Ninety-nine percent of animals killed in the United States each year die to be eaten. Vegan Outreach is working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of our illustrated booklets (click titles to view PDFs): Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, and Compassionate Choices, along with our follow-up Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating.

As a Vegan Outreach activist, anyone, anywhere, in any situation can be the best possible spokesperson for the animals. Our booklets have been distributed by many individuals and organizations, from middle school students to animal advocacy organizations (e.g., FARM, Farm Sanctuary, The Fund for Animals, In Defense of Animals, PETA, Mercy for Animals, etc.). Your donation will put more booklets into more people’s hands.

You can read this history of Vegan Outreach for more background, and A Meaningful Life for our underlying philosophy.

Widespread Distribution

You can

• order copies,
• donate to Vegan Outreach,
• sign up for our email newsletter,
• or request a free Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating!

Millions of hard copies have been handed out by the local members of Vegan Outreach around the world. The rate of distribution is increasing every year, limited not by demand—there are many individuals, student groups, and organizations who would like to distribute “as many as you can send”—but by availability (i.e., resources for printing and distribution).

These booklets have gone to a diversity of interested individuals, many of whom had no idea about the consequences of their consumption habits, and who possibly would never have otherwise received such compelling information.

Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, Compassionate Choices, and earlier booklets have been distributed in

• all 50 states,
• Puerto Rico,
• ten Canadian territories and provinces,
• Mexico, and
• numerous other countries (including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Taiwan).

In August of 2003, VO launched our Adopt a College program which has now resulted in volunteers handing out over three million brochures on hundreds of college campuses.

An extensive presence on the Internet has reached many more around the world. Different language versions of Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, and other information are also available online.

As shown by the excerpts of feedback printed in the VO newsletters and enewsletters, there are many new vegetarians and vegans because of Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, and Compassionate Choices, with the number growing every day. We hope you enjoy the rest of the site and find it useful. Feel free to contact us to get involved!

A Discussion of Finances

The bulk of our money is used to print and distribute more copies of our booklets. Vegan Outreach has no endowment—about 95% of our revenue comes from member donations, with the rest in grants—the more donations we receive, the more copies of Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, and Compassionate Choices are distributed. Our IRS Form 990 can be viewed at GuideStar.

Vegan Outreach
POB 30865
Tucson, AZ 85751-0865

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