{"id":582,"date":"2009-03-17T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:47:56","slug":"leafleting-leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/leafleting-leprechauns\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafleting Leprechauns in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday was the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in San Francisco, and also the annual Bay Area Vegetarians Leafleting at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"BAVeg<\/a>

BAVeg Leafleting Leprechauns<\/p><\/div>\n

Our team of leafleting leprechauns hit the streets of SF, and handed out 1,500 Vegetarian Stater Kits in one hour!!<\/p>\n

THANK YOU Alex, Ari, Lisa, Caroline, Michelle, Donna, Jordan and Tammy! BAVeg volunteers share some thoughts about this activity:<\/p>\n

Alex enthused “Event leafleting is always fun, because the crowds are in a good mood. Twice I had people chasing after me to get a brochure! Love that! Leafleting is is so easy, and so effective<\/strong>. \u00a0I love thinking about all the people who learned about animal suffering today for the first time. \u00a0I wonder how many vegetarians we made?”
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\"Parade<\/a>

Parade attendee reads VSK<\/p><\/div>\n

“This may have been the easiest leafleting I have ever done! Not a negative comment all morning, a few dozen people came up asking ME for guides (rather than the other way around) and at least 50% of people who I offered I guide to took it. Combine that with a great meal with some inspiring vegetarians, all committed to raising the consciousness of our society, and you’ve got a heck of a finish to my week!” exclaimed Ari.<\/p>\n

Michelle adds “It was great fun, and such a happy vibrant crowd that seemed to really embrace the veg message!”<\/p>\n

\"Reading<\/a>

Reading her new VSK<\/p><\/div>\n

Jordan shares his personal experience.\u00a0 “I’ve been a vegetarian since 1967, and had little success in getting people to go veg. It came as a big surprise, there is an easy way to recruit new vegetarians. Just hand out leaflets. Some people who read the leaflet decide to eat less meat, some become vegetarians or vegans.<\/p>\n

Leafleting is fun. Especially at special events, parades etc, because people let down their guard and are willing to talk to strangers. In a short time you can hand out a lot of leaflets.<\/p>\n

Now I organize vegetarian leafleting at some Buddhist teachings I go to, asking Buddhists to go veg. Think about what events you go to that you can leaflet. It’s great to know that you have done something that makes a difference.”<\/p>\n

Please watch the BAVeg calendar<\/a> for the next San Francisco Have a Heart, Go Veg Leafleting<\/em> activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday was the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in San Francisco, and also the annual Bay Area Vegetarians Leafleting at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Our team of leafleting leprechauns hit the streets of SF, and handed out 1,500 Vegetarian Stater Kits in one hour!! THANK YOU Alex, Ari, Lisa, Caroline, Michelle, Donna, Jordan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[44,94,50,49,20,12,18,37,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayareaveg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}