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Photo By: Larissa Mullen
For the second year in a row, UPC urged the New Hampshire SPCA
(NHSPCA) not to serve animal products at its fundraisers. Animal
protectionists around the country responded to our online alert.
As one shelter director said, "We should not eat whom we
shelter."
UPC learned of the NHSPCA's plan to serve chicken and fish from
animal rights group leader Larissa Mullen, a student at the University
of New Hampshire where the fundraiser was held on Nov. 15th.
Armed with UPC literature Mullen's group held a successful protest.
According to Mullen, "Many people were very supportive. We
got a number of people who were going to the event to take flyers
inside to pass out to other people inside. We actually had someone
who read a flyer come back out and tell us he supported us. The
NHSPCA's webmaster agreed it didn't make sense to post pictures
of adoptable roosters while the society made money off a chicken
dinner."
Politely urge the NHSPCA to serve only vegetarian meals at their
fundraisers. Invite them to read Food for Thought, an Animal Place
booklet with sample vegetarian recipes and policies, and comments
from shelter directors who support humane menus for shelter-sponsored
events. (It's FREE from Animal Place, 3448 Laguna Creek Trail,
Vacaville, CA 95688, Ph: 707-449-4814; fax: 449-8775. AnimalPlace.org.)
Contact
Lisa Dennison, Executive Director
New Hampshire SPCA
PO Box 196
Stratham, NH 03885
Ph: 603-772-2921
Fax: 603-778-7804
Email: Info@NHSPCA.org
Website: www.nhspca.org
Board of Directors
Richard Ford, Chairman
New Hampshire SPCA
108 Portsmouth Avenue
Stratham, NH 03885
Points to make to animal shelters and humane societies
that are still serving meat to raise money:
It is the responsibility of SPCAs and humane societies to help
raise the intrinsic value of animals in people's minds. This translates
into not serving them at shelter-sponsored functions.
Shelters are role models for their community on how to treat
animals. SPCAs need to raise the public's awareness and increase
their sensitivity towards all animals.
Moral consistency is a reasonable goal toward which animal protectionists
must strive. (Imagine if United Poultry Concerns offered a fur
coat to raise money for chickens.)
Charitable donations should not be used to perpetrate cruelty.
SPCAs and humane societies need to be the community leaders in
compassion.
They can no longer ignore this issue. Time is long overdue to
adopt a humane menu, which is as easy as going to the vegetarian
cookbook section of the local bookstores.
Send them copies of UPC cookbooks Instead of Chicken, Instead
of Turkey: A Poultryless "Poultry" Potpourri and
Replacing Eggs (to order, see our merchandise
pages).
For More Information: Contact Animal Place for a copy of Food
for Thought: Adopting an Animal Friendly Menu. This FREE
12-page booklet is the ideal publication to share with your local
shelter (to order, see above).
For Recipes Online:
Compassion Over Killing: www.tryveg.com/recipes.php
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: www.pcrm.org/health/RVSK/RVSK.html
Vegetarian Resource Group: www.vrg.org/recipes/index.htm
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