ThanksLiving!

I must say, this is a very good ThanksLiving to get our products out there for the many public to try.  Thanks to our friends in different locations and people who support us the ecoVegan idea & lifestyle.  Here are some of the places you will be able to enjoy Meat-Free Spare-A-Turkey Compassionate ThanksLiving Meal in this season, and you might be able to have them free too :)

—Northwest Veg- Vegetarian Education & Empowerment Group: Compassionate Thanksgiving Potluck

Date: Sunday, Nov 21st 6pm- 8pm

Location: Fuller Hall in the Eliot Center at First Unitarian Church (1211 SW Main Street).

—APRL- Animal Protection & Rescue League: Turkey-Free Thanksgivig Potluck

Date: Sunday, Nov 21st 4pm- 630pm

Location: UCSD Campus - Porter's Pub (located in the old student center) 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla.

—PETA- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Cooking Class

Date: Sunday, Nov 21st 2pm-4pm

Location: TBA.

—BOAA- Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy: Infamous ThanksLiving with Free Vegan Food.

Date: Tuesday Nov 16th 1230pm- 4pm

Location: Upper Sproul on UC Berkeley campus

Working our way into school

I spoke with KS in PCRM today regarding ecoVegan's products, and how possibly we can serve to schools so the kids can have the meat-free option, which is better for them and the society anyway!  I almost feel this cannot be disclosed, but since I was able to search and found it, the USDA's National School Lunch Program reimburse $2.37 for the school that provide lunches to its students.  That means, $2.37 a lunch meal for a child, including overhead; in reality, sometimes it could really come down to $1 per lunch meal, and I don't even want to think how the breakdown will be between all the content in that meal.  Trust me, there is no such thing called "free lunch." This is a rather hard task for us at this stage because we are not that financially competent yet to be competitive with the big name company, aside from the details we have to go through in order to sell to school.  

There are lots of resources and information that we need to be aware; for one, we need to register for Central Contract's program under Federal, which then enable us to be searchable under SBA and then can apply to become vendor for the major distributors that service the school districts.  It is, in short, a very complicated system.  And before that, a D-U-N-S number must also be available too. 


Even with this much details needed to be worked out, I think it is still a necessary task.  Wish us luck!!