Ottawa Veg²!

A protest against KFC's ongoing cruel treatment of chickens has been planned for Wednesday April 7th, 4:00pm at the KFC store at 690 Bank Street in the Glebe. (Bus #1, 6, or 7)

Information as to whether people should bring their own signs will be provided at least 5 days before the protest.

Please forward all questions and/or ideas to Victoria

For more information on KFC Cruelty:

So.. not all the news is fun stuff but there is some facinating things in the Animal Quirkies secton of Ananova.com.
Examples:
Bull finds way to dead owner's grave
'Telepathic' parrot sparks rethink
Llamas leap to injured farmer's defence
Squirrel helps burglary police crack the case
Monkey troop rescue their orphan from police station

Next Monthly Meeting of the Ottawa Animal Advocates is on Thursday March 18, 2004 at 7:30pm at the Wild Oat Cafe located 817 Bank St, corner of Fourth Ave. (613) 232-6232. On Bus Routes #1 and #7.

Meetings of the OAA are held at the Wild Oat on the third Thursday of every month. Come out and see what the OAA is up to and enjoy Wild Oat's great vegetarian and vegan fare!
For more information please e-mail Victoria.

Animal Rights 101
Discussion groups for people new to animal rights or who are interested in learning about animal rights are being planned for the near future. Please contact Ottawa Animal Advocates if you are interested in attending an animal rights information session.

Ottawa Animal Advocates is a grassroots, education-based Animal Rights group. Activities include discussion, letter-writing and a variety of animal rights related campaigns.

On the right there is a link to an events calendar which will show you at a glace what is happening when. If you have anything you think should be added to the events calender e-mail me.

Vote for a venue now.

The Food Blog has been updated. Products are chosen mostly based on taste rather than nutritional value. If any "nutritionist" here wants to comment on the nutritional value of the product, please send me an email!

Organic, fair-trade coffee... this should tempt you coffee lovers.
For someone like me, they now have something even more enticing: free wireless internet, as well as several power outlets for laptops. This is only available right now at their HQ location in the Glebe on Fifth Ave.

Please join Canadians for the Advancement of Health Research for a symposium on "Alternatives to Animal Testing and Experimentation in the 21st Centry". The event will be held March 27th at the University of Ottawa, Pavillon Colonel By, room CO3, 161 Louis Pasteur from 9:00 am to
7:00 pm. Admission is free and pops, coffee, tea, cookies, veggie sandwiches will be provided (didn't say whether they were vegan or not). List of lectures is here. For more information or to reserve a place, please contact cahr@videotron.ca.

I received this info from Lynne. If anyone goes, she would love to hear about it, as would I.

Forwarded by OAA: On Monday, March 8, the House of Commons voted to bring back before Parliament the amendments to the animal cruelty provisions of the Criminal Code. The Bill, formerly known as C-10B, will now be referred to as Bill C-22.

Alison, Tracey, Ildiko

Caroline, Michael, Alan

Len, Louise, Victoria

Edelweiss, Adinne


March 6th Vegan Meetup:

Tasha, Alex, Mal, Louise, Kyle, Alex, Natalie, and Draven.

From last months vegetarian meetup:

Teresa, vaalea, Tracey, Michael, Louise, Victoria, Stephen, Kit, Manu, Sarah?? (I'm so embarassed, I really tried to remember your name. Tell me!)

Pictures from the Wednesday protests!!

Come out to the Circus protest, and then right after join the meetup up Bank Street at The Wild Oat. If you would like to participate regularily, please sign up at vegetarian.meetup.com and vegan.meetup.com.

Garden Brother's Circus will be at Lansdowne Park on March 9 and 10th.
We will be meeting to protest the circus at 3:45-4:15pm and 6:30-7:30pm both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please bring your own signs!
Lansdowne is located on Bank Street by the canal. Both Bus#1 and #7 go up Bank Street from the Rideau Centre.