Engaging Abroad - Sun. 9am
Advocating animal rights and defending animals abroad

Presenter: Earl, Marr, Moncrief

Anthony Marr
HOPE-CARE Foundation, www.allcreatures.org/hope

• Effectiveness of engaging abroad to achieve domenstic and global objectives
  
  • Campaigning the European countries and the EU itself to ban Canadian seal products
  • The EU itself to ban Canadian seal products
    
• Forcing Canada to shut down the tar sands which destroys habitat and causes fish deformation and human cancers, as well as driving global warming, thus exacerbating mass extinctionion. 

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Dawn Moncrief
Farm Animal Rights Movement, www.farmusa.org

• Increased meat consumption on the global level
  • Global hunger
  • Why is it important to focus beyond the U.S.?
    
    
• FARM's international campaigns offer materials and opportunities for people to get active in their own communities.
  • Sabina Fund - offers grants to grassroots groups in low-income countries
  • Meatout
  • World Farm Animals Day
    
    
• It's important for activism to be community-based, not just stemming from US national organizations.