When I was child, I went to synagogue. Very few of the kids kept kosher… what kid can resist pepperoni?? But the temple didn’t serve pepperoni pizza!!! Because it’s not kosher, and it’s a Jewish temple. Doesn’t that just make sense?? I think the choice is left at the door once you CHOOSE that you support the SPCA.

You are standing up for truth and what is right.

@ALL who claim that choice is essential and that we should not force people to stop killing animals, just think back to when people said the same thing about slavery or suppression of women. Do you really think that people should always have a choice, regardless of the pain and suffering it causes? Sometimes we do need to evolve and change our ways as a species. So evolve already!

More specifically, think about what the SPCA stands for, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to ANIMALS. The word is ANIMALS! Can you imagine an organization called “The Abolition of Child Explotation Society”, but they would go out and certify child labor factories for their higher standards in working conditions for the children (ie: they will be provided with shoes and brief moments of natural light). Let alone serve dead children for meals at their event?? Wake up people!

We certainly CAN and WILL stand up for what is right. Causing unnecessary cruelty and suffering to animals is unacceptable, especially when there are plentiful alternatives readily available.

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I don’t understand how you cannot grasp the basic concept of what is being said in Sarah’s letter. She is not asking people to neglect their health (By the way I have been vegan for over 2 years now and am in perfect health, as confirmed by blood tests done only last week) she is asking the management of the SPCA to make an informed decision and stop the double standards that they are promoting at these events.

You make sweeping generalisations in your post which are completely unrelated to the topic and also baseless. You go off on tangents about how you know so many animal lovers who are actually neglecting their animals and about how everybody on the planet cannot survive on a vegan diet unless they live in the tropics (which had me scratching my head a tad). It sounds like perhaps you have some insecurities to work out before you start posting such nonsensical comments on a public forum.

Pretty much the same result – unpopular minority opinion seen as pressuring the rest although I believe they have served wonderful vegan-only food at a few gatherings to much acclaim.

And it always niggles to hear people quoting Weston-Price. Talk about a history of bias!

There are several doctors today (McDougall, Ornish, Fuhrman, Klaper) healing people from all backgrounds with a vegan diet. Not one of them reports even an exceptional patient who suffers from the lack of animals, much less the sweeping population percentages that objectors seem to fear. And the proof is in the peer-reviewed studies.

I think most non-vegan people have a difficult time viewing farm animals as no different from pets. One you pet, the other you eat! I know I grew up loving my dog AND eating hamburgers, never really seeing the connection.

But once you see it, it’s so obvious.

Hopefully, thanks to you, this organization will now see that perpetuating cruelty to cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and rabbits is no different from supporting cruelty to dogs and cats.

I hope you get a reply. I also wrote to RSPCA in Australia recently for a fundraising day they were running which involved cupcakes. Their website, which didn’t offer a vegan cupcake recipe instead offered decoration and topping ideas which included gelatine, dairy, eggs etc, which I found completely hypocritical.

My letter sadly went unanswered which is disgusting considering I donate to a number of charities and I donate to many of RSPCA’s campaigns. It’s enough to make me want to withdraw any funding from their activities – they are simply using ‘cute’ animals to raise money to spend on other types of animal cruelty.