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Birds 'N Bugs Fund Raiser |
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:11 |
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Cafe Birds N Bugs is a short walk from Seoul City Hall Plaza, near Ewha Girl’s High School. The cafe is the kind of place where you see female office workers during weekday lunch hours and young people in the evening and weekends.
On Saturday, December 20, 2009, this is where KARA members attended a charity function organized by the Sweet Brier Lab (HaeDangWha Lab) at Kyewon Art University to raise money for animal welfare. A number of KARA's founding members were at the event.
The proceeds from that event were consigned to KARA to distribute as necessary. A generous anonymous donor also contributed an extra 2 million won to the cause.
The owner of Cafe Birds N Bugs, who is a KARA member, transformed the cafe for the evening. You can see her there, top left, near where stacks of books were for sale. Besides books, a number of artworks were for sale, as well as trinkets and decorative objects. Girls in cute black hats decorated by herbs were present to sell the donated items.
There was plenty of wine to go around and a buffet meal, which everyone enjoyed, after a round of speeches.
Early in the evening a surprise guest arrived to soak up the atmosphere and indeed add to it. Yes, it's a dog, not a polar bear!
After the meal was over and the evening was drawing to a close, it was time for business, and this is when door prizes were drawn and the final tally of the evening's fund raising was announced. Amazingly, a total of 5,000,000 was raised for the cause of animal welfare!
Congratulations all round on a successful evening. Everyone had a great time and it was for a good cause.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 27 December 2009 11:52 |
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How You Can Help
KARA is a volunteer organization that relies on support from the community. You can help by donating so we can continue to fight for the protection of animals in Korea.
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Few people seem to perceive fully as yet that the most far-reaching
consequence of the establishment of the common origin of all species is
ethical; that it logically involved a re-adjustment of altruistic morals
by enlarging as a necessity of rightness the application of what has
been called “The Golden Rule” beyond the area of mere mankind to
that of the whole animal kingdom. Thomas Hardy
They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
Alice Walker
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
Theodor Adorno
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
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