Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition
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The Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, or MARC, is a nonprofit volunteer-run animal rights
organization based in Massachusetts
. MARC is the largest and most active animal rights group in Massachusetts and operates as a tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation with over 2500 members of all ages and backgrounds
MARC's activities include protests and leafletting, public educational outreach, tabling, talks, letter and phone campaigns, letters to editors, face-to-face meetings, media interviews, conferences, walks and marches, and legislative action. MARC has held hundreds of public events in Massachusetts to raise awareness of animal suffering.
MARC targets a broad range of animal rights causes, including animal testing
and experimentation, animals in entertainment, veganism
, wildlife protection, and the rights of all animals.
MARC's campaigns in Massachusetts have been cited in numerous local papers and have included vivisection, wildlife, farm animals,, cruelty-free living animals in entertainment,, and companion animals.
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
organization based in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. MARC is the largest and most active animal rights group in Massachusetts and operates as a tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation with over 2500 members of all ages and backgrounds
MARC's activities include protests and leafletting, public educational outreach, tabling, talks, letter and phone campaigns, letters to editors, face-to-face meetings, media interviews, conferences, walks and marches, and legislative action. MARC has held hundreds of public events in Massachusetts to raise awareness of animal suffering.
MARC targets a broad range of animal rights causes, including animal testing
Animal testing
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Worldwide it is estimated that the number of vertebrate animals—from zebrafish to non-human primates—ranges from the tens of millions to more than 100 million...
and experimentation, animals in entertainment, veganism
Veganism
Veganism is the practice of eliminating the use of animal products. Ethical vegans reject the commodity status of animals and the use of animal products for any purpose, while dietary vegans or strict vegetarians eliminate them from their diet only...
, wildlife protection, and the rights of all animals.
MARC's campaigns in Massachusetts have been cited in numerous local papers and have included vivisection, wildlife, farm animals,, cruelty-free living animals in entertainment,, and companion animals.