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Outstanding Activist!
For
over ten years, Angie Greico has dedicated herself to helping animals
in any and every way she can. Hoping to really make a difference in the
lives of suffering animals, she never misses an opportunity to speak up
on their behalf, or directly intervene when a critter is in danger. No
volunteer duty is too dirty, too hard, or too daunting for Angie. Whether
she's coordinating public events, organizing support for animal protection
legislation, educating her community about animal issues, cooking for
her co-workers, or scrubbing out cages, Angie always does whatever is
necessary to protect and provide for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Angie has been living and working in southern Florida for the past ten years. During this time, she has coordinated ten annual Walk for Farm Animals events in Fort Lauderdale. Hugely successful from the very beginning and covered by local media, these walks have helped educate numerous Floridians about the cruelty of factory farming and the benefits of adopting a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. The walks have also raised a significant amount of money for Farm Sanctuary's shelter and campaign efforts over the years.
In addition to organizing and executing ten successful Walk for Farm Animals events since 1995, Angie has also coordinated several public picnics and other community activities designed to encourage people to stop eating meat. Just as her Ft. Lauderdale Walk events did, these events garnered media attention, and encouraged many in her community to consider going vegetarian. Working to encourage even more individuals to embrace compassion for farm animals, Angie served as the chairperson for the Broward County, Florida chapter of EarthSave between 1996 and 1999. While working with EarthSave, Angie coordinated volunteer efforts, fundraising activities, monthly potlucks, and Turkey-Free Thanksgiving dinners in her community.
During the same years that she was serving as chairperson of her local EarthSave chapter, Angie also had her hands full working for other animal rescue and protection groups in her area. For three years, she worked cleaning out cages and picking up injured animals for the Wildlife Care Center in Ft. Lauderdale. She also got her hands dirty cleaning cat and dog kennels at the Humane Society of Broward County. Still not stopping there, Angie participated in special Humane Society events, and volunteered her time staffing informational tables, participating in demonstrations, and doing office work for the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida.
Trying her hand in the legislative arena, Angie also worked with Farm Sanctuary and other local animal protection groups between 2000 and 2002 to gather signatures in support of Florida's Amendment 10. Thanks to Angie's hard work and the efforts of countless other activists like her, the initiative passed in 2002, successfully outlawing gestation crates in the state of Florida and setting an important precedent for farm animal protection in the United States.
Without a
doubt, Angie Greico is an incredibly dedicated and driven activist, and
an inspiration to us all. She is so dedicated, in fact, that her work
on behalf of animals doesn't stop when she gets home. Currently, she is
providing shelter and care for 23 rescued animals, including dogs, cats,
rabbits, pigs, chickens, and geese. Knowing Angie, though, she probably
doesn't consider sheltering these animals to be "work." Nurturing,
defending, and advocating for the helpless and the abused is her life's
work, her love, and her purpose.
Together, we ARE making a difference. If you would like to find out more about volunteering your time to educate others about factory farming and vegetarianism, please contact us at activist@farmsanctuary.org, or call 607-583-2225 ext. 229. Click here to find out what YOU can do to help!