
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Vancouver Chicken Save report from their September 18 vigil outside the Hallmark slaughter plant: "These are babies. All animals born into this world that are not given respect, autonomy or the basic validation of sentience are slaughtered as babies." Please watch.
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BE FAIR BE VEGAN IN TORONTO
Please contribute by donating to our GoFundMe campaign. We are currently at $31,682, 63% of our goal of $50,000. Help us get to 75%! Please share the campaign with your friends and family who have hopefully seen the ads and seen how powerful they are.
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At Toronto Cow Save's vigil on September 10, these are the victims of injustice. Please join us, for them!
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WEAR AND POST YOUR ACTIVISM
Wear a great message and look good! Visit our store at torontopigsave.myshopify.com.
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Veganuary is great for anyone to get started.
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VIGIL SCHEDULE
Weekly vigils and outreach with Toronto-area Saves
Toronto Pig Save has a firm commitment to hold at least three vigils per week for pigs, cows and chickens. Everyone is welcome. The more people attending, the greater the impact. Vigils may be traumatic, but they are also an empowering experience.
• Thursday, September 26, 8 - 10:00 pm, Toronto Chicken Save weekly night vigil at Maple Leaf "Foods" Inc., 100 Ethel Ave, Toronto
RSVP: event page


Monday, September 30, 7:30 9:30 am: Toronto Pig Save's Weekly Vigil for the Pigs at Fearmans "Pork"
RSVP: event page

Tuesday, October 1, 9:30 am - 12 pm:  Toronto Cow Save weekly vigil for the Cows and Lambs at St. Helen’s 'Meat' Packers slaughter plant at 1 Glen Scarlett Road.
RSVP: event page


• Wednesday, October 2, 9 am – 7:30 am, Toronto Save groups' World Day for Farmed Animals, Fearmans Pork Inc. - 821 Appleby Line, Burlington
RSVP: event page


• Saturday, October 5, 7 pm - 9 pm: Anniversary Memorial for Bonnie & Clyde, Fearmans Pork Inc. - 821 Appleby Line, Burlington
October 5, 7 PM – 9 PM, Fearmans
RSVP: event page

• Saturday, October 5, 7 pm - 7 am: Nuit Blanche: Remembering the Victims of Quality Meat Packers, at Quality "Meat" Packers, Ltd.
RSVP: event page


Monday, October 7, 7:30 am - 12 pm, Toronto: October Animal Rebellion
RSVP:
event page

Sunday, October 27, 9:30 - 11:30 am: Toronto Pig Save Sunday Vigil for the Pigs at Fearmans "Pork"
RSVP: event page

Leo Tolstoy defines the duty to bear witness as: "When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him."
(from A Calendar of Wisdom)

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The Climate Save Movement is building a grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis by ending animal agriculture, reforesting the Earth and phasing out fossil fuels. Help save the planet by going vegan and becoming active. The climate crisis is upon us. We must rise to mitigate and reverse it.
Please welcome our new Climate Save chapters from around the world:
Europe
Stockholm Climate Save (Sweden). 
Find them on
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North America
Knoxville Climate Save (USA). 
 Find them on
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GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
All over the world, on September 20 millions of schoolchildren marched and protested to demand that leaders act on climate change. Please watch. 
The United Nations met in New York for the "Climate Action Summit" 2019. Teen activist Greta Thunberg spoke at the summit and she minced no words: "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood." Please watch.

 
OCTOBER ANIMAL REBELLION
October 7, London UK
RSVP:
event page
Our message is urgent: we need to end animal agriculture and fishing entirely, and transition to a sustainable plant-based food system to avert climate catastrophe.
Laila Kassam: It’s time to rebel for all life
Animal Rebellion is a new, mass volunteer movement that recognises that the climate and ecological crisis we are facing is one that affects us all, humans, other animals and the planet.

 
BBC: Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
"Climate change due to us is accelerating and on a very dangerous course." "We should listen to the loud cry coming from the schoolchildren. There is an emergency - one for action in both rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions towards zero and adapting to the inevitable changes in climate."
Time magazine: "Five decades ago Brazil incentivized millions of its people to colonize the Amazon. Today their logging yards, cattle enclosures and soy farms [used for animal feed] sit on the fringes of a vanishing forest. Powered by murky sources of capital and rising demand for beef, a violent and corrupt frontier is now pushing into indigenous land, national parks and one of the most preserved parts of the jungle. Scientists warn that decades of human activity and a changing climate has brought the jungle near a “tipping point.”

 
Watch Johannesburg Climate Save's video: 700 kids sing the CO2 song at a yoga event held by the City Kidz school.
“The rain isn’t falling, I need a drink,
I’m thirsty and very sad,
If you cut me down, we both won’t breathe, And that will be real, real bad.
Ch: Gimme, gimme, gimme your CO2 I’ll breathe it in and give it back to you As oxygen, I’ll help you out
’Cos that’s what giving is all about."

 
PeTA.org: What would you be willing to do to help save the rainforest?

 
The Amazon is burning. Please help by signing our petition. Let's get to 200,000 signatures!
Stop Bolsonaro from destroying the Amazon!


Take Action!! Start your own Climate Save group! Visit thesavemovement.org or email us at climatesaveinfo@gmail.com to get started.
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Health Save Movement aims to show how veganism can prevent and reverse diseases related to animal products consumption, enhance food justice, and decrease spending on the health crisis.

 
There's a big myth about milk...

 
PCRM.org: Six Reasons Athletes Are Running Toward a Vegan Diet
A new review published in the journal Nutrients examines the science behind the advantages a plant-based diet provides to athletes. 
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OUR MISSION
Ditch Dairy SAVE Lives aims to encourage Save groups (existing and new) to hold vigils outside of dairy farms or factories incorporating outreach. Groups can also do outreach outside of establishments retailing large amounts of dairy products.
Watch: The true price of dairy. This is why no one should support the dairy industry. 
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BEARING WITNESS  AROUND THE WORLD


 

If you would like to bear witness but don't have Save vigils near you, consider starting a group.  Email us at savemovementinfo@gmail.com
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AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
The Save Movement Johannesburg held a vigil for the pigs who die at the "Pork" Packers  slaughter plant on September 18. Please watch. 
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ASIA
ISRAEL
Please watch Israel Against Live Shipments' video: they checked on cows afte rbeing unloaded from a live-transport ship at the port.
 
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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
AUSTRALIA
Canberra Animal Save went to the National Alpaca Show in Canberra, "filled with absolutely terrified and anxiety filled animals." Please watch.
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EUROPE
DENMARK
Horsens Animal Save is now Jylland Animal Save. Please watch video from their vigil, during which they bore witness to these baby pigs.
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GERMANY
Nuremberg Animal Save held a vigil on September 6 at the Erlangen slaughter plant. 
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ITALY  
Cremona Animal Save is now Rimini Animal Save. Please watch: they and other Italian Save groups converged for this die-in. They report: "An afternoon full of emotions, full of beautiful people, the ones who understand, who spread a message of peace and non-violence, who join and go down the street, not for themselves, but for other living beings, FOR THE ANIMALS 🙌🏻"
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SERBIA
Novi Sad Animal Save's vigil outside the Matijevic salughter plant is in the news! "The banners say: 'Choose life, choose veganism,' 'Let's go vegan,' 'You know deep inside this are wrong' and 'Please give us three minutes to say goodbye.' They tried to draw drivers' and passersby's attention to the animals before being taken to a slaughterhouse."
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SWITZERLAND
Zurich Animal Save report from their outreach action: "Almost 250'000 animals will be slaughtered every year at the Stadtzürcher slaughterhouse. We keep telling the story of these countless individuals on our social media channels. Last Friday we brought the pictures of our vigils to the Zurich old town and wore their faces and their fate for the world to see."
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THE NETHERLANDS
IJsselstein Pig Save bore witness at the Westfort Vleesproducten slaughter plant on September 4. Please watch.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Animal Save Movement UK  joined forces with animal justice groups Animal Rebellion and Animal Justice Project  September 12 in London, to demand the government take immediate action on animal agriculture’s role in the climate emergency. Please watch.
"Through peaceful protest and creative theatre, we highlighted the global injustice caused by animal agriculture's supporters and profiteers. Waiters served the table where the UK government and CEOs were seating, who were served with the Earth with knives and forks. They were then presented with a bill itemising the amount of animal deaths and global ghg emissions directly linked to animal agriculture."

Plant Based News covered the event: Activists Urge Government To Transition To A 'Completely Plant-Based Food System'

 
Hull Pig Save's vigil on September 16 drew news coverage: Vegan campaigners protest outside Yorkshire abattoir
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LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Chaco Animal Save held a vigil for the cows on September 5. Please watch: the cows' eyes look nonstop for an answer that doesn't come. The injustice goes on. 
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COLOMBIA
Please watch Ubaté Animal Save's video: "Babies about to enter the slaughterhouse in Zipaquirá, Colombia. Every time you consume dairy products you are sentencing these animals to death."
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ECUADOR
Guayaquil Animal Save states it clearly in this video: "Slavery never ended. That the system of institutionalized oppression of vulnerable beings has the freedom to exploit and commercialize the body of each sentient individual means that we still live in times of slavery whose victims have different faces but feel the same about their life." 
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NORTH AMERICA
MEXICO
Guadalajara Animal Save bore witness on September 7 at the municipal slaughter plant. Please watch these gentle cows during their last hours alive. 
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UNITED STATES
Watch: Newark Animal Save bore witness at a live market and went inside undercover. "You can select your animal and they will slaughter him or her for you. 

 
Long Beach Animal Save bore witness at PCH "Poultry." Please watch activist Ashley Summers' video: she sings to the chickens.

 
On September 13 Las Vegas Animal Save held two vigils for chickens and ducks, first at Charleston "Poultry" and later at Highland "Poultry." See video of the chickens here.
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