2008 Resolution Ideas

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Your New Year's resolution can help save the planet, stop animals’ suffering, and improve your own personal health! Vegans take personal responsibility for making the world a better place by giving up meat, dairy products, eggs, and other animal-derived items. By doing so they don't contribute to the needless suffering of animals.Living a vegan lifestyle is one of the best things you can do to help animals. On average a person switching from the standard American diet to a vegan diet will prevent the abuse and killing of over 100 animals per year. If you are not already vegan please resolve to cut all meat, egg and dairy products out of your diet. If you don’t feel you can go vegan “cold turkey,” resolve to reduce your animal product consumption by a set amount every week, until you are completely vegan. Please also resolve to stop buying all leather, wool, and down and any household and personal card products that have been tested on animals.

Products and clothing you already own could be used up or worn out, no need to toss out these items. Remember as far as the animals are concerned – future choices are what matter.If you would like more information on why and how to become vegan please request a free vegan starter pack from AFA at www.VeganStarterPack.comPlease also listen to the Veganism in a Nutshell audio for great information and motivation: www.myspace.com/veganisminanutshellYou might also wish to request a free starter kit from these groups:Mercy for Animals: www.chooseveg.comPETA: www.goveg.com/order.aspCompassion Over Killing: www.tryveg.com/request/These vegetarian starter kits are also available in PDF format at: www.afa-online.org/veganinfo.htmlFor a list of companies that do NOT test on animals please see: www.caringconsumer.com/pdfs/companiesDontTest.pdfIf a company is not listed assume they test on animals. Here are some more ideas from our friends at Compassion Over

Killing:www.cok.net/feat/new-years-resolution/=================================================================Take Action for Animals!If you are already a vegan, or on your way there, please resolve to become more active in vegan outreach and education. Being vegan yourself is great, but unless we educate others by promoting a vegan diet and lifestyle billions of farmed animals and billions more fish are still going to suffer. It is very likely your decision to become vegan, or to start on the path towards veganism, was the direct result of someone else’s vegan outreach and education efforts. If you are interested in getting more involved in outreach and education please contact AFA. We can provide leaflets and videos that you can share with your friends, family, students,

coworkers, or just with random people on the street. Some ideas for outreach include:- Set up an info table at your school, at the local college, in front of a grocery store, at a Sunday Market, etc- Leave our flyers and CD -Roms in the free literature section of your local library, animal friendly restaurants, stores, cafes, etc- Have a vegan bake sale at your school and pass out flyers and videos to people who stop by- Host a vegan potluck and introducing non-vegan friends to vegan food and information- Start a weekly vegan lunch outing with your coworkers- Host a feed-in: Get some vegan ‘chicken’ patties or nuggets [boca brand are tasty and widely available] or Tofurkey Italian Sausages or some other fake meat product. Cook and cut them into sample sizes with toothpicks in them and pass them out in a busy public place [downtown, near a school, outside a grocery store, in front of a KFC, etc] and offer people who take a sample free CD Roms

and literature- Pass out flyers about dairy and eggs at your local Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Trader Joes, etc; where people might be conscious but might not yet be veganYou can get started right away by printing your own flyers or by downloading fact sheets and emailing them to your friends. You can access all our printer ready flyers, as well as several other PDF versions of popular vegan literature, at the bottom of this page: www.afa-online.org/veganinfo.htmlIf you would like us to mail you flyers and CDs please reply with your full name, address, and a detailed description of your planned outreach. Remember these recourses cost us money to produce and mail – so make sure you will use everything you ask for.Thank you for taking personal responsibility! If not you, who? If not now,

when?==================================================================================================================================ACTION FOR ANIMALS PO Box 45843 Seattle, WA 98145 www.afa-online.org www.myspace.com/actionforanimals www.AFAstore.comwww.VeganStarterPack.com"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the

tormented."Nichole in Little Elm, TX "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." -alice walker

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