At the two-day SF Pride Celebration in San Francisco on June 24th and 25th, plant-powered volunteers from Bay Area Vegetarians (BAV) staffed a Veg Education & Outreach booth. Judging by the queue at the booth, people were hungry for veg info and crowded the booth to learn about vegetarianism, vegan cooking, and factory farming. Through the use of a unique battery cage display and other informational materials, tens of thousands of people learned that chickens are debeaked and intensively confined in cages to produce eggs. Long hours of preparation, planning, and twelve-hour days by the volunteers are worthwhile to them when people visit the booth and provide direct feedback that information they received earlier that day, or in previous years, was instrumental in their decision to go vegetarian or vegan. Leafleting by volunteers throughout the area was also successful. Thousands of "Even If You Like Meat" booklets, "Try Vegetarian" booklets, and "Why Vegan" pamphlets were distributed to receptive passers-by. Bay Area Vegetarians wants concerned animal lovers to know that they have many more opportunities for the public to get involved and active for animals.

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