hi everyone!

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

 

Alka, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying thanks for sharing your experience.

And yes, when you have time, please do share the portions of the

presentations that you felt most interesting! It sounds like a wonderful

event. I haven't had a chance to look at all the photos but I've heard that

an adorable member of is featured :-)

 

Cindy & others who responded privately about a veggie pin: I'm glad you

agree! Will keep y'all posted on that -

 

I have always wondered (and this is only my own biased viewpoint in thinking

that the SF Bay Area is one of the best and most diverse places to live) why

we don't have a multi-day conference of the likes of vegsource/WorldFest and

all the other wonderful multi-day conferences that exist elsewhere. I think

the first one I went to was actually an AR conference at SFSU organized by

the student group there. That was over 10 years ago! That was the first

time I heard Dr. Barnard speak, and I remember some young women giggling

near me, they thought he was very cute.

 

One of the first organized events I went to was actually a PETA " AR 101 "

conference. It was very informative but one of the things I liked the best,

actually, was that they organized the seating by zip code so I met other

veggy folks in my area. (We wouldn't need zip code seating if we had veggie

pins....!)

 

Tammy

 

 

Chandna, Alka [alka.chandna]

Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:55 PM

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RE: VegSource Sept 2001 LA event photos

 

 

Hello Tammy & other friends!

 

First, thanks and congratulations to Tammy & Chris for initiating this

wonderful veggie online community. In addition to our legendary love of

eating, vegheads also love to talk, so it's always enriching (and not

divisive!) to have more discussion groups over which we can exchange ideas

with other carrot-munchers.

 

Thank you, Tammy, for alerting us to the photos of the vegsource/Worldfest

event in LA. There were several folks from the Bay Area who made the trip

down to LA for the extravaganza, and I was among them. It was a tough

decision to opt to go down to LA on the same weekend that the stellar World

Vegetarian Day event was being held up here in SF, but a combination of

factors -- the 2-day conference, the opportunity to table for PeTA, and some

personal considerations -- cinched the deal, and I decided to go.

 

The conference was FABULOUS. Each speaker was given sixty to ninety minutes

to speak (and T. Colin Campbell spoke for 2 hours!); although I had seen

most of the speakers before, the longer format was really useful in enabling

the speakers to dive deeper into their areas of expertise. I actually have

some notes kicking around here from the conference; if people are

interested, I would happily post some of the really interesting portions.

The slate of speakers included John McDougall, T. Colin Campbell, Howard

Lyman, Robert Cohen, and John Robbins. All inspiring, interesting,

brilliant, and enjoyable.

 

I spent Worldfest tabling for PeTA. Consequently, I missed the

main-stage-events entirely, but I did have very engaging discussions with

endless streams of veteran activists, PeTA supporters, people entirely new

to the movement, and others who had just stumbled into the park and wanted

to know what was going on. It really was among the best tabling I've ever

done in my life, with very little down time, and just hordes of people

wanting information. It took a while to recover!

 

With its Hollywood celebrities and veggie movers-and-shakers, Worldfest

would certainly be a great place to take friends and family members whom

you're trying to convert. The event combined the positive energy of an

upbeat event with a lot of great information. Win-win! I would certainly

think of going again next year, although I would be very tempted to run

around to all of the cooking demos and talks, while letting someone else

distribute literature. :-)

 

Cheers,

Alka

 

 

 

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> Tammy [meowthunk]

> Tuesday, October 09, 2001 8:13 AM

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> VegSource Sept 2001 LA event photos

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> Here's the URL:

> http://www.vegsource.com/event/photos.htm

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> Looks like they had lots of fun! If you went, what did you think?

> Would you go again?

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> Tammy

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