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Notes from Vegan Outreach
College Outreach Hits JapanJuan Carlos Ulribe (seen here leafleting at Chiba University) has created a Japanese equivalent of Why Vegan. For starters, he printed 1,000 booklets and created a website: www.veganjp.org.
Amazing Pace ContinuesFrom the Nov. 3 update of the Adopt a College website:
We are now 100,000+ pamphlets
above last year's pace!
New Leafleting OpportunityMarisa Miller: "I saw a special preview of Fast Food Nation and was so excited to see a mainstream movie about the issue we're all devoted to. It was refreshing to hear *stars* such as Greg Kinnear and Avril Lavigne talking about poop in meat, line speeds in slaughterhouses, and activists being classified as terrorists thanks to the Patriot Act. And to show live slaughter in a commercial movie theater -- I thought it would never happen. I brought a few Try Vegetarians, which audience members around me gladly took. Then in the ladies room I overheard people talking about how disgusted they were and bragging about how little meat they eat. I'm thinking of standing outside of theaters after showings and passing out Try Vegetarians."
Product Source of the WeekHQ: VegieWorld is a great source of frozen vegetarian meats, even though their website is somewhat confusing. The foods we've ordered shipped quickly and arrived still frozen. The drumsticks were too spooky for one of us, and would be great for any gathering of meat-eaters. A friend reports that the shrimp is also incredible. Send your nominees for Product of the Week to product (at) veganoutreach (dot) org; previous products can be found here.
Notes from All OverFood for Thought PodcastColleen Patrick-Godreau, of Compassionate Cooks, has a series of podcasts entitled Vegetarian Food for Thought. You can listen via iTunes, or through this feedburner feed.
Notes from Our MembersAt Cal State Los Angeles
Wednesday, I was noticing
that acceptance rates and general
friendliness tends to go up the
more we leaflet a college. I started
to realize that much of this is
because the students' entire impression
of what an animal activist is changes
as a result of us being there, dressing
nicely, being polite, and appearing
intelligent. A pair of advocates
visited Cortland 2 weeks ago.
I, like many it seems, was reluctant
to accept a flier from them. I read
it thoroughly, was moved by it,
then copied it, shared it, talked
about it, etc. The Even if You
Like Meat pamphlet put me on
the path that does not involve the
consumption of products resulting
from animal cruelty. I would like
to thank you for fueling this initiative
to end suffering, and all who carry
its message.
For World Vegan Day,
our University of
Victoria Vegan Association tabled
while I stood elsewhere on campus
and leafleted for a few hours. The
booklets I've been distributing
at UVic over the past years are
having a measurable impact on many
students' choices. Each time I hand
out booklets at UVic, I learn that
more and more students who have
received a booklet in the past now
choose foods that embody little
or no suffering. Today these replies
ranged from "I'm vegetarian",
"I'm vegan", "I'm
not vegan, but I would like to be,"
and "I got a booklet from you
before and now I don't eat pigs." Today, I leafleted
Sam Houston U, Montgomery
College, and North Harris Montgomery
College. As I was ready to leave
the latter, a student ran over and
asked me to give a speech for a
psychology class. I gave an impromtu
speech hitting on the major issues
and answered some questions. It
went really well, got some great
feedback and mature questions and
provided good answers. At Wentworth Institute
of Technology today, I
had this exchange with two students: I, myself,
know of 5 people who became vegan
after reading your Why Vegan
booklet.
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Body
of Animal Rights Campaigners
(BARC, at the University of Central
Florida) set up a haunted house
on campus that people walked through
as we told them everything about
factory farming (the slogan: "America's
REAL Haunted House"). We also
made little "trick or treat"
bags filled with vegan candy and
an Even If pamphlet inside
each one that we gave to everyone
who left the haunted house, and
to a bunch of people walking by.
After we ran out of the nearly 280
goodie bags, we just started passing
out more Even Ifs and Why
Vegans. I personally had many
lengthy and thoughtful conversations
with people about veganism and factory
farming. I know we got through to
a number of them. 