If you’re looking for something to do this Thanksgiving, Animal Acres has you covered, but you have to act fast! Gather with fellow veg pilgrims on Thanksgiving day for Animal Acres’ annual Thankful Turkeys Celebration. Festivities start at noon with farm tours of the sanctuary and at 1:30 everyone gathers to feed the feathered guests of honor (the sanctuary turkeys!) salad, pumpkin pie and stuffed squash. Everyone non-feathered that attends will enjoy a mouth-watering vegan Thanksgiving dinner provided by One World Vegetarian Cuisine and dessert from Cobblermania. Tickets are $35 per person (children 3 and under are free) and can be purchased here or by calling 661-269-5404. But remember, today’s the last day to buy tickets!

Animal Acres is a chance to get up close and personal with creatures that large percent of the population calls, “Food.” The sanctuary caters in rescuing many livestock animals; goats, pigs, and cows – you name it, it is probably there. Many showed for the event to get a chance to hang with the piglets and nibble on some Vegan food. Despite the ominous cloud cover and icy rain that sparsely made it’s presence known throughout the tour, the one hour trek to the refuge was well worth the visit. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see the refuge I strongly suggest that make time in the future and visit.

On a personal note, I would like to thank the little brown goat for not completely eating my jacket.

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This upcoming Saturday is Animal Acres Country Hoe Down. As you hopefully know, Animal Acres is one of the charities that is supported by The Vegan Collection whenever you make a purchase, so needless to say, we are big fans of the work they do. From Noon to 2:00 PM they are giving tours and from 2:00 to 4:00 PM they are having speakers including Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (author of The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food), Erik Marcus (publisher of The Ultimate Vegan Guide) and Tina Volpe (author of The Fast Food Craze, Wreaking Havoc on Our Bodies and Our Animals). The afternoon wraps up with a BBQ with food from Follow Your Heart, Veggie Grill, Gardenburger, Toffutti and Real Food Daily. Tickets are $25 and you MUST purchase them by Wednesday, June 3rd, which is tomorrow. You can register online here or call them at 661-269-5404. Check out the details below:

Country Hoe Down Program:
Noon — 2:00 Shelter Tours
2:00 — 4:00 Special Guest Presentations
4:00 — 6:00 Vegeque Cookout

Animal Acres
5200 Escondido Canyon Road
Acton, CA 93510
661-269-5404

My Lip Stuff and our farmed animals friends at Animal Acres have teamed up to bring you an awesome way to soften your lips while helping to provide a lifelong home for farm animals with a donation from My Lip Stuff! My Lip Stuff is donating $1.50 from every sale of these special edition lip balms to help Animal Acres in their efforts to help farm animals. Smooth lips and a good cause, can’t beat that combination! You can purchase them on their website here. They have 4 fantastic flavors to choose from: Snickerdoodle-doo (snickerdoodle flavor) – rooster, LeMOOmade (lemonade flavor) – cow, Baa Baa Blackberry (blackberry flavor), and Peppermint Piggies (peppermint flavor) – pig.

One of the organizations that The Vegan Collection donates a portion of our profits from sales to is Animal Acres. We feel very strongly about supporting the fantastic work that they do and in their latest newsletter they put the call out for volunteers to work at L.A. festivals to recruit other members and volunteers. They are looking for volunteers to help educate people about the plight of farmed animals and let our community know that L.A. has, and needs, a farmed animal sanctuary. If you are at all interested, contact Katie Arth at membership@animalacres.org.

Time Magazine ran a small article about veganism called “A Brief History of Veganism” in last week’s issue. There’s not a lot of new information in there, but you can find it online here if you want to check it out. Between this article and Lush going vegan for the day, I would say that this past World Vegan Day had to have been the highest profile and most successful to date. Did anyone go to the event at Animal Acres this past weekend? I’m really curious how that went.