Welcome!At this site you will learn how to help animals
and save them from being exploited.

For starters...Go Vegetarian! You will save 83 animals a year from intensive confinement, being tortured, being mutilated without painkillers, cruelly transported, and inhumanely slaughtered
(Most animals that are raised for food are cruelly treated. If our beloved cats and dogs were treated that way, there would be a public out-cry and the abusers would be prosecuted!)

Courtesy Farm Sanctuary (These graphic pictures are meant to provoke a strong emotional response to motivate people to take action.)

Don't take life.
Instead, release birds, fish, wild animals, farm animals doomed to be slaughtered. And also small creatures such as ants and bees. Be diligent in giving them refuge from fear.

-Buddhist Monk

 

Find out how easy it is to go veggie... Request a Free Vegetarian Guide with recipes!

Compassion over Killing

Call: 1-866-MEAT-FREE or visit Try Veg

PETA

Call: 1-888-VEG-FOOD or visit GoVeg

(What can I eat if I go veg and I live in Rochester, MN?...Start Here!)

 

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Check-out RAPS Action Calendar for the ANIMALS!

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Alert! Please contact head organizers for the May 1, Tues, Mayo Civic Center: Alan Maves (507)261-7847 or Tim Tibor (507) 269-7365 or sghw-tim@qwest.net

(UPDATE): On 5/2/06, RAPS distributed 750 An Elephant's Life comic book along with Cruelty is not Entertainment pamphlets stuffed inside for the parents to read. Read the violation of their sponsored circus:George Carden Circus

Bharat's letter to editor about the George Carden circus was published in the Rochester Post-Bulletin! Colleen's letter to the editor! Julie's letter to the US Jaycees.

The only way to train an 8,000 pound elephant to do those outlandish stunts is to beat the elephant into submission! For more brutal pictures of circus animal abuse, visit: Animal Abuse

*************************************************************************************** Please email the Jaycee Members or contact the US Jaycees to let them know you disapprove. You can visit their site at Rochester Jaycees. Call 1-800-JAYCEES and leave a message with the operator to let them know you disapprove.
Here is their mailing address:
Rochester Jaycees
220 South Broadway, #100
Rochester, MN 55904

For more information about why animal circuses are cruel visit: circuses.com or API

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The Vegetarian Information Group of Rochester 4rd year at Rochesterfest selling vegan food for 6 days! This event attracts 100,000 people. The group had a 15% increase in sales from the year before!Vegan Menu: Riblet Sandwich, Cajun Grilled Tofu Sandwich, Black Bean Burrito, Backroom Deli! side salad, fresh squeezed wheat grass, yummy frozen non-dairy sundae! VIGOR was also spotlighted in the local paper Post-Bullentin VIGOR gave away hundreds of free vegetarian information literature and DVDs.

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2006 Year End Review: Distibuted 14,248 vegan brochures--1,422 animal rights brochures
Grand Total: 15,670 pieces if information!

If you have any questions or would like to help please contact MNRAPS
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Here is a picture of RAPS' Animal rights/veganism Library Display