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Notes from Vegan
Outreach
A Most Memorable Day!
 Last
Thursday was the most stunning and
unforgettable day in recent memory!
Adopt
a College activists
reached 15,178 students at colleges
across the country, with Iron Man
Vic Sjodin (right) setting a new
one-day record by reaching 5,172
students at Penn State; his
semester total is now 31,028! Jon
Camp offered this insight: "Like
so many AAC leafleters, Vic radiates
a deep sense of urgency towards
reducing the level of misery in
the world. He doesn't make a big
to-do about himself; rather, he
gets out and humbly does the work
that needs to be done. In my opinion,
this spirit is the lifeblood of
activism."
Through the selfless work of so
many,
AAC distribution for
fall term is already over 186,360
at 202 different schools!
 A
few hundred miles north of Vic's
record day, Vegan Outreach Co-Founder,
President, and head of Adopt a College
Jack Norris married Alex Bury, indispensable
employee of PETA (and special
advisor to Vegan Outreach).
They used the event to promote vegetarian
eating. A few links: PETA
blog; slideshow
(by Chili Pepper Productions), Toronto
Sun.
Donations
for the animals can
be made in lieu of presents.
The next day -- with more than
30% of 2008 remaining -- Vegan Outreach's
overall booklet distribution broke
2007's record of 1.82 million booklets.
Since then, the total has already
climbed to over 1,900,000!
Thank you to all the dedicated activists
taking the animals' plight to new
people every day!
Each of these booklets
was distributed thanks to the thoughtful
contributions of our donors.
It is only
because of your willingness to fund
this work that thousands of people
are learning the truth each and
every day. We will continue to do
our best to make sure your contributions
go as far as possible for the
animals.
Link of the Week: Is Vegan Outreach
Pro-Egg?
Should we promote vegan spin,
or work
for the animals?
Product of the Week
Bethany: "I absolutely love
chocolate Tofutti
Cuties. They are so rich and
creamy yet have no dairy items in
the ingredient list. These little
dessert sandwiches make the grade."
Previous entries here;
send your nominee to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org.
Notes from Our
Members
 At
Saint John's University, I
ran into several students who were
genuinely interested, including
someone who said he "has no
choice but to be a vegetarian."
Another student was struck by an
image of a dog in the booklet, and
made the connection to farmed animals,
stating, "If someone ever hurt
my dog I don't know what I'd do
-- and it should be the same for
other animals too." A few teachers
asked for extra leaflets for their
classes!
Today
at Fordham (Manhattan), one student
said, "I read it...that stuff's
really crazy...didn't know about
that," while shaking his head
in disbelief. Another student, after
reading much of the leaflet, said,
"Why is this happening? What
can we do to help?" She vowed
to consider going veg, and would
read AML
and the Guide
to Cruelty-Free Eating.
-Eileen Botti, 9/11/08
Above, Lindsay Parme at Howard
University; below, Lyn Cozart at
Columbia Heights Metro station;
bottom, Matt Boyle at George Mason
University.
At the University of
Colorado, Boulder,
a man told me he'd gotten a booklet
previously. He and his wife had
looked at it and decided they didn't
want to be a part of "that"
anymore.
-Barbara Bear, 9/11/08
I overheard the
following two conversations today
at Trader Joe's:
Middle-aged man: Do you want
turkey for your lunches this week?
Teenage girl: I don't want turkey,
I want Tofurky!
Man: Tofurky? What the hell is
that?
Girl: Oh, you'll love it, Daddy.
It's this stuff that tastes like
turkey, but it's vegetarian.
Man: (teasing) Oh, are you a vegetarian
now?
Girl: (serious) Yeah. I got this
booklet that shows all about how
the animals are treated, and I
don't want to eat meat anymore.
Woman: Honey? You want to get
some breakfast sausages?
Man: (sighing) No.
Woman: What's the matter with
you?
Man: I don't know. I got this
brochure on my way to class, about
how farm animals are raised, and
I can't stop thinking about it.
Woman: What do you mean?
Man: I feel bad about eating meat.
Those animals are really horribly
abused. I'd never really thought
about it before.
Woman: Well, they have some vegetarian
sausages over here. You want to
get some of those?
Man grins and nods, and puts his
arm around her.
-Katherine Welsh, 9/11/08
While leafleting today,
one gentleman told
me he was sickened to see animals
being treated so horribly in factory
farms. I gave him a GCFE
and he said he was planning to show
the brochures to his entire family.
Later, a shy young man thanked me
for giving him the Even If You
Like Meat. He admitted he had
no idea any of this was going on.
I told him that I was glad he was
able to accept the information with
such an open mind and that he shouldn't
be ashamed because now he knew the
truth and could do something about
it. I was honored to be out doing
this work on an important
day of remembrance.
-Brian Grupe, 9/11/08
I just wanted to say,
THANK YOU for what
you do. I wish I knew many years
ago what I know
now. I am ordering brochures to
pass out everywhere I go!
-TW, 9/11/08
While our group
Speak Out for Species tabled at
the Student Activities Fair today
at the University of Georgia, I
ventured into the crowd and handed
out 800 Compassionate Choices.
Met seven or eight vegetarians,
three of whom said that they went
veg recently after receiving booklets
on campus. That afternoon, Sociology
professor Liz Cherry asked her students
if they had ever experienced a moral
shock. One young woman held up a
copy of Compassionate Choices
and said, "I got this booklet
today and saw how animals are treated
and now I don't want
to eat meat anymore."
-Eric Griffith, 9/10/08
I received your brochure
about animal cruelty at my college,
and it really struck me. I want
to dedicate myself to stop eating
meat and helping out animals, and
this will help me do that.
-MH, 9/7/08
Vic [Sjodin] and I
handed Even If
You Like Meat booklets to 6,270
students at Temple today. I had
some very good responses -- one
person said she went veg from getting
a booklet in a previous semester
[ed. note -- Vic had four individuals
say the same thing to him that day].
Another asked for more booklets
because she said her roommates all
wanted to go vegetarian.
-Nick Cooney, 9/9/08
At the University of
Maryland, Eastern
Shore, a historically black school
that had never been leafleted before,
reception must have been around
95%. There were lots of good questions
and the rapport I had with the students
was tremendous. Two individuals
mentioned previously being inside
pig factory farms. One said the
conditions were equal to what was
detailed in the booklet; the other
said they were worse.
-Jon Camp, 9/12/08
It was a hard day of
leafleting at University of Wisconsin,
Stout, but I still found some interested
people. One man who received a leaflet
earlier in the day said, "I
got one before. Now I'm not going
to eat meat anymore."
-Fred Tyler, 9/12/08
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