I received an Even
If You Like Meat pamphlet
at my university campus today, and
I am SO glad that I did. I have
known about suffering and have wanted
to stop eating meat, but this particular
guide is so incredibly well put
together that I know I can do it
now, and I want to more than ever!!!
Your approach is brilliant, informing
people that they don't need to become
"purists" but that simply
cutting back will help. In addition,
the guide to "what you can
do" toward the back led to
a feeling of resolution, as opposed
to other pamphlets that just leave
the reader hanging and feeling sick
and numb for a while, but ultimately
overwhelmed and feeling like there
isn't much he or she can do. I am
so excited to begin standing up
to factory farming and intend on
sharing it with as many people as
I can. I have already shown my boyfriend
who has jumped on the wagon with
me. This pamphlet is really phenomenal
-- Thank you!!
-SP, Livermore, CA,
12/12/07
Thanks!
 The
accomplishments of Vegan Outreach
are the result of the efforts of
our members. Donors pay for the
printing and shipping of booklets
for hundreds of activists to distribute
across the country and around the
world. In 2007, these combined efforts
led to a record of over 1.8 million
booklets, with more than 750,000
handed directly to students as part
of the Adopt-a-College
program.
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are truly grateful for all of you
who make this happen. There are,
of course, endless urgent demands
for our efforts and money. Many
causes and campaigns present much
more immediate pleas for specific
individual animals (e.g., disaster
rescues), emotional hooks with the
familiar (e.g., dogs and cats),
and offer "concrete,"
visceral measures -- a specific
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with a finite endpoint and "victory."
Very few people are willing to
give to a vegan group doing grassroots,
person-to-person education -- with
paper booklets, no less!
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there can be no peace for the animals
while they are raised and butchered
merely for the taste of their flesh.
About 99% of all animals killed
in the U.S. each year die to be
eaten, and even though they are
unseen and often unfamiliar, their
suffering is no less real and intense.
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hidden cruelties. As we see at school
after school, college students are
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of students will graduate this year,
and most will be lost to the conformity
pressures of jobs and families --
and beyond the reach of leafleters.
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missed!
The animals
can’t afford for us to lose these
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