Animal Awareness organizes peaceful public education events
that shed light on animal-use industries, including the many
benefits of being vegan and vegetarian.
2003 Towson Spring Festival
May 3 & 4, Animal Awareness
had a booth at the 2003 Towson Spring Festival that educated the public
about factory farming and the benefits of becoming vegetarian and
vegan. The festival was located in front of the Towson Courthouse
Square and surrounding streets.
Each day we had 6 to 7 volunteers on hand to answer questions and
offer suggestions about where to find vegan products. Thank you to
everyone who helped for making this a very successful public education
event!
PHOTOS:
Here are 6 of the 8 volunteers who worked at the booth.
A crowd gathers to look at the factory farming photos and literature
as well as to discuss the issues with our helpful volunteers. Notice
that our booth was positioned right next to a place that sold chicken
and pitbeef. Several people who had been waiting in line to purchase
these meat products noticed our signs and walked over for more information.
A volunteer listens to a man express interest in learning about
factory farming and vegetarianism.
Three people engage in different aspects of the booth. The
man on the left watches video footage. We rotated between three
eye-opening video tapes: PETA's "Meet Your Meat," Compassion Over
Killing's "Hope for the Hopeless," and VivaUSA's "When Pigs Cry."
The man with the
red shirt in the middle looks at some posters. The man in
the black shirt on the right discusses the issues with a volunteer.
Sarah
Kraft was the lucky winner of the Saturday basket. This basket
was generously donated by Michelle Jacmenovic. Included in this
basket is a wonderful assortment of vegan products including
some of her line of vegan bath and health products called "Health
with a Heart."
Jessica
Taylor, one of our volunteers, was the lucky winner of the basket
that was raffled off on Sunday. This basket was generously donated
by Herb Morrison.
All products in the baskets are vegan, which means they have no animal
ingredients and no animal testing.
Literature, video tapes, and high-resolution photos for the banner
were provided by:
Compassion Over Killing (COK)
Farm Sanctuary
PETA
Vegan Outreach
VivaUSA!
