Saturday 16 May, Lyon, Milan and Prague, will be the Veggie Pride!

* Saturday 16 May, Lyon, Milan and Prague, will be the manifestation of vegetarian and vegan pride: the Veggie Pride! * ** On 16 May, vegetarians and vegans of all nationalities fill the streets of Lyon, Milan and Prague to participate in the Veggie Pride. Their goal: to express their pride in not eating meat and other animal products, and denounce the massacre of hundreds of billions of animals each year worldwide. * What is the Veggie Pride * ** The Veggie Pride Parade is taking place in France every year since 2001, in Italy since 2008 and in the Czech Republic this year for the first time, it brings together people who do not eat meat and other animal products for the sake of the interests of animals. The purpose of Veggie Pride is to encourage these people to assume their refusal to eat animals and to express it publicly. In fact, many vegetarians prefer to go unnoticed, hoping to escape the teasing and the stigma, or they hide the side of the controversy their choice, advancing reasons more consensual, such as preservation of the environment or health. The Veggie Pride aims to encourage vegetarians to openly express their pride in being vegetarian for the animals and to oppose animal exploitation. [image: grenier.veggiepri / 7BF950FF. jpg] * The biggest massacre in history * ** On 16 May, vegetarians and vegans denounce suffering animals slaughtered for human consumption. In 2007, in France alone, one billion animals were slaughtered *. Farms in the world, run the lives of billions of calves, chickens, pigs, cows' milk, hens' eggs, in conditions that transform their existence of a permanent hell: imprisonment in tiny cages, overcrowding, dirt, mutilation, separation of mothers from their young ... Then, travel to endless death: these animals are killed few months of life, then they could live the years. In Veggie Pride, vegetarians and vegans claim their proud to have said no to the concentration camp system. "This event makes clear that some continue to deny: we can live without exploiting animals - says one of the organizers, Sara Ferge, 26 years, teacher - The presence at the Veggie Pride of hundreds of people claim that their refusal to kill an animal for the pleasure of taste shows that eating meat is not a necessity and is even a serious ethical problem. " [image: grenier.veggiepri / 7BF95125. jpg] * Fees for vegetarians * ** The Veggie Pride, vegetarians and vegans demanding rights. Indeed, the oppression of nonhuman animals also results violation of the rights normally afforded to human beings. Among these include: the right to eat properly and in canteens in any community, the right to medical information and impartial appropriate, the right to respond to those who attack them in media. These rights of vegetarians are all the more valuable they are the only animals that can now indirectly own. * Parents and children solidaires animals * * * In 2009, for the first time in France, the parade is providing the visibility to vegetarian and vegan families. Parents claim the right to raise their children without imposing the products of the slaughterhouse. Children wear their solidarity towards animals: love is not to eat them. "Unlike to what some believe prejudices, vegetarianism does not remove "deprive" the child - said Laure, 29, mother of a little girl of two and a half years - Children love animals, if they knew what they were actual data, they would be shocked. If you can not explain lie to your child from which a meal, there is a problem. " [image: grenier.veggiepri / 7BF9514B. jpg] * * In Lyon, rendez-vous le 16 mai à 14h00 Terreaux place. The procession cross the peninsula and is dotted with various happenings, to place finish of the Republic, which stands to offer manifestants and pass on information about vegetarianism or animal condition. Contact: 06 77 02 29 53 (David Olivier); 06 15 11 18 80 (Sara FERG). More information: www.veggiepride. fr. * Information developed from data from the Office Livestock