WORLD VEGAN DAY

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NATIONAL VEGAN WEEK (UK)

This is a copy of a press release sent out to local Press & Radio

today.

29 October 2002

Press Release

 

World Vegan Day is Friday November 1st. AND

National Vegan Week is 28th Oct to Sat Nov 2nd

 

A group of Local Vegans are celebrating it by organising a

meal out at Tricolos Italian Restaurant at 7

for 7.30 pm on WEDNESDAY OCT 30th! We are arranging with Tricolos

to have a varied Vegan list of

recipes for a party of Veggie people on that day.

The reasoning behind this is to help educate non-veggie

restaurants into being able to provide Veggie

meals that are suitable for all tastes whether Vegan, Vegetarian or

Omnivorous. If something is VEGAN then

ANYONE can eat it. So by providing a few Vegan dishes, they can

cater for vegetarians of all kinds. That

would mean that anyone who is any kind of vegetarian, including

vegans, can rest assured that they will get a

suitable meal, and the restaurant does not have to go to too much

trouble to provide something good and

satisfactory.

The other idea of having this meal is to get publicity for

the Veggie movement as a whole. One of the

troubles is that a lot of non-veggie people think that vegetarians

live off only the vegetables that are on a normal

ominvore's plate! We need to show that veggie meals are not only

healthy but APPETISING and LOOK

good, and are NOT just what is left over after taking away the meat.

Chris has found that when eating at a hotel or restaurant with non-

veggie people, many look at his lovely

plateful and wished they had ordered Vegan! He usually eats

everything off his plate; they usually leave

something! Even people who ordered vegetarian have said this to

him.

The third idea is for the Scarborough Area Veggie people to

have an enjoyable meal out and get to

know each other better.

We hope that if this venture is successful, then something

similar could be organised in several other

restaurants and hopefully `educate' them as well. If, say, every

two months we gradually visited EVERY main

Scarborough restaurant, then we would be doing something positive.

There are just over 20 people attendending this meal at

Tricolos, most age groups are represented

If there are other Vegans or Vegetarians in the are who would like to

join this group for future events please

contact Chris & Dilys

Chris Phillips

Scarborough

North Yorks

Email chris