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Notes from Vegan
Outreach
 Still
Too Legit to Quit!
Without schools in session, June
and July used to be relatively slow
months for Vegan Outreach. Not anymore!
With leafleters out every day at
the Warped Tour and other concerts,
walkathons, summer festivals, and
other venues, Vegan Outreach booklets
are being directly
handed to thousands of new people
every day.
At right, Maria Golarz leaflets
at Washington DC's Live Earth event;
photo by Jon Camp. See also this
video by Andre Inglis
of activists showing Meet
Your Meat and handing
out Vegan Outreach booklets in Toronto.
So far this summer, more than 100,000
booklets have been handed out at
116 non-school events across North
America. Thanks so much to everyone
who has made this possible!
Product of the Week
Several people wrote in to nominate
Parma
Zaan, by Vegetarian
Express -- "just delicious
on bread for a yummy cheese bread,
or on steamed veggies, or pasta
and marinara sauce." See also
these
recommendations for
toppings.
Jenna Calabrese: My friend Drew
and some of the other fantastic
vegans have begun a do-it-yourself
wallet-making project called
SoyWallets.
They are hand-crafting wallets out
of empty Silk cartons and donating
to Vegan Outreach. They also have
instructions to help you make your
own.
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 PsyBlog: "Familiarity
doesn't breed contempt at all, it
breeds attraction. Making your voice
heard is the only way to let others
know what you think. Otherwise they
will think you agree with the loudest
person.
"Similarly,
and more worryingly, when an opinion
is repeatedly broadcast at us by
the same organization -- think of
a particular media conglomerate
or an advertiser -- we're likely
to come to believe it represents
the general opinion. That's despite
the fact it is analogous to the
same person repeating themselves
over and over again.
"So,
next time James spouts off, I'll
make a point of speaking up. And
make sure I repeat myself. Several
times." Read
more.
Via DawnWatch.com, from Self
magazine: "Of course, I can
continue to live a conflicted life,
and no one will judge me but me.
But though I crave resolution, so
far, I am unable (or unwilling)
to make the sacrifice. What does
this say about me? Am I incapable
of exercising empathy when it's
inconvenient? Which leaves me to
contemplate a particular irony:
It is not other people but animals
who are forcing me to consider the
depth and breadth of my humanity.
Every time I pick up a menu."
Read
more and participate
in the forums.
Feedback from Our
Members
 From
my friend Ben Doress,
who is in the process of going vegan:
"One
of my close friends who LOVES eating
meat was asking me why I am going
vegan. I told him, plus I gave him
some literature that Vegan Outreach
sent me. He later told me, 'I am
thinking of becoming a vegetarian.'
I could not believe it."
-Jenna Calabrese, 7/5/07
At right, Greg Oschwald leaflets
at the Metro stop in Wheaton, MD;
photo by Jon Camp.
At the Warped Tour
event yesterday in
Vancouver, BC, Nick and I handed
out 3,000 Vegan Outreach leaflets.
Just as we were packing up our luggage
carts to go back to the car at the
end of the day, I heard one girl
say to her friend, "I want
to go vegetarian. Hey -- let's go
vegetarian together!"
-Suzanne Haws, 7/4/07
Leafleting at the "Last
Thursday" event
in Portland today, I had a lot of
great encounters, including a young
couple who said that they had an
Even If booklet on their
fridge and all of their friends
read it when they visit.
Felix,
a 10 month old vegan baby, was there
looking super cute in a little cow
outfit. I overheard a man stop by
and say "She's not vegan, is
she?" Felix -- like the other
vegan babies I know -- is really
happy, healthy, and advanced (she's
already walking). It was cool that
she was there. I overheard a woman
with a toddler talking to Felix's
mom for a while. It sounded like
the woman was interested in feeding
her child a vegan diet, too. She
took a handful of literature.
-Jessica Dadds, 6/28/07
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