Ethical Voice for Animals - Bunny Huggers
54 Manor Place, Edinburgh, EH3 7EH
Web: http://www.ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk 
16th July

Fortnightly update going out to over 1625 subscribers

We skipped our last issue of the newsletter, apologies to our readers. Since our last newsletter, we have lots to report!

The Green Fork workshop in Dundee was a great success, with a few people embracing veganism immediately after! The local group, Angus Veggies and Vegans see new members as and are now planning to organize their own Angus-wide Ethical Living evening! Its fantastic how working together and supporting each other can see such a boom in activity. Check out their website www.angusveggies.org  for upcoming dates and events.

More on our radar already for other parts of Scotland – which we’d report on soon. A call out to everyone in Aberdeen – we are meeting up early August to explore areas of activity, so please get in touch. If you would like to support EVA’s for developing vegan activity across Scotland, please consider making a donation. Photos from a couple of Green Fork events here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=52604&id=1633402112&l=385ca3a013  

Last week also saw us join forces with Glasgow’s Scotland for Animals to raise awareness of their anti-vivisection campaign in Edinburgh. Despite the weather, we had a fantastic response from people. We’d also be attending the Big Tent Festival next week, so if you are around, pop over to our stall and say hello! Set on the beautiful landscape of Falkland Estate in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, Big Tent is a fantastic weekend of music, arts and family activities mixed with stimulating debates on social and green issues.  More about the festival here http://www.bigtentfestival.co.uk/

Our activity within Edinburgh with stalls and protests continues. Our next film in the free film series is Food Inc – a hard hitting look inside the corporate food industry. If you haven’t seen it before, its highly recommended, and showing at the Forest at 8pm on the 26th July.  More dates in the diary.
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Dates for your Diary
http://www.ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/events.php
Send us your events to be listed here info@ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk

The Green Fork
Aberdeen: Meetup: 7 August, 2pm Café 52
Borders: Meetup: TBC
Dundee: Meetup: 22 July, 7pm Wetherspoons, Arborath

Animal Rights Film Series: The Bigger Picture
The Forest, 8pm
26 Jul: Food Inc
6 Sep: Earthlings
11 Oct: Skin Trade (TBC)

Stalls
Please spare a couple of hours to help man a stall and get active for animals!
Edinburgh: Every Saturday, 1pm, meet at Peace and Justice Center.

Demos:
17 Jul: Campaign Against Real-Fur Sporrans
24 Jul: Campaign Against Real-Fur Sporrans
31 Jul: Campaign Against Real-Fur Sporrans
14 Aug: Campaign Against Real-Fur Sporrans
28 Aug: Campaign Against Real-Fur Sporrans

Leafleting Actions:
Email info@ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk
Edinburgh: Every other Monday, 7pm Neighborhood drops. We’d be happy to come to your area and organize one – get in touch
Edinburgh: Various events, get in touch!
Stirling: 19th September, Albert Halls, Albert Place

Check out your local area here http://scottishweddingdirectory.co.uk/index/wedding-fairs-regions and drop us an email and we'd help you get organised with other people and materials!

Next Meeting:
20th July Hendersons, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, 7pm .
Drinks and EVA meeting. Email info@ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk if you are coming
Come along if you are interested in participating in our campaign-planning or simply meeting like-minded folk.

More events here http://www.ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/events.php
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Join us on facebook to support and read all the news and alerts as they come in! http://www.facebook.com/pages/EVA-For-Animal-Rights/344836721189
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The Green Fork: EU has given its members states to choice to grow, restrict or ban GM crops. http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=57465&lang=en GM foods are bad for the environment, bad for the people and animals who consume them and bad for the farmers who have to give in to very very very large agri-businesses. If Monsanto wants to tackle world hunger, they should consider going vegan instead. More here http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=56314&lang=en
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BBC2 aired a couple of episodes on the private lives of cows and chickens. What marvelous animals - they are quick to learn, intelligent, build and maintain relationships, and there's a sense of meaning to their lives - not much different from cats, dogs and primates. But what a big gap in human morality allows us to view these magnificent animals as commodities and eat and wear them. 
Unfortunately BBC failed to highlight the fact that most farmed animals are kept in appalling conditions - and not like those shown in the programme. Questions also need to be addressed about the environmental impact caused by animal farming and global warming. You can still watch these episodes here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s5dvn/The_Private_Life_of..._Cows/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t3tl1/The_Private_Life_of..._Chickens/
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A poem from an EVA supporter, Anita Menzies-Udale, on the hardest working mother on the planet – the humble cow.  http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/shownotice.php?articleid=101
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News is that Camel milk will be hitting the shelves of supermarkets in the UK soon. See http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=57391&lang=en
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10 Movies That Will Make You Go Vegetarian: From Babe to Night of the Chicken Dead! http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=57393&lang=en
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New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK: They consist of a 20-point checklist of essential information that the NC3Rs believes should be included in publications reporting animal research. http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=57447&lang=en Guidelines are all good. What we need is, a good strong new European Law. The bad news - the new EU Law that everyone campaigned to be strengthened last year, does nothing to improve conditions in the UK. Unfortunately, it goes to show the how powerful the animal experimentation industry is, bottom line is, if you feel that animal testing has to stop, you need to do something to stop it! Get active.
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God save the Bears! PETA have obtained video footage which documents that hunters made racist jokes and laughed as they skinned the corpse of a black bear – which (who knows?) could end up on the head of one of The Queen's Guards. Read more along with link to video and an action alert http://ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk/articles.php?id=57310&lang=en
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To the animals we pledge, we hear your cries and we are coming,

See you tomorrow,

Eva

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