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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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The Animal Save Movement is growing around the world!
We have 904 chapters in three branches:
Animal Save:   692 groups in 70 countries
Climate Save:  187 groups in 48 countries
Health Save:    25 groups in 9 countries

Thank you for supporting Toronto Pig Save!

 
Global Climate Strike for All Animals
November 29, 11 AM – 2 PM, Queens Park, Toronto
RSVP: event page
Please join us on November 29 for the Global Strike for Climate Justice in Toronto. We are a coalition of animal liberation groups showing up to (1) act in solidarity with the broader climate justice movements, (2) represent the nonhuman animals being mass-killed and driven to extinction in climate catastrophes, and (3) demand an end to animal agriculture and industrial fishing and transition to sustainable plant-based food systems. 
Schedule:
11:00-11:30: Meet at Fire Fighter Memorial
11:30: Head up to Queen's Park for the rally
12:00: March together
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Please support Globally Local's Grand Opening of their first Toronto location this Saturday November 16. They will donate 10% of the day's proceeds to our BeFairBeVegan campaign!
RSVP: event page
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Animals Beyond Borders 2019
Animals Beyond Borders is an annual fundraiser and festive year-end celebration of animals rights activism and activists with music, speakers, delicious vegan food, a silent auction, door prizes, and more!  
This year we will be sending monies raised from the evening t  Ruby Ranch Pig Sanctuary and FrogHollow Farm Sanctuary. Tickets are $50. 
RSVP: event page
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Please watch Livekindly's new video: Why Joaquin Phoenix is vegan.
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Dylan Forest at Animal People Forum interviewed Animal Save Movement co-founder Anita Krajnc on the role of bearing witness at animal vigils. "What would it mean for systems of animal abuse and exploitation if instead of looking away, we turned towards animals who were suffering? Could this form of bearing witness be a force for change and a form of activism?"
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Samantha Dianne bore witness with Toronto Pig Save. She talks about the importance of bearing witness. Thank you Samantha Dianne for travelling from Michigan to bear witness with Toronto Pig Save in Burlington. Thank you for your commitment to stand up for the animals that are needlessly murdered for people's appetite. Go vegan and get involved!
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Manitoba Animal Save carried out a banner drop from an overpass above a busy Winnipeg highway. "Anytime we show up to protest and raise awareness to help animals, we are that much closer to achieving animal liberation."
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Regina Pig Save held a vigil at Thunder Creek Pork on November 3. Once again, they were able to bear witness to the numerous cows at the stockyard down the road. Please watch and listen to the haunting cries from the innocent. 
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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.
Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 - 8 pm: Brampton Chicken Save weekly vigil at Maple Lodge Farms
RSVP: event page

Thursday, November 14, 7:30 9:30 am: Toronto Pig Save's Weekly Vigil for the Pigs at Fearmans "Pork"
RSVP: event page


Thursday, November 14: Cargill: Stop burning forests & polluting water, Edina, Minnesota
RSVP: event page
A new report from Mighty Earth documents the decades of environmental destruction, indigenous land grabs, and indigenous rights abuses brought about by Cargill (mightyearth.org/cargill).


Saturday, November 16, 12 - 5 pm: Globally Local's Grand Opening of their first Toronto location. They will donate 10% of the day's proceeds to our BeFairBeVegan campaign!
RSVP: event page

Sunday, November 17, 8:30 - 10:30 am: Toronto Pig Save Sunday Vigil for the Pigs at Fearmans "Pork"
RSVP: event page

Tuesday, November 19, 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


• Friday, November 29, 11 am - 2 pm, Global Climate Strike for All Animals, Queens Park, Toronto
RSVP: event page

Friday, December 13, 6 - 11 pmAnimals Beyond Borders 2019. ABB is an annual fundraiser and festive year-end celebration of animals rights activism and activists with music, speakers, delicious vegan food, a silent auction, door prizes, and more! 
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 promoting vegan #FoodSystemChangeNowThe climate crisis is upon us. We must rise up to mitigate and reverse it.
Please welcome our new Climate Save chapters from around the world:
Asia
Hyderabad Climate Save (India). Find them on
 Facebook

 
Cargill: stop burning forests & polluting water
November 14, Edina, Minnesota
RSVP: event page
A new report from Mighty Earth documents the decades of environmental destruction, indigenous land grabs, and indigenous rights abuses brought about by Cargill (mightyearth.org/cargill).
The Amazon is still burning. Drinking water throughout the Midwest is polluted. And we know who is at fault: it’s Cargill. 
Cargill CEO David MacLennan is speaking at the Interlachen Country club on Nov 14. We’ve decided to show up too. 
Cargill is buying up commodities from some of the most unscrupulous traders in the business, who are burning down the Amazon and bulldozing forests such as the Brazilian Cerrado. Minnesotans have had enough.

 
DemocracyNow: The Edge of Democracy: Lula Is Freed in Brazil in Victory for Movement to Resist Bolsonaro
Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa talks about her new documentary, The Edge of Democracy, which chronicles the imprisonment of Lula, the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff and the story of the dictatorship and democracy in Brazil.
"I think what we need, international attention is essential in this case in Brazil. It helped a few months ago with the question of the Amazon, which had a 90% increase in deforestation compared to the previous year."

 
Unmasked Mr. Broccoli has an important message: The climate and ecological crisis is no joke. It is real and it can no longer be ignored. It will touch or is already touching every single aspect of our lives. Please watch. 

 
L.A. Times: Marshall Islands declares a climate crisis
The Marshall Islands, a low-lying chain of atolls and key U.S. ally in the central Pacific, has declared a national climate crisis because of the mounting risk of sea-level rise, the nation’s president announced this week. 
Watch our video to learn more.

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

 
The European Commission has signed a Free Trade deal with Brazil and MERCOSUR on June 28, 2019, giving a green light to destruction and exploitation of the Amazon rainforest for the production of cheap meat and animal feed.
This agreement needs European Parliament approval to become law so now is our chance to prevent it! Please sign and share our petition: STOP Free Trade deal between the EU and Mercosur

 
"...And especially in a crisis like this we need to think outside the box. We need people who think differently."
- Greta Thunberg on the Ellen DeGeneres show

 
Dunkin' Donuts is the latest large restaurant chain to launch a Beyond Meat burger. With 11,300 locations across 37 countries, this is a big win for plant-based offerings in general. To launch the new burger, the company put out this hilarious commercial featuring none other than Snoop Dogg.


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.
USA Today: Jon Stewart talks benefits of plant-based diet during 'Game Changers' screening
Jon Stewart has seen the light of a plant-based diet. Now, athletes are getting the news, according to the new film, “The Game Changers.” Stewart hosted a film screening and a panel discussion on the rise of plant-based eating in professional sports and it's overall positive effects, as depicted in the movie, on Thursday at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

 
The good news keeps rolling in about the healthy effects of a vegan diet: 

Frontiers in Nutrition: Plant-based diet effective intervention for Rheumathoid Arthritis

Journal of the American Osteopathic Association: Plant-Based Foods associated with lower Prostate Cancer Risk
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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.
This baby goat demands more love! Don't stop, human. Goats are friends, not a source of milk. Milk is for their babies.
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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
GHANA
Ghana is our 71st country. 
Welcome Save Movement Ghana. Find them on Facebook and Instagram
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Save Movement Johannesburg report from their November 6 vigil: "Outside 'Pork' Packers this morning with activism on the roadside. Thank you to all for being here for them 💜"
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ASIA
INDIA
Watch:  Jabalpur Animal Save went live from a dairy, where mothers and babies suffer separation and exploitation and eventually, their end. 
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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
AUSTRALIA
It's hot in Queensland, Australia. Brisbane Animal Save report: "If you think it's hot outside today, imagine how it is for the hundreds of thousands of cattle, chickens, pigs and sheep who are trapped on the back of trucks being transported to slaughter." Please watch.

 
Animal Save Australia activists had a display at World Vegan Day - One of the biggest Vegan Events of the year. "Thank you to all of our Save organisers and volunteers for doing such a fantastic job today at World Vegan Day! We managed to sign up just under 60 people who were interested in joining our movement! 🙂 We engaged with lots of people, from vegetarians, vegans and non vegans. WVD was a great way to reach the public and we will definitely be back next year."
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EUROPE
BELGIUM
Welcome Oost-Vlaanderen Animal Save (East Flanders). Find them on Facebook and Instagram
Their first vigil is coming up on November 21 with Zele Animal Save: event page
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Brno Chicken Save bore witness on November 8 outside the Vodňanská "Poultry" slaughter plant, which kills 130,000 chickens everyday. Vodňanská has two other plants and is the largest chicken slaughterer as well as the only processor of duck flesh in the country. 
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FINLAND
Turku Animal Save held a vigil on November 5 outside the Paimio slaughter plant. They report: "We stopped one truck with pigs inside and got to spend a few minutes with them. Today they are already dead. We will keep fighting so that others wouldn’t have to suffer their fate." 
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PORTUGAL
Aveiro Animal Save report from their November 3 vigil: "We had the privilege of meeting a beautiful 10-year-old bull - a majestic, calm, curious and gentle animal. Rarely do we come across a bovine who has been allowed to live for so long. 'So long.' It could have been much more. He was a mating bull. That was his function during his life. We don't know the reason why he was taken to the slaughterhouse. Maybe he was replaced for an younger animal, with better genetics. Replaced as if he was an obsolete object. We will never forget him 💚" 
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SWEDEN
Please watch Animal Save Skaraborg's film from the Skövde slaughterhouse, one of Sweden's largest. "What is happening to the pigs here is similar to that of many countries around the world."
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SWITZERLAND
St. Gallen Animal Save held a City Vigil on November 7, in which they brought the horrors of animal agriculture to the city centre. They showed images from their vigils at the slaughter plant. 
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UNITED KINGDOM
Oxfordshire Animal Save report from their November 1 vigil: "Today we bore witness at the Thame Livestock Market where animals are transported to a prison, crammed into cells so tightly packed that they can’t move, until such time that they are sold and transported to where they’ll be fattened up for the rest of their lives until they are killed.
During the time of transport to the auction, the duration of the auction and returning from the auction they are given no food or water."
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LATIN AMERICA
CHILE
Please watch: despite the popular anti-government protests and the repression by the government, Valparaíso Animal Save continues to hold vigils for the animals, such as this one on November 3 at the Belloto slaughter plant.
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COLOMBIA
Pereira Animal Save report from the November 3 vigil: "Thanks to the people who traveled to bear witness of what happens in these dark places, which as the name implies is spine-chilling: the slaughterhouse."
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URUGUAY
Maldonado Animal Save bore witness on November 3. They report: "Panic, sadness, fear and pain flowed through their bodies. And we feel it just by looking them in the eye. If you are not able to face this reality, to witness their suffering, you should not be able to put their bodies in your mouth."
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NORTH AMERICA
MEXICO
Cuernavaca Animal Save report from their October 27 vigil for the cows at the municipal slaughter plant: "Even though we were able to spend very little time with them, we saw how their eyes reflect fear and sadness. For now we can only continue fighting for them and continue creating awareness in people so they stop paying for animal exploitation."
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UNITED STATES
Phoenix Animal Save held a vigil on November 1 for the many cows killed at the JBS slaughter plant. Activist  Sarah Zumbi wrote: "This was the last sunrise for these cows. Their eyes tell the story of how every dignity has been stolen from them. Please share their story - there are kind-hearted people who will help, we just need to ask. Choose kindness, ditch dairy."

 
Newark Animal Save held a vigil on November 7 outside American Halal "Meat." Activist Allyssa Jade reported: "Today, the truck driver backed the truck right into the slaughterhouse and they were quickly unloaded. We barely got to see them. This driver hates that we’re there. But as long as this place is open and operational, and as long as these animals are being exploited and murdered, we will be there."

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