Animals are Not Ours to Use.
For any purpose.
August 26, 2023
1:00pm / Berczy Park
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Join us again this year for a march for our fellow animals who are trapped, right now, in slaughterhouses, warehouses, laboratories, circuses and zoos, crates, and chains around the world. Those who are used, killed, tormented, and violated by humans but have no way to defend themselves or escape the hands that hurt and kill them.
Mark your calendars for August 26 at 1pm at Berczy Park on Wellington Street. We must unite for them! One day, one voice for animals.
Toronto Animal Rights 2023 Shirts Pre-order / $30
We have available for pre-order a very limited edition red t-shirt with a powerful artwork of a pig witnessed during the #porgreg12 farm occupation by Jenny McQueen, and graphic artwork by Louise Jorgensen, on the front. Text on the back “Animals are not ours to use” theme by Mary-Chris Staples.
NOTE: We will have sizes S - XL. Please contact us regarding other sizes.
Shirts have front and back image and text on high quality unisex Bella + Canvas shirts for $30 each.
Pre-order by sending a $30 e-transfer to louisejorgensen127@gmail.com with your name, requested size, and where you want to pick up (see below) or any inquires.
Proceeds from t-shirt sales will be split between a sanctuary and toward next year’s Toronto Animal Rights March materials.
Two ways to pick up your pre-paid shirt:
Wishbone Animal Rights Lab on Sunday August 20 at the sign making event or
at the march opening ceremony.
Note: we have a limited amount of shirts. Don’t be disappointed! Order soon.
Anthem for Animals | Gaia’s Eye
Anthem for Animals | Gaiaisi
The Route
The route: we will be starting and ending at Berczy Park on Wellington Street. | Google Map
The Agenda
1:00 pm : Gathering at Berczy Park on Wellington Street for opening ceremony and preparation.
2:00 pm : We’ll march the route with some actions along the way. (see map above)
4:00 pm: Return to Berczy Park for closing ceremony and return march materials.
What to Bring
Water
Sunscreen & Hat
Signs: we will be lending out some signs and banners but because we don’t have a cash flow, we’re asking attendees to create signs with animal liberation messages with words that might include: Peace, Justice, Non Violence, Animal Rights, Liberation, Equality for Animals
Megaphone if you have one
A friend: Animals need us there in huge numbers!
Bicycle: we welcome attendees to ride their bikes if the walk is too long. We will ask bike riders to group at the back of the march.
Who Not to Bring
Animal companions: Important! Please leave them at home. A loud march and hot weather is not a pleasant experience for dogs or other animals and we are there, after all, to end their suffering not cause it.
Why and Who we will be marching for.
Speciesism - the Reason
Speciesism is the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of non-human animals. It is a human-held belief that all other animal species are inferior to us. Speciesist thinking involves considering animals - who have their own desires, needs, and complex lives - as means to human ends. This supremacist line of “reasoning” is used to defend treating other living, feeling beings as property or objects. It’s a bias rooted in denying others their own agency, interests, freedom, and self-worth - often for personal gain.
Science - the Victims
Animal testing is archaic and now has so many non-animal alternatives, but the universities are well funded to continue.
Food - the Victims
Animals deemed “food” suffer inside “farms” with no laws protecting them. Drive through Ontario - where are the pigs, the chickens? They’re stuffed inside white warehouses that regularly burn down with the animals still inside. Baby calves are separated from their mothers on dairy farms and languish in plastic crates.
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur | We Animals Media
Transport - the Victims
Cows, pigs, chickens are transported across Canada in all extremes of weather - the blistering heat of summer, and the frigid cold of winter. They arrive at the slaughterhouse to face a frightening death: pigs are lowered into a gas chamber, chickens, turkeys and ducks are hung upside down to have their necks slit open, and cows receive a bolt to their heads.
Photo: Louise Jorgensen | Toronto Cow Save
Breeding - the Victims
Dogs, supposedly loved the most, suffer awful use - via horrific puppy mills, sled dog operations and even inside laboratories. Deemed property in Canadian law, the authorities seem powerless to remove dogs from these situations.
Fashion - the Victims
Fur farms are petri dishes where the coronavirus has been seen to mutate - while minks, foxes, rabbits, and more, suffer in the most horrific ways - all for a fashion item that nobody needs.
Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur | We Animals Media
Ocean - the Devastation
The oceans are being devastated by massive industry trawlers that destroy the wildlife and fauna of our oceans, which are also being polluted by the run off from animal agriculture and from fish “farms”.
Land - the Destruction
Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and animal agriculture is guilty of razing trees for grazing land and to grow soy to feed billions of animals so that we can eat them.
Allies
Toronto Cow Save
Nation Rising
Direct Action Everywhere Toronto
Animal Rights Toronto
Toronto Anti-Vivisection Alliance
Toronto Chicken Save
Fur Free Toronto
Toronto Pig Save
Plant Based Treaty
Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank
Toronto Climate Save
Toronto Health Save
Photo: Jenny Henry