Veg Club has kept busy being awesome this past October! We kicked off the month on the 7th with an excellent lunch at Shoots, the new vegan station at the Oaks, complementary of Dining Services. We also designed and ordered fabulous new shirts for our group. We intended to paint the Spirit Rock veg-style in October, but our two attempts fell through (one due to rain, and the second due to another group arriving right before we did), so we will be doing that next semester!
On October 21st, we hosted a free screening of the documentary "Cowspiracy," which discusses the environmental impact of animal agriculture. More than 20 people attended the showing and we had an insightful discussion afterward.
On the 29th, we held a demonstration about the egg industry. We passed out about 200 color-coded plastic eggs that each contained a laffy taffy and a fact about the egg industry. The facts covered issues like debeaking, small cage sizes, the disposal of male chicks, environmental impacts, health effects on humans, and reproductive problems of the hens. For a portion of the event, we also had a person in a chicken costume. In addition, the last 30 minutes of the event focused on paying people $1 to watch a 1-minute video about egg farms on a tablet (ideally doing so while sitting in a dog cage); about 12 people participated. Overall, the event went fairly well and Veg Club had a fun meeting preparing for it!
On November 17th and 18th, Veg Club hosted an adopt-a-turkey bake sale to raise money to sponsor turkeys to live their lives on a farm sanctuary. Each year in the U.S., 46 million turkeys are killed just for Thanksgiving. We combined our efforts with S.A.V.E., who continued the bake sale on the 19th and 20th, to raise enough money to adopt three turkeys! We adopted Turpentine, Tibbott, and Martha, who live at Farm Sanctuary's Northern California Shelter. You can read about their stories, personalities and favorite foods here. At the bake sale, customers were given the opportunity to draw a turkey with their hand on a poster that we plan on sending in to the 46 million turkeys project, an art display seeking submissions to honor those lives lost each year during the holiday season.
On November 22nd, Veg Club got together for a potluck at an off-campus apartment, enjoying food, conversation and a vegan board game the object of which is to save animals. 10 people attended and we had a good time!
Coming up: No meeting November 25th. Start brainstorming ideas for a demonstration about world hunger and veganism (aka resource inefficiency of meat-eating). The demo is tentatively scheduled for December 11th. 
