BARC frequently holds street stalls where we provide members of the public with information about the meat trade, dairy products, live exports, vivisection, animal circuses and zoos, greyhound and horse racing, fishing and much more.

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The group also holds regular meetings (please contact for info) to organise these information stalls as well as demonstrations against local restaurants who insist on selling Foie Gras, fur shops and other abominations located within the city.

The collective endevours to campaign locally as well as nationally with the national groups, attending national demos and joining up with other animal rights groups throughout the country when necessary to demonstrate against abusers.

Here are some reasons why some of us got involved:

I wanted to become Vegetarian from the age of 8 because several of my school friends were vegetarian.   My family worried about my health as I was always under weight.  I finally persuaded them to let me become vegetarian when I was 14.  At the age of 15 I became vegan.  Our school RE teacher did some brilliant work on the ethical treatment of animals and I decided then that I wanted to become vegan!  Giving up chocolate and cheese was the hardest part but I managed it.  I put on lots of weight so my family and my doctors were very pleased!  I quickly became involved in animal rights groups and campaigned for animals.  I have now been vegan for 12 years and it is getting easier and easier.  Restaurants are putting more and more options on their menus and health food stores, with lots of vegan alternatives, are popping up everywhere!  There are loads more options now than there were 12 years ago, you can get vegan makeup, yoghurt, marg, cheese, icecream , chocolate and  meat replacements -and they don’t taste like cardboard these days!   I will always be vegan as I believe it is the right thing to do.  I will keep fighting for those who can’t speak for themselves and hoping to make a difference!

When I was 13, I had been feeding the neighbour's rabbit over the summer holidays. I came home one evening after feeding the rabbit, and my mum had cooked rabbit for dinner. I was horrified. I had never eaten rabbit before, and could not bear the thought of eating rabbit, especially after stroking a lovely rabbit that afternoon.  My mum could not eat the rabbit either.  We fed the rabbit to the cat, who enjoyed her dinner that night, and for a few nights after!  I then started to think about why I had not eaten rabbit, but still ate pigs, lambs, cows, fish, etc. I became vegetarian, as I realised that no animal should be killed to be on my dinner plate.
I sat comfortably for years, thinking that being vegetarian was enough to help animals.  It was not for another 13 years that I finally made the move to veganism - back in 2003.  I went to the London Vegan Festival, and picked up information about the dairy industry, and looked around at the people there, and realised how easy it is to be vegan, happy and healthy.  I was horrifed about what I learnt about the dairy industry (for more info, see http://www.milkmyths.org.uk) and became vegan over night.  I then learnt too, about the horrors of egg farming, including the shredding and gassing of most male chicks.
At the same event, I picked up some information about a local animal rights group. I went along to one of their meetings, and started going to anti-fur demonstrations outside Liberty, and then outside Selfridges. (Both Liberty and Selfridges are now fur-free.) Realising how important outreach was, I started to do regular animal rights stalls in Oxford Street with the SHAC campaign.
Being vegan is one of the simplest, and most effective ways that people can save a large number of animals. Because of this, in 2005, I got involved in a vegan campaigning group, which does a number of free vegan food sample stalls, food fairs, and other forms of vegan outreach.
I moved to Bristol, and was really pleased to find a great and active local animal rights group, with some fab people, called Bristol Animal Rights Collective.