ECC Student Group Broadcasts "Meet Your Meat" On Campus! April 5, 2009

Posted by Ryan at April 5, 2009 1:48 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack

Written by Jason Levy, President of Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at Elgin Community College

On March 20, I organized a Meatout event at Elgin Community College. A couple weeks before the event was to take place, I requested a laptop with a projector, the largest screen they had available, and a table directly in front of the college’s cafeteria. Without any trouble, they let my group, Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have everything that we were asking for. We were able to set up our table right in front of the cafeteria (which is by far the busiest part of the campus), and project “Meet Your Meat” onto a huge screen. Everyone that walked past the cafeteria that day saw what happens to the animals that are used for food, and what was being served in the cafeteria.

We also continued to gain student support for our “KFC-Free Zone” campaign. KFC has refused to adopt the most basic animal welfare standards to protect the 850 million animals that they kill every year from suffering, and recently, KFC has been trying to move onto college campuses around the country. So, while showing our fellow students where their lunch came from, we urged them to sign our petition to ban KFC from campus. This campaign has been extremely successful, largely due to the hundreds of signatures that we have collected. We have only been working on this campaign for a couple weeks, and already, I will be presenting our proposed ban at the next Student Government meeting.

Superstar College Activist Petitions to Ban KFC from Campus! July 31, 2008

Posted by Ryan at July 31, 2008 1:04 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 4 ) | TrackBack

As The Daily Herald is reporting today, one of peta2's former Star Street Teamers, Jason Levy, is leading an effort to ban KFC from his college campus!

So far, he has gathered over 300 petition signatures from his fellow students, and has even passed a resolution through his student government which supports the ban. Now, it's all up to the Board of Trustees (read: administrators) to make the ban official. Come on, administrators, get with the program! :)

Jason's campaign comes on the heels of a similar one at Florida Gulf Coast University, and students from all over the country are starting to organize similar petitions for their campus.

Want to get involved? Drop us a line to get a "KFC-Free Zone" campaign started on your campus!

Also, you can check out the full article about Jason's efforts by clicking on the clip below:




Great work, Jason. We're all rooting for you!

Give me a J (J!) Give me an A (A!)...

- Ryan!