MN State Fair Vegan Food Sampling

Join us to help educate the public for a vegan food sampling event at the MN State Fair! We'll provide food samples, signs, literature and designated speaker(s). You're invited to hand out food samples and literature, hold signs and the banner, and represent ARC. Attendees at previous events have reported appreciating the meaningful conversations and literature about animal rights and plant-based eating. Let us know you're coming by filling out the volunteer form: https://forms.gle/hKjNHyX5FnM8aAv98 Or, email ARC's Outreach Manager at kelsey@animalrightscoalition.com LOCATION: We'll meet outside the State Fair grounds main entrance (Snelling Ave. N and Midway Parkway). The entrance is listed as #5 in black on this map: https://www.mnstatefair.org/general-info/maps/ If you have a black ARC shirt, please wear it! If not, please wear a plain black shirt, without any writing. **This event is weather dependent. Sign up for more opportunities to advocate for animals at the State Fair! State Fair Schedule: 8/23: Chalktivism on fairgrounds 8/24: 94 Bridge Outreach 8/26: TV Outreach on fairgrounds 8/27: Food Sampling on fairgrounds 8/29: 94 Bridge Outreach 9/04: TV Outreach & Food Sampling The MN State Fair claims to bring transparency to animal agricultural practices but instead it presents a highly sanitized version of the lives of farmed animals. Most of the farmed animals you see on display at the MN State Fair are living out the last days of their lives in crowded, stressful environments. This year, we're asking that the MN State Fair move with the future of farming, choose to promote plant-based agriculture, and end the promotion of the unsustainable and unethical practices of farming animals. Dairy cows are of special interest to our goal of ending the suffering of animals at the fair for three reasons. First, there are numerous dairy-related events at the fair involving the harming of cows, including the Dairy and Moo Booth and the Miracle of Birth Center. Second, consuming dairy products harms human health. And third, the breeding and farming of cows is harming our planet. *** For more volunteer opportunities and information, visit ARC’s Volunteer Network: https://sites.google.com/view/arc-volunteer-network/home