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What’s one of the simplest ways you can spare animals lifetimes of misery?
You can encourage someone to go vegan simply by offering free vegan starter kits online.
Here’s how you do it:
1. Choose a website, like Craigslist, where you can post classified ads or where you can offer people free things.
2. Post an ad or message that says something like “I have a free Vegetarian Starter Pack I’d love to send you – it has recipes, nutrition and health information, product tips, and a lot more! Just email me your mailing address and I’ll put a Veg Starter Pack in the mail for you!” (See my ad above. I added a cute picture of baby chickens because ads with images attract more attention.)
3. When people respond, you can send their information to an organization that will fill the order and send out vegan starter kits OR you can send out your favorite vegan starter kit yourself.
If you forward the information to another organization, they’ll follow through with the vegan starter kit and you won’t have to buy or store the kits yourself and you won’t have to pay any postage. Here is a great place to submit the addresses that you receive: http://www.vegstarterpack.com/
If you choose to send out the kits yourself, here are some places where you can buy the vegan starter kits:
Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating from Vegan Outreach
Vegetarian/Vegan Starter Kit from PETA
Vegetarian Starter Kit from PCRM
Whichever you choose, the task is simple. Just offer free guides to compassionate eating.
More more details about how and why this works to hep animals, check this out >>
Thanks for promoting this easy way to speak up for animals, and thanks for all your hard work on their behalf.
Great job on promoting to be vegetarian..Global warning changes our time now. So we need to do a positive way to make our world a better place.
Thanks for this. Reading the material on Vegan Outreach actually made me cry…. I’m vegan for spiritual reasons, and had no clear idea of how much suffering humans are causing so frivolously. I knew it was bad, but those stories and images really make it personal. I’ve not been an activist, and I guess I probably can’t be one, but you’ve listed some ways that I can still help.
What do you think, though, about, say, raising chickens for eggs oneself? I think this is okay, as long as the chickens are comfortable and cared for and have plenty of room for normal chicken activities. Don’t you? I’m tempted to do it just to make the point: I only eat eggs from my hens, because that’s the only animal product that I can personally vouch for as not having necessitated a lifetime of misery, or indeed any kind of suffering.
This is not, I hope, in violation of your discussion policy. Obviously, I don’t approve of eating eggs as they are produced in farms, so it is not “pro-eggs.” I just wonder what you think.
Before you can even get your hens, they have to go through the horrors of the hatchery. In order to “produce” each laying hen, on average one male chick has to be destroyed, and the hatcheries are brutal in their methods.
If your hens are so-called spent layers from a farm, rescued from slaughter, then that would be different. And of course when they are no longer producing any eggs at all you would still grant them a happy retirement, right?
BTW are you vegan or do you eat eggs? You can’t do both.
Bar, raising your own hens for eggs is certain far far better than buying eggs from the supermarket or restaurants.
However, there are a few reasons why it’s not the most humane choice:
1) Where will you get your hens? If you get them from a hatchery or farm supply then you’re likely supporting an industry that routinely kills male chicks. See a hatchery video here:
2) If your hens are rescued hens, then there’s probably a better use for the eggs than for you to consume. Think about it. You could donate them to an animal shelter so cats and dogs could eat animal protein without having to eat food from factory farms. You could even donate them to a human shelter to feed needy people.
Cool ideas! I’ll start posting more pictures of my food. I’ve started a
blog at http://eatlivetoday.com where I’ll put them up.