Archive for June 2016
PETA Blog Post: Inaugural Gregory J. Reiter Award
Today’s PETA Prime blog post is Foster-Mom Receives Special Honor From PETA: ” On June 11, PETA held a benefit reception in Washington, D.C., to raise funds for PETA’s strategic eyewitness investigations. The event was special, in part, because PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, who was celebrating her birthday that night, had the pleasure of presenting the inaugural…
Read MoreHappy 2nd Adoptaversary to Henry and Caroline!
June 21, 2016 is a special day here at “Alysoun’s Rescue Ranch” – it’s the second anniversary of the day Greg and I brought Henry and Caroline home. It was a huge leap of faith for us to adopt this particular pair as our first companion horses, when this was practically our first interaction of…
Read MorePETA’s First Annual Gregory J Reiter Animal Rescue Award
Greg and I rescued a total of seventeen animals during our life together – eleven cats, four dogs, and two horses. Of these, horses Henry and Caroline and dog Itchy came from PETA. It was a particular honor that just ten days after Greg’s death, our friends at PETA informed me of plans to establish…
Read MoreLoudoun Wildlife Conservancy All-Vegan Annual Meeting
The “Greg Fund” was a sponsor of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy‘s 21st annual member meeting on June 12 – providing attendees a delicious all-vegan meal catered by Market Salamander, and thereby allowing the organization to make yet one more contribution to wildlife and environmental conservation. We calculated that this one vegan meal for 150 participants saved: -> 55,000…
Read MoreMake June 6 a “Meat-Free Monday” in Honor of Greg
A great way to remember Greg on Monday June 6, which would have been his 53rd birthday, is to make that day a Meat-Free Monday – and ideally a fully vegan Monday. Greg and I went meat-free in the year 2000, inspired by an educational tour of the northern California farm animal sanctuary Animal Place.…
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