"Vegetarianism is for Lovers" Event at Western Washington University! April 5, 2009

Posted by Ryan at April 5, 2009 1:44 PM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack

Written by Rebecca McDow, President of the Western Animal Rights Network (WARN) at Western Washington University.

This year's "Vegetarianism is for Lovers" event, sponsored by WARN, was a wonderful success, drawing around 150 people! We had two tables of literature and encouraging each person to take anything they wanted. We baked for over 6 hours to prepare all the food that we served. We baked over 120 cupcakes, 5 cakes, and hundreds of little heart cookies. It was wonderful to see people interested not just in the amazing free vegan food, but in what our club stands for. On her way out, one woman told us that she had just gone vegan! This Valentine's Day themed all-vegan event was geared toward educating people about the benefits of going vegetarian or vegan, from saving animals, to their own personal health. We were able to get an amazing room for this day, and decorated the entrance and inside with Valentine attire. We also had free valentine-making at the tables where people sat to eat their vegan goodies.

Valentine's Day is a day of celebrating love, and what better way to express your love for humans, the environment, yourself, and the animals than going vegan? Everyday allows us as activists to reach out and touch people, and make them aware of the suffering that animals endure. Valentine's Day provides a special opportunity for us to spice things up with sexy 'go veg' ads from Alicia Silverstone, Dita Von Teese, and others. WARN is thankful to everyone who participated in "Vegetarianism is for Lovers"!

Cruelty-Free Valentines at Concordia University! April 5, 2009

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Written by Lucas Solowey, President of the Concordia Animal Rights Association at Concordia University

This Valentines Day, students with CARA (Concordia Animal Rights Association) joined forces with peta2 to hand out awesome cruelty-free Valentines Day cards that urged students to "have a heart for animals – buy cruelty-free". Fellow students helped make cards, give them to awesome guys and gals and even handed some out in front of a company giving out free Colgate toothpaste (tested on animals).

After talking to kick-ass college kids about how much animal testing sucks, and how easy it is to buy cruelty-free, we headed over to the student union to place a special little v-day card in each student organization's mailbox.

Overall, it was a great day!

Vegetarianism is for Lovers! February 19, 2008

Posted by Ryan at February 19, 2008 11:28 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 2 ) | TrackBack

Everybody knows that vegetarianism is the ultimate turn-on. That is, except maybe for vegan cupcakes!

What better way to resolve this debate though, than to highlight the sexiness of vegetarianism... with cupcakes! That's what led the Western Animal Rights Network (WARN) at Western Washington University to hold their official "Vegetarianism is for Lovers" event on campus this Valentines Day!

The event drew over 150 students, causing the entire campus to hear about how sexy vegetarianism is! You can read all about how they did it by checking out their "Student Spotlight" entry HERE (or by clicking on the AMAZING vegan cupcakes below).


Want to hold a similar event on your campus? Just contact me, and I'll hook you up with everything you need*!

- Ryan!

* Legal Note: Ryan does not have any pink vegan cupcakes to send out to students. However, he will happily accept any donations at the following address:

peta2
c/o Ryan Hearts Cupcakes
501 Front Street
Norfolk, VA 23510