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 ** On Tuesday 27th March we are holding a 2012 campaign planning meeting.If you want to join us, we’ll be at Henderson’s, Hanover St, Edinburgh from 6.30pm.

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Compassionate Living Fayre 2011

Thankyou to all who came to the Compassionate Living Fayre on Saturday 12th November. We had a fantastic day – with over 700 people coming through the doors to learn more about animal rights and veganism and to try the wonderful vegan food. We raised a record amount thanks to our kind sponsors, stall holders and donations throughout the day which will make sure we can continue the good work of EVA in future campaigns and future Fayres.

For more info and photos, click here.

If you have any photographs of the day, please share them with us by sending them to: info@ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk

Want to volunteer with EVA?

We are always looking for new volunteers who are passionate about animal rights and want to make a difference. All are welcome at our meetings so please contact info@ethicalvoiceforanimals.org.uk to find out more or to register your interest.

Kind to Animals?

We may think that we are kind to animals, after all we are kind to pets, we give to animal charities and we buy ethically.

The main aim of multi-national companies  is to make money. They try to break the link between living animals and what ends up on your plate. What ends up as a meal started as a living, thinking, breathing sentient creature, not too dissimilar from ourselves.

Their only fault is that they are a different animal species from us and considered less intelligent.  We have been conditioned by big business and our parents to think that they taste good and that to be healthy we must eat them.

Think about it carefully………why eat them?

Would we eat members of our own species because they are less intelligent or because they are ugly?

We keep animal companions as “pets” who often become part of our families – would we eat THEM? – then why eat other animals who simply look different? We at EVA think that they have the same right to life as we do.

Consumers are reassured by the words “free range” and “organic” and mistakenly believe they are buying superior food from sources where animals are treated well. Many organic/free range chicken farms cram thousands of animals into sheds or mud-filled areas. Free range animals still suffer  horrendous cruelties, e.g., the debeaking of chicks, the live plucking of  geese and the dehorning of calves. Animals are trucked to the same slaughterhouses as factory farmed livestock. There is no such thing as “humane” meat. We believe using an animal for food is a violation of its right to life and a life free from suffering.

Animal Experimentation – lets end it!
We believe that we do not have the right to imprison, hurt and kill animals for the sake of our own health. Because people have long believed that the supposed ‘inferiority’ of animals gave us such rights, vivisection (animal experimentation) has been going on for hundreds of years, at a tremendous cost in suffering millions of animals. Humane scientists have developed effective non-animal methods (see, for example, www.drhadwentrust.org). But as a result of the ideological commitment to vivisection, such research has been starved of funds and powerful obstacles have been placed in the way of licensing and adopting the new methods. We must pressure the government and the EU to replace animal experiments with ethical alternatives.

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