Upcoming Events & Announcements

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Winter Volunteer Party

Join CAA on Friday, December 5th, and meet the folks that make the organization run! Meet cool volunteers, eat great vegan food, and celebrate another successful fall with CAA. Enjoy games, music, and delicious food prepared by Dunstan Pinlac, guest chef for our cooking class series. This event is open to anyone who has volunteered, is currently a volunteer, or is interested in volunteering in the future.

You must RSVP for this party by sending an email to becca@exploreveg.org. Space is limited, so contact us soon!

Time: Friday, December 5, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Kristine Volovsek's, 713 8th Ave SE, Apt 6, Minneapolis, MN

Delicious Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes

Need ideas for what to bring to your family's or friends' holiday celebration? Try these tasty and easy-to-make holiday classics, vegan-style! It's a great way to show your loved ones how easy going turkey-free can be.

Article: Group Documents Cruelty to Turkeys

By Donald McNeil, as printed in the New York Times
November 18, 2008

In what is becoming an annual Thanksgiving rite, an animal rights group on Tuesday released undercover videotapes taken at the nation's premier poultry-breeding operation, showing turkeys being stomped to death and punched by workers.

The group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known as PETA, is asking for prosecution of workers at the Aviagen Turkeys plant in Lewisburg, W.Va., in a complaint filed with the local sheriff's office under state laws regarding cruelty to animals.

...The scenes show stomach-turning brutality. Workers are seen smashing birds into loading cages like basketballs, stomping heads and breaking necks, apparently for fun, even pretending to rape one.

On the tape, one worker describes losing his temper at a tom who pecked him, marking its head with a pen so he could find it again, fetching a broomstick, ramming it down the bird's gullet and holding it up in the air while shouting "Let this be a lesson to y'all" at the

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