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THE SAVE MOVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
 

Toronto Pig Save's News Update
Dear friends,

Don’t turn away. Join us! Bear witness at our weekly vigils. (Please scroll down for vigil schedule.)
 
Save continues to grow all over the world! We now have 666 Animal Save groups in 70 countries listed on our website. We also have 99 Climate Save groups in 38 countries and 26 Health Save groups in 17 countries.
Toronto Chicken Save vigils restart this week, after the customary winter break. Please join us on April 11, 7 - 10 pm, at Maple Leaf "Foods" Inc., 100 Ethel Ave, Toronto, behind the Metro store.
Brampton Chicken Save too are resuming their Evening Vigil and Outreach at Maple Lodge, North America's largest chicken-murdering facility. Please join us April 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at 8301 Winston Churchill Blvd, Brampton.
 
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Please watch and share Toronto Cow Save's video "Eye Opener." Bearing witness will help you open your eyes.
 
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London Cow Save held a vigil on March 31 outside London Dairy, where babies are taken from their mothers and can be seen and heard crying to be reunited. Sometimes they are seen dead too. They report: "We had
a special ceremony with rose petals to honor Isa, a little dead calf our fellow activists found only a few weeks ago." After the vigil, a banner drop over the very busy highway closed out the day.
 
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Please watch: Vancouver Chicken Save bear witness to babies on a truck on March 30 outside the Hallmark slaughter plant.
 
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2019 Women's March From Fearman's Slaughterhouse
May 12, 9 am – 2 pm. RSVP: event page
We will start the day with a vigil for the pigs. After bearing witness and leaving flowers and messages for the babies trapped inside the slaughterhouse, we will start marching to a park in downtown Burlington. We are marching to show our solidarity to the nonhuman females that have been oppressed by a patriarchy.
We aim to increase awareness and action so that all feminists include animals in their circle of compassion. Female animals are forcibly impregnated over and over and again until they are 'spent' and then sent to slaughter. These mother's have their babies stolen from them in order to satisfy human greed.
 
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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 or other vegan outreach events per week. We currently hold a Pig Save vigil in Burlington together with Cow Save, Fish Save and Chicken Save vigils in Toronto, as well as Fur Animal Save events in the colder months. We encourage everyone to attend a vigil.
The more people who attend, the harder it is for society to ignore our protests of the abhorrent exploitation and cruelty to animals. Attending vigils is a daunting, traumatic, but empowering experience that helps build community and a support network of like-minded activists. Please join us. Scroll down for vigil schedule.
• Monday, April 8, 3:30 – 5 pm:  Niagara Farm Animal Save and Hamilton Animal Save's Fleming Chicks Vigil, Beamsville, ON
RSVP: event page

• Tuesday, April 9, 9:30 am - 11:30 am:  Toronto Cow Save vigil for the Cows and Lambs at St. Helen’s 'Meat' Packers slaughter plant at 1 Glen Scarlett Road with special guest James Aspey.
RSVP: event page

• Tuesday, April 9, 6 - 7 pm:  KW Animal Save Pig Vigil
RSVP: event page

• Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 - 9:30 am: Toronto Pig Save's Weekly Vigil in Burlington in front of Fearmans 'Pork' Inc. slaughter plant at the corner of Harvester and Appleby Line (right by the Appleby GO train station).
RSVP: event page

• Thursday, April 11, 7 - 10 pm, Toronto Chicken Save Vigil, Maple Leaf "Foods" Inc., 100 Ethel Ave, Toronto
RSVP: event page

• Monday, April 15, 9 - 11 am: Niagara Farm Animal Save and Hamilton Animal Save's Easter Lamb & Cow Vigil, Ryding-Regency "Meat" Packers
RSVP: event page

• Monday, April 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Brampton Chicken Save Evening Vigil and Outreach, Maple Lodge, 8301 Winston Churchill Blvd.
RSVP: event page

• Sunday, April 28, 10 am - 12 pm: Toronto Pig Save Monthly Sunday Vigil for the Pigs in front of Fearmans 'Pork' Inc. slaughter plant at the corner of Harvester and Appleby Line (right by the Appleby GO train station).
RSVP: event page

• Sunday, May 12, 9 am – 2 pm: 2019 Women's March From Fearman's Slaughterhouse
RSVP: event page

• Monday, May 20, 10 am – 12 pm: Toronto Pig Save's Victoria Day Vigil for the Pigs in front of Fearmans 'Pork' Inc. slaughter plant at the corner of Harvester and Appleby Line (right by the Appleby GO train station).
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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For more information or to help and volunteer, please contact torontopigsave@gmail.com
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Climate Save Movement
 
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 change crisis is upon us, and we must urgently rise to mitigate  and reverse it. The great news is that there are new Climate Save groups being formed all around the world!
Please welcome our new chapters:
North America
Climate Save Lower Mainland (Canada). Find them on Facebook and Instagram.
Oceania
Brisbane Climate Save (Australia). Find them on Facebook and Instagram.
Forbes: Animal Agriculture is Worse for the Climate Than Power Generation, Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu Says
"Chu lumped the greenhouse gas emissions from meat and dairy with other agricultural practices, such as fertilizer, and land-use changes, such as deforestation and soil disruption.
He weighted the resulting greenhouse gases for lifetime and potency, showing that emissions from agriculture are a bigger problem than emissions from energy."

Take Action!! Start your own Climate Save group! Visit thesavemovement.org or email us at climatesaveinfo@gmail.com to get started.

Please help by signing our petition. Let's get to 15,000 signatures!
Stop Bolsonaro from destroying the Amazon!
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Lily the Mother Goat
Hi, I'm Lily the Mother Goat. Please follow/like my Instagram and Facebook pages.
 
The cutest baby goats -- would you hurt them?

 

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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Save groups around the world marked World Day for the End of Fishing with vigils and demonstrations:
FINLAND
Helsinki Fish Save came to the central Helsinki square with signs and leaflets "designed to inspire people to think."
ITALY
Watch: Italia Fish Save was at the port near Rome honouring the fish victims and reaching out to the public.
SPAIN
Valencia Fish Save held "a demonstration in the central market square in the morning and urban outreach in the evening."
SWEDEN
Göteborg Fish Save stood for aquatic animals at the Feskekörka Fish market. Please watch.
USA
San Diego Animal Save gave out food and did outreach and chalking at the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market.
Wilmington Fish Save held a demonstration at a busy downtown corner after Wilmington Vegfest.
 
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ASIA
ARMENIA
Armenia is Save's 70th country!
Welcome Yerevan Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.
 
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INDIA
Welcome Bhopal Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.

Also, check out the regional page: The Save Movement India
Watch: At Surat Animal Save's first vigil, "9 lives were saved and are now living peacefully at a local animal sanctuary."
 
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THAILAND
Chiang Mai Animal Save held their first vigil on March 30. Please watch as activists comfort the cows on a truck.
 
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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
AUSTRALIA
Welcome Sunshine Coast Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.
Welcome Gold Coast Animal Save. Find them on Facebook and Instagram.
They held their first vigil on March 31 at a Nerang chicken slaughter plant, but there were no trucks, so they held a protest outside Sea World. Please watch.
 
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NEW ZEALAND
Auckland Animal Save returned to Auckland "Meat" Processors on March 31 to bear witness to the cows killed there by the thousands. "Curious and innocent beings, trucked to slaughter on Sunday. We see you. We know that there is no humane way to end your lives."
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EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Welcome Innsbruck Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.
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BELGIUM
Welcome Waregem Chicken Save. Find them on Facebook.


 
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FINLAND
Finland Fur Animal Save held a protest for fur-bearing animals in Helsinki. Please watch.
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GERMANY
Kiel Animal Save report from their March 22 vigil: "Many pigs understand that something terrible is imminent, probably not concretely, but they feel the stress and the tension. They only know the narrowness, the darkness, the stench. And here you can see that even an animal can give up completely, feel something like hope -- and give up. Your money at the supermarket is responsible!"
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THE NETHERLANDS
Watch: Boxtel Pig Save give the pigs love and water at the Vion slaughter plant on April 1.
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UNITED KINGDOM
Kent Animal Save is now Kent Animal Defenders. They continue to hold live export protests at the Port of Ramsgate. These poor victims were seen during their March 22 vigil.
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LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Welcome San Luis Animal Save - Argentina. Find them on Facebook and Instagram.
Córdoba Animal Save's presence at the slaughter plant is growing. They had a big turnout for their cow vigil.
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COLOMBIA
Welcome Barranquilla Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.
Welcome Tunja Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.

Welcome Cartagena Animal Save. Find them on Facebook.
They held their first vigil on April 2. They report: "We arrived at the gates of the chicken slaughterhouse around 5:30 am, where thousands of innocents  are unjustly killed. We came to say goodbye with compassion; we ask for their forgiveness: forgiveness on behalf of humanity who mistakenly takes them as products, forgiveness for not being able to save them."
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PERU
Cusco Animal Save went inside during their previous visit to the slaughter plant, and Karol Marocho took this footage of a cow being dragged to the kill floor: "Days before our first vigil, activists managed to enter the facilities of the K'ayra slaughterhouse. What happens there may be legal, but it is not humane, much less fair. Don't finance this suffering. Live vegan 🌱"
Please also see images from their second vigil.
 
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NORTH AMERICA
MEXICO
The new Save Latino Tour 2019 - México starts on April 8! Organizers Karol, Maureen and Adriana will visit these cities: Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Mérida, Veracruz, Puebla, Tepoztlán, Cuernavaca, Ciudad de México, Querétaro, Guadalajara, León, Aguascalientes, Durango, Saltillo, Monterrey and Chihuahua.
 
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UNITED STATES
Watch: At Long Island Animal Save's March 23 vigil at Hempstead "Poultry" Farm, activist Amber Alicea captured the scene and reports: "This is all I could get before the slaughterhouse workers kicked us out. But even in this minute you can see the suffering and pain that these chickens go through. I wish we could have stayed longer to comfort them. 💔"

 
Please watch: Windsor-Detroit Farm Animal Save bore witness at Wolverine Packing Co. in Detroit on April 3. "Saying goodbye to the innocent victims of today's needless suffering. This is your Easter Sunday lamb. How can we look at animals who clearly do not want to die and continue to pay for their suffering?"
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Veganuary is great for anyone to get started.

Donate Today!

 

Please consider becoming a Pig Saver, join Toronto Pig Save's Monthly Donor program or give a special, one-time gift.

 
Toronto Pig Save started in December 2010, with a promise to the pigs of doing a minimum of three vigils and vegan outreach events each week, all year round. We bear witness as a community of pigs, cows, chickens and other farmed animal victims in slaughterhouse trucks. The animals want us to be present and, with the most pleading eyes, ask for our help when we see them through the portholes of transport trucks. Just as if we were in those horrid trucks, we would want the whole community to be there fighting for our freedom, liberation, rights, and equality. In a way, we are there. All life is one and, “when (wo)men wish to harm others, they really do evil to themselves,” Leo Tolstoy said in his animal rights story “Esarhaddon, King of Assyria”. It’s our positive duty and obligation to act in the present to try to stop the most egregious injustices before us.
 
"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 her who suffers, and try to help her.” – Leo Tolstoy 
 
In seven years, The Save Movement has grown to over 650 Save groups in 69 countries around the world. Our dream is to have regular vigils at every slaughter plant worldwide. We regularly give seed money to new Save groups and require funds for literature, posters, subway ad campaigns (iVegan.ca) and vegan outreach events.
 
Make animal liberation your priority in life! Think of 10 kind things you can do each day and encourage your friends to do the same! Join us and participate in our weekly vigils, start a Save group in your community, and be a regular donor.
 

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