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Dearborn Animal Shelter’s ‘No Beast Feast’ Sept. 17

The Dearborn Animal Shelter is hosting a new fundraiser evening event at Park Place on Friday, Sept. 17 called the No Beast Feast.

According to organizers, the idea behind this vegetarian feast is to bring traditional comfort food favorites to the table made from vegetarian ingredients.

“People are seeking healthier food options for their families today and offering a traditional meal using imaginative vegetarian ingredients is a fun way for us to share in that trend,” said Elaine Greene, executive director of the Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter. “Many members of the community and our organization’s supporters are vegetarian, have vegetarian friends or are curious about expanding their food choices. This dinner is one way for us to bring everyone to the table to share in a meal.”

The No Beast Feast provides pre-meal snacks, a hearty meaty (meatless) entrée, potatoes and gravy, vegetable sides, fresh breads and delicious desserts. The evening’s activities also include door prizes, a tin can raffle, entertainment and more. Attendees will receive take home recipes to try vegetarian specialties in their own kitchens. All food is prepared to vegan.

The Friday, Sept. 17  event runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Park Place, located on the corner of Park Street and Outer Drive, just south of Michigan Avenue. Tickets are $45 in advance, $50 at the door and include dining, soft drinks, beer, wine and entertainment.

You can purchase tickets from the Shelter online at www.DearbornAnimals.org or by calling 313-943-2697. Proceeds benefit The Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter.

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  • Elmer

    “Many members of the community and our organization’s supporters are vegetarian, have vegetarian friends or are curious about expanding their food choices. This dinner is one way for us to bring everyone to the table to share in a meal.”

    Vegans, Klingons…….I’m thinking you could raise a lot more money to benefit the cute cats and dogs if you served cow along with the vegetables.

  • sandy

    I’ve volunteered off and on at the Dearborn shelter for over ten years….I think this shelter does a great deal given their resources and staff, and I imagine that seeing some of the things the staff has seen over the years can’t be easy. I have two dogs and a cat from this shelter. It would be very gratifying for the plans of the new shelter–which have been in the works for several years–to finally come into fruition. Many people from outside of Dearborn too come to this shelter for help.

    I don’t remember all of the Friends’ fundraiser type outings, but I do recall that every event I can remember, like the ones at the golf course, always involve hamburgers, hot dogs, or steaks. With so many animal welfare advocates volunteering there, I think a vegetarian feast is a great, timely idea. There are many volunteers there who, for one reason (e.g. farm animal welfare, environmental costs of raising animals for meat/CAFOS, health reasons, etc.) or another have given up or reduced their meat or animal by-product (huge egg recall) consumption. I’m not a vegan or a klingon yet, but I just might check this out.

  • Elsie

    “With so many animal welfare advocates volunteering there, I think a vegetarian feast is a great, timely idea. There are many volunteers there who, for one reason (e.g. farm animal welfare, environmental costs of raising animals for meat/CAFOS, health reasons, etc.) or another have given up or reduced their meat or animal by-product (huge egg recall) consumption. I’m not a vegan or a klingon yet, but I just might check this out.”

    I think you should strive to be IN-clusive, not EX-clusive. Events hosted by meat eaters always include non-meat edibles.

    Also: What is most dog and cat food made from? Tofu? It’s made out of horses, pigs, chickens, fish and other byproducts. Do the vegetarian or vegan animal advocates feed their dogs and cats tofu and salad and fruit for dinner? And why did God give dogs and cats those incisor teeth and canine teeth? So they could grind up tasty grass like cows? No, of course not, so they could eat other animals, made, strangely enough, not out of salad, but of meat!

  • sandy

    Elsie,

    Yeah, the events I’ve attended by the Dearborn shelter have included veggie burgers or something without meat too (e.g. spaghetti dinners hold the meatballs), and the shelter hosts their higher priced annual banquet and auction too.

    My sister is a vegetarian and, though she rarely goes out to eat, she often finds that most entrees feature meat or some animal byproduct. In my experience too, I don’t think it is terribly difficult to find a multitude of tasty meat entrees, finding yummy vegetarian entrees, though, seems a bit harder. For her, it’s been easier to notice just how many items feature meat or some animal byproduct once she gave those up. This just seemed like a creative fundraising idea that the shelter hasn’t tried yet. Besides, if I wanted a meat dish I could probably go anywhere, this fundraiser offers something unique, especially if one is just curious.

    Any human can attend–you don’t have to be a vegetarian or vegan. I understand food is such a personal choice but this event is just focusing on meatless food, it’s not like the shelter or anyone else is forcing anyone to change their diet or that they will look down on anyone for their personal choices. They’re a friendly group. All are welcome, I’m sure, to come.

    I don’t remember anyone saying that vegans don’t feed their dogs meat or that dogs were allowed at this event. My dogs go outside and like to eat grass too. Although I have an aquaintance that feeds her dogs mostly veggies, I probably wouldn’t go that route. Their not vegetarian, but they love fruits and veggies as well–carrots, apples, tomatoes, potatoes (many veggies that are used in dog food too with animal byproducts). yeah, there are lots of animal byproducts in food (chicken feathers, beaks, in some cases supposedly even dead cats and dogs too) and many of my dogs over the years love meat and it has been easiest to motivate them during training with a meat treat. I was just suggesting that there are lots of different reasons that might lead one to explore more vegetarian-centric options (please check out this site: http://www.goldmanprize.org/2010/northamerica).

    Either way, I wish the shelter well and hope that someday, in the not too distant future, we can get the new shelter built. The shelter is always packed and it seems like space is even tighter with people giving up pets during the recession.