Fifth Annual Veg Valentine's Potluck

Looking for a fun way to celebrate Valentine's Day? Taste some delicious veg food? Come to our veg potluck on Sunday, February 10! Bring your sweetheart or a friend, or come solo. This is a great opportunity to meet other animal-friendly people, eat good food, and play some fun games. Although some food will be provided, this is a potluck, so be sure to bring a vegetarian or vegan dish/drink that serves five to eight people!

Mark your calendars and invite all your friends and family!

If you would like to help staff this event as a volunteer, please contact Casey directly at casey@exploreveg.org.

Time: Sunday, February 10, at 2:00 p.m.
Location: President's Room (third floor) in Coffman Union, 300 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis

Speak Out for Animals with Bridges of Respect

Consider becoming a volunteer speaker with Bridges of Respect (BOR) and you’ll be able to present on topics like vegetarianism and animal rights to high school and college students around the Twin Cities!

Every year, BOR is invited into a variety of schools to present on humane education topics ranging from animal ethics to the environment. Check out the full list of presentations offered.

BOR started in 1999 as a program of CAA and is now its own nonprofit organization. Since that time BOR has given over 1,400 presentations and has many teacher requests yet to fulfill.

For anyone interested in becoming a presenter, BOR will provide humane education training by allowing you to shadow in-class presentations, providing you with outlines and other materials, arranging a private practice session, and setting you up with an opportunity to bring valuable messages to curious students.

If you’d like to get involved, please contact Shannon at 612-718-0829 or shannon@bridgesofrespect.org

Valentine's Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

This decadent chocolate peanut butter pie from the CAA kitchen is sure to satisfy your sweetheart's sweet tooth for Valentine's Day.

Enjoy this recipe!

Article: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

By Mark Bittman as printed in The New York Times
January 27, 2008

A sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store - something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.

It’s meat.

The two commodities share a great deal: Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal government. Like oil, meat is subject to accelerating demand as nations become wealthier, and this, in turn, sends prices higher. Finally - like oil - meat is something people are encouraged to consume less of, as the toll exacted by industrial production increases, and becomes increasingly visible.

...Growing meat (it’s hard to use the word "raising" when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it’s a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: An estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, which also estimates that livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases - more than transportation.

Read the full article.