Pick a favorite runner, or the team in general? Cupcakes. Cupcakes. Cupcakes.

[Guest guest]

Cupcake Party:  http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/STQSGWKDWNZDHCAQNVZB/teamvegan08

 

 

Several people have written to ask me about donating to Team Vegan.  You can donate online now, or at the party

tomorrow.  You can donate to one specific

runner (go to “View

Fundraising Pages” at the top of the page and check out their

individual pages) or you can donate to Team Vegan in general.  Either way several things will happen:

 

Your

donation will be doubled by a completely awesome, selfless, heart-of-gold

animal rights donor in Canada.

 

 

 

You

will experience something like “runner’s high” without

having to leave your chair:

 

A

recent study from the University

of Oregon said, " Knowing your money is going to a good cause can activate

some of the same pleasure centers in your brain as food and sex. "

 

 

Society

will take one big step closer to becoming a vegetarian society.  When you donate to Vegan Outreach they print more leaflets.  VO leafleters give the

leaflets to more young people.  More

young people become vegetarian

(many as soon as they read a Why Vegan?, Even If

You Like Meat or Compassionate Choices). 

Demand for veg food increases while demand for meat decreases.  Your donation is a direct path to less

animals being bred, raised in agony and killed violently for food. 

 

 

 

You can donate online at any time, or

by credit card at the party (thank you!!). 

If you bring a check to the party (thank you!!), please write it out to

Vegan Outreach.  And the most important

rule:  If you donate, you must allow us to smother you with gratitude. 

 

The biggest hurdle the animal rights

movement has is lack of funding.  Lots

and lots of people give lots and lots of money to the arts, human health, and

even the environment is now catching up. 

But vegetarianism is still way at the bottom.  If animal groups had budgets the size of

zoos, symphonies, major research hospitals and big city museums, can you

imagine how many more vegetarians there would be in the world??  We would see veg TV ads, veg billboards, an

army of veg leafleters all over the world, farm animal sanctuaries in every

state instead of just 10 or so in all of North America.   

 

Thank you for asking about donating

and thanks, as always, for being such a great support system!  Bay Area Vegetarians is the best thing going

(thanks Chris and Tammy!).   When you

check out the runners, please know that they’ve all been running as hard

as they can for the past 12 weeks AND fundraising at the same time.  Any boost you give a runner, or the team as a

whole, will be very much appreciated. 

The race is next week so we’re down to the deadline for training

and fundraising (and sore muscles and blisters)!

 

See you at the party tomorrow and

thanks for your fabulous philanthropy and moral support.

 

RSVP here for the party (you

won’t get the address unless you RSVP):

http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/STQSGWKDWNZDHCAQNVZB/teamvegan08

 

Alex

Team Vegan

 

Prizes for the #1

Best Cupcakes and the #1 Top Fundraiser (see e-vite for the rules), as well as

the runner-ups:

 

Gift certificate and t-shirt from Micio Mambo

(gorgeous new store in Oakland, all vegan, featuring shoes, belts, beauty

products, handbags, etc)

 

Gift certificate from Café Organic Lettus  (talk about fabulous vegan

cupcakes!)

 

Gift certificate from Millennium

Restaurant

 

A bag of vegan yummies from Trader Joe’s

 

Pawsture

gift certificate (sweet new Oakland boutique

for companion animals)

 

Vegan Outreach t-shirts:  http://www.veganoutreach.org/shirts/index.html

(models not included)

 

Cupcakes.