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Stalls pop-up across Birmingham
22 May 2009

Giant cows and chickens from Birmingham Friends of the Earth attended the UK's first Veggie Pride event and collected over 230 Food Chain postcards in one weekend.

The event was a great place to test out our campaign with a vegetarian and vegan audience, and more than 170 people signed up to fix the food chain.

We talked mainly about the links between factory farming and deforestation in Latin America.

West Midlands network developer Tim Atkinson also spoke to Veggie World TV about the Food Chain Campaign.

The most effective opening one-liner: Do you want to know why I'm dressed as a giant chicken?


Birmingham Friends of the Earth members also went two two other events on the same weekend.

At Balsall Heath City Farm Open Day we met people who have never given much thought to what's feeding their food. The badges and pop-up animals worked a treat when engaging with children.

Group coordinator, Joe Peacock, has blogged about the amazing sustainable agriculture project going on right under our noses.

Finally, we held a stall at Erdington Allotments Open Day. Another warm audience enabled us to collect 50 more postcards and some new sign-ups to the group.

Catching the media's eye

Our cow and chicken sandwich boards have obviously made a big impression already - the Birmingham Mail wants to run a feature on the campaign!

Food Chain stall

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