Alabama - Please Protest Lobsterfest And Pig Roast - Saturday November 13

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Huntsville, Alabama - Saturday November 13 Oppose Lobsterfest And Pig Roast Please join with other caring people in your community in opposing St. Tomas Episcopal Church of Huntsville’s Lobsterfest and Pig Roast. During this event, lobsters are painfully boiled alive and pigs are roasted on a barbeque. While this is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity in Honduras, and we appreciate raising money for people in need, animals should not have to suffer to help humans. Recent scientific studies prove that lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans experience pain and stress. Lobsters feel pain and suffer when they are injured, cut or boiled. Being boiled alive is extremely painful and lobsters will thrash their bodies wildly attempting to escape the boiling water. Pigs also have a tortured and miserable life before they end up on the BBQ. Confined in tight, indoor pens, never to see the light of day or feel the sun on their skin, they are castrated, and often have their tails cut off and their teeth painfully filed without painkillers.   Please join a peaceful protest of this event. When: Saturday, November 13, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Where: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 12200 Bailey Cove Rd. SE, Huntsville, Alabama.  Contact for this demo: Kathryn Dalenberg, kdalenberg@farmerstel.com. Contact for IDA: Hope Bohanec, hope@idausa.org, (415) 448-0058. And: Please call or write the following church officials and politely ask them to find a cruelty-free form of fundraising. There is a sample letter below. St. Thomas Episcopal Church The Reverend Matthew B. Doss, Rector  12200 Bailey Cove Rd SE Huntsville, AL  35803-2641 phone: 256-880-0247 eMail: stthomas@stthomashuntsville.org  The Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley, Jr. Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Alabama 521 N. 20th Street Birmingham,  AL  35203 phone: 205-715-2060 X 305 eMail: hparsley@dioala.org  The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan Bishop Suffragan 521 N. 20th Street Birmingham,  AL  35203 phone: 205-715-2060 X 300 eMail: ksloan@dioala.org Sample Letter, but please personalize and add your thoughts, and be polite: I was shocked to learn that St. Thomas Episcopal Church will promote the selling and killing of lobsters to fund a medical mission to Honduras. Animals should not have to suffer to help people. Lobsters can feel pain, and they suffer when they are injured, cut, or boiled alive. When dropped into scalding water, lobsters thrash their bodies wildly and scrape the sides of the pot in a desperate attempt to escape. Please cancel the Lobsterfest and set an example of kindness and compassion for all creatures by looking into another form of fundraising to help the people of Honduras. Torturing and killing lobsters is cruel and unnecessary. I urge St. Thomas Episcopal Church to halt this event immediately and find a cruelty-free form of fundraising. In Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international animal protection organization with more than 100,000 members and supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights and welfare. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India, and Cameroon, Africa. In Defense of Animals is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We welcome your feedback and appreciate your donations. Please join today! All donations to IDA are tax-deductible. In Defense of Animals 3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901 Tel. (415) 448-0048 Fax (415) 454-1031 idainfo@idausa.org To unsubscribe, please click here.

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