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Alert: We are encouraging PAN supporters to share this open letter, to Courage International, a homophobic hate group, and to join us at our protest there on May 24.

PAN focuses on some of the toughest issues facing humans as a species. These issues include the following:

*Promoting a vegan lifestyle through outreach and the vegan pledge.

One of PAN’s best known programs is the Vegan Pledge. This program started in the UK in 2010 and Board members of PAN brought the Pledge to Philadelphia. It expanded to Phoenixville, PA in 2011 and to Chapel Hill, NC, Salt Lake City, UT and Bend, OR in 2012. The PAN Vegan Pledge is a program for non-vegan individuals who pledge to go vegan for 30 days during which they receive support and guidance from PAN members, volunteers and supporters. The program includes weekly meetings consisting of cooking classes, environmental and health speakers, a personal mentor (experienced vegan), social events, and an incredible care package that makes 30 days of being vegan that much easier.

Most of PAN’s Vegan Pledge participants stay vegan after the pledge. They enjoy lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and better health overall. Best of all, they enjoy the knowledge that they are no longer contributing to the cruelty and suffering of non-human animals.

*Promoting LGBTQ equality.

*Promoting a vegan diet through pay-per-view screenings

PAN sets up DVD viewing stations at various high foot-traffic areas throughout the region and offers people $1 to watch a four-minute video about where their food comes from. Most people are shocked and horrified and declare they will never use animal products again. We provide them with vegan starter guides; encourage them to join our mailing list and/or sign up to participate in the PAN Vegan Pledge.

*Addressing social justice issues

PAN has worked with Philly Food Forests. Philly Food Forests (a grassroots organization working to teach Philadelphians self-sufficiency) making mason bee houses and preparing and tending to vegetable gardens. Through PAN’s “Mortie’s Project”, we’ve distributed free vegan food to homeless people in Philadelphia and DC and held a public dinner which was free for those who needed it but with the expenses covered by paying individuals having the means to do so. We’ve had a number of movie-screenings to raise public awareness of the plight of domesticated animals and also the plight of humans caught in the cycle of human trafficking.

*Removing animals from the entertainment sector inluding a ban on horse-drawn carriages

The use of horse-drawn carriages is a form of animal exploitation. PAN raises awareness about the issues surrounding the carriage horse industry at various times throughout the year by encouraging visitors to bypass a carriage ride and informing them how to support a ban on horse-drawn carriages!

*Protecting the environment

PAN tables at a number of environmental awareness events to promote the benefits of adopting a plant-based diet. We provide information to participants about the how raising animals for food is harmful to the planet and wasteful of natural resources and we encourage people to go vegan.

Please consider supporting our campaigns by donating or volunteering.