new year's resolutions

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Photos are critters that live at Animal Place, a sanctuary in Vacaville (for digest readers, you can see photos at: http://www.bayareaveg.org/gallery2/v/animalplace06 )

 

 

Hi everyone,

 

As I look back on 2006, it was a great year -- for BAV, we had about 200 events, and it was a good mix of social and advocacy events. Personally, I had an opportunity to work with some amazing people to promote veg*nism and raise awareness of the horrors of industrialized animal agriculture. I found some yummy new vegan recipes. I read & discussed some good books about veg*nism/AR at the book club.

 

As I think about 2007, I know I definitely have some New Year's resolutions. Has anyone else been thinking of this? Do you have any resolutions regarding veg*nism or advocacy? If so, maybe we can support each other in our goals for 2007.

 

Here's what I think my goals are for 2007:

 

1) I want to do more cooking (so I am excited to see that already we have 2 Vegan Food Parties in January, and another 2 being planned for February) and try more new recipes. Being more confident and skilled in vegan cooking makes it easier for me to talk to others about how easy (and cheap) it is to eat vegan. Plus I also just enjoy eating :-)

 

2) I want to do more outreach, including getting back to college leafleting every month (Jack recently posted an email about this). I'm the first one to admit that leafleting isn't my favorite activity, but the reasons to leaflet at a college are so compelling, that I overcame my reluctance and pledged (to myself and to the animals) to leaflet once a month on my lunch hour. With 30 minutes, I distributed over 400 leaflets in Spring 2006. Fall 2006 was an overwhelming time at work for me, and I ate lunch at my desk every day, so I only went out once (100 leaflets). But, starting in January, I'm going to go back to leafleting at the college every month and try to do at least one other leafleting or advocacy activity on the weekend. Recent leafleting for Thanksgiving and today on New Year's Eve was excellent!

 

Outreach is important to me because when I reflect on why I wasn't a vegan earlier, it's simply because I didn't know. So now I want to share what I learned with others

 

3) I want to meet and work with others who share my commitment to be an activist for the animals. When I make my annual sojourn to Animal Place, I want to know that I've helped in some small way to create a more compassionate and peaceful world for the animals.

 

This is the summary of events for 2006 for Bay Area Vegetarians.

 

- 85 Social Events (Restaurant Dinner, Vegan Food Party, etc.)- 66 Advocacy Events (Letter Writing, Animal Cruelty protest)- 32 Outreach Events (Tabling, Leafleting)- 19 Education Events (Presentation, Class)

 

 

I wish you all a veggie happy new year!

 

Cheers,

Tammy

 

 

Bay Area Vegetarians

P.O. Box 371215

Montara, CA 94037

415-57-VEG-57 (578-3457)

http://BayAreaVeg.org

 

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"This is my protest against the conduct of the world. To be a vegetarian is to disagree--to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars--we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement and I think it's a strong one." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer