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Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Answers of the Week: Dealing with
Family
Last week, we asked about dealing
with intractable family members.
Here
are some excerpts from
a few of the many responses we received.
Products of the Week
Abigail: Trader Joe's has a vegan
roasted vegetable pizza that is
very tasty. It has artichokes, a
yummy balsamic glaze, caramelized
onions and all sorts of other delectableness.
Plus, the crust is made with whole
wheat dough. Bonus! It's in the
refrigerated section (not frozen).
Deborah: Oskri Organics makes wonderful
gluten-free, lactose-free products
that are incredible. Our favorites
are the Turkish Delights with pistachios,
apricots, pumpkin seeds and the
Muesli Bars with cranberries, almonds
and pumpkin seeds. I found that
purchasing them through Amazon's
marketplace is the most cost-effective.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
Lightning Round
Notes from Our
Members
We loved leafleting
the line of people waiting for the
Barack Obama event in Portland!
We handed out over 900 booklets
in less than two hours. We saw tons
and tons of people reading the pamphlets
-- they had nothing else to do,
so they were really studying them!
Ramona met a couple that has gone
vegan after getting an Even
If in Athens, Ge orgia!
They were very excited to see me
leaflet with the same pamphlet that
changed their lives.
-Emily Pepe, 5/19/08
Kira Vincent leaflets at Cinco
de Mayo in Houston; photo by Casey
Constable.
At Mt. San Antonio
College, I met Jessica,
who just became a vegetarian. After
speaking with me, she is going to
go vegan. She also took a stack
of booklets and leafleted in other
parts of the campus. Spoke with
a number of people who were thinking
of going vegetarian. At least 5
people told me they want to go vegan.
Met a couple of vegans who want
to get active in the Los Angeles
area (in addition to Jessica). A
professor came up to me and raved
about the booklets; she took 20
for her class. Saw tons of people
reading the lit.
-Miranda Robbins, 5/14/08
I wore my Vegan Outreach
shirt
to class yesterday
-- very first time in public! --
and a girl behind me told me that
she thought it was awesome. She
explained how she's vegetarian but
she’s confused about veganism because
she wouldn’t know what to eat. The
next day I brought in a GCFE
before class and we discussed the
veg options at local restaurants;
she was happy to have the information!
-Steve Roggenbuck, 5/15/08
 At
City College, I observed
several students reading leaflets
outside, and saw one student reading
it for at least 15 min. When his
girlfriend stopped by, I watched
him show her the booklet and flip
through the pages, looking visibly
upset. A biology teacher requested
a few leaflets to give to his students.
The teacher who was walking with
him (who ignored me earlier) also
took a leaflet and expressed interest.
-Eileen Botti, 5/12/08
Jennifer Greene leaflets at
Suffolk Community College; photo
by Eileen Botti.
Yesterday, my
co-worker Laurel let me know that
she has decided to become vegetarian.
I had an open box of Why Vegetarian
booklets stored under my desk
at work, a desk that she uses when
I am done with my shifts. Well,
she could not help but take and
read a booklet, and was moved by
the amount of suffering that she
witnessed, and has not eaten meat
since.
-Joe Espinosa, 5/17/08
I just had my best
day tabling ever --
there were too many great stories
to list here! For example, a teacher
said she'd just finished writing
a module on sustainable food for
the world that morning, but after
seeing my pamphlets, she was going
to re-write it! I met an animal
science graduate, who looked at
the Even If and said, so
sadly, "Yes, this is exactly
what I learned and I can't work
in this field anymore." Another
man told me about how he went vegetarian
15 years ago after having to run
a marketing campaign for an animal
product manufacturer. He said that
after seeing all the absolutely
disgusting horror, he refused to
run the campaign, resigned, and
never ate animals again. He said
that he was thinking about going
vegan just last week and that it
was perfect timing to meet me.
-Karen Johnson, South
Africa, 5/13/08
I have been doing MySpace
activism lately. So
far I have had several people tell
me that they are either going veg
or vegan or reducing their meat
consumption because they watched
videos on my page. My favorite is
a mother of two who said she was
going vegan and so were her children!
-Heather Leughmyer,
5/17/08
At Brookline High School,
I leafleted by walking
around to groups of kids, which
resulted in more talking than normal.
Met lots of vegetarians, some wanting
to go veg or reduce meat consumption,
and one young man who exclaimed,
“I want to go vegan!” I was told
I was doing a good thing by several
people and got a high five.
At
the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth, I had a conversation
that served as an important reminder
of why I do this work. A young man
approached me and told me that I
had “put him in check” by giving
him the leaflet. He had no idea
what factory farming was before
receiving the leaflet. It looked
like he was pretty embarrassed by
this, so I told him that I had been
totally unaware of animal suffering
and factory farming until I got
a brochure at my college. I read
it and it changed my life. This
seemed to raise his spirits and
I gave him a GCFE and he
walked off, brow furrowing, obviously
deep in thought. It was amazing
to see a leaflet have such a sincere
and profound affect. 
-Brian Grupe, 5/16/08
Joe Haptas leaflets at the
National Zoo; photo by Jon Camp.
At the University of
Maryland, one young
man said, "I'm a vegetarian,"
gave me a pat of the shoulder and
added, "and your booklet helped
with that." One older man told
me that he didn't eat pork, but
that after reading the booklet,
would not be eating chicken as well.
One young woman told me that she
had received the booklet before
and that it made a "big impact
on her."
Earlier,
at Towson University, I had a good
conversation with a young man about
factory farming, two separate individuals
told me they did a report "on
this" (holding up the booklet),
several mentioned the booklet being
sad, that they cried after reading
it, that they supported this cause.
I also had the following exchange:
Young
woman: I think we should care about
humans first.
Me
<in an amiable manner>: We
can care about both. I'm not sure
I see how being brutal to animals
helps people.
YW:
Good point. I just think that human
problems should come first.
Me:
I'm grateful for those working on
human rights issues; we need them.
In all fairness, though, humans
aren't kept in cramped warehouses
amongst their own excrement, trucked
many miles, hung upside down by
their feet and slaughtered, then
consumed.
YW:
Ok, I hear you. May I have a booklet?
-Jon Camp, 5/16/08
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