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Ballot Initiative:
Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act
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Volunteers around the state are rallying to help farm animals and qualify the "Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act" for the September 2008 ballot. To do this, volunteers need to gather 650,000 signatures by February 2008. This would give voters the ability to vote and outlaw veal crates for baby calves, gestation crates for mother pigs and battery cages for egg laying hens in California.
California is the largest agricultural state in the U.S. It is also one of just a handful of states that allows the ballot initiative system. The ballot initiative system allows placement of issues on the ballot for a vote directly by the people. A ballot initiative is necessary because it is extremely difficult to convince the legislature to pass laws banning these confinement systems. Huge factory farming corporations have considerable influence in protecting their interests.
The California Secretary of State requires actual signatures of registered California voters. These must be collected on individual county petitions, verified by election officials and later submitted to the Secretary of State to qualify for the ballot.
This is an excellent opportunity to save millions of animals a year from extreme, gratuitous suffering on factory farms. Find out how you can help, and sign-up on their mailing list to receive periodic updates.
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Community Thanksgiving Events
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It has been a tradition with Bay Area Vegetarians to ask for volunteers to organize a community Thanksgiving get-together in their local area. This provides an opportunity to celebrating Thanksgiving vegan style in cities across the Bay Area. It can be Vegan Food Party (with or without a Thanksgiving theme), or maybe something more casual, like a vegan dinner at your favorite restaurant. Or maybe it's not called Thanksgiving but Turkey Liberation Day.
These events can be large or small; it's entirely up to you.
If anyone is interested in hosting, please email Tammy with your ideas (date/time, restaurant dinner or VFP, etc). This is a wonderful opportunity to get to meet folks in your area AND to give something back to your local community.
Note -- at this time, please only write if you are interested in hosting an event. If you would like to attend an event, please check the event calendar for updates and hopefully there will be one in your area. If not, please think seriously about whether you could host something for Thanksgiving, or at another time this year.
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News Bites
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$1,845 raised for Farm Sanctuary
Animals are Friends, not Food, BAVeg's team entry into the SF Walk for Farm Animals, did an awesome job with only a short leadtime to organize. Congratulations to Scott and his companion Ann; they were the top fundraisers in our team. Read more
GoodSearch and BAVeg
The GoodSearch engine is powered by Yahoo! and earns money for your favorite veg charity, like BAVEG :-) every time you search.
Can GoodSearch be a source of revenue to maintain our website and education & outreach expenses? If you're willing to use GoodSearch from now through end of year in a trial to see if it generates any funds for BAVeg, please save the below link and then email Tammy to let her know you'll be participating. Knowing how many individuals are participating will allow us to gauge the effectiveness of GoodSearch as a source of revenue.
iPod users
The iPod edition of the Ultimate Guide has been updated. Download it from our website.
Looking for vegan Halloween treats without hooves?
Check out PETA's list! "These candies are all gelatin-free, which means that they don't contain any hooves, tendons, ligaments, or other unsavory animal parts, and you can find them at most grocery stores."
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What Do Vegans Eat?
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Want to talk vegan? Join us at our new forum topic -- "What Do Vegans Eat?" Designed for new, aspiring, and experienced vegans to share what they're eating, whether its wild bracken to marinated tofu to creamy moo-free delights to tasty Thanksgiving treats!
Register and share your favorite vegan foods! Note, the forum userid is also the same userid for Ultimate Guide reviews.
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Chicken-Approved Outreach
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Over 4,000 leaflets were distributed at three events in September.
The Cow, The Chicken, and the Human - who said what?
"Free Recipes!"
"Chicken-approved recipes!"
"Cow-friendly recipes!"
If you are a talented costume designer, or have adult-sized cow, sheep, pig, etc animal costumes to donate for our outreach efforts, please contact us.
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Ultimate Guide Updates
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Cafe Gratitude sprouts into 10th place in the UG Top Ten as Golden Lotus departs. Golden Era 2 has renamed itself Golden Buddha. Sheese, a delicious vegan cheeze made in Scotland, has reached the shores of California! It is now available in San Francisco at the Real Food Company (Polk and Broadway).
For regular updates, check out our Guide News Blog
With 1,276 reviews in the Ultimate Guide, these vegetarian restaurants are ranked the best.
Top Ten Vegetarian Restaurants
1) Vegetarian House, San Jose - 4.55
2) Pizza Plaza, Oakland - 4.52
3) Cha-Ya, Berkeley - 4.5
4) Garden Fresh, Mtn View - 4.47
5) Good Karma, San Jose - 4.38
6) Tofoo Com Chay, San Jose - 4.29
7) Millennium, SF - 4.22
8) Manzanita Restaurant - 4.16 
9) Shangri-La, SF - 4.16 
10) Cafe Gratitude - 4.13 (New entry)
Agree or Disagree about the Top Ten? Then say something about it, with an Ultimate Guide review.
How to review a restaurant in the Ultimate Guide
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Heart Smart Cooking
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Summer produce is delicious, but summer weather makes it too hot to cook anything and too hot to appreciate our healthy vegan appetites. Now that we're finally getting some cooler weather we can fire up the oven and enjoy the comfort food.
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October 2007
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Now available at
Otsu in SF
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RSS Feeds:
For those of you who use Yahoo or RSS, we've now added a convenient feed for upcoming BAV Events as well as News.
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This newsletter was sent by the Bay Area Vegetarians
PO Box 371215,
Montara, CA,
94037-1215
(415) 57-VEG-57 (578-3457) skype: bayareaveg
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