Animal Activists fight for animal rights!

Tomorrow, on November 1st, a group of around fifty Israeli activists will make both a political statement and personal protest against industrialized animal abuse, here is a brief list of countries which will participate in the event : USA, Iran,,Australia,United Kingdom,Canada,South Africa,Spain,Portugal,Italy,France,Turkey,Sweden,The Netherlands,Germany,India... . November 1st is World Vegan Day and, for the first time this year, “269 Solidarity Day”.
This movement was sparked by three international activists who were publicly branded with a hot iron, in the exact fashion that cattle are branded, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4q1pU957c ) to protest against animal consumption . The number 269 was chosen because it was the identification number given to a calf born in an Israeli factory farm.
According to the activists, the movement to brand, and now tattoo, one’s body with 269 is a form of solidarity and immortalization. It is a statement that when it comes to suffering and pain there is no difference between animals and humans. When it comes to pain we are all the same.
They are hoping to be able to raise awareness and empathy for those animals who are victims of the meat, dairy, egg, fashion and medical industries. This group of Israeli activists are undergoing the tattoo ‘branding’ as part of an international event, involving similar groups all over the world, in the hope of spreading their message.
As well as the activists tattooing themselves, there will be a dramatic visual demonstration simulating the way Jews were branded in the Holocaust.
Unlike other campaigns, these activists are calling for a complete abolition of animal slavery. “The people here today volunteering their skins are people from all walks of life who have learned from history's human holocausts, and recognise that the animal holocaust is far from over. Like the institutionalized confining and suffering of millions of humans by Hitler, animals on factory farms today suffer almost mirror-like cruelty which continues at the greed of animal-using industries.
We are taking part in this event in solidarity for all these victims of industries that still use animals as nothing more then commodities. We are calling for an end to the slavery and violence that happens every single day in the name of food, fashion and testing.
"In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka."( Isaac Bashevis Singer ).
We should be ashamed for every sow that is confined to a gestation crate that is so small she can't even turn around, for every calf that is taken away from his/her mother so she can produce milk for us instead of her child, for every hen that is confined to a battery cage.” - Danica Daley, organizer for the Melbourne 269 demonstration.