EXPERT TALK SUCCESSFUL
The new Auckland SAFE office had its first public meeting on 27 May with over 20 people in attendance. Expert speakers Michael Bourke, a personal trainer, and Leila Masson, a pediatrician, covered ways to get the best out of a vegan diet, highlighting issues relating especially to children and fitness.
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03 June 2008
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SAFE STAGES ACTIONS AGAINST GLOBAL ANIMAL TESTER
Saturday 17th May marked the international day of action against Procter & Gamble, one of the largest animal testers in the world that produces household products, cosmetics and food items. SAFE staged successful nationwide actions and stalls in Whangarei, Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Palmerston North, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin to highlight P & G's shameful animal-testing record.
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19 May 2008
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WHANGAREI WHITCOULLS ROCKS!
SAFE was fortunate enough to have a window display in a central Whangarei Whitcoulls bookstore recently.
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13 May 2008
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PIGS IN INVERCARGILL!
SAFE campaign officer Sacha Dowell and local SAFE volunteers hit the streets of Invercargill recently dressed as pigs to ask local residents to sign postcards to be sent to local MP Eric Roy. Over 60 postcards were signed in a few hours and posted off to Mr Roy asking him to help New Zealand's factory farmed pigs.
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28 April 2008
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SAFE GOES TO SCHOOL
Experienced SAFE members Deirdre Sims and Marianne MacDonald have begun offering presentations to school students around the Auckland region.
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28 April 2008
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VEGETARIAN QUIZ MASTERS
Did you know that a snail travels at 58cm per hour? That they eat more ice cream in Alaska than anywhere else in America and that Ugly Betty's smile is insured for $10 million? No? Well neither did we...but this didn't stop the SAFE team from winning the recent Christchurch Vegetarian Society Quiz night.
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28 April 2008
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SAFE CENTRES ACTIVE AROUND NEW ZEALAND
Campaign officer Sacha Dowell reports on some of the things our wonderful SAFE volunteer groups around the country have been getting up to lately... • Nelson SAFE held a stall at the Festival Of Opportunities in late February to raise awareness of animal rights issues and to sell merchandise. Our ‘Love Pigs not Pork' bags were popular as always and many vegetarian recipe booklets were handed out. A SAFE promotional video dubbed to a Moby soundtrack attracted a lot of interest. Soyworks kindly sponsored the stall.
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08 April 2008
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INSPIRATIONAL TEAM VEGAN
SAFE was represented by staff members Amanda Sorrenson and Eliot Pryor in Team Vegan's first ever Round the Bays run in Auckland recently. Wearing distinctive green racing tops to stand out among about 70,000 others, Team Vegan tore up the track and had a great time doing it.
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23 March 2008
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CHICKEN RUN!!
In a possible world first, astronomy student and SAFE volunteer David Klein put the case for a battery egg-free Canterbury University by racing up eleven flights of stairs during the university's annual Library Tower Race.
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23 March 2008
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SAFE AT WILDFOODS FESTIVAL 2008
SAFE organised another very successful vegan food stall at the 2008 Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika. Meaty Vegan Gonads (deep-fried battered soy sausages and soy balls) were on the menu again and all 700 items sold out well before the end of the day! Christchurch SAFE volunteers were joined by our fantastic Greymouth crew to make and sell the tasty vegan challenge to hungry festival-goers.
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23 March 2008
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