Moo to the Beat
I get a lot of emails from charities, asking me to promote their event or campaign. I mostly ignore these (unless they’re from Cancer Research UK or other vivisection-funding charities, who get an email telling them why I won’t support them) but last week I got an email from Rebecca Moore from the World Society of the Protection of Animals and included in her email was a picture of a cow
which obviously automatically made her my New Best Friend (unless she’s the Rebecca Moore who was mean to me at school, but she assured me she isn’t).
The WSPA are currently running a campaign called Not in my Cuppa trying to stop the introduction of US style mega dairies into the UK (where cows would spend the majority of their life indoors in very unpleasant conditions).
They’re looking for people to take part in Run to the Beat for them. Unfortunately, I’m doing Folkestone Half that day but if you want to do the race and want a worthy cause to run for, what better than cows?
(Posted also on Planet Veggie)
Thanks for this Cathy! I promise I’m not the mean one.
If anyone does fancy running for us they should contact fundraising@wspa.org.uk or call 0800 316 9772.
I’m in support of this, what a great thing! Giant commercial dairies here in the U.S. are awful, which is why I buy from a local farm (raw milk from grassfed-only free-grazing cows). We are lucky to have that choice near us, not everyone does.
Wish I were in Greenwich end of September, I’d race it! (would be my first half-marathon, too, eek)
With everything we’re doing, and have achieved, with raising awareness of animal welfare in this country, you’d think they’d be mad to try and introduce something so barbaric! If I wasn’t already doing the Great North Run, I’d run for them too. I’ll bear them in mind next time I raise money. 🙂
ah, how random 🙂 i will also do folkestone half marathon and i just found your blog through the juneathon thing and started reading since then 🙂
Welcome to my blog! Where’s yours?
oh, i don’t participate in juneathon (only read about it after it started anyways).. i got to know about it via the “running the tube lines”-blog http://runningthetubelines.blogspot.com/ 🙂
just to clear up possible confusion: i am not the person writing the blog, i am just reading xD
Thanks for the positive feedback guys! And thanks again, Cathy.
If anyone does fancy running for us and raising funds, great, but otherwise, feel free to help us out from the comfort of your computer by heading to http://www.notinmycuppa.com/takepart and if you want a smile, watch our campaign video: http://bit.ly/ifRpHH