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 Vegan
Outreach has put together a page
documenting the links between food
choices and global warming. The
report from the United Nation's
Food and Agriculture Organization,
combined with research from the
University of Chicago, shows convincingly
that our food choices are at least
as important as our other choices
in terms of our contribution to
global warming.
It is, of course, much easier to
drive a different car or use CFLs
than to choose vegetarian. But we
use this well-heeded research on
a hot topic to bring people to consider
the animals' plight, and inform
them of the compassionate alternative.
Vegan Outreach has been adding
this information to our booklets
as we do updates. Also, we have
registered www.atrulyinconvenienttruth.org,
and have been taking out ads on
a number of blogs (e.g., Feministing;
coming soon: EcoGeek).
The New York Times mentioned
this campaign in their article,
"Trying
to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate
Change":
Even tiny pro-veggie operations
are starting to squeeze dollars
out of their shoestring budgets
to advertise the eating meat/global
warming connection. Vegan Outreach,
a 14-year-old group in Tucson
with just three full-time workers
and a $500,000 annual budget,
is spending about $800 this month
to run ads and links to its Web
page on about 10 blogs. And, it
will give more prominence to the
global warming aspect of vegetarianism
in the next batch of leaflets
it orders....
Mr. Ball is incensed that high-profile
people like Al Gore -- or environmental
groups with deeper pockets than
his -- have not stepped up to
the plate.
"Al Gore calls global warming
an existential risk to humanity,
yet it hasn't prompted him to
change his diet or even mention
vegetarianism," he complained.
"And I guess the environmentalists
recognize that it’s a lot easier
to ask people to put in a fluorescent
light bulb than to learn to cook
with tofu."
[Note that the original version
of this article listed Vegan Outreach's
budget as $5 million. VO's cumulative
income since being founded in 1993
doesn't even come close to $5 million!]
Feel free to use these graphics
and link to atrulyinconvenienttruth.org.
If you would like to make a donation
to expand this tactic (and help
us come closer to $5 million :-)
you can contribute
on-line. Thanks!
As schools start up around the
country, dedicated AAC
activists are greeting new students
with the hidden realities of modern
agribusiness.
At right, Rebecca Solomon (age
4) leaflets at Cal State, Northridge;
photo by Stewart Solomon. Team Solomon
-- also including Stephanie (11)
and Zachary (13) -- handed out a
total of 2,523 booklets.
If you are interested in taking
your commitment to the next level
and creating real, fundamental change
in our society, please contact
us!
Update on Housing Request
Thanks to those of you who have
generously offered to house Victor
Tsou or Jon Camp during their upcoming
tours.
During mid-September, Victor still
needs housing for one to four nights
near the following areas: Salt Lake
City, UT; Bozeman, MT; Pocatello,
Moscow, and Boise, ID. Jon Camp
still needs housing for one or two
nights near the following areas
in October: Kutztown and E. Stroudsburg,
PA; Morgantown, WV; Athens, OH;
and Stevens Point, WI. If you'd
be willing to house either of these
courteous young men, please email
tour
(at) veganoutreach.org.
Thanks so much!
Product of the Week
B Wolf: I absolutely love Hodgson
Mills' ground flax seed. It
can be added to virtually anything,
it has 2600 milligrams of omega
3's per serving, it is gluten-free,
and may also be used as an egg substitute.
One tablespoon of ground flax plus
three tablespoons of H2O equals
one egg.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
Via COK,
an NBC reporter discusses her evolving
awareness: "We ask ourselves
to 'drink responsibly' but we must
also ask ourselves to 'live responsibly,'
to be conscious of our actions and
their impact. ... And be responsible
for your life. Think about the animal
suffering. In some cultures they
eat dogs and cats. Abominable, you
say? Those cultures place no value
on their lives. We get to decide.
At some point we must be conscious
of our choices." Read
more.
Via DawnWatch:
"First, is there such a thing
as truly 'humane meat'? Second,
would consuming only humane meat
satisfy the demands of ethical living?
And third, do we, as individuals,
have good reason to promote 'humane
meat' rather than vegetarianism?"
Read
more.
Notes from Our
Members
While leafleting at
Purdue today, I met
about 10 vegetarians and 3 vegans.
I heard from students who had gotten
the booklet at Warped Tour in Chicago,
and Milwaukee. I also heard from
2 separate students who stated that
they became vegetarian after getting
the booklet in the  past.
-Joe Espinosa, 8/22/07
Anne Green leaflets at the
University of Arizona; photo by
Matt Ball
Miranda and I had lots
of great moments when
we leafleted UC Berkeley's freshman
convocation:
- People stopped in their tracks,
reading the Even Ifs.
- A man in the marching band asked
for a copy , and then gave it
to others in the band, who huddled
around it.
- After a man received a booklet,
his partner asked him what it
was. He said, "You don't
want to read this." When
she saw what it was, she took
it out of his hands, came back
to me for another copy, then went
over the booklet with him.
- Got many positive comments,
including: "This booklet
changed my life;" "I've
been wanting to read this."
-Victor Tsou, 8/20/07
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