Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Can't Slow Down!
Last week, Adopt
a College activists
reported handing more than 27,000
booklets directly to students
on campuses across North America.
Even though schools on quarters
are just getting started, AAC's
total for the term is now over 155,000
--  more
than the total from any of the first
four semesters of Adopt a College!!
Casey Constable
talks to students
at Texas Southern University.
Already, more than a dozen people
are already over 1,000 for the term.
After his first swing through Texas,
Casey
Constable is over 20,000
booklets handed directly to students.
In his spare time, full-time teacher,
father, and husband Stewart
Solomon has handed out over
14,000 booklets, including a new
one-day single-person record
on 9/20, hitting the first day of
classes for Cal Poly Pomona (2,700)
and Cal State Los Angeles (2,050),
for an incredible total of 4,750!
 Congratulations
to Casey, Stewart, and everyone
who has made this program such a
fast-growing success!
Next week brings World
Vegetarian Day (Oct. 1) and
World
Farm Animals' Day (Oct. 2).
Be sure to take these opportunities
to reach more people with the animals'
plight and spread the word about
the compassionate alternative.
Jon Camp Is Coming
to Town!
Next week, Jon Camp will embark
on a 6-week leafleting tour throughout
NJ, upstate NY, PA (Kutztown), WV
(Morgantown), OH (Athens, Columbus,
and Dayton), WI, IA, western and
southern IL, and KY. He'd love for
you to join him and take part in
this important work. If you'd like
to leaflet with Jon or if you'd
like for him to give a talk to your
local group, please email jon
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org.
Thanks so much!
Resource of the Week
Bob points out this great vegan
cooking show: DeliciousTV!
You can see the recipes,
get the video podcasts,
and/or watch the episodes!
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
"Stop talking about 'debeaking'
a chicken. Instead, let’s call it
'beak conditioning.' The “backup
killer” in a poultry plant -- the
worker who kills birds missed by
the automatic killer -- should be
called 'knife operator.' Rather
than saying a bird has been 'bled'
to death, call it 'exsanguinated.'"
Read more.
Notes from Our
Members
Tons
of great conversations at Cal State
Los Angeles today. One example:
I offered booklets to three students;
one replied, "I love meat,"
another added "especially turkeys."
I asked, "Did you know they
chop off their toes? While they're
wide awake?" "No!"
"And they cut off their beaks
too; it's like cutting off part
of your chin." "No, why?"
I explained and they vowed never
to eat turkeys again.
I also got the comment: "That's
human cruelty! Making us see what
we are eating!"
-Stewart Solomon, 9/24/07
Today was great at
Evergreen Valley College.
One man hassled me quite a bit,
but then came back later and thanked
me for being there. Also received
two hugs today. It's great when
you get validation from someone
already veg, but the second hug
came from a person who said, "I
would have never known this was
happening if you hadn't given me
this today." Two others said
something similar, but without the
hug. The Student Life Director told
me they were giving away free pizza.
She said students were asking for
meat-free pizza.
-Susan Rattenbury, 9/24/07
Yesterday at Gavilan
College and Gilroy
High School was a great day of outreach.
One woman, upon receiving an Even
If, stopped walking and read
the booklet for a minute, visibly
disturbed. She then walked back
in the opposite direction, seemingly
stunned by what she had read.
Later she met up with a friend.
As they walked together, she showed
him the booklet, telling him about
the horrible conditions in which
chickens are born, live, and die.
Other examples:
Me (offering booklet): Help end
cruelty!
She (receiving booklet, looking
at it for a moment): My friend
showed this to me and told me
I had to read it. I felt so bad
for the chickens; I'm not going
to eat chicken nuggets ever again.
Me (offering booklet): Help end
cruelty!
She (receiving booklet, looking
at it for a moment): I can't look
at this!
Me: I think everybody should read
this at least once in their lives.
She (keeping booklet): Okay.
-Victor Tsou, 9/21/07
Above: after
being offered a leaflet at U Texas
by Casey, Ben stopped and helped
leaflet.
Below: a woman reads a booklet from
Eugene Khutoryansky at the Houston
Pride Parade.
Jeff, Debra, Eric,
and I had a great
day at U. South Carolina, where
we distributed 3,425 copies of Even
If. It was a great crowd, with
countless sincere thank-you's and
dozens of people reading the info
as they walked around. We each had
great encounters; e.g., one soldier
in uniform stopped and talked to
Debra about how he was trying to
be manly and tough and not be affected
by what he had read earlier in the
day, but that it had impacted him
greatly. He then thanked her for
being out their leafleting.
-Dawn Ratcliffe, 9/19/07
I had many great encounters
at Portland State today, including:
- A girl took a pamphlet, looked
down at it and slowly said (in
a sad voice), "Oh man."
She looked back up at me and said
(in a sincere voice), "Okay,
I'll take a look at it."
- "It's awesome that you're
out here." (Heard a number
of people say something similar
to me)
- A girl passed and as I started
to say "Information against...",
she shook her head no; but when
she heard "...animal suffering,"
she instantly expressed an interest
and took an EI.
-Jessica Dadds, 9/23/07
Tabling at the Warped
Tour and a few other
concerts, we distributed about 40,000
copies of Why Vegan, among
other items. It was a pretty successful
summer!
-Dave Bemel, Action
for Animals, 9/23/07
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