Last week, Saca (the UT animal rights group) and Peta2 hosted an educational animal rights exhibit on campus. It went over really great! The display consisted of 10 five foot panels that showed pictures and explained how many oppressions that have happened against humans are very similiar to the oppressions we committ against animals.So many people were stopping, looking at each panel, taking leaflets, buttons, stickers, and asking us how to become vegetarian. Many people came up to me and exclaimed that they did not know what factory farming was and that animals were treated in such ways, but now they know. Two classes came by and they have to write a blog about the display.
We got in the Daily Texan:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/state-local/campaign-mobilizes-against-animal-abuse-1.2040701
If you want to see more of what was on the display, it's all on here:
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I think that something like meat, which is so ingrained in people's cultures and eating habits, that the only way to get them to look at it differently is to show them the graphic images of what is actually happening. I mean, people shouldn't be shielded away from the truth just because it "looks gross" or whatever. At the display, if people were turned off by it they just didn't stop to look at it which was fine because a lot of people did stop to look at it and to read the text.
I think people will get turned off by the images...God knows we do...but that's precisely why they need to see it. It will do more good than harm, I think ;)
i wish i could i have seen this!! great work. do you think it overall was better to show people this or what happened if people were turned off? i hear that argument sometimes, about people not appreciating the graphic nature of the animal abuse industries.
This is so awesome!!!! I'm sad I missed the displays but so happy that so many were finally exposed to the reality of animal abuse. Way to go Kelly and SACA!!!! ;)))
Great work! I just posted a comment to the Daily Texan article.
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