Monday, November 9, 2009

Workplace Giving

Post by AVN Member, Claire

On Monday October 21st, 2009 the 1st of the dinner and environmental film series was held at General Electric Research Center in Niskayuna, NY.  There were 30 attendees and the dinner consisted of mixed salad, marinated tofu, sweet potatoes, herbed barley, green beans and roasted garlic brussels sprouts. There was dessert of apple crisp and soy vanilla ice cream.  The literature available for free taking were Vegetarian Starter Kits and a pamphlet called Factory Farming: Destroying the Environment.  The movie 6 Degrees could change the World by the National Geographic Channel was shown.  This film visually shows the disturbing ecological impacts each single degree of temperature increase could have on planet Earth. (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/six-degrees-could-change-the-world-3188/Overview)

VegFund sponsored this event and provided the ingredients for the dinner and dessert.  Vegfund is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to acquaint the general public with a plant based diet.  Anyone can apply for funding to serve free plant based food and hand out educational literature at events.  Visit their website for additional information (www.vegfund.org).  Join the network of grassroots activists!