Notes from Vegan
Outreach
 Product
Combo of the Week
Entertaining meat eaters this holiday
season? Robin Robertson's The
Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook
is a good starting point for those
occasions. Don't have time to make
seitan? Replace with Meal
Starters.
At right, vegan-from-birth
Ellen
Green prepares to dig into a
meal of vegan
drumsticks, Trader Joe's meatless
meatballs, mashed potatoes (made
with Silk Enhanced) and gravy (also
made with Silk
Enhanced). Organic carrots,
too.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
"According to the latest Harris
poll, three percent of teens are
vegetarians, up from one percent
in 1997. ... Experts say vegetarians
and vegans need to find replacements
for the protein, B vitamins, iron
and calcium that meat provides.
Love said, 'Like soy cheese, soy
milk, tofu products. There are now
wheat based meat products like Seitan
[and vegetarian meats like those
above -ed] and these are just excellent
protein sources that are available.'"
Read
more.
From The Oregonian: "It's
not every day you get to taste tempeh
mashed yams, shop for faux leather
or mingle in a crowd that includes
a vegan bodybuilder. But you could
do that and more at last weekend's
Vegan Holiday Festival." Read
more.
Notes from Our
Members
I saw some former students
at UCLA today. One
I had for both [high school] chemistry
and physics; she graduated in 2006.
On her first day of school at UCLA
last year, on her way to her very
first class, she ran into me leafleting.
I got to hand her a leaflet and
give her some words of encouragement.
She is now vegan.
It
feels like it's getting just a little
easier out there. There's far more
vegans now than just two years ago
when I started leafleting, and far
more vegetarians also. And those
meat eaters, though still in the
majority, no longer look at me like
I'm crazy.
-Stewart Solomon, 11/10/07
Lidia Belknap leaflets in San
Francisco for World
Go Vegan Days; photo by Valerie
Mizuhara.
Great day today at
Wayne State! The first
student we leafleted sat down and
read it all. Another student, having
been told the booklet is about how
we treat the animals we eat, said,
"I know it's pretty inhumane."
He opened the booklet and looked
at it with sadness. We'll definitely
be going back!
-Italia Milan, 11/9/07
Met two vegetarian
guys at LaGuardia
who were practically jumping up
and down when I gave them booklets.
They each asked for copies of both
the Why Vegan and the GCFE
to give to their friends and
family. Lots of young women there,
too; an exceptionally large number
were already vegan, vegetarian,
or just super excited to get a brochure.
At Columbia, one faculty member
thanked me profusely for being there.
A student took a brochure, stopped
in his tracks, and looked at me
like a deer in headlights. "Oh,
man. This might be it for me,"
he said. "All signs have been
pointing to vegetarian lately."
-Jenna Calabrese, 11/9/07
At Santa Rosa Junior
College, we had three
memorable encounters: 1. "My
girlfriend got one of these and
now she won’t eat meat. She showed
me [and now I don't eat meat either].
I just wanted to let you know that
you helped two people." 2.
"I know about this. I mean,
I don’t know about this, but I need
to know." 3. "I've wanted
to go vegan for a long time, but
haven't known what to do."
At
Montgomery High School, a student
kept saying, "We need to eat
animals for population control."
But then he turned a page and was
disgusted by what he saw; he turned
to his friend and they started talking
seriously about the horrific lives
and deaths of farmed animals. We
have seen this happen time and again:
people who initially react callously
to the literature turn around once
the novelty of being rude wears
off and they are no longer able
to ignore the suffering shown in
the images before them.
-Victor Tsou & Miranda
Robbins, 11/8/07
At St. Pete College,
an older guy said, "Cool! This
is awesome! I've been trying to
go vegetarian for a while. My friends
keep bugging me about it. I hate
thinking about those animals in
cages. This [booklet] is exactly
what I needed!" A woman came
up to the table and told me that
in her ethics class, her group is
doing a report on animal cruelty.
I gave her leaflets to hand out
to the class.
-Jodi Chemes (photo
by Dean Stanford), 11/6/07
While leafleting in
Chicago, a mother
and teenage daughter stopped to
talk; both were omnivores. They
were very interested in what I had
to say, and both decided on the
spot that they would try giving
up animal products.
-Wayne Hsiung, 11/10/07
On Michigan Ave in
Chicago, I saw a girl
reading a Why Vegan while
walking with her mom. I can only
imagine the lasting impact Vegan
Outreach will have on that girl.
-Danielle Marino, 11/7/07
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