Volunteer for CAA's MN College Leafleting Day!

Join CAA on Monday, April 23 (the day after Earth Day),for a historic, full-day of leafleting at various colleges all across Minnesota! This is a great opportunity to alert young adults about the cruelties that animals endure in factory farms, so please join us either as a leafleter, an on-site coordinator, or driver. This will be CAA's biggest event this season, and many are even taking the day off of school or work to help.

While leafleters will volunteer anywhere from an hour to several hours, on-site coordinators will pick a college to attend for the whole day - helping other volunteers at that specific college with leaflets and refreshments. In order to make MN College Leafleting Day a success, CAA also needs drivers to help transport volunteers to their college of choice. Later in the evening, CAA plans to celebrate by throwing a free pizza party (with great prizes) for anyone involved in the day!

The following is a listing of cities we are hoping to have a presence in:

• Brainerd
• Duluth
• Mankato
• Minneapolis (and surrounding area)
• Morris
• Northfield
• Rochester
• St. Cloud
• St. Paul (and surrounding area)
• Winona

If you are interested in helping with any aspect of MN College Leafleting Day or have any questions, please send an e-mail to Ivan at ivan@ExploreVeg.org. Also include names of any specific Minnesota colleges where you'd like to volunteer.

Time: Monday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Various colleges and universities across the Twin Cities and Minnesota

For more information, click here.

Third Annual CAA Banquet Update

Compassionate Action for Animals held its third annual banquet on March 30, and it was a tremendous success! Through your support, we raised over $3,500 to help spread our message of compassion. If you were unable to attend the banquet but would like to support our work, please become a supporting member!

The banquet's success depended on generous donations of food from the following restaurants:

• Ecopolitan
• Evergreen Chinese Restaurant
• French Meadow Bakery and Cafe
• Hong Kong Noodles
• Pizza Luce
• Muddy Paws Cheesecake
• Mysore Cafe
• The Vegetarian

The following businesses also provided us with discounts or gift certificates:

• Caribou Coffee
• Linden Hills Co-op
• North Country Co-op
• Seward Co-op
• Wedge Co-op
• Kowalski's

Please patronize them to show your support!

And lastly, a special thank-you to all the great auction donors. See a full listing of individuals and businesses who donated.

Article: Burger King Shifts Policy on Animals

By Andrew Martin, as printed in The New York Times
March 28, 2007

In what animal welfare advocates are describing as a "historic advance," Burger King, the world's second-largest hamburger chain, said yesterday that it would begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that did not confine their animals in cages and crates.

"I think the whole area of social responsibility, social consciousness, is becoming much more important to the consumer," said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic, a food industry research and consulting firm. "I think that the industry is going to see that it's an increasing imperative to get on that bandwagon."

Read the full article here.