Veggie Pride
We are animals and stand in solidarity with all animals!
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What is the Veggie Pride?
The Veggie Pride is a demonstration held each year since 2001 in France, and since 2008 in Italy.
Its purpose is to express publicly the existence of those who refuse to eat animals and their solidarity with the victims of animal exploitation and slaughter.
The 2009 edition will be held on May 16 in Lyon (France), in Milan (Italy) and in Prague (Czech Republic).
International definition of the Veggie Pride
1. The demonstration must be centered on the refusal to eat animals out of regard for the animals. Other motives to be a vegetarian — the environment, health, the third world... — must be either left out altogether or be given a clearly subordinate status.
2. The Veggie Pride must be a demonstration of individuals, who come to demonstrate as individuals. Associations and other groups may be present, but in a subordinate manner, for instance by participating in activities organized outside of the main demonstration.
3. Those individuals come to express the fact that they do not eat animals out of regard for the animals; and that they deem that right.
4. The participation in the demonstration is open to any person who refrains from eating animals out of regard for the animals (whether or not that person has additional motives to be vegetarian).
5. The demonstration asks society to accept an open debate on the issue of the consumption of meat in relation to the violence that it implies against the animals.
6. The demonstration is non violent, and, if possible, legal.
The next Veggie Pride demos will be held Saturday May 16, 2009 in Lyon, Milan and Prague.
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