vegan outreach

Today, several Worcester vegetarians used their lunch break to hand out 135 Vegan Outreach booklets at Assumption College.

The group will be leafleting other area colleges soon.

To get involved, contact Drew at drew@VegWorcester.com.

One week in February, Jenna Calabrese of Vegan Outreach was in town. I got to spend some time helping her distribute "Even If You Like Meat" pamphlets at WPI on Feb 22. She reports 550 were handed out--pretty cool.

Me, a student, and a pamphlet. Photo by Jenna Calabrese.

There's currently a campaign to encourage Morningstar Farms to stop using eggs in their products. Their stuff is already vegetarian, and a lot of it is vegan, so this isn't much of a stretch. Today I wrote them a postcard.

Sometimes I think the local veg community is a bit fragmented, at least the parts I'm in contact with.

Today four of us handed out 53 Why Vegan pamphlets in 13 minutes at WPI.

I'm too shy to really like handing out literature, at least at first. After the first couple, I get into an extroverted groove.

I got a few dirty looks, but no really negative reaction. The last woman to take a pamphlet was actually excited to get one!

One of the Vegan Outreach staffers will be in Worcester later this month to do some serious leafleting. If you're interested, you can contact pieandcoffee@gmail.com. (Or pretty much any animal protection activist in town.)