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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
FROM THE PREZ
Fall 2011
Posted on Tuesday September 13, 2011 10:53 am
We are planning our next dinner with a speaker for April 14. Tentatively it will be at the Holiday Inn on Sunland Park Drive and our guest speaker will be Robert Cohen, author of Milk, the Deadly Poison and manager of the site NotMilk.com.
We are planning many other exciting events for March, April and May and they will be posted here in the weeks to come.
It's always good to see new faces at the board of directors meetings. We had three new people attend the January board meeting. Those meetings are usually held on the next to last Monday of the month at Singapore Cafe on Mesa. If you would like to help direct the future of VSEP, please consider attending our next board meeting.
VSEP Supports VegNews
Posted on Saturday June 04, 2011 10:57 am
VSEP is proud to offer a free subscription to VegNews Magazine as a benefit of membership in the Vegetarian Society of El Paso.
For over a decade, this quality publication has promoted veganism to a mainstream audience, which now numbers close to a quarter million subscribers. We consider VegNews to be one of the best methods of spreading the vegan message. Recently it was discovered that VegNews has occasionally used stock photos to illustrate vegan articles and recipes, photos which were not of vegan food, but were instead photos of animal products. Stock photos of mac and real cheese were used to depict vegan mac and cheez for an article. A story about a vegan ribs dish was accompanied by a stock photo of a real ribs dish. To complicate matters, when this story broke, VegNews apparently tried to cover it up by deleting comments at their website.
Most magazines use companies or websites that provide stock photo services. The editor of VegNews has stated that the magazine wants to use all vegan photos in the future, but they did what they did to cut costs. There are no vegan stock photos companies. Soon there will be, because of the recent news about this issue.There has been a ripple through the vegan community, vegan photographers and vegan cooks who would love to supply VegNews Magazine with photos of vegan food.
At our last VSEP board meeting, we discussed this issue and decided that we support VegNews. We consider the magazine to be a great membership benefit, and we hope that VegNews uses only vegan photos in their future issues.
EP Veg Families
by Melodie Good
Posted on Thursday April 21, 2011 10:53 am
Calling all vegetarian/vegan families! EP Veg Families is looking for people interested in hanging out with other vegetarian/vegan families. We are just getting started and would love to have you join us. This group is for vegetarian/vegan folks who are raising veg children with the idea of them being around other veg kids. Spending time with like-minded people can be validating and comforting for adults and kids. One of our goals is to let the kids know that there are lots of other vegetarian/vegans out there. We will have monthly get-togethers and I would love to hear your ideas about what you would like to do. I am thinking parks and potlucks so far. Please email me at vegmommy@blumail.org or join at Yahoo groups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epvegfam/. I look forward to hearing from you.What You Missed
Our Spring Dinner
with guest speaker Dr.Michael Greger
Posted on Saturday December 11, 2010 11:43 am
Don't miss future events....be sure to check our Calendar of Events page.
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Calendar at a Glance
Click on the links below for more information on these and other events
Sunday, January 29, 2012: Feeding the Homeless
Sunday, February 5, 2012: VegAdventure: Rio Grande River Walk & Potluck Picnic
Saturday, February 18, 2012: Restaurant Hopper: THE GREENERY
Sunday, February 26, 2012: Featured Event: Healthy Indian Cooking Class with Rati
Four-Legged Corner
Lucy
by Brenda Hamlin
Posted on Thursday November 11, 2010 8:46 am
Lucy, is a micro schnauzer and a vegan eating munchkin. She was born September 2004. I got her from a breeder in Chicago in December 2004. She is now six years old and converted to Vegan in 2010 after her sister had to be put to sleep because of cancer. She enjoys eating fruits and vegetables.
