Me: Vegan

A trip to your local Veterinary Emergency Room is never farther than one curious nibble away.  If you are a cat parent like I am you are probably very well aware that they are known for their insatiable curiosity.  My girl, Douce, is a big fan of eating plants, she will eat then right down to the root if you don’t catch her in time!  Lucky for us, we only have “cat friendly” plants in our home.  Firstly, despite their beauty and heavenly smell, Lillies are EXTREMELY poisonous to cats, and should never be anywhere in your home!  Here is a list of common plants to remove from your home immediately to prevent your little ones from taking a fatal nibble (Please be aware this is NOT a complete list, please do some research before bringing a new plant into your home.):

Almond (Pits of)
Aloe Vera
Amaryllis
Apple (seeds)
Apple Leaf Croton
Apricot (Pits of)
Asparagus Fern
Autumn Crocus
Avacado (fuit and pit)
Azalea

Baby’s Breath
Beech
Belladonna
Bird of Paradise
Black-eyed Susan
Black Locust
Bleeding Heart
Bloodroot
Bluebonnet
Branching Ivy
Buttercup

Cactus, Candelabra
Calla Lily
Carnations
Charming Dieffenbachia
Cherry (pits, seeds & wilting leaves)
Cherry, most wild varieties
Chinaberry
Christmas Rose
Chrysanthemum
Clematis
Cordatum
Corn Plant
Cornstalk Plant
Crocus, Autumn
Crown of Thorns
Cuban Laurel
Cutleaf Philodendron
Cyclamen

Daffodil
Daphne
Datura
Deadly Nightshade
Death Camas
Devil’s Ivy
Delphinium
Dracaena Palm

Easter Lily *
Eggplant
Elaine Elderberry
English Ivy
Eucalyptus
Euonymus
Evergreen

Ferns
Flax
Four O’Clock
Foxglove
Fruit Salad Plant

Geranium Gold Dieffenbachi
Heartland Philodendron

Hemlock, Poison
Holly
Honeysuckle
Horse Chestnuts
Hyacinth Hydrangea

Iris

Janet Craig Dracaena
Jerusalem Cherry
Jimson Weed
Jonquil

Larkspur
Laurel
Lily
Lily of the Valley

Marigold
Marijuana
Miniature Croton
Mistletoe
Monkshood
Morning Glory
Mother-in Law’s Tongue
Morning Glory
Mushrooms

Narcissus
Nightshade

Oleander
Onion

Peach (pits and wilting leaves)
Pencil Cactus
Peony
Periwinkle
Philodendron
Pimpernel
Poinsettia
Poison Hemlock
Poison Ivy
Poison Oak
Poppy
Potatos
Primrose
Privet, Common

Rhododendron
Rhubarb

Saddle Leaf Philodendron
Skunk Cabbage
Snowdrops
Star of Bethlehem
Striped Dracaena
Sweetpea

Tansy Mustard
Taro Vine
Tobacco
Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves)
Tulip

Virginia Creeper

Water Hemlock
Wisteria

Yews –
e.g. Japanese Yew
English Yew
Western Yew
American Yew

When:  6:00pm-11:30pm Saturday, July 31

There will be a potluck and film screening at a local Activist House on July 31st.  Many local activist groups will be in attendance and at least two new groups will be formally launched at this event.  It will also be a great opportunity to ask questions in a 100% inclusive environment and to meet new, like-minded people.  Please bring a Vegan dish/snack/item for sharing, but don’t feel pressured as there will be plenty of food for all.

Potluck and meet & greet will start at 6pm, and at  8pm they are screening the documentary film Earthlings. http://www.earthlings.com/

To comfort sensitive souls who may need to see some positive images of free animals, living natural lives in peace,  following Earthlings will be  the film Peaceable Kingdom, about the organization Farm Sanctuary.  http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org/

Hope to see you there!

Taken from www.directaction.info:

anonymous communique (translation):

“Late at night on July 5 of this year we attacked a chinchilla farm, but it was not just any small businessman’s farm, but rather we chose to attack the only registered chinchilla farm in the State of Mexico, in the rural municipality of Amecameca.

The farm is owned by Patricia Perrin-Sullivan and Thomas L. Carpenter, members of the Mexican branch of the International Chinchilla Association. This association, which works to expand the domination and domestication of animals for human consumption as clothes for fashion and haute couture, has been mocking the attacks of ecosaboteurs and liberationists throughout the world, devoting part of their website to so-called ‘vegan fanaticism.’ Eco-terrorists, as these idiots call us, have shown how stupid these people are to think that we would not come to raid their property and to attack them.
They thought we would put a bomb in some business or that we would be breaking windows in a demonstration, but they were wrong. Now we are everywhere, sharpening our knives to tear open the bars of their farms filled with animal prisoners and to sabotage them causing more economic damage than ever before.

For this action a lot of time and effort was dedicated in surveying the area; pictures and videos were taken, information and maps were compiled from the internet, so that we’d have more information about the area and the possible escape routes. With this preparation completed we decided to attack and make our hardest strike for animal liberation.

So that night, camouflaged by the darkness and with only the moon lighting our insurgent steps, we arrived at the property in the late hours of the night. With some bolt cutters we cut the metal fencing that had protected the farm with much care so that they would not hear us and so that the dogs who were guarding the place would not chase us. We opened the fencing from top to bottom and entered. We realized that one of the two chinchilla sheds was completely abandoned but the other was full of chinchillas who very softly squeaked and moved in their cages. Our greatest desire was to free a large number of the chinchilla prisoners but because of serious concerns about security we decided to just focus on the shed that was empty and to destroy it so that it couldn’t ever be used as a center for animal extermination again.
Several attempts were made to open the barred window in the shed where chinchillas were, but these were in vain. The shed was medium-sized and was very close to the house belonging to those guarding this business of torture and domestication, so we decided (as we already said) to focus on the empty shed.

On the two sheds we left graffiti against this filthy business, graffiti such as ‘Patricia, we have come for your skin!’, ‘You are in our sights’, symbols of the ALF and other slogans that at that moment we felt were appropriate, so that they would know who we are and what we are capable of. Immediately after this we placed an incendiary device made of about four liters of gasoline at the side of the empty shed. We left it under a lot of wood so that the fire would spread.
We set the timer on the device and left through the torn wire mesh.
When we were far away from the target, the fire could be clearly seen as it burned. The abolitionist’s flame was present once again on a tranquil night shaken by the Frente de Liberación Animal in Mexico.
We had struck once again, but this time it was not a bank or a pet store, now we have focused our sights on larger targets, evolving and growing in ideology and our actions are at par with the actions of the dominators of animals and the earth.

Two days after this action, after the workers and the owners saw our graffiti and threats, after they had seen the charred empty shed and that the fencing was cut, we sent a threat by e-mail to the owners of the farm. They must stop operating their business of animal exploitation. Part of the threat read:

… ‘You are warned! We have entered your property and we can do so again. It will do no good to have lighting or better security because we will be there, watching you from the darkness, night after night, until you are distracted, then we will enter and sabotage and liberate the animals that you keep as prisoners. If this time we didn’t liberate the chinchillas, next time we will!’…

Abraham López and Adrian Magdaleno, this action is dedicated to you. We send you much strength and an incendiary embrace. Remember that confinement is only a setback that all true revolutionaries have to face sooner or later and that the harder the battle, the sweeter the victory will be!

For animal and earth liberation!
For the destruction of dominating and anthropocentric civilization!
Direct and insurgent attack against the strongholds of the system of domestication!
Fire to all society based on authoritarian and ‘alternative’ values!
For the destruction of the prisons and the cages!

Address of the chinchilla farm:

Rancho Ximoco
Number 1010
Postal Code 56900
Telephone: 011 52 597 976 7464
Fax: 011 52 597 976 8045
Email: ximoco@prodigy.net.mx
Amecameca, Mexico State
Mexico

Frente de Liberación Animal / Mexico

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpnHKpns5bQ“