Concert protest.A VEGETARIAN pressure group is urging bands and music fans to boycott a Cardiff charity concert in aid of farmers hit by the foot and mouth epidemic. The Vegetarian International Voice for Animals has criticised the Farm Aid event, being organised by Glastonbury guru Michael Eavis Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, CBE (born October 17 1935), is an English dairy farmer, most famous as the founder of the Glastonbury Festival. Biography He was educated at Wells Cathedral School, followed by the Thames Nautical Training College after which he joined , saying that the farmers had brought their problems on themselves. Campaigner Becky Smith Becky Smith-Wiber (born June 3, 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a former international medley and butterfly swimmer from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the Women's 400m Individual Medley at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, behind teammate Cheryl Gibson said she had written to the bands Coldplay, Toploader and Reef, who have already agreed to play the gig at the Millennium Stadium UEFA 5-star rated football stadia • • [ on October 27, asking them not to appear. "We're doing it because we think that farmers have brought foot and mouth on themselves with the overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. condition of factory farms and the vast distances which animals are made to travel from farm to market and then to slaughter, " she said. Tickets for Farm Aid went on sale at Ticketline in Cardiff this morning. |
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