 Notes
from Vegan Outreach
Spanish Booklet Now Available!
Thanks to the efforts and support
of several translators, Lauren "Design
Goddess" Panos, and Ingrid
Newkirk, Vegan Outreach now has
copies of the new Spanish booklet
available.
You can see
a pdf here and order
copies via the Vegan
Outreach catalog.
If you haven't already, you can
still contact Morningstar Farms
regarding their use of eggs. You
can learn
more here, or go right
to the contact
form. Please pass this
along to every compassionate person
you know -- thanks!
Baltimore-Area Alert
Vegan Outreach's polite young man
Jon Camp (leafleting here at
Michigan State; photo by Sophia
DiPietro) will be tabling at
the Animal
Aid Concert in Baltimore
on Sunday, March 25th. If you'll
be attending this, please stop by
and say hello to him!
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& Cruelty-Free
Product of the Week
Joe Espinosa: My suggestion for
product of the week is Chilli Man
brand vegetarian chili. Flavorful
enough that I use a can of chili
with an equal amount of my own cooked
beans (chick peas, black beans,
kidney beans, or pintos) for a hearty
meal that allows me to brave the
tough Chicago winter. I am able
to find it among the other canned
chili at Jewel (grocery story chain
in Illinois).
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
Excerpt: "Which causes
more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing
cattle* or driving cars? This question
was posed in a recent report published
by the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization, which concluded the
livestock sector “generates more
greenhouse gas emissions as measured
in CO2 equivalent -- 18 percent
-- than transport.”
*While many news outlets equated
"livestock" in the FAO
report only with cattle, livestock
includes all animals raised for
food.
Excerpt: "'The word
‘vegan’ tends to scare people --
and to exclude people,' said Gargiulo,
a retired competitive snowboarder
and vegan for 16 years. ... 'From
a marketing point of view, trying
to attract just those people would
give you a tiny market, so it makes
sense to broaden the appeal by not
necessarily proclaiming your veganness,'
said Denver restaurant consultant
John Imbergamo. ... At least half
of American adults strive to eat
at least two or three meatless meals
per week, according to another poll
by the trade group."
Excerpt: "'For me,
the current situation of the food
industry -- specifically the animal
food industry -- is something I
don’t feel that I can support, and
this is a concrete way that I can
boycott it,' said Blizzard. 'After
the Interim class, I am what I would
consider a strict vegetarian. I
don't eat meat, I don't buy any
more leather or animal products,
I don't use products that have been
tested on animals and I don’t eat
eggs or drink milk, unless it’s
a rare occasion.'"
Feedback from Our
Members
 Received
by Suzanne Haws: I'm
curious to know if you were the
one passing out Vegan Outreach literature
at Contra Costa College last fall.
If so, I want to thank you so much
for taking the time to do that.
It really opened my eyes to the
amount of cruelty that exists, and
my husband and I have made drastic
changes to the way we eat and live...all
for the better!
At right, Gaurav Pranami leaflets
at the Iowa State; photo by Jon
Camp.
Today I offered EIs
to a group of high
schools students, and they replied
collectively, "We've gotten
them already." But then one
girl turned toward me as they rushed
by and replied, "That leaflet
changed my life!"
-Stewart Solomon, 3/14/07
A while ago I got pamphlets
from you guys for
my Veganism speech in my college
class. The speech went over well.
After I was done, I had to answer
many questions, some nice and some
not so nice. All and all it went
well and I just wanted to let you
guys know that without your help
it wouldn't have. The pamphlets
really went a long way of backing
what I had said. Thank you for your
organization and everything you
guys do.
-Khris M, 3/8/07
I had a number of uplifting
encounters today.
For example: A guy and two of his
friends stood with me while looking
at the brochure and proceeded to
ask me questions about the pictures.
As I was telling them they were
saying things like "That's
horrible! What am I supposed to
eat now?!" I gave them GCFEs.
-Jodi Chemes, 3/7/07
My favorite exchange
today:
Brochure against animal cruelty?
Student:
Okay, sure. (after a beat) Hey,
wait, I don't want this -- it's
going to make me stop eating meat.
Well,
that's the idea.
Student:
(flipping through the brochure)
Eh... okay... I'll be having the
veggie burger for lunch.
At right, Mike Benedetti leafleting
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute;
photo by Jenna Calabrese.
Last week, in the below-zero wind
chill at Springfield Technical Community
College, I had another interesting
exchange:
Brochure to help animals?
Student
A: (apprehensively) Well... I don't
think--
Student
B: (to student A) I got one of those
earlier, you have to take
it. It's about animal cruelty.
Student
A: Really? Okay. (takes a brochure)
Student
B: (to me) Thanks for doing this!
Have a good day!
Also last week, right before I
knocked off for the day at UMass,
Amherst, a young male student came
up to me and told me that he had
received a brochure last semester.
"I went vegetarian after reading
it," he confided, "and
I wanted you to know that you guys
truly do make a difference."
-Jenna Calabrese, 3/14/07
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