Notes from Vegan
Outreach
AAC and non
 For
fall semester, Adopt a College activists
have handed out over 300,000
booklets at 336 schools
across North America -- closing
in on the record of 344,160!
Vegan Outreach is now listing
all reported non-campus leafleting!
Thanks to Anne Green, Victor Tsou,
and Jack Norris for putting the
list, website, and automated database
together. Anne has compiled the
non-school leafleting numbers reported
to our AAC email list since 2004.
If you are interested in joining
the list, see #4 on this
page.
Thanks
to the generous support of our
donors, Vegan Outreach has now
sent out over 1.6 million
pamphlets in 2007!
Congratulations to everyone
who has done such incredible work
reaching thousands of new
people every single day with
the otherwise hidden realities of
modern agribusiness!
Thanks to volunteers Kristina Musholt
and Johannes Duerrschmidt (with
help from Anne Green), we now have
an HTML
German translation of Even If
You Like Meat (see also this
older
PDF).
All versions
listed on our site are translations
only (i.e., they do not represent
data specific to the country or
countries where the language is
spoken). If you are interested in
translating one of our booklets
into a language not yet represented
on our site, please contact
Anne.
Product of the Week
Abigail: I nominate Couch
vegan belts. They are
extremely durable, look great, and
are significantly cheaper than most
nice vegan belts online.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
"The message is that pandemics
are not born but rather are man-made--and
that there is a price to pay for
the modern poultry industry, in
which fowl are raised in closed,
stressful, unhealthy facilities,
facilitating mutation and dissemination
of the bird flu virus. Greger writes
that '[It] may take a pandemic with
a virus like H5N1 before the world
realizes the true cost of cheap
chicken.' The book is timely, well-researched,
and particularly incisive on farming
methods worldwide, especially those
for poultry." Read
more; visit the book's
website.
From Students for Animal Rights
-- Ask your friends and family to
sign up, and add
your name to the list!
From Ali Berman, a driving force
at Student's
Animal Guardian Alliance,
comes Swanky
Veg -- high fashion
meets cruelty-free.
Via DawnWatch.com, from the New
York Times: "Many health
advocates were surprised earlier
this month when a children's health
coalition that includes federal
agencies and professional medical
associations contradicted government
warnings about mercury contamination
and recommended that women of childbearing
age eat more fish.... [T]he National
Fisheries Institute [provided] $1,000
honoraria to each of the group's
14 members, with an extra $500 each
to the group's four executive committee
members.... The National Fisheries
Institute also gave the coalition
$60,000 for its education campaign."
Read
more.
Notes from Our
Members
 A
friend once explained to
me that she was vegan because she
didn't want animals to suffer. But
it wasn't until I received your
Even If You Like Meat booklet
that I truly understood the case
for being vegan. Thank you for showing
millions of people what is going
on.
-ER, Yucca Valley, CA,
10/27/07
At right, Spruce Houser leaflets
at Ohio University; photo by Jon
Camp.
There was a massive
high school field trip visiting
the Galleria Mall today. The vast
majority of students took a Why
Vegan from me [1,250 total
distributed]. One girl mentioned
that she used to be a vegetarian
but had to quit because of health
problems. As soon as I gave her
a GCFE
and told her that there is a lot
of information on nutrition in it,
lots and lots of the other students
nearby demanded that they also get
a GCFE, each telling me
that they are former or current
or wannabe vegetarians. Even one
of the teachers insisted that she
needed a GCFE.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
10/27/07
Leafleting at Hartnell
College, I heard,
"Man, and when they shoot the
pigs with that captive bolt gun...that's
messed up!" "Yeah, man,
it sure is." I looked around
and it was a group of 6 or 7 students
all with EIs in their hands.
One student joined them and was
immediately handed an EI by
one of his peers with a "you
have to read this." I had so
many good interactions that I could
write for another 30 minutes. It
was truly a great day with lots
of positive outreach.
-Miranda Robbins, 10/25/07
The craziest thing
happened as I was
leaving Alamance Community College:
a woman yelled, "Stop -- you,
stop!" She had noticed people
in her class had some of my leaflets
so she gets up after class had already
started and runs uphill from the
building in the very back of campus
just so she can get a leaflet. She
was so excited, I honestly thought
she was going to cry.
-Dawn Ratcliffe, 11/1/07
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