Back to School!

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Hi folks

It's never too late to go back to school, ESPECIALLY when you're participating in Vegan Outreach's Adopt a College program! The goal of this program is to get veg*n information into the hand of young, open-minded students. Convincing a student to go veg*n is one of the best ways to reduce animal suffering. After all, a lifetime of eating veg*n can prevent a lot of animal suffering/slaughter. With this program, every bit of leafleting helps to give exposure to the tremendous cruelty and suffering involved in factory farming.

I am very inspired by the effectiveness of this program and others who will leaflet regularly for hours a day/week (one person distributed over 13,000 leaflets in ONE semester). So, although, leafleting is not my favorite or best activity, and I'm not even NEAR giving away that many, once a month I'll leaflet for 30 minutes with WHY VEGANs brochures. I've been participating in this program for about 2 years. 30 minutes is not much, but it is better than doing zero.

The Adopt a College program is a project of Vegan Outreach, a non-profit dedicated to reducing animal suffering. They have a great website filled with more information and practical essays about effective advocacy. It's easy and free to register/participate. If there's not a college near you during daytime, many colleges have evening classes. You can also support this program by donating to support someone else's outreach (VO gets request all the time from people for literature).

WHY VEGAN is one of the brochures printed by Vegan Outreach that talks about different reasons to go vegan. Many people think this is the single most effective piece of literature to leaflet with. Decide for yourself and read everything online at

http://www.veganhealth.org/colleges

In response to people saying "I like meat!", Vegan Outreach developed a different brochure called "EVEN IF YOU LIKE MEAT".

 

For anyone who is interested in leafleting, but has never leafleted before, if you would be interested in a practice leafleting session, please let me know. I'm not an expert, but I have gotten more comfortable doing it. And there are several folks who really excel at it. There is also a special list for folks participating in the AAC outreach, and they are very helpful/supportive if you have questions.

So, if you are looking for an effective way to spend 30-60 minutes, leafleting at a college is one of the best ways to help. From a numbers perspective, more farmed animals die or suffer for "food" production than in any other animal exploitation. So.... please, think about leafleting a college near you! And better yet, when you do, post an email and give someone else an opportunity to join you!

Cheers,Tammy

P.S: Vegan Outreach gives prizes/recognition to the top leafleters! For Spring 2005, the #2 leafleter at 4,863 brochures was Suzanne Haws (who now lives in the Bay Area). I'm much further down the list :-) But with this program, there's lots of room for *any* amount of participation, and it all counts.