BARC has bite
Cody Boyko
Issue date: 11/17/09 Section: News
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Wednesday, November 18 will be the first of two days for the community to help support BARC.
The Brock Animal Rights Club (BARC) is a social justice-based action group, under OPIRG-Brock, which is comprised of students and members of the community.
"BARC's mission is to raise awareness about all forms of animal-exploitation," explained Kimberly Costello, an active BARC member. "Through educational outreach, we hope to encourage more inclusive compassion towards all animals, both human and non-human, and more ethical and compassionate lifestyles."
BARC actively promotes veganism, which is a strict vegetarian diet that eats plant products only and that uses no products derived from animals, such as fur.
Costello stressed that BARC advocates veganism as a "plant-based diet and cruelty-free living which is the most effective and compassionate way to help animals, world hunger, the environment and personal health".
This year marks the fifth annual holiday companion animal food and toy drive for BARC.
"The holiday season should be a time for us to reflect on and recognize our own privileges and responsibilities for helping those less fortunate," said Costello. "BARC hopes to encourage and offer an opportunity for people to give back to less fortunate human and non-human animals in our community." ??
To achieve their goals, BARC will be collecting vegan food donations such as pasta and rice, which will be donated to local food banks. As well as vegan collections, BARC will be gathering animal food and toys to donate to local animal charities in attempts to combat any shortages of these items.
?"In addition to collecting healthy vegan food for the many people living in poverty and food and toys for the thousands of homeless companion animals in our local community, BARC also hopes to raise awareness about two important social issues," said Costello.
These issues are veganism and world hunger and the pet overpopulation crisis.
BARC's strong support of veganism has led to their additional collection of food.
"We are restricting our donations to vegan food items because veganism is one of the best ways people can contribute to stopping world hunger," said Costello.
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