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Notes from Vegan
Outreach
100,000,000
 Since
August 1, 2003, Adopt
a College activists
have handed Vegan Outreach booklets
directly to 2,317,448 students at
1,111 schools. Based on our theoretical
estimates (details),
these efforts have led to over 57,000
new vegetarians, who, over the next
50 years, will spare more than
100,000,000 chickens, turkeys, pigs,
cows, and lambs from the horrors
of factory farms.
This incredible accomplishment
is the result of a wonderful --
and growing! -- team of dedicated
activists and donors. Everyone who
has contributed should be incredibly
proud to be a part of this powerful
campaign. Thanks so much for your
commitment to creating fundamental,
lasting change. All of us can make
this school year the best yet for
the animals!
Activist Profile: Eric Paul
 This
week's profile
is Eric Paul, Vegan Outreach's Sacramento-based
leafleter, who recently handed out
over 2,500 booklets at Sacramento
State. Here are some excerpts:
How long have you been involved
in animal rights and how did you
get interested?
I went veg when I was 13, originally
to annoy my Dad. But as I learned
more and more about speciesism and
factory farming, it became more
of a passion -- this overwhelming
feeling that I needed to do something
took me over. At first, I had no
idea what I could do! Then I was
given an Even If You Like Meat
by our Mr.
Grupe, and here I am.
What made you decide to start
leafleting?
What really made me want to get
involved with Vegan Outreach was
when I went on their web page and
read their history.
I really like how they stress education
over fanaticism. The word "counterproductive"
always pops up in my head when I
see other groups making vegans /
veggies look like crazy people!
What was your most positive
leafleting experience and why?
I can't really say I have a favorite
moment, but I can say this: when
someone comes up to me at a school
I have already leafleted and tells
me about how they went veggie/ vegan
because of our booklets, it just
makes my day.
Read
the entire profile here!
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Product of the Week
Eric: "Vegan
American soy slices by Galaxy
Foods -- kinda tastes like Kraft
cheese."
Notes from All
Over
Lightning Round
Notes from Our
Members
I have been vegetarian
for a year as of this November,
and recently ordered some of your
leaflets. I handed them out all
over my high school, and, for only
being 15, I had a lot of positive
responses. There were three teachers
who hung posters in their room about
becoming vegetarian and helping
animals. All the jokes were ignored,
all the questions were answered,
and the best part is I got three
people to go vegetarian! I even
got a teacher to abandon fur and
leather always and go vegan for
a week!
 -CH,
8/27/08
At the Warped tour,
I got your booklet.
After reading it, I couldn't bear
to eat meat anymore.
-CR, Los Banos, CA,
8/23/08
Will Fisher leaflets at SUNY
New Paltz.
Excerpts of an email
sent to Jodi Chemes:
One year ago you handed me
the Even If You Like Meat --
this is my one year "anniversary"
for being a vegetarian. I am SO
GLAD I came across you, and that
you do what you do. Since having
my eyes opened to how animals are
treated, I realize that I have it
made! My life is not hard -- their
lives are! I honestly feel that
a HUGE thing to do is make others
aware, like you did for me. I want
you to know that you have changed
my life! And hopefully I will change
lives in the same way.
-CF, 8/28/08
From a member of the
military in Iraq, confirming
she received her order of booklets:
Know that halfway around the world,
there is an Army base with one dedicated
vegetarian letting people know that
Iraqis aren't the only beings on
earth greatly mistreated.
-JN, 8/30/08
I had good interactions
at the Portland City
Fest. A girl took a pamphlet and
screamed after looking at the cover,
"Are they killing the animals?"
I explained what was happening and
she immediately said, "I'm
going vegetarian right now."
Her three younger siblings all grabbed
a pamphlet and started looking through
them, asking me questions, expressing
disgust by what they saw. Their
parents approached us a minute or
two later and the girl held up the
pamphlet to her mother and said,
"Mom, this is animal cruelty."
I gave the girl a Guide
to Cruelty-Free Eating.
Later, a man stopped and said he
had seen the pamphlet before. He
looked through it and said, "It's
awful what we do to sentient beings...."
We talked for a while and I gave
him a GCFE. He said he
was interested in getting copies
for his conscious living center
(which I'll deliver). He also said
he was interested in having someone
 give
a presentation on vegetarianism.
-Jessica Dadds, 8/26/08
I received your pamphlet
at Portland City Fest and am now
a newly made veggie. Your organization
is awesome -- keep up the good work.
-WY, 8/26/08
Leah Wagoner leaflets in Kansas
City.
At Cal State Northridge,
a girl took an Even
If and walked back past me
20 minutes later, reading the leaflet
and saying into her cell phone:
"This is horrible, really really
awful. I never really liked meat,
but now I'm a vegetarian."
-Stewart Solomon, 8/26/08
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