Meeting Reminder, Protest Sunday, and Morningstar Farms
1. Next BARC Meeting 3-5-07
2. Demo: March of Dimes at UCF
3. Action: Morningstar Farms
1. Next BARC Meeting
What? Official BARC Meeting
When? Monday, March 5th
5:00 pm
Where? Gazebo between the Washington Center and Phillips Hall
This meeting will mainly focus on our Meetout 2007 event for Wednesday, March 21st. This is THE event of the semester, and will require a lot of work to get it together, so we need everyone’s help since it’s less than a month away. Here is a quick description of our plans that will soon appear on the Meetout Events page along with other actions around the world:
BARC will create a visual display depicting the number of animals slaughtered per day/hour/minute/second in the US. This display will be walked around campus as we pass out literature and talk to people about factory farming. The display will be something like THIS, only with each page on the long string representing a certain percentage of factory farmed animals.
Also, a BIG thank you to everyone who helped out Monday morning for the all-vegan breakfast at the Honors College (and those who came and ate)! We will be doing these breakfasts the last Monday of every month, so spread the word because the next one is March 26th. 
2. Demonstration Against March of Dimes Cruelty THIS Sunday
What? Demo Against UCF KnightWalk 2007
When? Sunday, March 4th
2:00 pm
Where? UCF Reflection Pond
This Sunday, UCF is hosting KnightWalk 2007, in conjunction with other Walk America events around the country to raise money for the March of Dimes. However…
Most people are unaware that the March of Dimes funds cruel
animal experiments. Common experiments have included vivisectors sewing kittens’ eyes shut, implanting wires into pregnant monkeys’ uteruses, and administering cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol to pregnant rats. The participants in this walk need to know that every dollar spent to harm these animals is a dollar that could–and should–have been used to help people.
That’s why BARC is joining forces with ARFF this Sunday. We need your help handing out leaflets and stickers to walkers, and holding signs as they turn in their donations at this event. If you would like to make your own sign, meet us in front of the Math & Physics Building at 1:30pm (we’ll have poster board and markers).
Can’t Make it This Sunday? We Still Need Your Help…
Everyone should send a quick email to:
Lauren Meyer, Executive Student Director, UCF
KnightWalk, UCFKnightWalk@yahoo.com
We need to make it clear that we, as UCF students, do not approve of this walk to benefit the March of Dimes until they end their cruel and unnecessary animal experiments. What to stress in your email: Urge Lauren Meyer to consider organizing next years’ walk for a more ethical organization. If Ms. Meyer is so concerned with helping save babies lives, there are far better organizations working toward this goal, such as Easter Seals and Birth Defect Research for Children, which do so by leaving these ineffective and costly animal experiments out of the equation.
Let’s flood her email with our polite, yet demanding voices, and then show up at the protest!
3. ACTION: Morningstar Farms is No Friend to Chickens
Compassion Over Killing and Vegan Outreach are teaming up with compassionate people everywhere to ask Morningstar Farms® to stop using eggs in its product line.
Morningstar Farms®, which is owned by the Kellogg® company, was approached in September 2005 about its use of eggs in its products, all of which come from hens confined inside barren wire battery cages. Battery caged hens are typically provided with a meager 67 square inches of space in which to live—that’s less than the size of one sheet of notebook paper. These birds are so intensively confined for their entire lives that they are denied their natural inclinations to spread their wings, perch, preen, or even walk.
Morningstar Farms® has long been a leader in supplying delicious vegetarian foods to a growing market. Let them know that the market also wants them to remove their support from the cruel battery egg industry and encourage them to join with companies like Gardenburger®, which last year announced it has taken eggs out of all its products except for one private-sourced item.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Please contact Morningstar Farms® and politely request that they remove eggs from their products. Let them know one of their biggest competitors, Gardenburger®, has already made this decision for all but one of its products.
1. Submit Your Comments Online
Send your polite and thoughtful comments directly to Morningstar Farms® using our online form.
2. Make a Call: 1-800-962-1413
Call Kellogg®’s customer feedback hotline at 1-800-962-1413, Mon. thru Thurs. 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. or Fri. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m, Eastern Standard Time.
1. Say: “Representative.”
2. Press 2 for product information
3. Press 1 for general inquiries
3. Write a Letter to:
Morningstar Farms®
c/o Kellogg® Consumer Affairs
P.O. Box CAMB
Battle Creek, MI 49016
Thank you so much! Our efforts can help free many hens from horrible lives in battery cages.
If you have a question about anything, email copresidents@barcdontbite.org, and you will get a prompt response.