In
addition to a concert today,
I also leafleted
outside the Saturday evening
sermon at the Lakewood Church.
One couple at the Church told
me that they got this pamphlet
last week, and that they are
now almost vegetarian as a result,
and are continuing to make changes.
They had visited VO's website;
I gave them a GCFE.
I
ran into lots of vegans at both
the church and at the concert.
It seems like we are everywhere
now.
I've
now gotten used to people at
concerts telling me they are
vegan. But even I was stunned
by hearing this from lots of
conservative people outside
the largest church in the country.
And to think: a few decades
ago, it was extremely rare to
run into a vegetarian, let alone
a vegan.
Just
think where we will be in another
several decades.
This
is my main motivating factor
in handing out so many pamphlets.
It isn't just about reducing
the number of animals killed
in slaughterhouses from 10 billion
down to 9.5 billion. It is about
the end game. If we work hard
enough, we will see it in our
lifetimes.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
9/9/06
Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Workplace Giving / CFC
 Thanks
to everyone who donates to Vegan
Outreach through their workplace.
If you currently don't, ask if it
is possible. Many companies will
match your donation -- Vegan Outreach
has received thousands of dollars
from Google, Microsoft, Home Depot,
and other companies.
At right, Jenna leaflets at
UMass Lowell; photo by Jon Camp.
If you work for the federal government
or participating state governments,
you can donate through the Combined
Federal Campaign or a similar state
program. Please be sure to look
for Vegan Outreach when making your
charitable choices -- we will continue
to do our best to make sure each
dollar goes as far as possible for
the animals!
 Already
this semester, Adopt a College activists
have distributed over
60,000 booklets --
this is more than the total for
all of Spring 2004!
Overall, the program has reached
more than 715,000 individual students
with thorough, compelling information.
Based on our estimates,
the AAC program has now spared over
31 million
birds and mammals from the horrors
of factory farms and industrial
slaughterhouses!
At right, Jon Camp leaflets
at UConn; photo by Jenna Calabrese.
For the year, overall distribution
is just under 900,000 -- already
more than all of 2005!
Help Traveling Activists
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. He is looking for housing
for the end of October near the
following cities: Las Vegas and
Albuquerque. If you would be willing
to house this dedicated young man
for one to two nights, please email
Victor at victor
(at) veganoutreach.org. Thanks
to those who responded earlier with
offers of housing for other areas.
During the remainder of this semester,
Victor will be leafleting at large
public schools in AZ, CA, NM, NV,
OR, WA. If you would like to leaflet
with him or if you would like for
him to give a talk to your local
group, please email victor
(at) veganoutreach.org.
Ben Acaso and Karl Noyes of Compassionate
Action For Animals will be leafleting
Midwest colleges in October and
will need a place to stay in or
near Grand Forks and Fargo (ND);
Moorhead (MN); Lincoln (NE); Warrensburg
and Columbia (MO). If you would
be willing to house these two young
men for 1-3 nights, please email
ben
(at) ExploreVeg.org.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Product of the Week
Wendy in Wonderful Tucson says:
"Good Karma Rice Cream is the
best 'ice cream' we have ever had.
Very creamy. Great flavors such
as Carrot Cake. We purchased it
at Trader Joe's."
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach.org; previous
products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
excerpt:
"'Animal rights activists
are often seen as dirty. How often
do you wash?' J MANN, by email
"Once a month, whether I need
it or not."
Full
text here.
Notes from Our
Members
We had an incredibly
receptive crowd at
the University of New Hampshire,
which made the time go by so quickly.
I talked to at least four students
for an extended period of time about
the information in the brochures,
which was really refreshing. Many
students took a GCFE and
said they would try to eat vegetarian.
Inspiring!
-Jenna Calabrese, 9/14/06
At the University of
Victoria today, I
overheard a student telling her
friend that she had walked in on
her roommate last week who was crying
while reading an Even If You
Like Meat booklet.
-John Bowers, 9/14/06
Here's a little success
story from the old
school, black and white Why
Vegan. [Editor's note: Many
years ago, Why Vegan was
black and white. To see what it
looked like, click
here.] The main coordinator
for this year's CAA's annual Veg
Pledge Food Showcase was telling
me that her fiancé went vegan back
in '98/'99 after getting a WV
and has stuck with it since. In
turn, he's the one that got her
to go vegetarian and subsequently
vegan, and now she's a regular volunteer
with CAA! I think her fiancé got
the pamphlet after a concert, which
could have well been passed out
by a CAA volunteer back-in-the-day.
-Gil Schwartz, Compassionate
Action for Animals, MN , 9/17/06
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