Notes
from Vegan Outreach
Not an April Fools Joke!
 A
very generous donor is seeking to
expand booklet distribution and
has agreed to a matching donation
challenge for the month of April.
All one-time donations marked "Matching"
will be doubled. The initial amount
of a new quarterly recurring donations
will be tripled, and the initial
amount of a new monthly recurring
donations will be quadrupled!
At right, Matt Ball leaflets
at West Virginia University; photo
by Jon Camp.
For those of you who already make
recurring donations, the amount
of any increase of quarterly donations
will be tripled, and the amount
of any increase of monthly donations
will be quadrupled! (New recurring
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to increase a current recurring
donation, please send
us an e-mail.) Up to
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You
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Checks may be mailed to:
Vegan Outreach
P.O. Box
38492
Pittsburgh,
PA 15238-8492
All donations must be market "Matching"
and dated in April to qualify. Thanks!
Speaking of Distribution...
By the time you read this, Adopt
a College distirbution
will have reached a quarter-million
booklets handed directly to students
and faculty on college campuses
across North America. This is nearly
100,000 more than at this
time last year!
For the first three months of 2007,
overall distribution passed 425,000
booklets -- an annual pace of 1.7
million!
Attention VA Activists!
Jon Camp will be doing a mini college
leafleting tour next week throughout
Richmond, Norfolk, and Williamsburg.
If you'd like to help leaflet with
him, please email jon
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org.
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!
Product of the Week
Lauren: Wildwood's Organic Unsweetened
Plain Soyogurt. I love to add soy
yogurt to smoothies!
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:
"Food producers who produce
dairy, meat and poultry are facing
a significant threat from animal
activists opposed not only to certain
production practices but to farm
and food animal production.... [P]roducers
were challenged by animal activists
in the 1980s and '90s but succeeded
in putting aside attacks then because
animal activism was a fractured,
leaderless movement of some 150
groups. Today, it has coalesced
into a movement with direction and
very well-funded strategies, he
said, pointing specifically to People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) and the Humane Society of
the United States (HSUS).... Kopperud
said the animal rights agenda is
clear: 'no animal use for any purpose
whatsoever. This must be understood.
There is no middle ground.'"
"Burger King announced that
it would begin buying pork and eggs
from farms that do not cage or crate
their animals. What
do you think?"
Feedback from Our
Members
I recently received
one of your pamphlets on
my way to a college class and was
highly intrigued. Though an admitted
lover of meat, I am now convinced
that I will be able to live a meat-free
lifestyle. Thank you so much for
opening my eyes and reaching out
to the community at large.
-Jessica C, San Lorenzo,
CA, 3/27/07
After I handed a brochure
to a woman, she told
the 5 people she was walking with:
"I got this last week and showed
everyone in my house it, so they
could see what the animals go through!"
-Aashish Bhimani, 3/28/07
I joined Brad King
again to table at
the Lincoln Road Mall. We have a
video showing Meet Your Meat
and we leaflet. One young lady
came up to me in tears with a Why
Vegan in her hand. I asked
her if she was vegan, she said,
"Well, I am now. I am from
Southern California and I have a
lot of friends who are just vegetarian
but not vegan. I plan to go back
home and show them all of this."
Brad
also had these exchanges:
1.
"No, we don't want a Why
Vegan -- thanks. We were here
a few weeks ago and we're vegan
now. We'd just like to pick up some
vegetarian starter kits for our
friends."
2.
"No thanks. I've just brought
my son to see your video, so that
he understands why we don't eat
meat any more."
3.
"We don't need a flyer. We're
vegan. Well, we were here a few
weeks ago and what else could we
do?"
-Linda Bower, 4/3/07
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