Action for Animals Austin

    Local vegans from Action for Animals and VegAustin.com participated in an action-packed week during SXSW's music fest, distributing free vegetarian information and vegan baked goods for charity at three BrooklynVegan day parties at three live music venues. Our outreach table gained hundreds of SXSW visitors who picked up our vegetarian starter guides, VegAustin.com restaurant guides, vegan recipes, and vegan baked goods. We were excited by all the vegans, vegetarians, and veg-curious people at...

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Action for Animals will be helping animals while we enjoy SXSW live music! Help us spread a pro-veg message by signing up to volunteer here, dropping by our table for some vegan baked goods, and spreading the word about these vegan-friendly SXSW events to your friends. Let the fun begin...

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AFA: You're invited to the next Austin Vegan Drinks event at Rio Rita brought to you by VegAustin.com. Be part of the growing vegan scene in Austin, and please invite your friends!  

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Join fellow Austinites in a vegan bakesale benefit for the people of Haiti on Sunday, January 24 from 12-4PM at Ten Thousand Villages (1317 South Congress). Consider bringing some baked vegan goods or buying some from the table! All proceeds will go to Food for Life Global (FFL), the world's largest nonprofit vegan food relief organization. According to news reports, the Haiti earthquake killed over 111,000 people and left 609,000 people homeless. The U.N. reports...

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I'll admit it. One of my favorite things to do is sit down with a friend and have a quality drink. My favorite drink is beer, preferably Lonestar unless I want to get fancy and order a Dos Equis with lime. Or if I'm feeling extra celebratory, I'll have a vodka and cranberry. It's all about the company and the atmosphere, and, of course, the delicious taste in my mouth while I discuss animal rights...

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  You're invitedVegAustin Vegan Cookie ExchangeHOW DOES IT WORK?Each guest brings one type of homemade vegan cookie. Then everyone"swaps" and gets some of each other guest's cookies. Bake one type...leave with many! DATE: Sunday, December 20, 2009TIME: 1:00 - 3:00 pmPLACE: Round Rock, TX(address will be emailed to those who RSVP)RSVP:Email Daniela@VegAustin.com or RSVP on VegAustin Facebook pageBAKE: Plan on baking several dozen of your favorite vegan cookies or treats.(Number will be emailed on Friday,...

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On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and one of the nation's largest shopping days of the year, Julian Gold will open its doors to potential fur buyers. Even though more and more retailers have stopped carrying fur due to public demand, Julian Gold, a retailer in Austin, TX, carries fur coats and other fur-lined clothing that were obtained by brutal violence against feeling animals. That's why we must act on the biggest shopping day...

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  Thanks to Austin Pets Alive!  and Sue at Counter Culture for bringing this good news to our attention--The Austin City Coucil passed a unanimous resolution last Thursday with recommendations for a plan to achieve a 90% save rate at Town Lake Animal Shelter within 18 months by changing some existing policies and implementing new programs. From Fox7 News: Some of the recommedations include: Off-site adoption throughout the City and County staffed 7 days a...

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No matter how stylish you are, no matter how rich you are, buying fur should not be on your winter wish list. Not according to Julian Gold, an upscale women's store in downtown West Austin that continues to sell fur. Action for Animals Austin is calling on Austinites to be fur-free so that we can help stop this brutal fur industry right here in our own city. Here's why: Millions of fur-bearing animals including foxes,...

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Eating a burger can have devastating consequences for people, and this week's New York Times feature on a woman who got sick and paralyzed from eating an E.coli contaminated burger, could help convince the general public that they should forgo eating beef. The burger's manufacterer (Cargill) ended up recalling over 800,000 lbs of beef patties with mixed ingredients that made it impossible for the federal government or Cargill to trace the contamination to a specific...

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