Our Programs to Help Animals
Our unique and innovative outreach and education programs to help animals include:
ARC Speaker Series
ARC Speaker Series Presents: brings in nationally known speakers such as pattrice jones, Will Potter, the late Karen Davis, and Will Tuttle, to give lectures on animal justice issues. These presentations are free and open to the public.
ARC’s MN Vegan Guide
ARC’s MN Vegan Guide provides basic information about being vegan, specifically in the Twin Cities area. You’ll find resources about animals, the environment, nutrition & health, restaurants, movies & documentaries to watch, recipes to try, animal sanctuaries to visit, and more!
Community Outreach
Community Outreach activities range from exhibit booths at large events and professional conferences such as the Twin Cities Pride Festival and the Minnesota Education Association conference, to staffing booths at Open Streets events, to leafletting with the ARC Outreach Team at rodeo & circus protests, to helping the hundreds of individuals who call or email us for assistance with animal issues.
Cuddle Coats
Cuddle Coats educates the public about fur and encourages people to donate fur coats to aid in the recovery of orphaned baby wildlife at our wildlife rehabilitation partners around the country.
Dissection Choice
Dissection Choice provides assistance to students who choose not to dissect and distributes information on alternatives to high schools and colleges (over 50 so far). We also provide information to elementary schools on alternatives to hatching projects.
Ethique Nouveau
Feed Me Vegan
Feed Me Vegan, a vegan cooking show offered by ARC’s Vegan University, features easy and affordable plant-based recipes. Hosts Chelsea and Norine show you how to make eating vegan fun and delicious. ARC is no longer producing new shows, but you can find an archive of Feed Me Vegan episodes on YouTube. FMV’s predecessor “Rhymes With Vegan” can also be found on YouTube.
Forego Foie Gras
Forego Foie Gras works for a “Foie Gras Free Minneapolis” by educating consumers about this gourmet cruelty.
The Humane Farming Myth
The Humane Farming Myth challenges the myth of “humanely” produced animal products and is a compelling resource to share with family and friends. We receive requests from all over the country for this brochure.
MN Animal Rights/Vegan Meetup
The MN Animal Rights/Vegan Meetup is an ARC-sponsored meetup group that organizes events to strengthen the local vegan community and provide educational, social, and activist opportunities for those interested in learning more about plant-based eating, living life as a vegan, and becoming active for the animals. If you want to connect with other people who care about making the world better for all animals and are ready to start taking action to realize that vision, this is the group for you!
Minnesotans Exposing the Pet Trade
Minnesotans Exposing the Pet Trade seeks to end the sale of companion animals in Minnesota from large-scale commercial breeders (known as mills) by asking people to adopt animals, not buy them from pet stores.
No Pain In My Name
No Pain in My Name exposes Marilyn Carroll’s redundant experiments on primates at the University of Minnesota in which she studies the effects of addiction by training monkeys and rats to self-administer drugs that humans misuse such as cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. The No Pain in My Name site gives voice to the community this research supposedly benefits – addicts and recovering/recovered addicts.
Pay Per View
Pay Per View is an innovative outreach strategy wherein people are offered $3.00 to watch a short film about animals used for food and then have a brief conversation with a person trained to talk with them about the impacts our food choices have on others. ARC was the first to bring Pay Per View to Minnesota.
Teaching Compassion
Teaching Compassion, our outreach program to schools, universities, and faith communities, provides free presentations on a variety of animal-related topics such as our treatment of and relationship to animals, speciesism, sustainability, environmental destruction, and food justice. We give presentations to classrooms, assemblies, student groups, gifted and talented programs, and faith communities. Please email info@animalrightscoalition.com if you would like to schedule a speaker.
Vegan University
Vegan University is a free program designed to help you go – and stay – vegan in a way that works for you. You can sign up for your own vegan mentor, take a personalized vegan grocery shopping tour, and attend in-person and/or online workshops – and it’s all free!
VegKins
VegKins is ARC’s social networking program for families raising vegan children. This program offers the opportunity to come together to exchange ideas and information with other parents and build a community of parents raising compassionate kids.
Retired
End Pound Seizure
We won this one in Minnesota when pound seizure was banned in April 2012! We continue to work with other states to end the practice of pound seizure, whereby animals in shelters can be claimed by licensed institutions for experimentation purposes.
Minnesotans Exposing Petland
We won this one in Minnesota with the closure of the Shakopee and St. Paul Petland stores after several years of demonstrations aimed at persuading Petland to discontinue selling animals from puppy and kitten mills.