Notes
from Vegan Outreach
A Record Day!
On April 23, 2007, Compassionate
Action for Animals sponsored a historic,
first-ever Minnesota College Leafleting
Day! They coordinated over 55 volunteers
in Minnesota, some in remote cities
around the state and many who had
never leafleted before. On this
beautiful, sunny day, they  leafleted
at every major college in the Twin
Cities area and many others throughout
the state (see
full post here), distributing
over 9,500 Vegan Outreach leaflets!
Other Vegan Outreach activists
distributed over 6,600 booklets
that day at other schools and venues
across the continent, bringing the
total for the day to over 16,000
booklets handed directly to individuals.
For reference, the total for the
entire first semester of
the Adopt
a College program (Fall
2003) was 22,217 booklets.
At right, Ilze Jece leaflets
at Boston University.
Product of the Week
In response to the previous
mention of the Vita-mix, Shirley
nominates the Health
Master 100 as a less
expensive option: It does just as
good for a fraction of the cost.
We start the day with our own version
of V-8 -- tomatoes, celery, bell
pepper, spinach, collards, cabbage,
carrots, flax seed.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
From
the RSPCA.
Video.
HT: Vegan.com
Excerpt:
"She recommends the hazelnut-crusted
seitan, a crunchy, fried wheat gluten
so reminiscent of meat that I inhale
the entire entrée in under five
minutes. After a convincing vegan
brownie sundae and a curt lecture
by the waitress on why dairy 'doesn’t
do anything for you,' I head home,
comforted by the fact that I don’t
have to recite poetry, grow dreadlocks
or eat out of upside-down bongos
to be a vegan. Being a vegan might
not be that bad after all. ... Eating
among converts is one thing, but
interacting with the nonvegan world
is by far the toughest part of the
experiment."
Feedback from Our
Members
 Veganism
is the best thing
that ever happened to me. I'm so
thankful to Vegan Outreach because
I was given a pamphlet of yours
and it led me to your website. I
am now vegan and I never want to
change!
-KP, 5/2/07
At right, Aashish Bhimani leaflets
at George Mason U; photo by Jon
Camp.
I decided to do my
persuasion speech
[for speech class] on why not to
eat meat. I gave everyone in class,
including my teacher, copies of
Why Vegan, Even If
You Like Meat, and the Guide
to Cruelty-Free Eating. And
the speech was a big success; I
had a few people in my class stop
me afterwards to let me know that
my speech left the biggest impact
on them, and to ask for more information
about where to shop for vegetarian
foods. One woman in my class recently
told me that she hasn't eaten any
meat since the day I did my speech
a few weeks ago, and has lost over
12 pounds since giving up meat!
And
I just want to say that the Vegan
Outreach pamphlets were so incredibly
helpful; it was so rewarding to
look around the class after I finished
my speech, and see everyone reading
them. I know that those are 30 people
who will be more compassionate to
animals from this point on!
-CB, Tinley Park, IL,
5/2/07
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