I Am Mercy For Aanimals, I am Vegan

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San Diego Festival of Books

The 1st SD Festival of Books was a little great event! Lots of authors, local independent bookstores and I scored these lovely books! I wish I had more time to talk to local authors. But I already volunteered for Mercy for Animals 4 hours before I got to look around.

But I did meet Drew Andrews at the Verbatim booth. He signed his first novel (horror short tales) for me, I was gone by the time I read on his book that he is a local musician who has played with The Album Leaf and other bands.
http://sdcitybeat.com/music/notes-from-the-smoking-patio/drew-andrews-announces-debut-novel/

The Vegan recipes books with Morrissey and Nick Cave are funny, recipes are based on song titles, my favorite is Moz arguing with the Cookie Monster over a vegan cookie :D

Can't wait to read David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish on working on film projects.

The James Patterson was for my neighbor Mike
.

I highly recommend you to visit Verbatim books in North Park!

Also I volunteered with Mercy for Animals! We did Paid-Per-View video viewing.
Where we pay people $1 to watch a video on Factory Farming and how Animals suffer and are killed for food :( I do hope more people become vegan after watching the video, many are shocked!

It was a great Saturday in San Diego!

My little collection of books from the San Diego Festival of Books, cat not included, she is my Frau Kitty

Vegan recipes inspired by vegan music icons, Morrissey and Nick Cave

David Lynch book on creativity

Some of my vegan friends volunteering at Mercy for Animals

This man is already vegan, he loves banned books and vegan food!

This family wants to go vegan after seeing the suffering of animals for food

People seeing the horrors of factory farming

Mercy for Animals Paid-Per-View

I miss blogging, too much Facebook and Twitter.
But today I make time to write about "PPV"
Paid-Per-Views are events where
we pay people $1 to watch a 4 min. video about animal agriculture
Most people have no idea all the suffering the animals
go through to make it to our "plates"
After the video, we talk to people and encourage them
to follow an animal-free vegan diet.
Most people want to go vegan or at least cut
meat consumption after the video.

The past 2 weekends I have volunteer with the
Mercy for Animals team at 2 Lunar Festivals
in San Diego, the Vietnamese and the Chinese festivals.

Here some photos:

Nancy Wheeler, our wonderful organizer talking to people at the Vietnamese Lunar Festival

Simon from Germany talking to people at the Vietnamese Lunar Festival

Great to see some live hens and chickens, not in plates!

Vietnamese Lunar Festival at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego

At the Vietnamese Lunar Festival at Qualcomm Stadium San Diego

Mexican family wants to go Vegan after watching video

At the Chinese Lunar Festival in Downtown San Diego

At the Chinese Lunar Festival in Downtown San Diego

Mercy for Animals recognition

I am so honored, humbled, and thankful
for receiving this certificate from Mercy For Animals.
Please do every day something to help the animals,
they suffer immensely and most people still thinks
is OK to kill them, abuse them, cage them, and eat them,
together, we can change that,
help the animals who suffer a lot,
and help the humans live a more dignified
ethical peaceful life.
Thank you MFA!

Herr Gato approving of the certificate

Frau Kitty and me wearing my MFA t-shirt, my favorite!

babies

Most animals for food are killed as babies.
When we consume animals are breaking the mother-child bond
and causing a lot of pain.

I know is scary to watch the painful truth of farmed animals,
but is even worse to stay blind and support it.

#GetReal #GoVegan

bacon and cruelty

Choose compassion.
Choose kindness.
Choose health.
Ditch death.
Choose Vegetarian.
Learn more: http://www.chooseveg.com/ 

Cinco de Mayo Vegan Outreach

Vegan Outreach at the Cinco De Mayo Celebration
in Old Town San Diego with
Nancy Calzadilla Wheeler and Richard Wheeler,
people were very receptive to the materials,
Fresh from Mercy For Animals leaflets and
¿Porqué Vegetariano? from Vegan Outreach,
a great day for speaking in behalf of the animals!
Nancy added the numbers: we distributed
1,048 pieces of pro-veg literature,
including 400 of the Porque Vegetariano Brochure,
530 of the new FRESH Brochure and the rest included
the Vegetarian Starter Guide and the
MFA Compassionate Living Magazine.

Nancy Wheeler and me

the tallest man around!

it was sunny, so we wear hats

leafleting

part of being a vegan is trying to
create awareness of the animal suffering
and the huge environmental problems
along with health issues that brings
eating animals...
my main concern has always been
the animal suffering, so it's good
to let others know what animals go through
one of the most effective ways is leafleting!
this is what my friend Ellen, an admirable
animal rights activist in San Diego, and I
did this past Sunday, and Saturday at the
Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair
it was a great event, people were very receptive
and a couple stopped and asked more about
animals, vegan and vegetarian diets, and took
the leaflets home.
We gave away leaflets from Vegan Outreach
Vegetarian Starter kits from Mercy for Animals
and FARM. Statistics say that for every 100 leaflets
given, about one person goes vegan.
We gave away over 1,000 leaflets!
So we will have at least 10 new vegans!
Who hopefully will leaflet themselves
and will tell their friends & family about the
importance of respecting animals lives
and how inhumane is to eat animals
and the devastation we are creating in our planet
by raising animals for food!
I had a weekend full of hope!

me & Ellen leafleting at the Chinese New Year festival 2014

milk, cheese, butter, pain

This is your milk,
this is your cheese,
this is your butter,
this is their pain.

Do NOT consume dairy,
only YOU can stop this circle
of sadness and pain.

no law protects farmed animals

Did you know?
Not a single federal law protects farmed animals
during their miserable lives on modern farms.
If just one dog or cat were treated the way
billions of farmed animals are treated every day,
the perpetrator would be behind bars for animal abuse.
Do you think that's fair?
Please check the blog of Mercy for Animals
http://www.mfablog.org/
and do something about it!

Reducing your consuption of animal products
like meat, chicken, milk, all dairy, helps a lot!

image Mercy for Animals