Florida Voices for Animals, Inc. PO Box 17523 Tampa FL 33682 www.FloridaVoicesForAnimals.org fvaonline@yahoo.com

727-656-8368 Apr/May/Jun 2014

Left to Right: Marie Galbraith, Trevor Chin, Myriam Parham, George Eisman, Kim Gronemeyer, Suzanne House, Diane Koon

Florida Voices for Animals Have-a-Heart Fundraising Dinner & Silent Auction Always a Great Event!

This year marks the 25th Anniversary of FVA since its inception so the Have-A-Heart (HAH) Annual Fundraising Dinner and Silent Auction was extra special. Attendees were very busy bidding on lots of items at FVA’s Silent Auction at Trang Viet Cuisine. A few people were extremely competitive in their bids because the items were ‘in their sights.’ A wonderful, tasty, vegan dinner accompanied pleasant conversations. George Eisman, Registered Dietitian (RD), gave a very informative talk about the hazards of animal products to our health. Also in attendance was animal advocate and local celebrity, Cathy Unruh, an Emmy-winning television journalist and author of the new book, “Taming Me: Memoirs of a Clever Island Cat.”

Brenda Csik, Ted Andresen and wife, Chris Cargo, were recognized as having attended EVERY HAH since it began. Pamela Perry (Investigation Manager, Hillsborough County Animal Services) was recognized for saving Phoebe, a female pit bull who was buried up to her neck and shot at close range. Mike DeWitt adopted Phoebe. Both Pamela & Mike got the "FVA Animal Hero Award," Colleen Mulcahey won “FVA Activist of the year” Cody Allen won “Student activist of the year” Marie Galbraith won “FVA Board Member of the year.” More info about the Animal Hero Award will be in the next newsletter. The annual Have-A-Heart dinner is FVA's main fundraising event. Thanks to the generous donations from members and supporters, FVA will continue to be 'a voice for animals' in 2014.

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Thanks! FVA would like to express its appreciation to all of these wonderful vendors & exhibitors at Veg Fest

FVA’s BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Myriam Parham—President Diane Koon—Vice President/Secretary

Marie Galbraith —Treasurer Trevor Chin

Suzanne House Isabelle Tassi

Kim Gronemeyer

NEWSLETTER STAFF

Trevor Chin—Publisher Justine McCoy-—Editor

Myriam Parham— Editor

Tanya Smith—Editor

BOARD ADVISORS

Hussein Mourtada Susannah Sherman

Bob Shepherd Tom Bird

Mindi Lasley—Legal Counsel

FVA has no paid staff and consists of 100 % volunteers

Abby's Health and Nutrition

Arbonne International Barefoot Birth

Calico Dragon Christian Vegetarian Association Compassion Co.

Courteous Canine, Inc. Danielle Thomas, Holistic Health and Lifestyle

Coach Darlynn's Darlins Rescue Ranch, Inc. Earth Island Institute

Ellen Jaffe Jones Farm Sanctuary

Florida Parrot Rescue Free Lovin' Foodery

Friends of Hillsborough County Animal Services, Inc. Gone Bananas

Green Party of Florida Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center

Jai Ho Pure Veg Java Planet Organic Coffee Roasters Kaleisia Tea Lounge

Labrador Retriever Rescue of Florida, Inc Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice

Lemon Bar Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant Loved to Pieces Jewelry

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics Mahamevnawa Meditation Monastery of Florida

Mangia Gourmet Mercy for Animals Miss Vi's Cookup

Mouna's Delicacies Pigs n Buns Small Pet Rescue

Pizza Fusion Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant Raw Doreen

Rural Handicrafts Company SanaView -- Bethany's Story

Save the Chimps, Inc. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Sunshine Burger Sweetwater Organic Community Farm Taco Bus

Tampa Bay Organics Tampa Bay Veterinary Emergency Service

Tiffany Maxey V-Dog Vegan Outreach

Vegetarians of Central Florida Vida de Cafe

WMNF Community Radio Whatever Pops Whole Foods Market Please support them throughout the year.

Become a Tampa Bay Vegfest 2014 Sponsor or

Volunteer This year, the 5th Annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest (TBVF) is scheduled for November 8th. By becoming an individual sponsor, you can help us underwrite part of the cost of this event. So far, each year, FVA has spent more money than what we have made. Our goal this year is to at least break even. To continue doing this for many more years, we will have to be able to cover the costs associated with putting on an event of this size (over 4000 people attended). Thanks to our individual sponsors last year (Catherine Heim, Jag Mehda, Bill & Myriam

Parham and Cathy Unruh), we were able to raise an additional $2,000 toward our 2013 expenses. Won’t you consider becoming one of our individual sponsors this year? To become an individual sponsor, please send a check for $500, or greater, to FVA and put TBVF Sponsor in the memo. Your financial support will help us greatly in making this another successful event. There are many other ways to volunteer for Veg Fest. We need lots of help planning and organizing! If you would like to be involved in some of the behind-the-scenes tasks, we ask that you contact one of our two coordinators to offer your assistance. Diane Koon (vegdiane60@gmail.com) and Marie

Galbraith (arday9@yahoo.com) can tell you where we could use your help at TBVF. Suzanne House

(vegansuzanne@yahoo.com) can sign you up to volunteer for the day of the event. You can also call our FVA number 727-656-8368 or send a message to fvaonline@yahoo.com

FVA Newsletter Publisher Help FVA needs help in publishing its quarterly newsletter. Anyone who would like to learn a new skill or currently has the knowledge in publishing, please contact FVA at fvaonline@yahoo.com Unlike the Marines, FVA is looking for MANY good activists!

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You can receive this newsletter via e-mail or download it from the FVA website. To go paperless please email fvaonline@yahoo.com and let us know. You will not only help the environment, but will allow FVA more financial resources to help animals.

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☺ Tampa Bay Times, 03/10/14

“These beautiful creatures are much too large

and intelligent to be confined in small, concrete pens for their entire lives.” California state Assemblyman Richard Bloom, introducing a bill that would ban orca shows at SeaWorld in San Diego. The bill would also prohibit captive breeding of orcas. It was immediately apparent that the bill faces a fight. The San Diego Union-Tribune called the bill “ridiculous” and “almost beyond belief.” ☺ “Bethany's Story” wins Best of Raw Awards for

Favorite Film! “Bethany’s Story” was produced by Janet

McKee and documents a teenager’s crippling reaction to an inoculation confining her to a wheelchair for two years with no hope. She took matter into her own hands, did some research and went on a completely raw food diet which healed her body quite dramatically and quickly. ☺ Grey2K announced that the state of Colorado

banned dog racing! On Monday Mar 10, 2014, Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill to prohibit greyhound racing in the Centennial State. Colorado has become the thirty-ninth state in which the cruelty of dog racing is illegal. The chief bill sponsor was Representative KC Becker of Boulder. ☺ George Zuraski designed a fantastic FVA Ad for Creative Loafing. This was developed by the FVA board members and designed by George. Pics of Giraffe, Orca, Greyhounds & Elephant. Headline: “Should Their Captivity Be Our Entertainment?” Look for it in Creative Loafing!

Love This by

Gretchen Primack If you permit this evil, what is the good

of the good of your life?

--Stanley Kunitz The body floods with chemicals saying, Love this, and she does, and births it; it is a boy she begins to clean and nose, but he is dragged away by his back feet. She will never touch him again, though she hears him howl and calls back for days. Her breast milk is banked for others. Her son is pulled away to lie in his box. He will be packed for slaughter. How ingenious we are! To make product from byproduct: make use of the child, kill and pack and truck him to plates. And when the gallons slow, we start over, and her body says, Love this! And she does, though in a moment she will never touch him again. His milk is not for him. And when the milk slows too slow, she will join him on the line, pounds of ground. How we will dine! And talk of our glossy dogs! Her body will break up on our forks, as mothers beg us for the grain we stuffed her with, and children beg us for the water scouring her blood from the factory walls. And when her wastes and gases and panic heat our air so hot our world stops breathing—then will we stop? Then will we grow kind, let the air cool and mothers breathe? Reprinted, with permission, from Kind (Post Traumatic Press 2013) by Gretchen Primack. For more information, go to www.gretchenprimack.com/kind

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TBA Loving Hut Vegan Buffet 11am-9pm , 1905 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa FL 33612, 813-977-7888 As soon as Loving Hut notifies us that they’re having a vegan buffet, we’ll post it on our Meetup Calendar, so if you haven’t signed up for our meetup, go to www.meetup.com, search for Florida Voices for Animals, then sign up. TBA Vegan Take Out Mingle 6pm-9pm , Natural Detox Nutrition Shoppe/Vegan Take Out, 4202 E Busch Blvd, Tampa FL 33617, 813-983-1628 Tampa, FL Unwind after a hard work week. Enjoy music, board & card games, karaoke, speakers, vegan food and drink available for purchase and free wireless internet. Get your Vegan Take Out so that you don’t have to cook for a few days. 1st Saturday/Month -Vegan T-Shirt Wearing Day. Proudly wear your favorite vegan T-Shirt around town and spread the word - subliminally.

04/03 (Thu) - SPEAK’s Cruelty-Free Fashion Show, 7pm, USF Marshall Ctr, 2nd Flr in The Centre Gallery, 4103 USF Cedar Dr, Tampa. Admission is free, There will be free vegan food, door prizes, a raffle and fashion vendors. 04/12 (Sat) - Seaworld Demo, 10am-12pm, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, Orlando. Orcas, seals and dolphins need your voice. RSVP at FVA Meetup or call 727-656-8368. Carpooling highly recommended. 04/12, 05/10, 06/14 (Sat) - Trang Vegan Meetup Buffet, 5:30pm-7pm, Trang Viet Cuisine, 1524 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33612 Multi-entrée, soup appetizer, carrot cake dessert and iced tea for $14 (tax & tip included). 04/12, 05/03, 05/24, 06/14 (Sat) - Lotus Vegetarian Vegan Meetup Buffet, 5pm-9pm, 6575 Park Blvd, Pinellas Park, FL Enjoy an all-vegan buffet at Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant for only $10.99 (beverage not included.) This buffet takes place every 3 weeks. You can even take a survey to help choose the menu! http://www.lotusvegetarianrestaurant.com/ 04/19 (Sat) - FVA Tabling at Central FL Earth Day, 10am-6pm, Lake Eola Park,195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando. Admission is FREE! Enjoy speakers, food preparation demonstrations, an environmental education center, a humane education center, a kids zone, an animal haven, an artist corner, music on a band stage and acoustic stage, lots of other activities, and many Earth-friendly vendors. Volunteers needed. RSVP at FVA Meetup or call 727-656-8368. Carpooling highly recommended. 04/27, 05/25, 06/29 (Sun) - Café Hey Vegan Brunch, 11am-2pm, 1540 N. Franklin St (Behind Oceanic Market) Tampa, FL Come to Café Hey (near downtown Tampa) the last Sunday of every month for a delicious vegan brunch. Menu changes monthly but at times includes scrambled tofu with braised kale and polenta, waffles with berries, luscious kale salad and so much more. 813-221-5150 http://cafehey.com/ 5/4 (Sat) - FVA Potluck Picnic, 12pm-4pm, 4900 N Himes Ave, Shelter 307, Tampa . FVA will supply the drinks and plates with eating utensils. There’ll be door prizes and speaker, Ellen Jaffe Jones. RSVP at FVA Meetup and tell us what you’re bringing or call 727-656-8368. 05/17 (Sat) - Leafletting “Nutrition for Kids” Disney On Ice, 2pm-3:15pm, St Pete Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa We need volunteers to help pass out PCRM's "Nutrition for Kids" booklets at Disney on Ice presents Let's Celebrate! These kid friendly 26 page color booklets provide lots of information to help parents and children learn about the benefits of a plant based diet. RSVP at FVA Meetup or call 727-656-8368 5/24 (Sat) - International Empty the Tanks Protest at SeaWorld, 10am-12pm, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, Orlando. Orcas, seals and dolphins need your voice. RSVP at FVA Meetup or call 727-656-8368. Carpooling highly recommended. 6/28 (Sat) - FVA participation in St Pete Pride Night Parade, 6pm-9pm, starting from Georgie’s Alibi on 3rd Ave N, passing through the historic Kenwood neighborhood and moving east down Central Ave. FVA members needed. RSVP at FVA Meetup or call 727-656-8368. Carpooling highly recommended.