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Sun May 26 American Vegan Society Garden Party at the AVS Headquarters in Malaga NJ


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Vegan Fine Dining in South Jersey
December 17, 2012

The public is invited to experience a meal of exceptional quality prepared and served by culinary students under the direction of their chef-educator. Dinner seating time is 6:30 pm.

Also on the evening’s program: Peaceable Kingdom: the Journey Home (78 mins)—an award-winning documentary from Tribe of Heart by Jennie Stein and James LaVeck. Five farmers, an animal rescuer, and a humane police officer each embark on a journey of awakening consciousness as they witness the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals on farms. The film will be shown twice, before and after dinner, at 4:50pm & 8:40pm, in room C108 (Faculty Dining). Free, open to all.

Books and media will be on view for sale outside Carême’s before and after dinner.

Dinner Reservations are requested by December 7; thereafter phone for seating availability. Adult: $31, Student/Low Income: $21, Supporter $50. (A few scholarships are available; we want you to come even if you can't afford to.)

Phone: 856-694-2887, Fax: 856-694-2288 Mail: AVS, PO Box 369, Malaga NJ 08328 Online: www.americanvegan.org AVS accepts Visa, MasterCard & Discover/Novus, but prefers payment by check.

Carême’s is at The Academy of Culinary Arts Atlantic Cape Community College 5100 Black Horse Pike (Rt. 322), Mays Landing NJ 08330 (Carême’s is by the on-campus bus stop, in Bldg M.)


AMERICAN VEGAN SOCIETY’S 51ST ANNIVERSARY GARDEN PARTY
Sunday May 29 2012 at AVS HQ, 56 - 72 Dinshah Lane, Malaga NJ 08328.


Amie Hamlin, Executive Director of New York Coalition for Healthy School Food, will present Success Stories from New York, describing the changes in food programs throughout her home state. Amie has worked with several districts, including New York City, which has both the highest rates of childhood obesity in the nation and the country’s largest school food service. NYCHSF now promotes nutrition education and plant-based entrees in many New York schools. For more information, visit www.healthyschoolfood.org

Children will enjoy and learn from an interactive performance by environmental entertainer Jay Mankita, who will feature songs from his album Eat Like a Rainbow. In addition to recording six ofhis own albums, Jay has also been featured in Putumayo World Music's Picnic Playground, and the grammy-nominated compilation Healthy Food For Thought. He has presented concerts to adults and children for twenty-five years, and now tours in a van powered by recycled vegetable oil. For moreinformation, visit www.jaymankita.com


AMERICAN VEGAN SOCIETY’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY GARDEN PARTY was held Sunday May 30 2010 at our HQ in Malaga NJ Emcees were Anne Dinshah, Barata El. Speakers were: Christina Pirello, MFN, CCN—Emmy award winning PBS TV cooking show host, author, Andy Mars PhD –educator, director camp exploration and a new k-12 school. Scoville Blues Band performed. Reported in American Vegan #10-1 (Summer 2010). See also www.christinacooks.com, www.kidscanmakeadifference.org, www.scovilleblues.com


A Spring Celebration Dinner was held at Atlantic Cape Community College on March 23 2010-- reported in American Vegan #10-1 Summer 2010 issue


American Vegan Society Annual Garden Party—May 2009

Vegan meat balls from VeggieBrothers.com were on the menu at the American Vegan Society Annual Garden Party this year. We were proud to feature a product from this company which offers a valued service and an expanding menu to its customers.

Click for VeggieBrothers.com information

Speakers at the AVS annual meeting were: John Bodrog from the White Wave Foods Company soymilk manufacturing plant in Bridgeton NJ.

Erin Williams, coauthor Why Animals Matter: The Case for Animal Protection
Erin E. Williams, Margo DeMello.

Mary K Lombardi & Friends played a lively selection of musical numbers.

Browsing through AVS’ extensive bookroom, treasures were found by attendees of all ages.


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Celebrate WORLD VEGAN MONTH
Saturday November 17 2007, 1pm – 4pm

Visit The Gentle Thanksgiving Website!

Bart Potenza and Joy Pierson host a special meal at
Candle 79 154 E 79TH  New York NY 10021

Speakers:
Freya Dinshah—American Vegan Society (AVS) president
Dr. Milton Mills—Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Roberta Schiff—comedian, Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society
Pamela Rice—author, founder NYC’s Viva Vegie Society
Barata El—poet
Leif Erich--classical guitar

American Vegan Society promotes World VEGAN Day & Month in the United States to educate people about the vegan lifestyle. As a vehicle to promote veganism each year through outreach events and the media, we hope that World VEGAN Day & Month will help make the word "vegan" a household term that is universally recognized as meaning love and compassion for all living beings.

World VEGAN Day & Month is also about celebrating what it means to be vegan. Veganism enables people to live in balance with all of Earth's creatures and promotes freedom from exploitation for animals. Animal agriculture is cruel and violent toward the chickens, cows, pigs and other creatures used to make meat, milk, and eggs.

During World VEGAN Day & Month, we encourage people to become conscious of what—and who—they are eating, the effect their eating habits have on the world, and that there is a non-violent, healthful alternative.

Cost to attend $85.00, Full-time students: $50

MENU

Salad:
Baby Arugula with roasted beets, shaved fennel and a vanilla balsamic vinaigrette

Soup:
Roasted Butternut Squash with caramelized pears

Entrée Choice of:
Porcini Tofu with sautéed French beans, shallots, celeriac puree and a wild mushroom sauce
or
Rosemary Pecan Crusted Seitan with potato gratin, garlic sauteed baby spinach and a truffled cauliflower sauce

Dessert Choice of
Old Fashioned Apple Pie with dulce de leche ice cream
or
Mexican Chocolate Cake with vanilla soup, ancho chocolate sauce and cinnamon ice cream

(Menu subject to change.)
Drinks available at extra charge


Make reservations by phone, fax, or mail with:
American Vegan Society PO Box 369 Malaga NJ 08328
Phone 856-694-2887, Fax: 856-694-2288

Join us for a sophisticated gourmet dining experience, and exciting program, in good company at this great restaurant.
Candle 79, "Best Vegetarian Restaurant 2007" —Zagat

Make your reservations by November 1 2007; thereafter phone for seating availability.


May 27 2007
American Vegan Society 47th Annual Meeting at the society’s headquarters in Malaga NJ

A noontime outdoor lunch will be followed by the educational program. The society’s bookroom will be open for sales from 11 am to 5 pm. A short membership meeting to include election of trustees will be held mid-afternoon.

The lunch menu will celebrate South Jersey farmers and gardeners. It features freshly-picked locally-grown and wild foods: Asparagus with Carrot-Herb Dressing, Nettle-Spinach Puree, Potato Salad, Veggie Burgers, Mushroom-Onion Gravy, Minted Peas, and Vegan Cheeze & Crackers, Carob-Sponge Cake with Strawberries and Vanilla–Pear-Cashew Cream, Herb Tea. Reservations required. Suggested donation $15.

A Meeting of the Council of American Vegan Society will be held at 9 am Monday May 28 2007. Members are welcome to attend.

Event Speakers

Stu Chaifetz will speak on Wildlife Issues in New Jersey. He is the author of numerous reports on hunting and wildlife, and has appeared in many television and radio debates on these matters. Currently, he is the Director of the Animal Protection PAC, a new political organization designed to bring together people who love animals and forge them into a powerful political force.

Dr. Barbara Ellicott, a speech pathologist and psychologist, will give a personal testimonial on how she has overcome illness and injury through exercise and a vegan diet.


May 29 2005
45th Convention of American Vegan Society

Speakers were:
Caryn Hartglass: How Lifestyles Affect the Environment
Caryn is executive director of EarthSave International, a singer, and chemical engineer by profession. See www.earthsave.org/esboard

Milton Mills MD: Human Physiology and Healthful Eating
Dr. Mills co-authored the report Racial and Ethnic Bias in U.S. Dietary Guidelines for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (www.pcrm.org)

See American Vegan 5-1


May 30 2004
44th Convention of American Vegan Society
at the society’s headquarters in Malaga NJ

Speakers were:
Joel Fuhrman MD: The Greatest Diet on Earth
See American Vegan 4-2, also www.drfuhrman.com

Sarah Summerville: Unexpected Wildlife Refuge and its Beavers
See American Vegan 4-2, also www.unexpectedwildliferefuge.org


November 1 2003, World Vegan Day

Nutritionists Bob Leroy and KC McQuillan headlined our celebrations and open house at the Kind Café, 724 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia PA 19123 (www.kindcafe.com). Account appears in American Vegan 3-3, Winter 2004


May 25 2003.
43rd Convention of American Vegan Society
at the Society's Headquarters in Malaga New Jersey

Speakers were:

Dr. Michael Greger (www.veganMD.org):
Maximizing Vegetarian Nutrition:
Just because you're eating vegan does not necessarily mean you're eating healthy

Linda Runyon (www.wildfoodcompany.com):
Wild Foods: Identifying, gathering and preparing free food
See American Vegan 3-2, Summer 2003.


October 2002
Vesanto Melina RD MS spoke in South Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC
See American Vegan 3-1 Spring 2003 and meet Vesanto at www.nutrispeak.com.


May 26, 2002
42nd Annual Convention of the American Vegan Society at the Society's headquarters in Malaga NJ

The featured speaker was Pamela Rice (Viva Vegie Society, New York City) who addressed The Environmental Impact of the Meat Centered Diet, and Subsidies to the Meat Industry. For a report and more information see American Vegan 2-2 Fall 2002 and www.vivavegie.org.


February 15, 16, 17, 2002
International Scientific Conference on Chinese Plant Based Nutrition and Cuisine, Philadelphia Set of 4 VHPS Video cassettes, $15
Speakers were: Howard Lyman LLD, Johnetta Frazier MA, T. Colin Campbell PhD, Rynn Berry Author, Rui Hai Liu MD,PhD, Bryanna Clark Grogan Author, Robert Cohen Author, Lawrence Kushi ScD, Joel Fuhrman MD, Charles Chen, Yin Sion "Sally" Ian for Sui Kwan Tseng, Antonia Demas PhD, Cyndi Reeser MPH, RD, LD, William Sciarappa MS, Rabbi David Seed, and James Oswald EdD, Gwen Foster, MPH, CHES


May 26 and 27, 2001
41st Annual Convention of the American Vegan Society
at the Society's headquarters in Malaga New Jersey
Featured speaker was Robert Cohen who talked about Dangers in Dairy. See www.notmilk.com


July 11, 2000
40th Annual Convention of the American Vegan Society Toronto Ontario Canada
(It was held during the 34th World Vegetarian Congress sponsored by International Vegetarian Union www.ivu.org and hosted by Toronto Vegetarian Association www.veg.ca)
H. Jay Dinshah was honored in a program titled Looking Back Before Going Forward
Written report in Ahimsa Volume 41 Number 4 (October/December 2000) $3
Video TC-01 (1 hour 46 minutes) $12


July 28 to August 1, 1999
39th Annual AVS Convention, Boulder Colorado
Highlights in Ahimsa Volume 40 Number 4 (October/December 1999) including photos of Fashion with Compassion Show
Convention Videos, all 10 $69. Single videos $12 (7 lecture, 3 cooking)


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The First Veggie Pride Parade in America was held on May 18, 2008 in Greenwich Village, New York, NY

From pre-event listing: The procession will begin at 12 Noon in the Old Meat District. It will culminate in Washington Square Park (Eastern end), with a festival of rock music, speakers and exhibitors (including American Vegan Society).

Email: Info or call 212-242-0011.

For additional and the most up to date related information click here


FOOD, ETHICS, & THE ENVIRONMENT, was held November 16 and 17, 2006 in New Jersey at Princeton University.

The conference explored the broad and compelling issues and ethical dilemmas surrounding food production in the United States and the choices individuals make regarding the food they eat.

Topics included:

  • How industrial food production systems affect the environment, including such issues as water pollution, biodiversity and global warming.

  • Comparison of locally grown and organic foods versus large scale industrial food production systems.

  • Concern for the welfare of animals raised for meat, eggs and dairy products. Issues for institutions of scale, (e.g. universities), regarding food choices.

Speakers included:
  • Marion Nestle (What to Eat)
  • Peter Singer (The Way We Eat; Why Our Food Choices Matter)
  • Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma)
  • Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation)
  • Paul Shapiro (HSUS Factory Farming Campaign).

An archived version is available for viewing here.


 
 
     
 
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