Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
Are you veggie or vegan for the animals ?
Come to the Veggie Pride !
http://www.veggiepride.org/en/
Meeting in Paris, Saturday the 20th of May 2006 at 2 pm, in front of the Beaubourg Centre (Centre G. Pompidou, Paris 4th city district ; Subway station Rambuteau, Line 11).
Details on the course of this day are at the end of this message!
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Manifesto of the Veggie Pride
Veggie Pride, festival of vegetarian and vegan pride
Our aims :
To declare our pride at refusing to have animals killed for our consumption
To refuse to rob sentient beings of their sole possessions, of their very flesh, of their very lives; to refuse to take part in a concentration camp system which turns their short lives into perpetual torment; to refuse to do all of this for the mere pleasure of the palate, for the satisfaction of a habit, of a tradition: To refuse to do such things should be just plain decency.
However, history does show how difficult it is, when barbarity is the social norm, to simply say No.
We wish to declare our pride at saying No.
To denounce vegephobia
Instead, they want us to feel ashamed. Vegetarianism is concealed, ignored, mocked, marginalized and even defamed.
Vegetarianism challenges the legitimacy of the confinement and slaughter of billions of animals. Just by existing it breaks the law of silence. This is the reason behind vegephobic mockery and hatred.
Of course vegetarianism is tolerated when it is the harmless sort that claims to be no more than a private choice, a matter of distaste for meat or of concern for personal health or the environment. But woe betides us if we openly challenge the barbarous order!
At first we are laughed at. Caring about chickens and cows is supposed to be ridiculous. Laughing at a disturbing idea is a way to get rid of it without having to find logical arguments against it.
But if we do not give in, the laughter turns sour. At first they found us funny, now they call us monsters. We are traitors to the human species since we would limit its rights. We are unworthy parents for not teaching our children the joys of dead flesh. If we care for animals we must be Nazi sympathizers since Hitler too loved dogs. Our ideas are those of an intolerant cult since they are different from what others believe.
We are called terrorists; accused of worshipping nature or of breaking its laws. No argument is too farfetched when it comes to misrepresenting our ideas, putting us to shame and symbolically
rejecting us from society.
We refuse to apologize for our compassion. We are proud to declare that we are vegetarians. We are no longer willing to feel shame for refusing to kill. We are here; we are well alive and thinking and will speak out.
To proclaim our existence
All over the world we are millions of humans saying No to this carnage. Few civilizations have actually taken for granted that eating animals is justified. But when do you hear about those debates? Mentions of vegetarianism are systematically missing in textbooks and biographies.
"The man who eats meat or the hunter who agrees with the cruelties of Nature, upholds with every bite of meat or fish that might is right." - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize in Literature.
By stepping forth we also prove that it is possible to live without meat. We live without eating cows or pigs, chicken or fish or prawns. And we are as alive and healthy as anyone else, despite those media-promoted "specialists" whose science consists of denying the facts. Neither vegetarianism nor Veganism (which rejects all animal products, including milk and eggs) has any particular negative effects on health - indeed; current studies tend to show the opposite!
There is no spell that says that to live one must kill. We are not obliged to do so, neither individually nor collectively. Animal husbandry does not provide food, since farm animals eat much more than their dead flesh can render. Despite this, massive public funding supports animal farming and fishing.
To defend our rights
No rights are granted to the animals that are raised and killed for food; but we who stand on their side do have rights, in principle. We are determined to exercise our rights in full, because they are our rights, and because they are theirs - the only rights that they may today, indirectly, enjoy.
We have the right to receive decent meals at school, at work and wherever meals are served to groups of people. We have the right to raise our children without forcing upon them the products of the
slaughterhouse.
We are not willing to have our taxes used to support the raising and killing and the fishing for the tastes of others.
We are no longer willing for our actions and our ideas to be systematically silenced. We no longer accept that the only public voices should be those of the corporations and intellectuals who defend the consumption of flesh.
We demand an open debate.
"We are the mirror of your guilty consciences
and this mirror will no longer hide"
Faced with images of heaps upon heaps of animals "destroyed" for case of bird flu, BSE or foot-and-mouth disease, we alone felt no shame. We were not shameful for ourselves. But we felt shame for all others.
Above all, we were sad. However much we insist on asserting our pride in saying No to barbarity, this brings us no satisfaction. The animals are slaughtered by the billions. They are held to be dumb, their cries do not count. We shall speak out for them until the massacre halts.
We are animals
and stand in solidarity with all animals!
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Practical details and other informations
The Veggie Pride is a demonstration open to any person who does not eat the animals. Concerning this restriction, check out our Frequently Asked Questions.
• 2.30 pm : start of the demonstration
We ask that the slogans, signs and streamers be exclusively centred on the vegetarianism or vegetarianism for the animals. The Veggie Pride being a demonstration of individuals expressing their pride to be vegetarians or vegans for the animals, we ask that no initials or name of organization be reproduced on the streamers and signs.
• 4 pm : Arrival at the « Fontaine des Innocents » (fountain of the innocent ones)
End of the procession and installation of a "happening" symbolizing the ocean of suffering and death imposed daily on the animals.
• 4.30 pm - 5 pm : Happening
The demonstration and the happening will be declared in prefecture in accordance with the law.
• From 5.30 pm : Various activities
• 7.30 pm : Start of the after-pride
A party will take place, further details will be given subsequently on our website. Possibility of accommodation or housing amongst inhabitants of Paris.
To come to the Veggie Pride :
The SNCF (the French Railway company) proposes worthwhile tariffs for the tickets taken two months in advance.
To know if a grouped departure is planned from your area, you can contact our regional delegates.
A small ads service is also at your disposal for your requests of car sharing, accommodation, etc. Do not hesitate to use it.
Sign the Manifesto of the Veggie Pride ! Independently of your participation in the Veggie Pride, we invite you to read the text of the Manifesto (see below) and, if you agree with it, to declare that
by signing it.
You can sign it on the Web
You will also be able to sign it yonder, during the demonstration.
To make a donation to the Veggie Pride
Any donation, even minor, will be very welcome.
You can also subscribe to the circulation list by sending a blank email or on the website.
Help us to make known the Veggie Pride by broadcasting this message to your contacts!
By wishing you numerous with us on May the 20th,
The organizers of the Veggie Pride.
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
We were like 300 people last year. Hope more people feel concerned in 2006 so that we're a bit more numerous.
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
Merci encore pour ton engagement Alizée!
I hope we'll be much more of course this year and we're doing our very best for it! So if anybody need further informations, feel free to contact me.
All the best,
Christophe
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
I would love to go to this and maybe if it is on next year I will go.
I'm off to teh Leeds Vegan Fayre on May21st so wouldnt make it back on time lol.
Have fun everybody going though :)
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
I wish they'd do this in London.
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
Too far away from me :( Wish I could be there..
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
is there someone that has a bedplace for me? i can sleep on the floor too
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
I would go if I had anyone from Sweden to go with..
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veggiewoman
I'm off to the Leeds Vegan Fayre on May 21st so wouldnt make it back on time lol.
We could have our own veggie pride march, how funny would that be. People wouldn't have a clue what we were doing.
By the way this isn't a suggestion i'm not doing it.
Re: Veggie Pride : May 20th 2006 in Paris
Hi!
Sorry for haven't been replying for yonks, I had loads of work to do for school and for Veggie Pride.
I've finished to translate the new pages on the website, then you could look at http://www.veggiepride.org/en/datelieu.php and http://www.veggiepride.org/en/after.php
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I would love to go to this and maybe if it is on next year I will go.
I'm off to teh Leeds Vegan Fayre on May21st so wouldnt make it back on time lol.
Have fun everybody going though :)
That's a pitty that they do the Vegan Fayre on the same day... :rolleyes:
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animalsvoice
I would go if I had anyone from Sweden to go with..
Hey animalsvoice, you could find other veggies to come along with you, I've add your address to my MSN contact list, I'll try to put you through veggie fellows from Scandinavia. Or try to meet veggies on the web from Sweden that you could travel with them...
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Tray
is there someone that has a bedplace for me? i can sleep on the floor too
Of course we'll have places for people to sleep, either in Montreuil, just after the after-pride Party, in CASA, look here for further details. Or either you could find a parisian demonstrator who will accomodate you. There is some parisian on the veganforum, or if you would prefer a place with bedding, pillow and mattress, then it's better to try to find a parisian demonstrator. I know dozens of them, feel free to contact me by MSN, I would prefer (I receive about 30 mails a day, excluding spams).
Hope to see some of you on the 20th of May,
All the best,
Christophe
looking for a vegan roommate in Paris, FRANCE
Hi,
the titles says it all, I have an extra room and would rather share my place with a fellow vegan.
It is a 2 bedroom flat, with kitchen, living room, toilet, bathroom, cable TV and broadband internet.
Located in the 13th arrondissement.
Available now
Re: Vegan labelling in France?
hey, auntierozzi - this is a bit of topc, but i'm going to france on the 10th of february, and we're gonna be in paris for the whole day, before we go to caen, where we have some friends. are there anywhere in paris, you could recomment? like a vegetarian restaurant, with good vegan choices? or a kind of food we just MUST try? or other goodies? i'd really like to know, since my french is crappy. i would also be really grateful, for a list of french words like: eggs, milk, lactose, meat and other stuff that is non-vegan.. it would help us a lot! thanks in advance.. i would also give you a big virtual hug, if you can add anything i need to know! it is so hard to face the travelling-to-a-non-english-speaking-country, as a vegan, as all i can speak is english and danish.. now is the time i think i should just have studied a bit harder in french-class:D
/Smoothie
Re: Vegan labelling in France?
I was in Paris recently but had a lot of trouble finding food. I found a takeaway in the Latin quarter and the 'bio' shops were really great. Mostly, I ate falafel rolls from turkish shops. You can get some killer non-dairy gelato.
Re: Vegan labelling in France?
Smoothie, I don't know if you can get this where you are but, it might be of help to you, if you can.
Oooooo and look what else I found! http://www.vegetarianguides.co.uk/sa...einparis.shtml
Re: Vegan labelling in France?
Hi Smoothie,
I live near to Caen and the best place for shopping with nice vegan icecream and soya products, and alternative 'milks' is the Jonathan Biocoop in Herouville Saint-Clair. Yorbo told me that there were a couple of really nice Chinese restaurants which do vegan dishes in Paris. They are in the 13th arrondissment which is the China Town in Paris. Yorbo please can you remind me of the names!! Thankyou! Also Harpy knows some good macrobiotic places in Paris. I don't get there very often.
Things on your 'to avoid' list...Eggs/ Oeufs, Viande/ Meat (ask about all salads they usually have.....Lardons/bacon pieces, Fish/Poissons, Prawns/Crevettes.....Liver/Fois, ...Cheese/Fromage.
To say 'without' you says 'sans'..eg. 'sans oeufs' without egg.
I have found that Italian restaurants around here are more flexible about preparing something with nuts rather than cheese etc...Noix is walnuts, noisettes, hazelnuts.
The best thing to do is try and get to a market where you will find good fresh veggies to make things yourself. There is an excellent market in Caen on Friday morning.
Have a great time. I hope that you manage to do plenty of exciting things and are not too fed up with French restaurants!
All the best.