Notes
from Vegan Outreach
Product of the Week
Similar to Morningstar's Meal
Starters, Trader Joe's has introduced
Chicken-less and Beef-less Strips;
in the refrigerated (not frozen)
section.
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Notes from All
Over
Recent reports on the industry:
Notes from Our
Members
Today I met a man who
was really upset that he hadn't
received his Even If You Like
Meat 20 minutes before, because
he had just eaten chicken. He said
that he wouldn't have had it if
he'd seen the EI. I told
him he had many more meals ahead
of him to make a different choice.
He seemed happier thinking about
that.
A
man stopped to talk with me who
had just received an EI.
He said that he'd gotten it several
times before, and felt guilty. He
made a resolution to start eating
vegan every Monday and then try
to increase the vegan meals from
there.
 Last
week, one of the last people I leafleted
took his Even If and stood
nearby reading the whole thing.
He came to me after a few minutes
and said:
He:
This can't be real.
Me:
But it is. This is the truth.
-Miranda Robbins, 2/17/08
A student contemplates the
truth at Truman College; photo by
Leslie Patterson.
At the University of
Arkansas, three separate
individuals came up to me mentioning
that they read the entire booklet.
One guy walked by and said, "I
already got a booklet from you.
It's convincing." I spoke with
a man who lives next to a Tyson
operation and he said it's the most
inhumane thing he's seen in his
life. He said the ammonia stench
from the outside is horrific and
can only imagine what the inside
is like.
-Jon Camp, 2/14/08
It was great to be
back in action after
a month-long hiatus. One person
said (when they saw the EI),
"Oh, I already have one...
it's on my fridge." Another
said he remembered getting a booklet
last year: "I was on the Atkins
diet at the time, but look at me
now." He then pointed to his
backpack, and that's when I saw
that many of the buttons had pro-vegetarian
sentiments.  "Veganism
rocks my world," he said.
-Jessica Dadds and Emily
Pepe, 1/29/08
Marley Daviduk leaflets at
the University of British Columbia;
photo by John Bowers.
During the last five
minutes leafleting at
San Joaquin Delta College, two girls
approached me and asked about getting
involved. They told me that after
reading the booklet that they are
definitely going vegetarian.
-Brian Grupe, 2/11/08
Eileen [Botti] and
I both had great acceptance
rates from students at the Borough
of Manhattan Community College,
many of whom went on to read the
materials as they walked to and
from class. Lots of groups were
discussing the brochures and expressing
their revulsion at the pictures
and the horrible reality of farmed
animals.
One
male student came back to me after
receiving a brochure earlier in
the day and said, "I had no
idea what I'd been eating."
He was really sincere and disturbed
by the fact that truth had been
hidden from him for so long, so
I gave him a GCFE
and some encouragement. We all ate
meat once, I assured him. [Not
everyone! -Ed.] It's never too
late to stop.
-Jenna Calabrese, 2/15/08
Last month, the
waitress at a local vegetarian restaurant
told me that a lot of new customers
come in telling her that they became
vegetarian because of a pamphlet
they received. Today, I had a long
conversation with a cattle rancher.
He also told me how upset he is
about how horribly chickens are
treated by the poultry industry,
and how everyone is afraid to speak
out against it because the lobby
for the poultry industry is so powerful
and backed up by such big money.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
2/16/08
Thanks for configuring
a pdf of the French
version of Why Vegan for
our printing [translations
here]. I printed 200 copies
in early January, which are slowly
making their way around Quebec.
They're getting a positive reception.
-MS, 2/16/08
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