BAVRT fer august...

[Guest guest]

August 31, 2002 (Last Saturday of every month)

Time: 6:00 p.m.

 

Host: Phil

 

Site: Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant

1320 Saratoga Avenue (at Payne Avenue)

San Jose, CA

(408) 615-8282

 

Type: non-veg restaurant with veg and vegan options

Cost: Order veg dishes from the menu

 

RSVP to [ *82 (925) 944-4743 ] by Tuesday, Aug 28.

BAVRT is NOT a drop-in dinner event. If you have problems emailing

me, please use http://veginfo.com/contact/general

 

As always, you come under your own liability for all events. Pass

the word to your friends. This is not an exclusive net-folks only

event. This is not an activist group or singles event. Note that

if you plan to attend this dinner, you can order only vegetarian

dishes, even if the restaurant serves other stuff.

 

If you have suggestions for future sites, please e-mail them to

. If you want to volunteer host a BAVRT dinner,

please let me know!!

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Contents

#1) Progress, one bite at a time

#2) This month's trek

#3) Last month's trek

#4) News Section

#5) NON-BAVRT related stuff (feel free to skip)

 

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#1) Progress, one bite at a time

 

George Bernard Shaw said " The reasonable man adapts himself

to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to

adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends

on the unreasonable man. " So how does this apply to veg*anism?

 

For starters, whether you are an unreasonable man or woman, :-)

if you are working in a company, it probably has a cafeteria.

Drop an email to the manager in charge. No need to get

evangelical, confrontational, or emotional. Just a simple

request would do like a one liner " Can we have some vegan food

in the cafeteria? " If the manager responds " vegan? " explain

what it means. If they ask questions that you can't handle,

feel free to contact me and I will see what can be done.

 

You may be amazed at what can happen. Many times, the simplest

things work the best. Remember that if your company cafeteria

starts carrying vegan food, it will be consumed by non-vegans

also. If three non-vegans eat vegan food once a day, the effect

is equivalent to a full-time vegan eating three meals a day!

Let us start making progress one bite at a time.

 

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#2) This month's trek

 

Phil, a major force in South Bay Vegetarian Society, is hosting

this month's BAVRT dinner. Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant is supposedly

a rather new restaurant, with cooked to order food. Our host says

" most of their veggie dishes are vegan -- and that due to holiday

fast requirements -- they cook in two (2) sets of dishes to keep

the vegan food separate from all the other foods. "

 

Dishes Available (Veggie=vy, vegan=vn): Entree price range $5-$8

sambussa(vn), yemisir wot(vn), kik alitcha(vn), atakilt wot(vn),

gomen wot(vn), shuro wot(vn), ye-timatim fitfit(vn),

foule(vy), vegetarian combo(vy/vn)

 

Phil, our host, goes on to say the owners " offered to have the

BAVRT dinner set-up with an Ethiopian cultural setting at

no additional expense in order to give people a sense of the

Ethiopian culture! "

 

What a treat for us :-) Make sure to RSVP soon.

 

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#3) Last month's trek

http://www.veginfo.com/bavrt/restaurantlist.html

 

Ron & Michelle hosted last month's BAVRT dinner at the gourmet

all vegan Sparks restaurant in Guerneville. We had 15 people

who showed up and there were three cancellations. The restaurant

gave a special discount to the BAVRT group for a three course

dinner. Thanks to this BAVRT couple for a wonderful dinner

at an exotic location!

 

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#4) News Section

( If you come across news items, veg or otherwise, in the

mainstream media that may be of potential interest to

BAVRT members, please forward me the URL. )

 

a) Photos show glacier's decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2181463.stm

" The environmental group Greenpeace has released

photographs which it says dramatically illustrate the

changes being wrought by global warming. "

 

b) The coming water crisis

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020812/biztech/12water.htm

" Many billions of dollars will be needed to quench

America's thirst, but is private business the answer? "

 

c) Starved for Food, Zimbabwe Rejects U.S. Biotech Corn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23728-2002Jul30.html

" The image of a nation on the brink of starvation turning down

food because it has been genetically engineered has reignited

a long-smoldering scientific and political controversy over

the risks and benefits of gene-altered food. "

 

d) US May Set Guidelines for Biotech-Free Crops

http://dailynews./news?tmpl=story2 & cid=585 & ncid=585 & e=10 & u=/nm/20020806\

/sc_nm/food_biotech_dc_2

" Amid growing global demand for biotech-free food, the

U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday it may create a

voluntary system to verify if shipments of U.S. corn, soybeans

and other crops were genetically altered. "

 

e) From Stalk to Fuel Tank, Ethanol a Net Energy Gain

http://dailynews./news?tmpl=story2 & cid=570 & ncid=753 & e=6 & u=/nm/20020806/\

sc_nm/energy_congress_ethanol_dc_1

" Measured from cornfield to the fuel tank, ethanol provides

more energy than is consumed in producing it, researchers

said in a new report that could figure in congressional

debate over U.S. energy policy. "

 

f) Time cover story

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020715/index.html

 

Thanks to the BAVRT member who sent me this link! This is

big time! Vegetarianism was the cover story of the

July 15, 2002 Time magazine!!

 

g) Consumer Group: Trans Fat Silently Lurking in Foods

http://story.news./news?tmpl=story2 & cid=571 & e=13 & u=/nm/20020730/hl_nm/f\

at_foods_dc_1

" A number of popular pastries, fried foods, and other products

may contain more fat than you think, largely because

" trans fat " does not have to be listed on their food labels,

a consumer health group said Monday. "

 

h) Diet and Primate Evolution

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/anthro/asm101/articles/article41.html

The BAVRT member who sent me this info, quoted quite a bit of

interesting veg related facts from that 1993 Scientific American

article. Check out this article, if you can locate the magazine!

 

i) Feedlot hazards outpace laws [sent by a BAVRT member]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/13/MN182684.DTL