At Kent State,
one guy said he would never
consider becoming vegetarian
because we are biologically
designed to eat meat ("canine"
teeth, protein needs, etc.).
I explained that I didn't want
to get into a debate with him
about our "natural"
diet, but that he should just
look at the information; regardless
of how he thinks primitive humans
ate, he'd have to agree there's
no reason to support the cruelty
inflicted on farmed animals
now. He shook his head and walked
off. About an hour later he
came back and said he had read
the entire brochure and it was
"really good." I think
it had a huge effect on him.
-Jen Kaden, 11/14/07
Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Giving Thanks
 It
can be difficult to be thankful
at this time of year, with the slaughter
and consumption of animals so overtly
celebrated (not to mention the family
stresses and discomfort that often
accompany holidays).
 However,
those of us at Vegan Outreach are
sincerely thankful this and every
season. Not only are we able to
work with some of the best people
in the world -- thoughtful, compassionate,
selfless, and dedicated -- but we
also know that every day, we are
making a tremendous difference.
More and more people are making
profound and fundamental changes
in their lives, and the plight of
farmed animals -- meticulously hidden
for decades by modern agribusiness
-- is being brought to light.
We are thankful for you, and hope
that you, too, are proud to be a
part of the cutting edge of animal
liberation -- the moral imperative
of our time.
If you haven't already, please
see A
Meaningful Life, One
Possible Future, and
A
New World.
Stay strong!
-Anne, Brian, Jack, Jon, Lauren,
Matt, Miranda, and Victor
 More
from Jon Camp
For my just-concluded, 5,000+ mile
tour, a total of 24 schools were
leafleted and, with the help of
volunteers, 22,637 booklets were
handed directly to students.
As always, a huge thanks to everyone
who housed me, leafleted with me,
and to those who generously give
to Vegan Outreach. This work is
often slow and a bit arduous, but
like others, I continue to see firsthand,
everyday, that it is getting a great
many of today's students to seriously
consider the animals' plight and
make changes. We've got a long battle
ahead of us, but we are making some
very significant inroads.
Recipe & Menu of the Week
Don't have access to Meal
Starters, Tofurky [web
site; in
the news], or store-bought
seitan? Try your hand at making
seitan! See also this
COK
holiday menu.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
By Bill Maher
"Freeing the turkeys might
help the president's credibility
when he says things like, 'We don't
torture.' Take a look at this
video, shot just last month
at a typical American turkey slaughterhouse,
and this
one, shot undercover last year at
a Butterball slaughterhouse by investigators
from PETA, and you'll see that my
use of the word is no exaggeration.
"Former Vice President Al
Gore should
be the first to take the meat-free
Thanksgiving pledge. Since raising
animals for food generates more
greenhouse gases than all the cars
and trucks in the world combined,
is it too much ask Mr. Gore to stop
gazing at his Oscar and his Nobel
Prize long enough to read the United
Nations report that calls the meat
industry 'one of the top two or
three most significant contributors
to the most serious environmental
problems, at every scale from local
to global'?" Read
more; see also "Some
feast on turkey, some say no thanks."
Notes from Our
Members
At Cal Poly, San Luis
Obispo, a student
came back and told me she was going
vegan
after reading the Even If
You Like Meat. Another
student came back and said, "I
was already vegetarian, but after
reading this [pointing to EI]
I am not going to eat any more eggs
or dairy." Yet another approached
and asked how he could get more
involved. He was given A Meaningful
Life and told about
Adopt
a College. Finally,
I met a student doing his persuasive
speech on factory farms. He wanted
to persuade his peers to go vegan
and was excited to receive the EI.
 -Miranda
Robbins, 11/17/07
I had a lot of positive
interactions and talked
to a number of people at CU-Boulder
today. The highlight of my day was
when a young woman excitedly told
me she has been veg since receiving
an EI from me two months
ago. She's planning on bringing
her non-veg boyfriend to a student-sponsored
vegan Thanksgiving dinner.
-Barbara Bear, 11/14/107
At TX A&M Galveston
yesterday, a girl
mentioned getting a booklet at a
concert awhile back, and it resulted
in her and a friend going veg.
-Casey Constable, 11/15/07
At Wayne State, Don
and I met a man who had worked at
a slaughterhouse in Eastern Market,
Detroit. He described how they slaughtered
pigs and how it turned him off of
eating sausage for years. He said
some of the guys working with him
were pretty cruel to the animals.
We also had a number of productive
conversations about vegetarian meats
with people who insisted they couldn't
give up meat. One of them did say,
"Boca burgers are really good!,"
and he would try to give up meat
and dairy one day a week.
-Italia and Don, 11/17/07
Leafleting at the Hanna
Montana concert last week, one
of a pair of girls said, "Are
you the person who stands outside
the Galleria mall all the time?"
After I said yes, her friend said,
"She is vegan now. I am vegetarian."
At
the mall today, I met a girl who
told me, "I am going to show
this to my friends. They refuse
to believe me." Also met a
guy who told me that he was now
going to go vegetarian.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
11/18/07
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