[167] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
WELCOME TO VSG!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 12 21:43:53 1994
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 21:42:54 EDT
Hi there!!
You may (or may not) be new to this list, but if you are, welcome!!! We are the Vegetarian Support Group (VSG or
vsg), unofficially the Vegetarian Student Group, if you prefer (though we don't want to exclude anybody). If
you're new to this group, you probably signed up at the Activities Midway a couple weeks ago. You've probably
been getting random mail from lots of groups, including this one. You may have been following our recent
discussion on animal vs. plant life (why we say it's OK to eat plants, which are living things, but not
animals). We discuss just about anything you can think of relating to vegetarianism. People occasionally post
interesting articles or facts they've seen elsewhere so that our entire vegetarian community (at least the ones
on this list) can be informed. Sometimes people ask questions, like "What do you say in response to an
annoying meat-eater who asks (blah)?" During the term we'll also hold occasional events, like an afternoon
cooking, or go out to lunch or dinner to a veg restaurant, or maybe watch an informative video. We are a
changing, evolving group. Here are our officers, who help effect the evolution:
laura - pres (that's me) elsiedee
mike - vp mjacknis - send him your requests to add/drop the list
richard h - treasurer rdhamlin
richard b & brett - co-secy rjbarbal & bdrosen
Mike's the administrative guy, so if you have a request to be added or dropped or whatever, send it to him.
Other neat thing: vsg has a home page on the world-wide web (which is really neat and you can spend hours
browsing around on - it's cool, check it out). It is still underway, but I think one of our goals this year
should be to make it really awesome with lots of stuff of interest to vegetarians everywhere. It's under the
address:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/vegetarian/home.html
...so check that out, too.
The first thing I'm going to post officially which will especially be of interest to new people is an excerpt
from a book called _Diet for a New America_ which I found out about originally because I read a personal
experience story in Veg Times about a butcher who read it and was converted to vegetarianism. (that's a run-on
sentence, I know, oh well). That will follow this posting.
So, to sum it all up, welcome!!! and feel free to post anything.
Your pres,
Laura
