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3rd December 2010
DORCHESTER: Promoting a compassionate ChristmasBy Anita Harries
Compassionate Dorset is an animal welfare group promoting compassionate living to both raise awareness and funds for charity.
Around 80 per cent of the meat and dairy products consumed over Christmas will have been intensively farmed, and the group campaign peacefully to end factory farming and bring their message to the general public.
And on a bitterly cold morning, Compassionate Dorset brought that message to shoppers in Dorchester as the run up to Christmas starts to gather momentum.
Knowing how the food you choose has a direct effect on how farm animals live, the group offered advice on how to make Christmas dinner more compassionate.
They showed local people how to shop for high welfare meat and dairy products by looking for labels such as the Soil Association Organic Standard, the RSPCA Monitored Freedom Food, and the Marine Stewardship Council, as well as looking for the higher welfare ranges in supermarkets.
They also had available Good Food Shopping Guides and meat-free Christmas recipes, along with leaflets promoting Easy Steps to a Compassionate Christmas.
Compassionate Dorset also has their very own range of funky farm animal themed t shirts which were designed exclusively for them by illustrator Stu Jones.
They come in a huge choice of colours, styles and sizes, including an organic option, and 100 per cent of the profits goes to Compassionate Dorset.
There are four different pictures to choose from – highland cow, cow, ram and pig – and they can be purchased from the website www.compassionatedorset.co.uk.
More information on the work of Compassionate Dorset can be obtained from this website, or by contacting Anna Celeste Watson, Coordinator of Compassionate Dorset on info@compassionatedorset.co.uk
PICTURE: Members of Compassionate Dorset bring their message to shoppers in Dorchester
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