Dear friends, members and supporters!
Here is our special edition of AnimaList newsletter with the annual overview of activities and achievements in 2014.
Croatian MEPs Pledge
For last year’s European Parliament elections, we joined Eurogroup for Animals’ campaign and called Croatian MEPs to sign
The Animal Welfare Pledge.
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Fashion Can Live without Fur, Animals Can’t
Famous Croatian fashion designer
Durdica Vorkapic from Hippy Garden was the last year’s face of our “For Croatia without Fur” campaign. Together with
rabbits and a chinchilla, Vorkapic appeared on ads “Fashion Can Live without Fur, Animals Can’t”, inviting everyone to create innovative fashion without animal fur.
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Meatout
Thanks to the students from the Kralj Tomislav elementary school in Zagreb along with chefs and other volunteers, we prepared a
rich offer of various vegan dishes for
Meatout, which were all eaten in a flash.
406 individuals took the pledge to eat vegan: 171 signed up to eat vegan on Meatout, 128 signed to eat vegan every Monday, and 107 signed up to eat vegan every day.
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Plant Based Vitamin Line
On the occasion of World Health Day we promoted our new nutrition brochure
Plant Based Nutrition and Health by dr. Stephen Walsh and sent it to Croatian nutritionists, doctors, associations and institutions. At the action in Zagreb we also presented a
six meters long Vitamin line with ingredients of plant-based origin, and Dr Martina Miklic Bublic gave advice on the health aspect of a vegan diet.
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270 km for Animals
Animal rights advocate Vedran Romac started his
walk from Osijek to Zagreb on April 14. On his
270 km long journey he was whipped by wind, rain, hail and other severe weather conditions, in order to arrive in Zagreb on Easter and convey his message of compassion to the public and call for veganism. He shared with everybody interested
his experience on the lecture in Zagreb.
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Saving Animals from Floods
Together with the Association Victories and many other animal protection associations, individuals and volunteers, we mobilized all our forces in
saving animals from flooded areas. Photos of rescued animals can be seen on our Facebook
photo galleries and the
video on YouTube.
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Darijo Brzoja Against Animal Abandoning
Darijo Brzoja was the face of our
campaign aganist animal abandoning in 2014. With a dog Indie from the Shelter for Abandoned Animals, the popular meteorologist and weather forecast presenter sent a message:
“Summer Goes, Friends Stay”. Darijo follows a vegan lifestyle, while participating in this campaign he also called for adoption of abandoned animals.
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7th ZeGeVege Festival
7th ZeGeVege Festival was the most spectacular so far thanks to our hardworking volunteers, 87 exhibitors, 23 performers, 20 lecturers, many media and other sponsors and friends of the festival – without their support this festival wouldn’t be as rich and interesting. Almost 40,000 visitors attended the ZeGeVege Festival and president of the Republic of Croatia Ivo Josipovic also visited it. You can check photos from last year’s Croatian Veganmania on our web page, the official ZeGeVege web page and the ZeGeVege Festival Facebook page.
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60.000.000.000 Slaughtered
On
World Day for Farmed Animals we spotlighted the horrible figure of 60,000,000,000 slaughtered animals for human consumption. The performance, during which 12 activists with 12 visuals made a display of over 12 meters length, showed which animals hide behind this number of 60 billion. The act was realized in collaboration and with the support of
Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM).
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Adopting is Cool
We joined Zagreb’s “Dumovec” Shelter for Abandoned Animals and the City Office for Agriculture and Forestry in three “Adopting is Cool” actions called
“The Invisible Dogs,” “We All Love School” and
“Doggies and Mutts,” with the aim of helping adopting abandoned and temporary homed dogs in Zagreb Dumovec shelter and the shelter of the Association Victories in Osijek.
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“What’s Cooking?” and Children Workshops
We started a
project and a web site “What’s Cooking?” for elementary school kids, youngsters, their teachers and parents. Elementary school children in grades five to eight actively participated in the workshop and fixed vegan meals by themselves within smaller groups. At
www.spremi-klopu.com you can find news, recipes of cooked meals, and photos from the workshops.
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In addition to activities listed in the newsletter, we’d like to remember important events and initiatives we were involved in, some of them still ongoing:
Feel free to contact us if you liked some other activities, we’re always looking forward to hearing your comments!
Thank you all once again for your support, for following us and participating in our activities!
All the best to all of you,
Animal Friends Croatia
