Notes from Vegan
Outreach
 AAC
2006 Hits Half a Million
On December 1, the Adopt
a College program’s
fall semester total reached 318,209
brochures! Over 500,000
booklets have now been handed directly
to students during 2006!
At right, Ashley Watson leaflets
at U. Kentucky; photo by Jon Camp.
So far this semester, 111
volunteers have leafleted at colleges
in North America, with
81 having handed out 100 or more
booklets; 32 individuals have distributed
over 1,000. Victor Tsou finished
his leafleting tour with a final
record-smashing total of 53,841.
Congratulations, Victor!
Canadian Company of the Week
Michael Hayward: "I'd like
to nominate Bulk
Barn. They stock a
huge selection of bulk vegan foods
such as rices, dried beans, pastas,
whole grains, TVP, nuts, seeds,
hemp, flax, trail mixes, etc., at
very reasonable prices. I don't
know if the founder is a veg, but
he certainly makes life easier for
Canadian veg*ns."
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
CBS' top-rated CSI: CRIME SCENE
INVESTIGATION is once again tackling
a difficult animal issue in this
week's episode, "Loco Motives."
A bizarre series of murders, including
the death of a rock star who speaks
out against an industrialized chicken
farming operation, leads the CSI
team to investigate the unpleasant
truth about what really goes on
behind closed doors at a chicken
slaughterhouse.
Compiled by Farmed
Animal Watch.
Q & A with Isa Chandra Moskowitz,
author of Vegan With a Vengeance
and head of The
Post Punk Kitchen.
Diet and Global Warming
New
report from FAO; press
release from HSUS.
Notes from Our
Members
I had lost faith
in my leafleting when my boyfriend
shrugged off Why Vegan.
After reading the Oct. newsletter
(pdf)
and seeing how many people got great
results (handing out as many brochures
in one day as I did in a month!),
I’m feeling very inspired, especially
at the holidays. This Thanksgiving,
my Mom made a Tofurky -- at 64,
she went vegetarian, and my sister
went vegan last year thanks to your
brochures. In fact, your brochures
led me to go vegan several years
ago.
-TS, 11/30/06
Here in Vegan Society
of Finland, we have
now almost distributed the entire
first edition of our new pamphlet
Miksi kasvissyojaksi? (in
English: Why Vegetarian?).
The brochures have been mostly distributed
in tabling but they have also been
stocked to some shops and libraries.
It is also part of our free starter
pack. We have lots of new members
and numerous requests for the free
starter pack.
-Timo Kiviniemi, 12/2/06
I really appreciated
your article "Advocacy
in an Imperfect World,"
from your October newsletter. I
think it's important to recognize
that every little bit helps, and
that if animal advocates insist
that people are "perfect,"
then it will be not be a very inviting
idea, and people will be intimidated
against even trying.
 -MN,
12/1/06
My favorite exchange
at UNC Chapel Hill today:
Me:
Brochure to help animals?
Student:
I got one of those...I went vegan.
Me:
From this brochure?
Student:
Yes!
-Jeff Boghosian, 11/30/06
At right, Lauren Porsch leaflets
at New York U; photo by Jenna Calabrese.
 One
of my favorite leafleting memories
ever was from UNC Chapel Hill about
a year ago, when Aashish Bhimani
was my fellow leafleter that day.
During one class change, a nice
young man came up to me to say that
he went vegetarian as a result of
getting an Even If booklet
a few months earlier. During the
next class change, a nice young
woman came up to Aashish to say
the exact same thing.
Aashish
and I had a similar experience at
George Mason U yesterday. There
was an individual walking by and
he stopped to let me know that he
got an EI booklet 4 months
back and that the pictures -- especially
those of the chickens -- made him
really think about his food choices,
which immediately led to him going
vegetarian. An hour later, another
man came up to Aashish to state
that he got an EI booklet
a year back and has been vegan since
(pictured here; Aashish on left).
-Jon Camp, 11/29/06
While leafleting at
the Hawthorne District
[in Portland, OR], I asked two 20-somethings
if they wanted a brochure. One of
them grabbed it, and the other one
waited for me to get more pamphlets
out of my bag. When I handed it
to her, she said "YES!!"
and was practically jumping up and
down. She walked away energetically
talking about it with her friend.
Also, one of the highlights was
a sweet girl who came up to me towards
the end and said, "Okay, I'm
ready to take one now!" I realized
that I had offered her a WV
earlier but she had her hands full
of stuff. It made me happy that
she took the time to come back over
to get one.
-Jessica Dadds, 11/27/06
While Roger and I were
leafleting at the
University of South Florida today,
we had a number of great encounters.
A guy told me he is "trying"
and that he thinks it's important
for everyone to reduce consumption.
He got a pamphlet in high school
and then again in college and has
since been limiting his meat consumption.
One girl said "Hell Yeah!"
after I offered her a booklet. A
man refused a booklet, went inside
the library, then came back out
and said, "On second thought,
I will take one." Two girls
said they had already received booklets
and they agreed so I gave them GCFEs.
A golf cart came up to Roger, and
one of the guys in the cart asked
for a booklet. The two men in the
cart then proceeded to argue about
whether someone who doesn't eat
meat can build muscle. One guy said
to the other "Look at him!"
(referring to Roger), "He's
pretty built!" Roger told them
he hadn't eaten meat in 10 years,
and is fitter now than he was before.
-Jodi Chemes, 11/27/06
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