Student Group Recognized for Taking Animal-Friendly Message to Peers
For Immediate Release:
April 13, 2011
Contact:
Shakira Croce 202-438-7382
Downey, Calif. — For its hard work in defense of animals, the Warren High School Animal Rights Club will receive a Star Student Group Award from peta2, the world's largest youth animal rights organization.
"School is about learning, and the Warren High Animal Rights Club is helping their peers learn the importance of treating animals with respect," says peta2 Director Dan Shannon. "These compassionate students are sticking up for animals—from mice to elephants—and they are setting a great example that can be followed by other groups across the country."
Some of the Warren High Animal Rights Club's many recent activities include the following:
- Hosting an event in which students signed "Have a Heart for Lucy" cards in support of peta2's campaign to get Lucy—the lone, ailing elephant at Edmonton's Valley Zoo—moved to a sanctuary
- Urging peers to buy only cruelty-free products as part of peta2's "Animal Testing Breaks Hearts" campaign
- Holding a vegan bake sale event in which the group handed out free animal rights literature and collected signatures for PETA's "KFC Cruelty" petition
- Holding a donation drive to gather treats and toys for animals at a local shelter
- Collecting student signatures pledging never to buy fur from bunny butchers such as Donna Karan
The Warren High School Animal Rights Club will receive a framed certificate from peta2 and be featured on peta2's website. The group's advisor, French teacher Géraline Van Roie, is available for interviews.