A special request has been received from "Florida Voices
for Animals" to all animal activists for help with getting the website
name "www.meatsource.com" out there to the general public. This website
is a series of filmclips showing very graphically what different kinds
of "food animals" go through in slaughterhouses. It's grim and brutal,
but it's what people need to see to get them to make the connection
between living beings and cellophane-wrapped packages in grocery stores.
You are limited only by your imagination (and what's legal) as regards
ways to get this website name out there - put it on bulletin boards at
work (a box of 1,000 business cards that say "Seeing is Believing -
www.meatsource.com" only costs about $10.00), put it on bumper stickers,
have it on signs during demonstrations against the meat industry, refer
to it in chatrooms, take out inexpensive ads in the classified sections
of local papers, etc..., etc..
We couldn't pay any amount of money to get these films
on T.V., but on the internet we can show the general public something
they've never been allowed to see before and need to see. One final
comment to address a question you'll surely ask -- the reason we had to
do this website in a "downloading" manner (which takes some time if
you're not on Roadrunner or some other high speed line) as opposed to
instant "streaming" is that with streaming, you pay according to how
many hits you get. We had to avoid a situation where the domain host
says "The good news is you had a million hits this month, the bad news
is you owe us $10,000". Also, you can't download virtual streaming onto
your own computer to send to others, show others, etc..... In short, we
felt that the advantages of the downloading approach outweighed the very
risky disadvantages of virtual streaming (and hopefully, everyone will
be on high-speed lines sooner or later anyway). Please feel free to use
our meatsource banner, to use, cut and paste the following html onto
your own page: href="http://www.enviroweb.org/fva/banner.htm"><.imgsrc="ANImeatsource.gif"
ALT="www.meatsource.com animated logo"height="51"width="461"><./a>.
Thanks so much for any help you can give towards making
our goal of having this website known worldwide a reality.
Florida Voices for Animals
Source: lewallen8@juno.com
Jim Lewallen - President, Florida Voices for Animals
Go on to All Creatures
Great & Small
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