Notes from Vegan
Outreach
New Record!
 Already
this semester, Adopt
a College activists have handed
364,906
booklets directly to students on
campuses across the continent. This
is already tens of thousands more
than the previous record!
Katie Kloth leaflets at the
University of Wisconsin -- Stevens
Point; photo by Jon Camp.
Thanks so much to everyone whose
hard work and donations have made
this possible!
Shopping
Searching for items in addition
to Vegetarian
Shoes and Bags? If shopping
on-line, start at Greater
Good or iGive
-- a percentage of your purchases
through participating merchants
goes to print and distribute more
Vegan Outreach booklets. Links to
those and other shops here!
 Vegan
Outreach is teaming up with Marathon
Matt to raise money for the
Adopt
a College program. Team
Vegan members will be professionally
trained (in the Bay area or via
e-mail) to run the Santa Cruz Half
Marathon/10k on April 13, 2008.
All ages and exercise levels welcome!
We know that when we leaflet colleges,
we create new vegetarians -- it's
that simple. Every new vegetarian
puts pressure on the meat industry,
helps the veggie food world grow,
and most importantly, spares dozens
of animals a year from fear and
pain.
When you join Team Vegan and raise
$1,000 from your friends and co-workers,
you'll be responsible for creating
dozens of new vegetarians! Check
out the details and
please forward to everyone you know.
We need your help to expand our
leafleting work -- thank you, and
we'll see you in Santa Cruz!
Product of the Week
Jesse: Organic
Naturepops Lollipops.
I was searching for candies I could
give my class as a reward for doing
outstanding work. I found these
lollipops and they are truly delicious.
The flavors taste very intense.
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 aroma of stuffing, gravy
and potatoes filled a banquet hall
decked out in the browns and oranges
of the holiday, but Thanksgiving's
most well-known symbol and main
course was absent from the gathering.
No turkey, no worries, said the
majority of people who attended
the second Vegan Thanksgiving Day
Feast. ... More than 130 vegans
and vegetarians [including Jodi
Chemes, pictured] celebrated
the holiday by bringing their favorite
nonmeat dishes to the potluck feast."
Full
article; more
pictures.
Notes from Our
Members
I've been really struggling
these past few days -- Thanksgiving
is hitting me hard. The thought
of all those turkeys being slaughtered,
the suffering they endured beforehand
... well, let's just say that I've
burst out in tears more than once
lately. I even wondered if I'd have
to skip Thanksgiving dinner at my
parents' house -- everyone there
eats meat. How could I handle it?
How could I do anything but sob
at the table?
Then
VO's Thanksgiving
e-newsletter arrived. Reading
it, along with "A
Meaningful Life," was a
true lifesaver for me.
As
I awaken more and more to the animals'
plight, I sometimes feel like I
can't -- don't even want to -- manage
in this world. But giving up isn't
possible, and secluding myself with
others "like me" isn't
the answer (as
you point out on VO's website).
Your reminder to cultivate balance
and patience and even JOY sounds
right to me; that's what can keep
me going strong so I can help the
animals. And that's what I want
to do -- MORE THAN ANYTHING.
Heartfelt
gratitude to everyone at Vegan Outreach.
We'll get there. We will.
-MT, 11/21/07
At Camosun College
in Victoria, BC, a student mentioned
to Sarat (pictured here) that he
had previously received a booklet
and is now veg. Another student
to whom I had given a booklet returned
later to tell me that he's convinced.
He then happily accepted a Guide
to Cruelty-Free Eating.
The funniest comment was from a
tough-looking guy who accepted an
Even If earlier. On his
way back from the cafeteria, he
was holding four muffins and said
to me "I'm going all muffin."
-John Bowers, 11/22/07
Leafleting at the Thanksgiving
Parade in Charlotte,
NC was a terrific day of outreach!
One college student came up to me
with his friend and said that he
had a conversation with me about
vegetarianism on the Winston-Salem
State campus and was so happy to
see me out here again. He thanked
me for leafleting and said that
it's really making a difference
- his friend eagerly took a WV.
Another gentleman said he had received
a veg leaflet from me at Livingstone
College a couple of weeks back.
And a college-aged woman told her
group of six friends that this is
the literature she had received
elsewhere and was telling them about
earlier and insisted that they read
it. All six of them excitedly took
literature. Too many other positive
comments to report, but one of the
best came as I was walking back
to my car: a woman I had just leafleted
said that she was very happy to
have received a booklet and planned
on working towards becoming a vegetarian.
Her mother said the same thing and
both thanked me profusely for being
out there.
My
previous form of activism -- lots
of chant-filled protests -- was
so much more confrontational and
less effective than simply distributing
pro-veg literature. Although it
took awhile, I'm glad I'm much more
strategic now -- it's not only better
for the animals but less stressful
on me.
-Dawn Ratcliffe, 11/22/07
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