Fantastic veg outreach at Solano Stroll Yesterday (Sunday)

[Guest guest]

I wanted to thank Alicia, Tammy, and Sara who organized the Bay Area

Veg tabling outreach at Solano Stroll yesterday (Sunday). This was

my first time tabling, and it just FELT SO GOOD!

 

Bay Area Veg had a really nice shade awning for us to stand

underneath, and the weather was just as sunny and beautiful as can

be. So it felt like we were relaxing out on a deck on a gorgeous

day. Except ... we were doing vegan outreach! It was so heart-

warming to see how many people came by wanting to pick up and read

more information about being vegetarian. Lots of them had heard

about it but didn't understand the reasons behind it, or the

practicality of it, etc., but lucky for them, we had many different

varieties of pamphlets there to show them how. Also, quite a few

people were vegetarian already, and they seemed VERY grateful for the

chance to pick up info from the Physicians Committee on Responsible

Medicine regarding how to stay healthy, plus recipes etc. AND, we

put in lots of plugs for the Bay Area Veg web site. We told them

about the veg dinners, hiking, camping, book clubs, letter-writing

parties, cooking classes, etc, all posted and ready for them to learn

about on BayAreaVeg.com. People were really amazed. They had no idea

all of this was going on. Alicia, Randy, and Terry were all

volunteering and they were such NATURALS at talking to everyone,

giving them information without being pushy. I really learned a lot

from them. It was just wonderful.

 

It was really cool that we had such awesome supplies, too. It seems

that Alicia and Tammy asked for the pamphlets in advance and PETA et

al. sent whole boxes of them ... so we never ran out. We had all

these eye-catching stickers with slogans like " I am not a nugget "

(with a cartoon chicken) or " Boiling hurts " (with a cartoon lobster),

etc and Terry got the idea of asking people that walked by, do you

want a free sticker? Lots of people stopped and put on the

stickers ... so thanks to Terry, we had lots of FREE advertising

walking around the Solano street fair. Randy's wife made these

INCREDIBLE cranberry-nut-I-don't-know-what-else cookies, and it was

so cool to hand them out and for people to take a bite saying " THIS

is vegan? "

 

Bottom line, it was just WAY AWESOME! I feel so inspired now. Many

thanks to all the volunteers who got this together. I hope this

messaeg will inspire even more people to participate, so we can keep

doing many more tabling events like this!

 

Peace and love,

Rachel