This
issue sponsored by DownBound:
When
I was a teenager,
my greatest ambition was to one
day be a millionaire. [Later]
I adapted the millionaire concept
for purposes of activism... I
wanted to [keep] a million animals
out of slaughterhouses....
But is
it realistic to think that a typical
person could keep a million animals
from slaughter? Absolutely! ...
At two thousand animals saved
per new vegetarian, this means
that during your life, if you
convince five hundred young people
to become vegetarian, a million
animals will be saved.
-Erik
Marcus, Meat Market,
pp. 118-119; full quote here.
Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
 This
is the last eNewsletter for 2005,
far-and-away the best year
for Vegan Outreach's unique and
cutting-edge efforts for the animals.
For example, in the spring, the
Adopt
a College activists
set a new distribution record, which
was then promptly shattered in the
fall.
Overall, Vegan Outreach sent out
more than 860,000 booklets during
the year. Even if you assume
the per-booklet rate of change to
be a mere 1 in 100,
millions and millions
of animals have been spared the
horrors of factory farms and industrial
slaughterhouses!
We are extremely grateful to everyone
who supports the hard work of creating
grassroots change for the animals.
Keep in mind: thousands and thousands
of people will be spending this
holiday season as vegetarians, only
because of your support and efforts!
You can help make 2006 even better
by making a special, tax-deductible
year-end gift. It doesn't take much
to be a millionaire for the animals!
Just
click here -- in only
a minute you can send the animals
-- human and non -- the best present
ever: a more compassionate world!
Thanks again from everyone at Vegan
Outreach!
Attention South: Help Jon Camp
Help Animals!
Jon Camp is in the planning stages
of a six-week college outreach tour
through the south starting January
23. He is in special need of housing
in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennessee (Nashville region), and
in the Austin and College Station
regions of Texas. If you would be
willing to house this courteous
young man for 1 to 3 nights, this
would help ensure the success of
the tour, allowing him to reach
thousands and thousands more students
with the plight of today's farmed
animals. Please email him at jon
at veganoutreach.org.
Jack Norris Talks about Adopt
a College on Erik's Diner
In addition to other stories, you
can hear Jack at minute 24 of the
December
15th show.
Feedback Wanted / MySpace Page
We want to hear from you. For example:
- What would you like to see changed
about the eNewsletter?
- What was your favorite essay
or link of the past year?
Please email us and let us know:
suggestions at veganoutreach.org.
Also, if you are a MySpace user,
feel free to visit the Vegan
Outreach profile and
link to us!
Again with Arizona
Matt Ball, co-founder of Vegan
Outreach and author of "A
Meaningful Life" and "How
Vegan" will be speaking
at the
Grant Rd. (at Campbell) Bookmans
in Tucson, on Monday, January 2,
from 5:30 - 7:00. There will be
an extensive Q & A, and vegan
snacks. All are welcome!
Holiday Office Schedule
The Vegan Outreach office will
be staffed irregularly from December
24 to January 5.
Notes from All
Over
Also from vegan.com -- "Humpback
nuzzled her saviors in thanks after
they untangled her from crab lines."
New Children's Book
SK Publishing announces Benny
Brontosaurus Goes to a Party.
Notes from Our
Members
 I
really agree with
you about reaching college and high
school students because they are
at an age when they can accept new
information and be able to take
a different course. Plus -- they
will be shopping for families soon!
-NH, Alexandria, VA,
12/15/05
I just got your materials
and was very impressed. I've already
been handing them out and have plans
to donate for more. I was truly
inspired by your article "A
Meaningful Life." I'm a
newbie vegan (May 2005), so I tend
to get very radical and want to
boycott everything. I read your
article, chuckled to myself, and
decided I need to stop being the
negative-impact vegan. I totally
love your organization's philosophy
on advocacy and agree the focus
needs to remain on animal cruelty
and nothing else. I want to do all
I can to help end the suffering.
-CH, Hendersonville,
TN, 12/15/05
I recently leafleted
at an anti-war hip hop show. Nearly
everyone accepted a leaflet with
interest and enthusiasm, with one
girl thanking me for being out there
-- apparently she had never met
another vegan in her life. I also
gave a leaflet to the mayoral candidate
for the Green party from Minneapolis'
last elections and two of the rappers
who performed. One of them -- Truth
Maze from Micronauts -- used to
be vegan, and started eating fish
recently. He said he wants to give
it a shot again and was really happy
to see me passing out pamphlets.
The next
day, Freeman Wicklund and I passed
out roughly 600 Even If You
Like Meat leaflets to a swarm
of 10-15 year old girls at a large
concert showcase, which included
Ashlee Simpson. This was an ideal
demographic, and I could see that
many of the girls were notably impacted
by the pamphlet. A few of them thought
it was "cool" that people
were passing out leaflets on vegetarianism.
Earlier
this month, Matt Sexter and I distributed
about 250 EI pamphlets
as the Dashboard Confessional concert
let out. The demographic was pretty
much all high school and college
aged. I even heard one high-school-looking
guy say that he went vegetarian
this past summer after reading an
EI pamphlet, and several
women were really excited to get
pamphlets from me.
-Gilbert Schwartz, CAA,
12/12/05
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issues of Vegan Outreach's e-newsletter
here.
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