PROTEST ON ANIMAL RIGHTS
EUGENE CHANG, KRISTEN SIMMS, KAITLYN FITZGERALD, JAY MARQUEZ
SPACE AND MATERIALITY
SHARK FIN SOUP PROTEST
Where- England, Hong Kong, San Francisco
Who- Alice Newstead
When- Does not say
Why- To protest against shark fin Soup, and how they cut their
fins and throw them back in the water
How- She hung herself from two shark hooks
What materials used if any- Hooks, wire? Cloth, paint
Time duration- Multiple times
Outcome- Many people supported and bought shark fin soap,
which is soap molded into a shark fin
STOP BULL FIGHTING
Where- San Fermin festival, in Pamplona
Who- Animal right protesters
When- July 5, 2012
Why- Stop bull fighting
How- They painted themselves in fake blood
and black paint as they formed the words “stop bullfighting”
What materials used if any- Fake blood, and black pain
Time duration- 24 hours
Outcome- Not sure
NEAR-NAKED PETA MODELS IN HOT TUB PROTEST
WATER WASTED ON ANIMAL PRODUCT
• Where- On Bank St. in Ottawa
• Who- Peta Protesters
• When- March 19, 2014
• Why- Eating meat is not environmentally friendly. According
to PETA brochure, it takes 15,500 litres of water to produce
one kilogram of beef, by comparison it takes 1,000 liters of
water to produce one kilogram of wheat.
• How- Two girls naked took a bubble bath on a corner of a
street
• What materials used if any- Bathtub, bubbles, signs
• Time duration- a couple of hours?
• Outcome- many people took pictures
MASKED ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP IN BROMLEY PROTEST
AGAINST TREATMENT OF DAIRY COWS
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Where- Bromely High Street
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What materials used if any- signs, paper cow
heads, and cow mask
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Time duration- a day
Who- Animal welfare group
When- April 7th, 2014
Why- To raise the issue of dairy cows
How- Stood outside with cow mask and
answered questions
Outcome- everyone was quite responsive and a
lot of questions were asked
BLOODY PROTESTORS ON PROMENADE
• Where- Santa Monica
• Who- PETA Protesters
• When- May 19 2012
• Why- raise awareness to people of how it really looks
like when people stop to pick up meat
• How- They packaged themselves like the meat at stores,
bloody on a Styrofoam plate wrapped up.
• What materials used if any- Styrofoam, plastic, paper
• Time duration- A day
• Outcome- People stopped to pick up brochures and
asked questions
ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST IN TURKEY
• Who: Animal Activists
• What: Large protest, marching with dogs and cats,
signs
• Where: Turkey- Istanbul and other cities
• When: Sept. 30th, 2012
• Why: Protesting the passing of a law that might kill
hundreds of thousands of stray cats and dogs. The
law would also include collecting animals from the
streets, which is an important part of culture to many
of the people who live there.
PROTEST AGAINST HALAL AND KOSHER KILLING
METHODS
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Who: Animal activists
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What: Dressed up in animal costumes in
front of Chancellery
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Where: Berlin
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When: Jan. 5th, 2012
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Why: to protest against halal and
kosher practices of butchering animals
BULLFIGHTING PROTEST IN FRANCE
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Who: activists from the group CRAC
Europe
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What: Protest outside scheduled
bullfights. Police tear gassed and
brutalized by the police
• Where: Rodilhan, France
• When: October 27th, 2013
• Why: To protest the torture and
stabbing to death of bulls in bullfights.
PUBLIC HUMAN BRANDING
• Who: 269life animal activist group
• What: Public Human Branding and tattooing of the 269 symbol (stands
for an Israeli dairy cow)
• Where: Worldwide -(Valencia, Praha, Leeds, Tucumàn, Milan,
Boston, Melbourne, Washington, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Toronto,
Sacramento,Buenos Aires, Lima, Cleveland, Porto, Lisboa, Mexico,
Milwaukee, Bozeman, Berlin, Rosario, Montpellier,
Athens,Copenhagen, Istanbul, San Francisco, Boise, Cusco, Bauru,
Strathroy, Recife, Perth, London, Jujuy, Johannesburg, Tel-Aviv,
Ryazan, Bologna, Edinburgh, NYC, Denver, Porto Alegre, Bucharest,
Wollongong, Rio de Janeiro)
• When: March 21st, 2013
• Why: To demonstrate the brutality of branding and treatment of dairy
cows
ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST IN AUSTRALIA
• Who: Members of Animal Liberation
Victoria
• What: Protesters stood in the city square
holding animal carcasses
• When: October 10th, 2012
• Where: Australia
• Why: to raise awareness of the slaughter
of animals
MACY’S PROTEST 2013 SEA WORLD
• The SeaWorld float, which depicts rolling waves,
tropical fish, penguins and Shamu, comes months
after the release of the documentary "Blackfish,"
which contends that SeaWorld's poor treatment of
its killer whales contributed to the aggression of a
whale involved in a trainer's death.
• Activists, including members of the People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, say they plan to
stage a protest somewhere along the route during
next week's parade. And the group says it has
sent Macy's more than 80,000 emails from animal
lovers demanding that the store drop the float. “...
actor Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, who
wrote last week that SeaWorld was a "cruel
prison for whales" and that the parks "should not
be celebrated with a giant Shamu float parading
down 34th Street."
DOG MEAT FESTIVAL IN CHINA 2013 PROTESTED
• Animal rights activist Du Yufeng organizing a protest at the 2012
Yulin Dog Meat Festival, according to the description that
accompanied the Vimeo video from which this screenshot was
taken,
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Activists say about 10,000 dogs -- reportedly often transported
and kept in inhumane conditions -- are killed during the festival
every year; many are burned, electrocuted and skinned alive,
according to reports. This festival DID NOT get cancelled but in
2011, two similar events -- one in South Korea and the other in
Zhejiang Province, China-- were canceled in the wake of animal
rights protests.
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Du says, however, that the Chinese government, in response to
pressure from "online activism," will be in a team to monitor the
event this year for animal cruelty. The measure won't be enough,
she says, but it's a start.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA DOG PROTEST SOCHI (FEB
2014)
• A Russian animal rights activist was detained in Moscow on
Saturday after he and two others protested the country's policy
of killing stray dogs in Sochi.
• Three activists unfurled a banner near Red Square that read
"Bloody Olympics" and depicted a puppy covered in blood. A
policeman approached and pulled the banner out of the
activists' hands, and one man was detained while the other two
fled.
• A year before the Sochi Olympics, municipal authorities
announced a contract to "catch and dispose" of strays — a
move that animal rights activists have vehemently protested.
While authorities pledged to give up the practice, companies
have been hired to continue killing the dogs throughout the
games, which started Friday and end Feb. 23.
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COLUMBUS WALMART CONFINED PIG PROTEST (FEB
2013)
• Local animal rights activists, along with the
national nonprofit Mercy for Animals, held a
protest outside Wal-Mart on Airport Thurway in
Columbus on Thursday.
• The demonstration featured a giant inflatable pig
to call attention to Wal-Mart's pork supplier's
alleged practice of confining pregnant pigs to
small gestation crates for most of their lives.
• The group says Wal-Mart has refused to follow the
lead of retailers like Costco, Kroger, and Safeway,
all of whom have agreed that gestation crates
are inherently cruel.
• In an email statement, Wal-Mart told News Leader
9 that this is a complicated issue and
• that they do not tolerate animal mistreatment.
LOS ANGELES ANTI-FUR PROTEST (KIM KARDASHIAN
FLOUR INCIDENT)
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A woman shouting, “Fur hag!”
dumped a bag of flour over the
Kardashian’s head and ruined Kim’s
outfit in a public event for promotion
of her latest fragrance. The “assault”
was “an attempt to prompt Kim to
consider how animals are anally
electrocuted as well as bludgeoned
and skinned alive so that she can
drape their pelts across her back.”
SKINNED” PETA ACTIVISTS PROTEST OUTSIDE
HERMÈS LEATHER EXHIBITION
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Skinless protestors from PETA
created quite a stir at the “Hermès
Leather Forever” exhibition at the
Royal Academy of Arts today. Clad in
little more than body paint, three
models were decorated to look as if
stripped of their skin, showing only the
gore of muscle and blood. Along with
PETA, the models creatively protested
Hermès continuous use and support of
the leather and fur industries.
ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST IN BARCELONA
• “Animal Equality” is an international non-profit animal
rights organization whose purpose is “to achieve equal
consideration and respect for animals, and the abolition
of animal slavery”. The group is known to organize
street demonstration to promote respect for animals.
• Animal rights activists from the group “Animal Equality”
staged a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain, in front of
the Cathedral of Barcelona, during “Day Without
Meat” event on March 20, 2013. Demonstrators
simulated raw meat packaging found in supermarkets,
by covering human models with fake blood and plastic
sheets, in an attempt to raise awareness and move
people to stop eating meat.
LONDON ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP CRUELTY FREE
INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS AGAINST L’OREALS BEAUTY
TESTING ON RABBITS
• China is the only major market where companies must test their
mascaras and lotions on animals. Rabbits are killed or ingredients
dripped into their eyes during tests, London animal rights group Cruelty
Free International say
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China's policies create a problem for companies such as L'Oreal and
Procter & Gamble that want to sell in the country without alienating
consumers in markets that demand humane treatment of animals.
• India banned animal testing for beauty products last month. The EU,
which has long barred such trials within its borders, tightened
regulations this year to also prohibit products tested on animals
elsewhere.
• It would be against European rules to sell any product that has been
tested on animals in China, so companies would need to reformulate
their wares for the two markets.
• In China, companies are required to submit samples of their products to
be used for tests at local laboratories, according to People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA estimates at least 72 animals are
used for each product.
ANTI-FUR ANIMAL RIGHTS COALITION PROTEST IN
LONDON
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Animal rights activists from Fur Trade,
Coalition Against Fur-Trade (CAFT)
gathered in central London for a day
of protests of the on-going issue of fur
trade retail products.
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Animal rights activists from Fur Trade,
Coalition Against Fur-Trade (CAFT)
protested outside Harvey Nichols in
Knightsbrige, London. Harvey Nichols
recently did a U-turn on their “No Fur”
policy by starting to once again sell
fur trimmed products.
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY
DEMONSTRATION
• 30 Animal Equality activists protest in Leicester Square, London for
International Animal Rights Day.
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They constructed crime scenes featuring the outlines of animal
victims including chicks, pigs, lambs, foxes, badgers, and fishes to
show that each death is a crime, and distributed 2,000 leaflets
calling on passers-by to adopt a vegan lifestyle.
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Around 900 million non-human animals – other sentient beings like
us – are exploited and slaughtered each year in the UK for
consumption alone, not including millions of fishes and sea
creatures, and all the millions of other animals who die in the
fashion industry, in circuses, zoos, aquariums, the racing industry, the
“pet” industry, laboratories, on hunts and in mass killings