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AFI Win Libby


11/27/06
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(Peta) Thanks to peta2, the world�s largest youth animal rights organization, music lovers recently had the opportunity to vote for their favorite bands in peta2�s first-ever �Libby� Awards (�Libby� is for �liberation�) for animal-friendly people and things. The following are the 2006 music award winners:

� Best Vegetarian Band: AFI

Every member of AFI is either vegetarian or vegan�including outspoken vegan frontman Davey Havok�and all are big animal rights supporters, making them a huge hit with peta2�s roughly 200,000 Street Team members.

� Best Animal Rights Song of 2006: �Ready to Fall� by Rise Against

According to guitarist Chris Chase, the haunting video for �Ready to Fall��which shows actual scenes of animal suffering��shows everyone what goes on in the world and what people are doing to this planet and to animals.�

� Best Newcomer to peta2: hellogoodbye

Singer Forrest Klein starred in a pro-vegan peta2 ad this year, plus the band sponsored a big giveaway at peta2.com.

� Most Animal-Friendly Record Label: Trustkill

Trustkill encourages its fans to �Get Active!� by including peta2 in its online list of worthy causes. Trustkill bands like First Blood and Most Precious Blood were among peta2�s earliest supporters.

� Best New Fur Foe: Nine Inch Nails� Trent Reznor

After watching PETA�s video footage of an undercover investigation of the fur trade in China�where millions of cats and dogs are killed for fur every year�iconic NIN frontman Trent Reznor was so moved that he agreed to narrate it.

Top runners-up include Silverstein (Best Vegetarian Band), Motion City Soundtrack (Best Newcomer to peta2), �You�re Wrong� by NOFX (Best Song), and Victory Records (Best Record Label).

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