Action for Animals Austin

Action for Animals will be helping animals while we enjoy SXSW live music! Help us spread a pro-veg message by signing up to volunteer here, dropping by our table for some vegan baked goods, and spreading the word about these vegan-friendly SXSW events to your friends. Let the fun begin...

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This was unexpected and has put a smile on my face for the whole week. The Cove, the documentary about the yearly slaughter of dolphins in a cove on the Japanese coast, received great critical reviews but its subject matter made it disappear from movie houses very quickly upon release. I was surprised that it was nominated due to its gruesome subject and because of its animal rights slant. It was nominated alongside other great...

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On Friday March 19th Action for Animals is partnering with Lazy Smurf and VegAustin to hold a vegan bake sale at Club Deville during the Brooklyn Vegan SXSW day party (see the listing in the Events section).  Bake sales are a great way to reach out to the community.  We can show people that vegan baked goods are delicious and cruelty free.  The money raised from the bake sale will be given to Food for...

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We have been invited to "Sunny Day Farms Animal Sanctuary Visit" on Saturday, March 27 at 10:00am.Event: Sunny Day Farms Animal Sanctuary Visit       "Sunny Day Farms Animal Sanctuary provides much needed sanctuary to farm animals that have been abused, neglected and abandoned."What: Group TripStart Time: Saturday, March 27 at 10:00amEnd Time: Saturday, March 27 at 5:00pmWhere: Sunny Day FarmsTo see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=337865402129&mid=1f79499G28fde5b8G44fab8fG7

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Dunkin' Donuts is having a "Create Dunkin's Next Donut Contest."  Dunkin'Cruelty.com has a suggestion for creating a donut and giving it a vegan name to let Dunkin' know we'd like a vegan option. http://www.dunkincruelty.com/contest/#gallery

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This is an awful tragedy that did not have to happen. It's not the first time, or the last. Tigers turn on their trainers (remember Sigfried and Roy?), bears bite back, and chimps attack. The killer whale involved in today's attach was one of three that had killed another trainer in 1991, at another water park. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/os-seaworld-orlando-shamu-injury-20100224,0,5560011.story This story still continues to make headlines in the media. Please write a letter-to-the-editor of the Austin American-Statesman....

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Hi Everyone - On February 15, 2010, I ran my second Austin Marathon. My time was 4 hours, 16 minutes. That's ten minutes faster than last year, which was my first 26 mile marathon. I think this run on Feb. 15th was harder than last year. I bonked at about mile 20 since fewer neighborhood folks showed up on the curb to hand out snakes...er, snacks. I kept running, slowly, but at about mile 22 I...

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A notice from Karrie Kern: The Rigsby Justice Group on Facebook is having a silent vigil from 12am on Feb 19th to 12am Feb 20th 2010 to observe the lost life of Rigsby, a dog who was beheaded.You maybe asking what these dates mean, Feb 19th will be one month that Rigsby lost his life, Feb 20th is one month that the picture of his beheaded head was posted to the net.Many of us have...

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Hello Everyone - PETA had an op-ed (opinion piece) in yesterday's Austin American-Statesman on how owners exploit purebred dogs as part of the Westminster Dog Show. Click here to read it. Please write polite letters-to-the-editor today about the need to adopt from animal shelters instead of buying from a breeder. Click here to go to the Statesman's online form for letters-to-the-editor. Points to make in your letters: there are plenty of adoptable purebred dogs needing homes at...

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Just read this great article about West Hollywood banning the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores...yay for my home state getting something right!  I wanted to share this in the spirit of what Action for Animals is constantly working towards.  Once we have legislature behind us setting positive precedents like this as well as making the public aware of what they're REALLY supporting when they buy from a pet store, we have some...

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AFA: You're invited to the next Austin Vegan Drinks event at Rio Rita brought to you by VegAustin.com. Be part of the growing vegan scene in Austin, and please invite your friends!  

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Howdy! As some of you might know, Brendan Brazier came to town recently and spoke at Central Market about his approach to a vegan diet. Brendan was a professional Ironman triathlete before developing the "Vega" line of nutritional products and writing "Thrive Diet" based on high-net gain vegan nutrition. For those of you who weren't able to make it Brendan has a site where you can go and sign up to receive a few emails...

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As an avid fan of ice skating (I know, how gay???), I'm always perturbed by the openly gay skater Johnny Weir who consistently wears fur on his costumes.  An article was on the home page of Yahoo today that addresses this issue: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-weir-fur&prov=ap&type=lgns Weir says that it's hypocritical to come at him when every skater wears skates made from cows, which is true, but the flashiness of Weir wearing fox fur on his costume is...

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There's an article today on ABC.com about a Mercy For Animals undercover investigator's footage from a large New York dairy operation.  The article is sympathetic to the cows and includes excruciating footage of tail dockings and dehornings. The dairy trade group says that tail docking is done for cleanliness reasons, while the California director from the Humane Society says it is barbaric and unnecessary.  The article contains the usual quotes from the dairy farmers saying...

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Both the boat rammed by a Japanese vessel and the craft that rescued six activists off Antarctica were bought with donations from the entertainment industry figures. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-m e-whale-boat7-2010jan07,0,4710554.story

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Join fellow Austinites in a vegan bakesale benefit for the people of Haiti on Sunday, January 24 from 12-4PM at Ten Thousand Villages (1317 South Congress). Consider bringing some baked vegan goods or buying some from the table! All proceeds will go to Food for Life Global (FFL), the world's largest nonprofit vegan food relief organization. According to news reports, the Haiti earthquake killed over 111,000 people and left 609,000 people homeless. The U.N. reports...

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It looks like the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) will be working on the ground to help the animals in Haiti. They have developed the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH) to assist in the response efforts, and all animal welfare organizations are invited to join ARCH and direct their financial support to the coalition. Their teams will be working out of a mobile clinic...

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Chris and I hosted a Letter-To-The-Editor-Writing-Party yesterday evening and I'd like to think it was a smashing success.  We filled up on tasty vegan treats, learned about how (and why) to write effective letters, and applied what we learned to writing letters of our own. Check out some photos here. I want to thank everybody who joined us, especially Ernest for presenting the letter-writing workshop.  I hope everybody learned something, has a better understanding of...

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She is a three year old Chihuahua. I've named her Spunky The Monkey. Her motto is "If you've got a face, I want to kiss it!"  

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An Associated Press article with this headline appeared in The Statesman last week (read the article).  It appears to be catching fire.  I typed the headline verbatim into Google and it returned an astonishing 539,000 results -- everyone from major outlets (ABC, CBS, et al) to tiny blogs is carrying the story.  Of course, little in this article is news to our readers (we have known about the devastating consequences of antibiotics in agriculture for a...

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