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Outreach
Link of the Week: Why North America?
Occasionally, a member suggests
that Vegan Outreach should expand
our efforts to other countries.
Others question why we focus on
North America. Here
is an explanation.
Conference of the Week
 Taking
Action for Animals
will be held in Arlington, VA from
July 19-21; discount registration
is available until June 27. Vegan
Outreach Co-founder and President
Jack Norris will be speaking, and
Jon Camp and other VOers will be
there as well!
Activist Profile: Miranda Robbins
 As
we've done in the past, Vegan Outreach
is profiling
some of our top leafleters. This
week, we turn our attention to Miranda
Robbins. In her first year of leafleting
for VO, Miranda handed out over
80,000 booklets to college and high
school students, and thousands more
at concerts, festivals, and beaches
throughout California. Miranda's
hard work for the animals continues
to inspire many.
How long have you been involved
in animal rights and how did you
get interested?
Post-Katrina, I started meeting
people who did more than just talk
and it really inspired me. I saw
"Earthlings" in October
2006. That really kicked my butt.
I knew I had to start doing something.
About a week later, I met Monica
Ferroe, who was handing out Even
Ifs at a movie screening. She
really helped me get started with
consistent leafleting and I haven't
stopped since. Thanks, Monica!
What made you decide to start
leafleting? If you were nervous
the first time, how did you get
over it?
Leafleting seemed to make the most
sense to me as an effective form
of advocacy. After consistently
leafleting for over a year now,
I very much believe leafleting to
be the most effective form of advocacy,
next to video leafleting. As far
as being nervous, I still am almost
every time I go out to a campus
or concert. But I feel I have a
duty to share the knowledge that
I have with others, because this
mass oppression isn't going to end
by itself. And once I give that
first booklet away, the rest just
seem to fly out of my hands.
What was your most positive
leafleting experience and why?
It is difficult to choose just
one, because something positive
happens almost every time I leaflet.
I never tire of hearing the excitement
in someone's voice when they learn
that they aren't the only vegan
out there!
What would you say to individuals
hesitant about leafleting?
Get out and do it! Throughout
our daily lives, there are multiple
opportunities to spread awareness
about the mass oppression and exploitation
of animals. Because we can save
so many more lives by encouraging
others to go vegan than we can just
by being vegan ourselves, it is
important to speak out. And leafleting
is one of the easiest and most effective
ways in which you can make a difference.
So what are you waiting for? Now
is the perfect time to start!
Read
the entire profile here!
Cookbook of the Week
Cookie-Pie Goddess Miranda: "For
those of us who have been known
to skip straight to dessert, Hannah
Kaminsky has created My Sweet Vegan,
her debut volume of tasty vegan
treats. My Sweet Vegan
contains more than seventy user-friendly
recipes accompanied by colorful
photographs of the finished products,
adding eye-candy to the list of
sweet offerings." Read
the full review!
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
NPR commentary by Peter Singer:
"Why are we in the midst of
a food crisis when world production
of food per person has actually
grown steadily since the 1960s?
The answer is that we're not eating
the food we grow, sometimes not
eating them at all, sometimes wasting
at least 80 percent of them."
Read
the full story.
 Via
COK:
"Already we've seen a number
of world-class athletes move toward
vegan and vegetarian diets. NBA
guard Salim Stoudamire, former NFLers
Desmond Howard and Ricky Williams,
track and field greats Carl Lewis
and Edwin Moses and others have
followed that path. Four other athletes
who have made the switch to vegan
or vegetarian diets recently shared
their thoughts on these and other
meaty issues tied to their choices...."
Read
the full story.
Via DawnWatch,
Men's Fitness
profiled
Mac Danzig as part
of their 25 fittest men. Finally,
Ruth
Heidrich's site offers
her take on successful vegan athletics.
Notes from Our
Members
A few months ago,
I received one of the booklets about
the way animals are treated in the
food industry. It really got me
thinking, and I decided to become
vegan. Thank you for providing me
with information.
-LE, 6/13/08
I received your booklet
at Boston University last year.
I have made the switch to a vegetarian
diet, and am working towards being
totally vegan. Our cafeteria offers
lots of veggie / vegan options,
which has helped the transition
tremendously.
-MP, 6/18/08
After handing out several
Why Vegan? pamphlets
at my high school at the end of
May, I received excellent feedback.
Three girls came up to me later
that day; one saying that she'd
rethink consuming meat and animal
products all together, and two who
turned vegetarian right away. Those
two have still remained vegetarian
and one of them is even headed towards
becoming 100% vegan!
-TO, 6/19/08
Paul Shapiro leaflets in Maryland;
photo by Jon Camp.
This weekend,
I was reminded of the power of Vegan
Outreach's work. On Friday, I heard
from Steven, a young man I had leafleted
the night before at the Bethesda
Metro station. He said that while
he used to go back and forth, to
no avail, with his roommate about
veganism, simply showing him the
VO booklet brought forth a different
result; his roommate is giving vegetarianism
a shot. On Saturday, while tabling
at the Richmond Vegetarian Festival,
I heard from a woman who picked
up a Why Vegan? four years
ago; she has since been vegetarian
and is now working on going vegan.
While leafleting Sunday at the Baltimore
Pride Festival, two separate women
came up to sincerely and enthusiastically
state they were profoundly moved
by what they saw in the booklet
and, because of this, wanted to
go veg.
-Jon Camp, 6/23/08
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