The write-up

[Guest guest]

Dear Lesley,

My friend wanted the assurance you wouldn't put her name/ her cell no. on the

write-ups which you would hand out to the eateries in your local

area(Hampton).She had also contributed to this write-up and she wants an

assurance that the write-up shall be used only in the way u've said u would use

it.She's a very nice lady, just a little bit concerned , may be because she

doesn't know you.On my own, I wouldn't've bothered to write this mail but since

she has been with me in this endeavour since beginning ,I wouldn't want to

unintentionally hurt/ upset her.Please don't get offended by this mail!

With Regards,

Sonal

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Oh no! Please tell her not to worry, I was planning to put my own contact

details at the bottom instead of yours and Mary's, and hope that is OK with

you, since I did not write it. I do not want to steal any of the credit for

composing it but as a local contact would like the local restaurant owners

to contact me if they are interested in being more vegan friendly, or if

they want to inform me that they are already being vegan-friendly.

 

 

 

Rest assured I will not put any of your contact details on there. I just

thought your little introduction to go with leaflets was so nicely written,

but in future it's probably not a good idea for you to put your number or

your friend's number on emails on a . I am sure no-one here would

abuse it, but you can't be too careful.

 

 

 

Please reassure her that I only want to use it the same way as you are

doing, to give the letter to eateries in my area along with a couple of

vegan leaflets. I might not have all the exact same three leaflets you

mention but will give the restaurants one or two of the leaflets I do have,

or maybe I will wait until I have sent for some of the recipe ones which I

would prefer to include. I certainly have some Eating the Earth ones and a

few others, including a few Animal Aid and Viva as well as Vegan Soc. so

should be able to cobble something together easily enough to give out.

 

 

 

Thanks and please pass my thanks to Mary too for the inspiration, as I have

been far too inactive locally for too long!

 

 

 

Lesley

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of

sonal -

11 November 2008 16:48

vegan group

The write-up

 

 

 

Dear Lesley,

My friend wanted the assurance you wouldn't put her name/ her cell no. on

the write-ups which you would hand out to the eateries in your local

area(Hampton).She had also contributed to this write-up and she wants an

assurance that the write-up shall be used only in the way u've said u would

use it.She's a very nice lady, just a little bit concerned , may be because

she doesn't know you.On my own, I wouldn't've bothered to write this mail

but since she has been with me in this endeavour since beginning ,I wouldn't

want to unintentionally hurt/ upset her.Please don't get offended by this

mail!

With Regards,

Sonal

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Lesley!

Thanx for understanding!

Sonal

 

Lesley Dove <Lesley wrote:

 

 

Oh no! Please tell her not to worry, I was planning to put my own contact

details at the bottom instead of yours and Mary's, and hope that is OK with

you, since I did not write it. I do not want to steal any of the credit for

composing it but as a local contact would like the local restaurant owners

to contact me if they are interested in being more vegan friendly, or if

they want to inform me that they are already being vegan-friendly.

 

Rest assured I will not put any of your contact details on there. I just

thought your little introduction to go with leaflets was so nicely written,

but in future it's probably not a good idea for you to put your number or

your friend's number on emails on a . I am sure no-one here would

abuse it, but you can't be too careful.

 

Please reassure her that I only want to use it the same way as you are

doing, to give the letter to eateries in my area along with a couple of

vegan leaflets. I might not have all the exact same three leaflets you

mention but will give the restaurants one or two of the leaflets I do have,

or maybe I will wait until I have sent for some of the recipe ones which I

would prefer to include. I certainly have some Eating the Earth ones and a

few others, including a few Animal Aid and Viva as well as Vegan Soc. so

should be able to cobble something together easily enough to give out.

 

Thanks and please pass my thanks to Mary too for the inspiration, as I have

been far too inactive locally for too long!

 

Lesley

 

_____

 

On Behalf Of

sonal -

11 November 2008 16:48

vegan group

The write-up

 

Dear Lesley,

My friend wanted the assurance you wouldn't put her name/ her cell no. on

the write-ups which you would hand out to the eateries in your local

area(Hampton).She had also contributed to this write-up and she wants an

assurance that the write-up shall be used only in the way u've said u would

use it.She's a very nice lady, just a little bit concerned , may be because

she doesn't know you.On my own, I wouldn't've bothered to write this mail

but since she has been with me in this endeavour since beginning ,I wouldn't

want to unintentionally hurt/ upset her.Please don't get offended by this

mail!

With Regards,

Sonal

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Lesley -

 

The recipe leaflet with the chickpea and mushroom dish on the front

would be fine for your purposes. Best of all for restaurants, of

course, is the 34-page booklet " Vegan Catering for All " but this is

obviously a lot more costly to produce so more suitable for people who

appear to be interested rather than just dished out willy-nilly and

binned the moment your back is turned.

 

The 150,000 figure is really the maximum we could try to claim - " at

least " suggests it's a minimum and there may be more. The true figure

is probably about 120,000. There's probably no harm in saying " up to "

or even " about 150,000 " though the latter is pushing it a bit.

 

More importantly, perhaps, you can stress that people generally eat

together so a group of four or six with one vegan member will go to an

eatery where their vegan friend can get a meal - which means SIX rather

than one customer lost or gained (and the modest total number of vegans

six times more ominous!) If we simply suggest that vegans will

otherwise stay at home by ourselves the average restaurateur may well

not care too much if we do, given the hassle they imagine is involved.

 

Four, six, ten or more people going elsewhere because one of them is

vegan should worry proprietors a bit more in these days of recession -

particularly with office parties and other seasonal celebrations on the

horizon. Whatever our personal views, a lot of money is made between

mid-December and the first week in January and many of these

celebrations are planned in November, so the point is worth making now.

 

Just a thought. Hope it helps. Congratulations to Sonal on a great

initiative and to you on taking it up with such enthusiasm along with

all your other causes and commitments.

 

See you soon, I hope.

 

Vanessa

 

PS Some Vegan Society contacts have recently received a " free gift " from

a company called Seagreens claiming that their product contains usable

vitamin B12 and citing experiments on animals to support this. If you

got one of these, please be assured that the company did not obtain your

details from the Vegan Society.

 

Next issue of The Vegan should be with you soon. Any comments on the

advocacy article would be very welcome. Thanxxxx. v

[Guest guest]

I've called up and spoke to Clare at the Vegan Soc, and she is sending the

things you suggested (I only just got your email but Clare suggested exactly

the same as you, to get a few of the Catering booklet for those showing

genuine interest as well as the recipe leaflet which I will give out to them

all).

 

 

 

I will have a look at the wording on the letter before I print it off and

include something about why they might lose/gain more customers than just

the vegans, by catering for vegans, and will also change the numbers of

vegans accordingly.

 

 

 

Thanks for the excellent help and advice as always!

 

 

 

I won't be at Chelsea but will hopefully be at the XWC on the 30th, might

see you there,

 

 

 

 

 

Lesley

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of

interveg

13 November 2008 10:14

 

Fwd: The write-up

 

 

 

Hi Lesley -

 

The recipe leaflet with the chickpea and mushroom dish on the front

would be fine for your purposes. Best of all for restaurants, of

course, is the 34-page booklet " Vegan Catering for All " but this is

obviously a lot more costly to produce so more suitable for people who

appear to be interested rather than just dished out willy-nilly and

binned the moment your back is turned.

 

The 150,000 figure is really the maximum we could try to claim - " at

least " suggests it's a minimum and there may be more. The true figure

is probably about 120,000. There's probably no harm in saying " up to "

or even " about 150,000 " though the latter is pushing it a bit.

 

More importantly, perhaps, you can stress that people generally eat

together so a group of four or six with one vegan member will go to an

eatery where their vegan friend can get a meal - which means SIX rather

than one customer lost or gained (and the modest total number of vegans

six times more ominous!) If we simply suggest that vegans will

otherwise stay at home by ourselves the average restaurateur may well

not care too much if we do, given the hassle they imagine is involved.

 

Four, six, ten or more people going elsewhere because one of them is

vegan should worry proprietors a bit more in these days of recession -

particularly with office parties and other seasonal celebrations on the

horizon. Whatever our personal views, a lot of money is made between

mid-December and the first week in January and many of these

celebrations are planned in November, so the point is worth making now.

 

Just a thought. Hope it helps. Congratulations to Sonal on a great

initiative and to you on taking it up with such enthusiasm along with

all your other causes and commitments.

 

See you soon, I hope.

 

Vanessa

 

PS Some Vegan Society contacts have recently received a " free gift " from

a company called Seagreens claiming that their product contains usable

vitamin B12 and citing experiments on animals to support this. If you

got one of these, please be assured that the company did not obtain your

details from the Vegan Society.

 

Next issue of The Vegan should be with you soon. Any comments on the

advocacy article would be very welcome. Thanxxxx. v

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

PS, yes I did get the thing from Seagreens, probably because of being a

contact with details in the magazine (but I accept this as par for the

course). I now intend to call them up and tell them how appalled I am that

they seem to be advocating vivisection!

 

 

 

Lesley

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of

interveg

13 November 2008 10:14

 

Fwd: The write-up

 

 

 

Hi Lesley -

 

The recipe leaflet with the chickpea and mushroom dish on the front

would be fine for your purposes. Best of all for restaurants, of

course, is the 34-page booklet " Vegan Catering for All " but this is

obviously a lot more costly to produce so more suitable for people who

appear to be interested rather than just dished out willy-nilly and

binned the moment your back is turned.

 

The 150,000 figure is really the maximum we could try to claim - " at

least " suggests it's a minimum and there may be more. The true figure

is probably about 120,000. There's probably no harm in saying " up to "

or even " about 150,000 " though the latter is pushing it a bit.

 

More importantly, perhaps, you can stress that people generally eat

together so a group of four or six with one vegan member will go to an

eatery where their vegan friend can get a meal - which means SIX rather

than one customer lost or gained (and the modest total number of vegans

six times more ominous!) If we simply suggest that vegans will

otherwise stay at home by ourselves the average restaurateur may well

not care too much if we do, given the hassle they imagine is involved.

 

Four, six, ten or more people going elsewhere because one of them is

vegan should worry proprietors a bit more in these days of recession -

particularly with office parties and other seasonal celebrations on the

horizon. Whatever our personal views, a lot of money is made between

mid-December and the first week in January and many of these

celebrations are planned in November, so the point is worth making now.

 

Just a thought. Hope it helps. Congratulations to Sonal on a great

initiative and to you on taking it up with such enthusiasm along with

all your other causes and commitments.

 

See you soon, I hope.

 

Vanessa

 

PS Some Vegan Society contacts have recently received a " free gift " from

a company called Seagreens claiming that their product contains usable

vitamin B12 and citing experiments on animals to support this. If you

got one of these, please be assured that the company did not obtain your

details from the Vegan Society.

 

Next issue of The Vegan should be with you soon. Any comments on the

advocacy article would be very welcome. Thanxxxx. v