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You
don't know me but
I really appreciate all the work
you do for the animals. Someone
like you changed my life three
years ago. They handed me a pamphlet
in Pittsburgh and I've been vegan
ever since. I wish I knew who
it was so I could thank them.
-ER, 8/23/08
Notes from Vegan
Outreach
Distro Distro Distro!
 Last
Thursday, overall distribution for
2008 passed 1.5 million booklets.
Summer distribution has passed 350,000
booklets. Even before
Labor Day, fall's Adopt a College
is picking up; if you are interested
in being the animals' voice and
changing people's lives, please
read about the Whys
and Hows
of AAC.
Learning the truth while sitting
on the stars of Hollywood Blvd;
photo by Stewart Solomon. Stewart
recently passed out his 225,000th
booklet.
Housing Revisited
Many thanks to those of you who
offered to house VO leafleters during
their upcoming tours! Brian Grupe,
Vic Sjodin, and Jon Camp still need
housing in or near Plattsburgh,
NY; Morgantown and Huntington, WV;
Springfield, MA; Orono, Portland,
and Augusta, ME; Frostburg, MD;
Savannah and Augusta, GA; Columbia,
SC; and Lynchburg and Farmville,
VA.
If you would be willing to house
any of these courteous, young men,
please email tour
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org.
Thanks so much!
Jack Norris, President of VO,
to Speak in Chicago
Vegan Outreach President and co-founder
Jack Norris will be speaking
in Chicago tomorrow, August 28.
Links of the Week
Product of the Week
More Joe Espinosa: "Chicago
Soydairy produces a
wonderful Mint Chocolate Chip soy
cream."
Notes from All
Over
Lightning round
Notes from Our
Members
 I
accepted a booklet
from a gentleman [Rick Hershey]
outside before a concert in St.
Louis. He was getting some flack
from the security staff there but
held his ground. I wanted to let
this man know how much I really
admire what he was doing. It takes
courage to stand up for what you
believe in and to speak for those
who can't speak for themselves.
I
volunteer at a no kill shelter and
I'm very passionate about the treatment
and overpopulation of companion
animals. I've been trying to rationalize
the "schizoid quality to our
relationship with animals"
(to quote the leaflet), but I know
there's no difference between the
rescued dog in the kennel and pig
in a cage at a factory farm. I'm
going to taper off my meat consumption
and hopefully give it up completely.
If at all possible could you let
this man know that I really appreciate
what he does -- it does make a difference.
-KK, 8/21/08
I got your pamphlet
at Warped Tour, Boise
-- it was horrific. I'm vegetarian
now. I've never been that against
something -- it seriously made me
want to throw up. But now I don't
eat meat and I'm trying to tell
everyone about how horrible this
is. Thanks for showing me.
-LL, 8/20/08
Leafleting at Watertower
Place in Chicago,
a man stopped to tell me he is becoming
vegetarian and had some questions
about nutrition and also about the
ethics of eating fish and eggs;
I gave him a Guide.
A woman also stopped to tell me
she recently became vegetarian after
learning about factory farming.
She was grateful to us for being
there leafleting and expressed an
interest in leafleting too. Another
woman stopped with her family to
take information and said, "You
are right about this, this is terrible,
it has to stop!"
-Leslie Patterson, 8/13/08
I just wanted to say,
THANK YOU for what
you do. I am a vegan as of September
2007. I wish I knew many years ago
what I know now. I am ordering these
brochures to pass out everywhere
I go!
-TW, 8/21/08
I really appreciate
your extremely well written essays
on the website. Thanks for all you
do; it further solidifies my commitment
to a vegan life and compassion and
activism for all creatures.
-CS, 8/21/08
 At
Virginia Commonwealth University,
a young woman let me know that as
a result of receiving an Even
If You Like Meat booklet on
campus last year, she is now a vegetarian.
Another young woman approached me
and said that for years, she had
had misgivings about eating meat,
but her parents wouldn't let her
go veg. She said that the booklet
she received today appalled her
and that as a result, this issue
will no longer be on the back burner
with her.
-Jon Camp, here
showing a slide of Joe Espinosa
while talking about AAC at AR2008.
At Illinois State University,
I heard from an amazing
46 vegetarians and 4 vegans, including
1 vegetarian who let me know that
she became vegetarian as a result
of getting a booklet from me last
semester.
-Joe Espinosa, 8/20/08
Exchange of the day:
"I'll
have to give this back to you. I
can never give up meat."
But
you can read the pamphlet.
"Yes,
I suppose I can. But I love meat
too much to give it up, and that
is why God created animals for us."
But
the animals still do not want to
go to the slaughterhouse.
"They
don't have a choice."
But
we do.
As we parted, the woman and her
daughter were each studying their
copy of the Why Vegan.
-Eugene Khutoryansky,
8/23/08; Eugene recently
handed out his 300,000th booklet.
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