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Post Let Live Demonstrations Report Back

Le Pigeon, at SE 8th & Burnside, and Sel Gris, at SE 18th & Hawthorne, weren't expecting 50+ activists to roll up on Saturday night to call them out on grotesque animal abuses. Charged chanting and severe shaming went non-stop for almost an hour at each foie gras restaurant Saturday night. Force-feeding geese and ducks until they die is a cruel tradition for a disgusting delicacy of despair. You can do what you want, I'm going to act to remove foie gras from menus and markets whenever possible.

Dr. Eliott Spindel was cooling out in his Lake Oswego castle on Sunday night when around 40 demonstrators, most with their identities concealed behind bandannas and hoodies, sent him vocal hell for a half hour. Next, Ungar Furs owner Horst Grim was paid a visit all the way in Happy Valley where the defenders of fur bearers raised an uproar for another 30 minutes. Just after the activists drove away in a bio-diesel bus named "Cool", a cop cited a legal observer for littering when a piece of video camera tape wrapper was accidentally dropped. Otherwise they were as kind as defenders of animal abusers and greedy corporate capitalism could be.
The weekday demonstrations at Nicolas Ungar Furs will recommence tomorrow from 9am until 5pm. Extended hour days will happen occasionally and someone will post that here to encourage extra support for the animals. Think of living from birth until your dying day in a cage with a wire floor. Think of a steel leg-hold trap snapping shut with force that crushes your bones and your options are chewing through your leg or waiting up to a week for the trapper to return and smash your body by stomping. Think being clubbed to death as your blood stains red the otherwise white vastness of arctic Canada's ice. These are disturbing and unconscionable experiences that will not stop unless they are stopped by someone. Animal Rights is sliding into center stage in a cultural war of truth and outright lies. Fur and vivisection are unnecessary traditional exploits which society is bettered to bury, rather than discarding bottomless piles of tortured corpses and feeding fur bearer's brood their dead parent's flesh.

To see it for what it is see this,

veganTHIS.org
war-online.org
IDAusa.org
nofoiegras.org
banfoiegras.org
gourmetcruelty
primatelabs.com
ohsucruelty.com
aavs.org
caft.org.uk
furisdead.com
infurmation.com
pdxanimaldefense.org
finalnail.com

point of interest 29.Jun.2009 01:07

activist

They were coordinated by individuals outside of Let Live and had used the convenience of many activists in PDX, gathered for the conference, to make the huge demonstrations happen. To be especially clear, they weren't endorsed nor planned by the Let Live Conference organizers.

Fuckin awesome! 29.Jun.2009 07:20

Smiles

The conference was awesome, the people were great, and it's fucking AWESOME to hear that people took their own initiative and went out to fight for the animals like this.

Eliott Spindel 29.Jun.2009 19:39

additional

is a primate vivisectionist who rapes monkeys with semen that is gathered through electro-ejaculation, just like it sounds, and does some other very shocking torture. He injects pregnant rhesus monkeys with nicotine and aborts the infants to dissect their lungs. Millions of dollars are funneled into OHSU and into Dr. Spindel's bank account for this "science". His hypothesis is that the information of his vivisection can help pregnant women who want to smoke to continue to do so. What a sick, sick joke!

Let live 29.Jun.2009 23:59

Videos?

Will videos of the various workshops be uploaded this time around? I couldn't make it!