4th Annual Salem Vegan Food Drive Launches for 2009, Donate Throughout June
This year's annual Salem Vegan Food Drive, a 100-percent vegan charity food drive that actively engages the entire city of Salem, Massachusetts, each June, requesting residents to make their charitable food donations vegan, officially launched in Salem on June 1, and will run throughout the month.
Salem, MA, June 03, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The fourth annual Salem Vegan Food Drive is now officially underway for 2009, and will last throughout the month of June. The goal – providing Salem Mission residents and area needy families with healthy, wholesome vegan food – remains the same, but the logistics for donating has changed for the first time this year.
Individual food donations connected with Salem Vegan Society’s month-long Vegan Food Drive and Raffle are no longer being accepted at the Mission’s main lobby, although food donations are still accepted and encouraged at the Mission’s main lobby year round, according to Mission spokesperson, Mark Cote.
Residents of Salem and surrounding communities are being encouraged to donate online via Facebook’s Network for Good application, or by check made payable to Salem Vegan Society, sent to the SVS’s Salem address: PO Box 283, Salem MA 01970, to be entered into this year’s annual Vegan Food Drive Raffle.
This year, Salem Vegan Society will also host an information table at Salem’s annual Living Green and Renewable Energy Fair on June 13, 10 am to 3 pm, at Salem’s Old Town Hall. Fair-goers will have the opportunity to donate to the Vegan Food Drive at the SVS table during the fair and to be entered into the Raffle.
Each individual donation entitles the donor to a separate Raffle entry. This year’s three Raffle prizes include an individual fashion consultation with well-known vegan fashion consultant Ginger Burr, of Total Image Consultants of Lynn, a vegan handbag designed by Helen Riegle of HER Design LLC of Marblehead, and a signed copy of Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral’s latest cookbook, The Best of Vegan Cooking.
SVS Director Marc Delaney has also worked this year to add several vegan companies to the Vegan Food Drive’s corporate sponsor list for 2009, including Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Kiss My Face, Loving Hut restaurants, Robert's American Gourmet, the makers of Pirate’s Booty, Turtle Island Foods, the makers of Tofurky, Vej Naturals of Malden, Vegan Essentials, and Whole Soy & Co.
In January, Delaney contacted Canadian artist Nicolas Lehoux to request that he donate one of his original works for use as this year’s Salem Vegan Food Drive logo, and Lehoux agreed. The image, which depicts two heart-shaped balloons floating over a colorful, abstract background, appears on the 2009 Salem Vegan Food Drive web page on the SVS website, and on Vegan Food Drive posters and flyers now being distributed to Salem businesses.
Each year, since 2006, the annual Salem Vegan Food Drive has grown, gaining corporate sponsorship from vegan businesses, and winning acceptance and support from the Salem Mission, as yet another, perhaps alternative, way to donate to the Salem Mission’s food programs.
While the Salem Mission accepts all types of food donations – both vegan and non-vegan – year round, Salem Vegan Society, which is a registered non-profit business in Salem, and which now operates mainly as an Internet-based vegan news and information site, requests that area food donations be vegan, containing no animal products, for their annual Vegan Food Drive to benefit the Salem Mission.
Delaney said: “According to a University of Illinois fact sheet, in 2007, 271,685,000 turkeys were produced in the United States. Turkey consumption has increased by 116-percent since 1970, that’s a 300-percent increase.
“In 2007, the average American consumed 17.5 pounds of turkey, and 97-percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation reported that they eat turkey at Thanksgiving.
“And these figures just reflect the United States, not the world. These numbers are staggering, considering that each turkey “produced,” or raised, is a thinking, sentient being, that should in fact have rights of their own, to live out their lives as they choose, on free-range land or sanctuary.
“Today, animals have virtually no rights. This is the main purpose behind the annual Salem Vegan Food Drive, to provide good, wholesome, vegan food for Salem Mission residents, but also to remind those more fortunate among us here in Salem and on the North Shore that consuming turkey and other animal products is not necessary, that all of us can live happy, healthy lives consuming an entirely vegan diet.”
Donors can use their Visa or MasterCard to quickly and securely donate online via Facebook, with their donation sent electronically directly to the Salem Mission. Those donations, earmarked as Salem Vegan Food Drive donations, will be reserved for the purchase of vegan food, and will automatically enter them into this year’s Vegan Food Drive Raffle.
Anyone may also donate by check for any amount made payable to the Salem Vegan Society, and sent to SVS Vegan Food Drive, PO Box 283, Salem MA 01970.
Everyone is encouraged to visit the Salem Vegan Society website to find out more about this year’s Salem Vegan Food Drive.
Contact:
Marc Delaney
Founder/Director
Salem Vegan Society
PO Box 283
Salem MA 01970
Voice Mail: 978.745.3314
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Individual food donations connected with Salem Vegan Society’s month-long Vegan Food Drive and Raffle are no longer being accepted at the Mission’s main lobby, although food donations are still accepted and encouraged at the Mission’s main lobby year round, according to Mission spokesperson, Mark Cote.
Residents of Salem and surrounding communities are being encouraged to donate online via Facebook’s Network for Good application, or by check made payable to Salem Vegan Society, sent to the SVS’s Salem address: PO Box 283, Salem MA 01970, to be entered into this year’s annual Vegan Food Drive Raffle.
This year, Salem Vegan Society will also host an information table at Salem’s annual Living Green and Renewable Energy Fair on June 13, 10 am to 3 pm, at Salem’s Old Town Hall. Fair-goers will have the opportunity to donate to the Vegan Food Drive at the SVS table during the fair and to be entered into the Raffle.
Each individual donation entitles the donor to a separate Raffle entry. This year’s three Raffle prizes include an individual fashion consultation with well-known vegan fashion consultant Ginger Burr, of Total Image Consultants of Lynn, a vegan handbag designed by Helen Riegle of HER Design LLC of Marblehead, and a signed copy of Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral’s latest cookbook, The Best of Vegan Cooking.
SVS Director Marc Delaney has also worked this year to add several vegan companies to the Vegan Food Drive’s corporate sponsor list for 2009, including Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Kiss My Face, Loving Hut restaurants, Robert's American Gourmet, the makers of Pirate’s Booty, Turtle Island Foods, the makers of Tofurky, Vej Naturals of Malden, Vegan Essentials, and Whole Soy & Co.
In January, Delaney contacted Canadian artist Nicolas Lehoux to request that he donate one of his original works for use as this year’s Salem Vegan Food Drive logo, and Lehoux agreed. The image, which depicts two heart-shaped balloons floating over a colorful, abstract background, appears on the 2009 Salem Vegan Food Drive web page on the SVS website, and on Vegan Food Drive posters and flyers now being distributed to Salem businesses.
Each year, since 2006, the annual Salem Vegan Food Drive has grown, gaining corporate sponsorship from vegan businesses, and winning acceptance and support from the Salem Mission, as yet another, perhaps alternative, way to donate to the Salem Mission’s food programs.
While the Salem Mission accepts all types of food donations – both vegan and non-vegan – year round, Salem Vegan Society, which is a registered non-profit business in Salem, and which now operates mainly as an Internet-based vegan news and information site, requests that area food donations be vegan, containing no animal products, for their annual Vegan Food Drive to benefit the Salem Mission.
Delaney said: “According to a University of Illinois fact sheet, in 2007, 271,685,000 turkeys were produced in the United States. Turkey consumption has increased by 116-percent since 1970, that’s a 300-percent increase.
“In 2007, the average American consumed 17.5 pounds of turkey, and 97-percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation reported that they eat turkey at Thanksgiving.
“And these figures just reflect the United States, not the world. These numbers are staggering, considering that each turkey “produced,” or raised, is a thinking, sentient being, that should in fact have rights of their own, to live out their lives as they choose, on free-range land or sanctuary.
“Today, animals have virtually no rights. This is the main purpose behind the annual Salem Vegan Food Drive, to provide good, wholesome, vegan food for Salem Mission residents, but also to remind those more fortunate among us here in Salem and on the North Shore that consuming turkey and other animal products is not necessary, that all of us can live happy, healthy lives consuming an entirely vegan diet.”
Donors can use their Visa or MasterCard to quickly and securely donate online via Facebook, with their donation sent electronically directly to the Salem Mission. Those donations, earmarked as Salem Vegan Food Drive donations, will be reserved for the purchase of vegan food, and will automatically enter them into this year’s Vegan Food Drive Raffle.
Anyone may also donate by check for any amount made payable to the Salem Vegan Society, and sent to SVS Vegan Food Drive, PO Box 283, Salem MA 01970.
Everyone is encouraged to visit the Salem Vegan Society website to find out more about this year’s Salem Vegan Food Drive.
Contact:
Marc Delaney
Founder/Director
Salem Vegan Society
PO Box 283
Salem MA 01970
Voice Mail: 978.745.3314
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Contact
Salem Vegan Society
Marc Delaney
978-745-3314
http://www.salemvegan.org
Marc Delaney
978-745-3314
http://www.salemvegan.org
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