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Nanaimo environmental activist has resumed eating after going on a monthlong hunger strike. Howard Breen, 68, was brief ly hospitalized less than two days after he stopped consuming any f luids at noon on Earth Day (April 22). Breen and Vancouver resident Brent Eichler had each pledged not to eat until Forests Minister Katrine Conroy agreed to a public meeting to discuss old-growth logging. Conroy phoned each of them on Earth Day but refused to agree to their demand.
Eichler halted his hunger strike in late April after 33 days. Breen began eating on May 1 after suffering cognitive decline and losing almost 40 pounds. “I really packed it on before,” Breen told the Straight on April 22. “I’m nowhere near as thin as [Eichler] is.” A third activist, Nanaimo resident Vic Brice, is continuing his hunger strike. These actions are part of a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience by Save Old Growth to try to force an end to oldgrowth logging in B.C. g
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