   SAFE GOES GREEN!
SAFE staged a wide range of colourful and successful events to coincide with World Environment Day. SAFE's Christchurch greenies organised a vegan food sample giveaway and handed out over 1000 mock-meat samples to a very receptive public. Hawke's Bay hosted a talk and film screening and Wellington had Earth Walk. "Everyone loved the tasty mock-meat food samples kindly donated by Fry's Products and Q-Mart, says organiser Sacha Dowell. "Many people were astounded how good vegetarian food can be. One person decided to go vegetarian on the spot and numerous others were more open to vegetarianism after trying the food!" Since it is such a positive way to promote vegetarianism, SAFE intends to repeat this event throughout the year. SAFE extends a big thanks to Fry's Products and Q-Mart for donating vegan food for this event!
Saving the environment talks To celebrate World Environment Day (WED) SAFE organised two talks based on the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, given by Melissa Clark-Reynolds. The talks, held in Christchurch and Hawke's Bay, were well attended. Melissa gave an inspiring and insightful explanation of how our use of animals in the fishing and farming industries contributes to climate change. Many thanks to Melissa. For more information about the issue click here.
Film screenings Also in the Hawke's Bay SAFE organised a film showing as part of the local environment centre's Environment Week Film Festival. The documentaries Eat Less Meat: It's Costing the Earth and Peaceable Kingdom attracted a crowd of SAFE volunteers and new people. Viewers were enlightened about the cruel treatment of animals for food as well as the impacts of meat eating on the environment.
 Earth Walk
SAFE Wellington participated in Earth Walk, a march to promote a vegetarian diet as a solution to global warming. Over 100 people marched through central Wellington to parliament where they made a presentation to Hon Marian Hobbs. A letter addressed to the Prime Minister was also submitted asking the government to place a high priority on educating the public about the link between diet and global warming. Organisers were delighted that New Zealand's first vegetarian march was featured on the TV news!
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