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Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Vegetarian Meats of the Month
Paul Shapiro claims that these
Meal Starters, especially
the Steak
Style, are the best
mock meat product available at regular
natural foods chains (and some grocery
stores, such as Giant Eagle). Business
Week gave the Tofurky
dinner a good review.
Vegan Outreach co-founder Matt Ball
will be serving his non-vegan extended
family these
drumsticks and other
products from VegieWorld
for Christmas dinner.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
SAGA (Student's Animal Guardian
Alliance) is a website that assists
high school students and clubs in
their efforts to promote a more
animal-friendly society. On www.clubsaga.org
you can do things like…
- Chat to other teens around the
U.S. through a forum
- Get links to tons of resources
on everything from factory farming
to wildlife to humane eating choices
- Animal Rights Clubs can apply
for grants for special projects
-
 Enter
into contests
Visit clubsaga.org
for more information!
Lauren Porsch passes this great
service along: "The Vegan
Buddies Project is
an exciting venture that has been
created to provide all the support
people need to go vegan. Those of
us who already are vegan know that
one of the most valuable resources
is a friend -- someone to tip us
off as to which is the best soy
ice cream, where to find stylish
non-leather shoes, and most importantly,
how the heck to make tofu taste
good. We need participants all over
the globe, especially in places
where vegans are few and far between,
so join up today!"
The article tells us that according
to the EPA, Smithfield dumps more
toxic waste into the nation's water
each year than all but three other
industrial facilities in America.
But, "The industry has long
made generous campaign contributions
to politicians responsible for regulating
hog farms. ... In 1998 corporate
hog farms in North Carolina spent
$1 million to help defeat state
legislators who wanted to clean
up open-pit lagoons." Full
summary at: DawnWatch.com.
excerpt: "In this
rich agricultural region of Northern
California, ranchers have been turning
chickens too old to lay eggs into
compost at a rate of a half-million
hens a year. But some chickens not
properly euthanized have been seen
crawling out of the compost piles,
earning them the name 'zombie chickens.'"
Notes from Our
Members
 A
friend of mine was
standing outside of his office building
when he overheard two women. One
woman asked, "How is your daughter
liking college?" The other
responded, "She's only been
there a few weeks, and she's a vegetarian
now. She got some sort of pamphlet
on campus and now refuses to eat
meat."
-Lauren Porsch, 12/6/06
At right, Tom Moss talks with
a student at Vanderbilt; photo by
Jon Camp.
I have been stocking
the magazine rack at
my gym with Why Vegans
since I joined, and tonight a woman
stopped to ask if I was the one
responsible for leaving the brochures
(it must have been my pro-veg t-shirt
that tipped her off). She thanked
me and said I had changed her life.
She picked up a brochure a week
ago and, upon reading it, hadn't
eaten meat since. Since I am stuck
behind a desk all day, I try to
find little things like this to
do for the animals ... and sometimes
it is the little things that can
make a big difference !
-Eric Weiss, 12/5/06
At right, Jenna Calabrese leaflets
at SUNY Brockport; photo by Hoss
Firooznia.
We took a second round
in Indianapolis today.
I talked again with
the ex-Marine I met last time I
was there. He let me know that he
had stopped eating chickens because
of my harm reduction suggestion.
Also heard from about 12 vegetarians.
-Joe Espinosa, 12/7/06
The students at Mt.
Hood Community College were
incredibly receptive today. One
woman I approached said, "You
already gave it to me, and it made
me cry. It's effective." Another
said she had already received one
earlier in the semester. When I
asked if she had read it, she said,
"It was sick. I have reduced
my meat consumption. Thank you for
being here."
-Jessica Dadds, 12/7/06
While leafleting today,
someone told me "You gave me
one already, and I showed my whole
English class!" When I was
about to leave, someone exclaimed:
"Wow! You have good timing!
We just talked about [animal rights]
in my [moral philosophy] class!"
So, I got another few batches and
ran back to to leaflet the class
letting out. The professor came
out and was impressed and said she
supported us!
-VM, 12/5/06
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