Archive for March, 2010

Raising awareness about factory farming and hyping the VegFest at Worcester State [Outreach]

Yesterday a group of four VegWorcester volunteers spent a couple hours at Worcester State College giving out info about factory farming and encouraging students to come out to the Worcester VegFest. There are some photos on the VegWorcester flickr page. Here’s a report-back from Manda: Manda, Erica, Mike and Drew were at Worcester State College [...]

March 25, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Worcester VegFest 2010  No Comments

VegWorcester & VegPolytech in Vegan Outreach Newsletter

Vegan Outreach’s recent newsletter featured an excerpt from the VegWorcester blog. They ran a paragraph and some photos from our report-back on giving out leaflets at WPI. Sweet! Want to help give out info about factory farming and vegetarianism in Worcester? Leave a comment here or email volunteer@VegWorcester.com. There are a couple of opportunities coming [...]

March 22, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Veg Books Take Over Amazon Bestseller List

Take a look at the Amazon.com bestseller list, vegan books are once again topping the list. On Sunday, March 14В World Peace Diet sat at #1 for 12 hours.В The Kind Diet (Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook) and Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes are right up there too. Both advocate eating a vegan diet for health [...]

March 15, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Misc, Veg Advocacy  2 Comments

March Buddha Hut Buffet Fundraiser Tomorrow

Tomorrow Buddha Hut is holding their monthly all-you-can-eat vegan buffet fundraiser for VegWorcester. Come check it out anytime noon-7pm. It’s only $10 and 10% of sales are donated to VegWorcester. The Worcester Vegan Meetup group is going to be there at noon! Here is the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=363724580126

March 12, 2010   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

VegWorcester Gets Some Love from the Worcester Public Library

Check it out, one of the librarians at the Worcester Public Library recently wrote about VegWorcester on the Worcester Public Library blog: Hello, I am excited to share an informative site with you. It is a terrific local resource for vegetarians, vegans and people interested in learning more about either. The website has a blog [...]

March 4, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Animal Rights, Events  No Comments

VegWorcester March E-news Now Online

The March 2010 VegWorcester e-news is now online. In this month’s e-newsletter: Upcoming Events Worcester VegFest – Saturday, April 17, 2010 Speakers Music Sponsors Upcoming VegWorcester Events Wednesday, March 3, 5:30pm-7pm – VegFest volunteer party. Join us for a fun evening of volunteer tasks like preparing literature and making signs. Contact: kaylee@VegWorcester.com. (facebook event) Thursday, [...]

March 1, 2010   Posted in: Misc  No Comments