[4animals] Ribfest demo idea

[ottawa animal advocates]

Since more people have now expressed an interest in doing at least one factory farm/veg*anism demonstration this summer, we would like to consider one with potential for media coverage. Unless someone would like to e-mail me with other ideas for a venue (feel free) the annual Sparks Street Mall International rib cook-off looks like a good bet. The date for this festival is earlier than last year:

>> June 21st to 25th, so unfortunately we would not have too much time to prepare but I think it's possible to still put something together. Some early possible ideas for the demo include:

* 'Characters' representing the cruelty of meat eg. DEVIL (we already have a costume), The GRIM REAPER for meat related diseases in humans and a 'sick planet earth' for destruction of the rainforest and other enviromental consequences related to factory farming/ meat consumption.
(perhaps a little too involved with the time limits..)

* " LETTUCE LADIES AND GUYS" if anyone is willing! (this might be our only close bet for media with factory farming being quite challenging to get coverage for.)

*  A nearly nude person wrapped in cellophane in a giant 'styrofoam' plate with a grocery store type label entitled 'FLESH'...
We are open to other ideas aswell perhaps involving pigs...

Reasonable contributions to the cost of supplies/materials could be discussed at a meeting. If you are interested in collaborating on and joining a ribfest demo, please let me know as soon as possible based on the following options, which meeting date to would work for you (it would be great to also indicate if both would work for you...) and we can plan it based on most peoples' availablility. The location would be the Green Door as it seems to be a good meeting place.

Option 1) Wednesday June 7th, 7:30pm
Option 2) Thursday     June 8th, 7:30pm

This would likely be the only demo of the summer planned by OAA apart from a possible Shrine Circus protest in August.

Thank you!
Victoria



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