Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Victory for Victor!
Vegan Outreach's Victor Tsou has
been leafleting colleges throughout
the west coast with great success,
usually giving out over 1,000 booklets
per day. In the following weeks,
he will need housing in or near
the following: Moscow (ID), Las
Vegas, Albuquerque, Tucson, and
San Diego. If you would be willing
to house this dedicated young man
for 1 - 3 nights, please email Victor
at victor
(at) veganoutreach.org.
Thanks!
New Spanish Booklet
Ever since the last copy of Vegan
Outreach's Por Qué Vegano?
was distributed earlier this year,
there has been no Spanish-language
booklet available for exposing factory
farms and spreading vegetarianism.
Vegan Outreach has recently received
a grant from PETA to cover part
of the costs of printing another
version of PQV.
We are now seeking to raise funds
for printing and shipping this new
booklet. As pointed out several
years ago by a leafleter in DC:
More and more people in the
United States use Spanish as their
primary language, so having effective
literature like Why Vegan?
available in Spanish is absolutely
essential.
During
COK’s feed-ins, I’ve found that
people who speak Spanish are generally
grateful that we have copies of
Por Qué Vegano? on hand.
In fact, many people have been
so happy that we have Spanish
literature that they’ve even taken
extras for their friends and family
members before having even read
the booklet!
Por
Qué Vegano? is an increasingly
crucial advocacy tool that hopefully
will be used by more and more
activists. Remember, it’s not
only English-speakers who eat
animal products. We need to reach
everyone!
 If
you believe that it is important
to have this booklet available for
outreach in Spanish-speaking communities
and countries, please make a special,
tax-deductible contribution today.
You can contribute securely at veganoutreach.org/about/donate.html,
or send a check or money order to:
Vegan Outreach
P.O. Box 38492
Pittsburgh, PA 15238-8492
At right, Jason Ketola leaflets
at Northeastern University; photo
by Jenna Calabrese.
 World
Farm Animal Day Approaching!
Organize an event for World Farm
Animal Day! See this Action
Center for more info,
and be sure to register
your event. Order your materials
from our catalog
today!
Also, be sure to report your actions,
so we can list you on the
Vegan Outreach front page!
Seasonal Product of the Week
Brian Patrick's vote is for "plain
old peaches. If you haven't had
any in a while, this year's crop
has been outstanding. Each one is
so juicy I have to be careful about
eating them at work for fear of
staining my tie. Just the right
amount of sweetness as well. I've
had ones from New Jersey, Georgia,
South Carolina, and bought straight
from the orchard a few miles outside
of Washington, DC. Each one has
its own character but never disappointing."
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach.org; previous
products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
"A month shy of her 50th birthday,
Navratilova closed out her competitive
career Saturday night in fitting
fashion: a mixed doubles championship
at the U.S. Open for her 59th Grand
Slam title."
Martina went
vegetarian in 1993, the year
Vegan Outreach officially formed.
Coincidence?
A Scoop of Lies
Help convince "socially aware"
Ben & Jerry's to stop using
factory-farmed battery eggs in their
ice cream. Learn more here,
and then send a message here.
MFA now offers sample cooking
videos on-line, from
the delightful Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
and Alka Chandna of Compassionate
Cooks (Vegetarian Cooking)
and the irrepressible Dr. Michael
Greger (Maximum Nutrition).
You can also order full versions
of these videos from
Vegan Outreach.
Notes from Our
Members
At the Galleria Mall,
I handed out 541 Why
Vegans today. One man asked
me if I am concerned about all the
paper I am using. I told him that
the environmental benefits of vegetarianism
are such that if I get even one
person today to go vegetarian, this
will more than compensate for all
the paper I used. He ended up agreeing
with me.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
9/9/06
While leafleting at
U. Rochester today,
this was my favorite exchange:
Me:
Brochure to help animals? (I tend
to hand out EIYLM backside-up)
Dude: (takes one) Sorry man, but
I like meat.
Me:
Turn it over.
Dude: (reading out loud) "'Even
if you like meat.' Whoa!!!"
-Hoss Firooznia, 9/8/06
I handed out 200 EIs
at Eastern CT State
U. in less time than it took to
drive there. I also gave out a GCFE
to a girl who said she was veg after
I gave her the first booklet. She
then gave the EI to her
friend and said, "You've got
to read this right now!"
-Joshua Warchol, 9/7/06
At Illinois State University,
I gave out 970 copies of EI,
4 GCFE, and 2 AML.
The exchange of the day was when
a female student came past the second
time. I was unsure if she had taken
the booklet the first time, and
many people turn me down the first
time and later have a change of
heart, so I always offer.
Me:
Brochure against animal cruelty?
Her: You've already changed my life.
Me:
How about some recipes to go along
with that? (She took a GCFE.)
-Joe Espinosa, 9/6/06
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