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For many years, VINE has offered refuge to chicken survivors of the Kaporos rituals that take place in New York each Yom Kippur. For those who don’t know what Kaporos is or of our longstanding efforts to end it, please see this report on last year’s protest and rescue. “Chickens as Kaporos” is an outmoded . . . → Read More: Once Again, For the Birds… Immediate action needed by Vermonters to keep the notorious Walker Brothers Circus out of Springfield. . . . → Read More: Action Alert (VT): Keep Walker Bros Circus Out of Town Today is International Respect for Chickens Day. We wish we could be with United Poultry Concerns as they demonstrate at the White House and leaflet the springtime visitors to Washington, DC. If you can’t join them, there are still things you can do today and through the month of May: Ideas include leafleting on a . . . → Read More: Bird is the Word 
Blake and three other cows arrived at VINE Sanctuary weak and skinny, having barely survived near-starvation at a small-scale dairy operation. Blake was clearly the leader and care-taker of the group, not only being the first to venture into new territory but also going out of her way to groom and otherwise nurture the others. . . . → Read More: Bake for Blake! This week, Tar Sands Blockade calls for all of us to take direct action against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. “Direct action” means any activity that directly interferes with the unjust or harmful practices you oppose (or directly assists a beneficial alternative). Direct action is often misunderstood to mean only splashy or illegal actions. In . . . → Read More: Don’t Bankroll Mayhem: Moooove Your Money Today 
On Tuesday, January 15, two VINE staffers, one VINE volunteer, and one friend of the sanctuary traveled to New Hampshire to attend the hearing on HB110. It was a sometimes surreal journey to a land where meat producers argue for animal protection legislation that animal advocates oppose. We call this report “On the Road to . . . → Read More: On the Road to Concord (A Report from New Hampshire) ACTION ALERT
The unfortunate fad known as the backyard bird phenomenon is moving in a predictable direction. People are throwing away roosters right and left (unwanted roosters). They are not caring for hens (hurting hens). And now, here come the profiteers wanting to rake in even more money off the backs . . . → Read More: ACTION ALERT: Tell Victory Chicken: Stop Exploiting Birds! I know that folks want an update on the status of the Green Mountain College oxen known as Bill and Lou. I’m sorry to report that, despite what has become an international outcry for mercy, the college remains determined to send them to a slaughterhouse at the end of the month. Thousands of people have . . . → Read More: Shades of “Green” (Update on Lou and Bill) 
PLEASE NOTE: Portions of this now amended Action Alert were based on representations made to VINE by the Green Mountain College Farm Manager, who led us to believe that he was speaking for the college. We have since learned that was not true and that some of his statements did not reflect the . . . → Read More: ACTION ALERT: ACT NOW TO SAVE BILL AND LOU! |
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Open Letter to Parents of Green Mountain College Students
By now, you have probably heard about the controversy concerning the impending slaughter of de facto campus mascots, Bill and Lou, 11 year-old oxen who have been denied the chance to live out their retirement at a sanctuary. What you may not know is that the process by which the decision to kill Bill and . . . → Read More: Open Letter to Parents of Green Mountain College Students