Archive for July, 2011

Looking Phat, By Any Greens Necessary by Tracye McQuirter [video]

Tracye McQuirter is author of By Any Greens Necessary: A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat . We had the privileged of hosting her at the 2011 Worcester VegFest. Here’s a video of Tracye’s presentation. You can also check out video from the other [...]

July 25, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Worcester VegFest 2011  No Comments

Here’s a draft of the new Veg Dining Guide to Worcester. What do you think?

Check out this sneak peak at the Summer 2011 veg dining guide. We’re only $205 shy of reaching our fundraising goal. Can you help a brother out? Here’s a sneak peak at the new Summer 2011 edition of the Veg Dining Guide to Worcester. As you probably already know, we’re printing 5000 copies to hand [...]

July 19, 2011   Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide, Restaurants & Businesses  3 Comments

Want to get involved in VegWorcester? Come to the general meeting this Tuesday [Event]

If you’re interested in getting involved in VegWorcester, come to our general interest meeting on Tuesday, July 19. It’s at 7pm at the Artichoke Food Coop. We’ll be talking about what our focus is for the upcoming month and how to get involved. Casual vegan potluck (In other words, bring a vegan dish to share [...]

July 16, 2011  Tags:   Posted in: Events, Misc  No Comments

Bruce Friedrich Explains Veganism in a Nutshell [Video]

Bruce Friedrich is Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary. In April 2011 he gave a presentation at our Worcester VegFest. Here is the presentation, it’s called “Veganism In A Nutshell”: Buy The Animal Activist Handbook – $10 35% off Bruce is co-author of The Animal Activist’s Handbook. We have a few copies left [...]

July 15, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Worcester VegFest 2011  No Comments

How to tell 11,000 people about factory farming, animal rights, and veganism

Tonight a couple of us from VegWorcester joined the Humane League of Boston to give out leaflets at the MA stop of the Warped Tour. There were so many kids at this concert and they were so positive. It was amazing. By camping out by the exits, we were able to hand out thousands of [...]

July 14, 2011   Posted in: Activism, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Rise Against Vocalist Says Go Vegan [Video]

Check out this new video from peta2 of Tim McIlrath, vocalist for Rise Against, urging people to go vegan: Somewhat related to this… Warped Tour is coming to MA tomorrow (July 13) and Humane League of Boston is coordinating some folks to go and hand out flyers about veganism. There’ll be a couple people from [...]

July 12, 2011   Posted in: Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Video of Terry Hope Romero’s Cooking Demo at 2011 Worcester VegFest [Video]

Here is the video of Terry Hope Romero’s vegan taco cooking demonstration at the 2011 Worcester VegFest (lots of vegan baking discussion at the end): You can like Terry on facebook and see her latest recipes on her blog on VeganLatina.com In the coming days we’ll be posting videos of VegFest 2011 presentations by Will [...]

July 11, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Worcester VegFest 2011  No Comments

Loving Hut Vegan Buffet!

Tomorrow, Saturday July 9, Loving Hut is having their monthly vegan buffet fundraiser for VegWorcester. Noon-5pm. $10 and 10% is auto-donated to VegWorcester. So good! Want to meet new people? Join us at noon, ask for the vegan meetup. Or roll with your own posse. Facbeook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218945478145535 Meetup event: http://www.meetup.com/vegan-365/events/24159141/

July 8, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Buddha Hut  No Comments

Help us print the new edition of the Guide to Vegetarian Dining in Worcester

We are ready to print a new edition of our Guide to Vegetarian Dining in Worcester! Now we need your help us raise $500 so we can print 5000 copies. Our goal is to print & distribute 5000 full-color copies of our new guide by Autumn. Our next hurdle is raising the money to cover [...]

July 7, 2011   Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide  No Comments

Lots of Updates to the Veg Dining Guide Listing

We just went through and made a lot of updates to the veg-friendly restaurants page, the grocery stores page, and the cafes page. The list includes 6 all-veg places restaurants and lots of other shiningВ  stars. We’re going to be producing a print version very soon. We’ll need some help raising the money to print [...]

July 5, 2011   Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide  One Comment