Bay Area Vegetarians

Sure, we all we wish for more people to go veg.  As a matter of fact, I have been wishing for many years for the winning lotto numbers, too.

But there comes a time when we have to take matters into our own hands — and that’s where booklets like “Why Vegan?” or a “Vegetarian Starter Kit” with vegan recipes comes in handy.  Leafleting is compassion in action – giving someone the information and opportunity they need to save lives.

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Have a Heart, Go Veg Leafleting

The “Have a Heart, Go Veg Leafleting” team, with McDonald’s in the background, assembled on a sunny afternoon in early June in San Francisco’s historic Haight street.

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Cast & Credits

How did an idea for a vegan pizza party sprout into $2,299 for Animal Place?  Meet the cast and crew behind the deliciously successful vegan pizza party & boutique fun(d)raiser for Animal Place and learn how it all happened.  You can read full details about the fun(d)raiser itself in our earlier blog post

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For some, it was just another lovely June evening in Berkeley.  For the standing room only crowd gathered at the D. King Gallery on June 17th, it was much more.  Animal Place, an animal sanctuary & education center in Vacaville, is raising $2.7 million to relocate to a larger and better space.   We wanted to do more than just hope they made it, we wanted to help, so earlier this month, we announced our vegan pizza party & boutique fun(d)raiser event.

Three weeks later, we’re pleased to announce that $2,299.30 was raised for Animal Place, and the critters like Frank, Murray and Ernie who call it home.

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Local coastsiders, especially those at BAVeg headquarters in Montara, are rejoicing at today’s opening of New Leaf Community Market, a large natural foods store which also has several stores in the Santa Cruz area.

New Leaf Community Market – read it, rate it, review it in the Ultimate Guide

Juicey Lucy’s has closed it’s SF restaurant in North Beach. They are now exclusively focusing on selling at farmer’s markets. We don’t have any more info than that, but once we do, you’ll read it here!

Cafe Soulstice is now in Palo Alto, located in the Equinox fitness center. Serving organic, raw foods. Mostly all vegan, although some food items are sweetened with honey. They currently have 1 other location in the San Mateo Equinox fitness center.

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The latest and greatest in San Francisco Bay Area veg news & events:

* Eat Vegan Pizza & fun(d)raiser!
* Have a Heart, Go Veg Leafleting
* What about Cage-Free eggs?
* TV News
* Vegan Food Party
* Ultimate Guide Updates
* Heart Smart Cooking
* Event Calendar

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Animal Place has an exciting opportunity right now — to move from their over-grazed, water scarce 60-acre sanctuary in Vacaville to 590 acres of rolling pastures in the California foothills of Grass Valley.

Room to grow means more rescues, more outreach, more education. The new location also offers better weather and very importantly, water. Mudslides in winter, searing temperatures in summer make life difficult for the animals at the current site. Grass Valley is 10 degrees cooler year-round. With one well dry, Animal Place’s water situation is tenuous, at best. In Grass Valley, pastures are irrigated year-round, ensuring a constant supply of water for the rescued animals.

How much will this cost and how can we help?

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Instead of merely wishing more people would go veg, please join Bay Area Vegetarians as we work to make it happen by distributing free vegan information & recipes to the general (non-veg) public! We have been organizing monthly HAVE A HEART, GO VEG LEAFLETING activities and now that summer is soon upon us, we’ll be even busier with 5 San Francisco leafleting events this month.

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