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Vegetarian Society of El Paso Welcomes You
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving life on our planet by educating the public about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. We promote compassion toward animals, the environment, and humanity by choosing to live cruelty-free. Going vegan makes perfect sense for many reasons. Vegans enjoy great health, inner peace, and a strong connection with the earth and the environment. We come from all walks of life and all areas of the world. We are all ages, colors, and cultures. Regardless of your reason for your interest in vegetarianism, we invite you to explore our site, contact us, attend our dinners and meet nationally and internationally known vegetarians, get involved and join our society. See for yourself how going vegan truly is the best thing you can do for yourself, the animals, and the earth.
In The News
VSEP SUMMER EVENTS
Posted on Thursday June 03, 2010 2:01 am
Join us for our Quarterly Dinner on July 10 with guest speaker Priscilla Feral. Priscilla is President of the International organization Friends of Animals, which provides programs and services for wild and domestic animals worldwide. She's also president of Primarily Primates, an organization based in Texas which runs a 78-acre sanctuary for nearly 400 chimpanzees, monkeys and other animals released from the pet trade, show business and research laboratories.
Priscilla has written two cookbooks, The Best of Vegan Cooking and Dining with Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine and will sign copies at the dinner.
Make plans to attend our Quarterly Dinner at the Sunland Park Holiday Inn on July 10 for a tasty vegan buffet and Priscilla's talk which is entitled Apes, Monkeys and a Cuisine with a Cause. Please see our Calendar of Events for reservation information on this and all other VSEP summer events. And please notice that the dinner starts a half hour later than usual, meet and greet at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7:00.
On July 11, during a Music Under the Stars concert at the Chamizal National Memorial, VSEP will have a literature table under a tent on the park grounds. The concert will be rock music by Sleepercar. We need some volunteers to help pass out trash bags to the crowd and manage the VSEP info table. If you would like to help, call me or email me at vegetexan@aol.com. For giving out the trash bags for the park, we not only get the table, but also a few minutes onstage during intermission, to talk about our vegetarian society and drop a few hints. Come on, call me to volunteer, you know you love loud rock music.
On Saturday, July 24, at Sukie's home, there will be a Raw Foods Preparation Class presented by Mark Trippett from the Life Restoration Center. It's about time VSEP did a raw Uncooking Class. I recently read Becoming Raw by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina. I consider it to be the ultimate book on raw veganism, explaining the scientific reasons why including a lot more raw food in our diet is a good idea. Brenda will be a June guest on our radio show ACT, which you can hear on ktep.org.
VSEP has many fun events planned for the summer, including Restaurant Hoppers in June, July and August. Voyager outings are also planned for those months.
We just learned that the Good Times Store at 12900 Edgemere is going to start selling vegan items including Gardein products, Boca burgers, Lightlife products, vegenaise, soyrizo and other items. Let's show this store our support and hopefully other convenience stores will follow their lead.
One other thing I wanted to mention...this summer our board of directors meetings have moved to the back room at the Singapore Cafe. Much better food and the owner is a VSEP member.
Check our Calendar and please get back in touch with us. We could use your help to keep VSEP going strong.
~~Greg
Follow Us on Twitter
Posted on Friday May 21, 2010 6:20 pm
Now you can follow all VSoEP event news on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VSoEP!
VSEP Introduces VOYAGER!
Posted on Monday August 17, 2009 3:26 pm
VOYAGER! (Vegetarians! Our Youthful Activities Group Encourages Reciprocity!) is a recent development of your Vegetarian Society of El Paso. We are delighted to be able to provide our community's youth with healthy, cruelty-free activities and education. All youthful souls are invited to join us Click here for more info...
What You Missed
Our Spring Dinner
with guest speaker Robert Cohen
Posted on Monday April 12, 2010 2:26 am
We had a good turnout of over 80 people for our dinner on April the 10th and it was one of my favorite dinners in a long, long time, well, since the last one anyway.
Robert Cohen is an expert, perhaps the world's foremost authority on every aspect and impact of Dairy Products on human health, the environment, how the dairy industy manipulates society and politics. He gave a talk that I'm sure was eye-opening to many people. And he was funny at times. It takes a master like Robert to expose all that's wrong with our food system and still make us laugh.
BTW, the vegan buffet at Lancer's East was very tasty. There were three different salads, a fruit tray, a rice and broccoli dish, Ratouille, rosemary potatoes, a vegetarian lasagne. You should have been there.
After that great dinner...
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Calendar at a Glance
Click on the links below for more information on these and other events
Saturday, July 31, 2010: RESTAURANT HOPPER
Friday, August 13, 2010: VOYAGER! Perseid Meteor Shower
Saturday, August 28, 2010: RESTAURANT HOPPER
Four-Legged Corner
The Story of Whippersnapper
by Peggy Farrar
Posted on Saturday October 10, 2009 5:26 pm
Multitudes of starfish washed up on shore. A young boy started picking them up and throwing them back into the ocean. Someone saw what he was doing and told him that it was pointless, that there were too many to save, that it wouldn't make a difference. Throwing another starfish into the sea, the little boy responded, "It makes a difference to this one."
I was working at a fund-raising bingo game for a homeless, no-kill, animal shelter in rural Kentucky when a man approached me and said, "I gotta ‘get rid’ of this dog I got at home." I nervously explained to him that the shelter currently had no space for canines (all the cages were full). He glared at me and said, "Well, I guess I’ll have to go on and drown ‘it,’ then."
I was horrified—the thought of someone drowning a dog just cut me to the core and I knew I had to do something. I quickly said, "Sir, I think I might be able to provide a foster home for this dog if you could bring him to the shelter tomorrow."
