URGENT: Pigs Who Will Be Violently Exploited at Festival Need Your Voice
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BACKGROUND | SOURCE PETA
Social, intelligent, and loyal, pigs are highly sensitive animals who enjoy communicating with each other, making nests, and relaxing in the sun. But on July 20, the Empress Daze festival in the Canadian town of Empress, Alberta, has scheduled a “greased pig” contest, during which a young animal will be frantically chased, grabbed at, and tackled again and again in a pen lined with screaming crowds. Being trucked to and fro and subjected to the violence and general chaos of these events is a terrifying and hazardous ordeal for pigs, who often sustain severe injuries, such as broken limbs or backs. PETA has asked the festival’s organizer to replace the event with any number of humane alternatives, but to no avail. We need your help today!
Please urge Pat Donaldson, the organizer of the Empress Daze festival, to cancel the “greased pig” event. And please, spread this alert far and wide!
WHOM TO CONTACT
Call or send polite comments to:
Pat Donaldson
309 Centre St.
Empress, Alberta T0J 1E0
403-565-0009
pat@empressive.ca
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
I am disturbed to learn of your greased pig contest and am respectfully urging you cancel this unjustified and cruel event. Pigs are marvelously intelligent and sentient creatures, capable of love, pain, thought, and suffering; when you subject pigs to such indecent treatments, you not only condemn them to fear and agony, but you also demean yourself and establish that you are unsympathetic towards animal concerns.
Indeed, a young animal will be frantically chased, grabbed at, and tackled again and again in a pen lined with screaming crowds. Being trucked to and fro and subjected to the violence and general chaos of these events is a terrifying and hazardous ordeal for pigs, who often sustain severe injuries, such as broken limbs or backs.
Please consider humane alternatives instead.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this urgent appeal.
help they are chasing me
to and fro.
they grab they squeeze
please let me go.
signed,
the pigs
pigs may be pigs, but man is the swine!
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
help they are chasing me
to and fro.
they grab they squeeze
please let me go.
signed,
the pigs
pigs may be pigs, but man is the swine!
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Perfect, thank you!
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you are so very welcome, stacey and thank you:)
hope that someday soon, i will be writing some victory poems!
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As do I!
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♥
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I love these comments.
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I find it very sad that we seem to be sharing this World with an ever increasing number of subhumans who can only get satisfaction when they are abusing innocent animals. Although this is the 21st Century and we are supposed to be more civilised and well educated, these lowlives go from generation to generation with the same vile set of rules and nothing changes. They might as well all be in the last Century…..and how I wish they were so that all these evil “entertainments” could be stopped forever. Shame on ALL these moronic people AND ESPECIALLY the cowardly Governments who allow these wicked animal abusers to continue their disgusting cruelties…..payback is long overdue!!!
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I completely agree, Susan. Thank you for your wise and insightful comments.
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They TRIED to show the beauty, intelligence, sensitivity that pigs have with the great film, “Babe”, but I think what we need is a new da Vinci or Einstein able to create BRAINS for all the empty-headed humans that splatter this planet-
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You are absolutely correct, Joyce, thank you for your wise comment.
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Letter sent.
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Thank you, Lori!
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Thanks for letting us know about this. I wrote to Pat.
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Thank you so much, Jean!
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This is so disturbing! What the hell is wrong with people anyway? Email gladly sent Stacey and I also shared in several places I just hope this greased pig contest will be stopped
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Thank you so much, dearest Florence!
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Reblogged this on florenceeaise and commented:
SPEAK OUT AGAINST CRUEL GREASED PIG CONTEST
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Done!!!
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Thank you so much, Isabelle!
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Reblogged this on Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors.
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Thank you, Ann.
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Just absolutely awful x
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It truly is, thank you, Kim.
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This is absolutely awful, i would expect this from a third world country, we in the west have no excuse to put innocent animals through pain and distress for entertainment.
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I understand this is Iowa where there
Is little regard to an animals innocent
Life but this is just scary & plain wrong
For these animals. Please do not allow this event to take place. Thank you
Lisa
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Thank you for your help, Lisa.
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Scientists have compared pigs to three-year-old children in terms of intelligence. Would they grease up one of their children and have a bunch of imbeciles chase it around for fun? Pretty sure the answer is no. Reposted this to Facebook with the attached letter 🙂
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I completely agree, thank you for your wise comments.
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Letter sent and link shared to everyone I know, because this is just outrageous. Humans are horrible.
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I agree, thank you, Klara.
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let’s pray for a world where animals can live among us as fellow earthlings, without being exploited, abused, used or eaten. I pray for compassion to flood this planet … for the planet itself and ALL living things.
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I completely agree, thank you, Linda.
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I’m sad to be a Canadian at times like this.
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I’m sad to even be a human at times like this. Thanks, Melissa.
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Hello,
Can you please stop. Pigs are smart animals and deserve respect.
Kate
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Thank you, Kate, I agree.
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Was the pig grease cancelled-I sent letter,
Hoping, that humans would have some compassion-for these
animals-that rely on so called humans-to do right,
REALLY, the swine is the HUMAN!!
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I have not received that info yet, but, sadly, I suspect they went ahead with that “event” Thank you so much for your help, though, I agree with your comments.
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Je n’ai plus de mots pour dire à quel point l’être humain peut être ignoble , et con à la fois !!!
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Comportons nous comme des êtres humains dignes et repectueux, quel intérêt de faire subir ces “amusements” mesquins et barbares. Réveillons nous !
Voir de la peur et de la souffrance dans les yeux d’un être vivant n’a rien d’amusant !
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I agree, thank you so much.
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