I suggest the following:
- a tasting event with wine options (similar to golden glass but only vegan). Proprietors will serve their items. I suggest that restaurants that ‘include’ vegan items be invited. (I could help volunteer to make this happen)
- entertainment that would be enjoyed by most people
- a silent auction to benefit Farm Sanctuary or another top-voted cause
- a session for non-vegetarians on the vegetarian basics which can include samples

Humans are herbivores. There is simply no aspect of social dysfunction that cannot be traced to our disassociation from nature and its laws of interaction, inclusion, etc. This principle also underpins (determines) most causes of personal (and interpersonal) psychological and physical disorientation, alienation/estrangement, loss of vitality, etc.

The inability to correctly position ourselves, physically, interactively and emotionally/intellectually in the world at large has profoundly disturbing and destructive consequences for ourselves and for our world.

To blind ourselves to the fact that we are an integral facet of the greater biosphere has forced us to turn everywhere but where we must for essential nourishment, emotionally and physically. Nothing will end the cult of domination, violence and deception that has engulfed the minds of men and the world he impacts until a proper respect for the laws of nature becomes defining in all affairs of humankind.

This topic is at once simple to grasp and necessarily complex in its ability to point every conceivable direction to healing, medically, socially, environmentally, etc.

“The human species is driving itself full speed into an evolutionary dead-end. We are destroying the planet and everything we do kills animals. We have lost our moral compass. We think in terms of profit and power rather than ethics and compassion. We no longer have any reverence for life or any sense of connection with the natural world. We see ourselves as conquerors of nature rather than citizens of a vast biocommunity. We are technologically sophisticated and morally retarded. We have no conception of the importance of non-human life forms in sustaining ecosystems. We fail to realise that what we do to animals, we do to ourselves. And all the while, we live in a fantasy land of entertainment and distractions whereby we focus more on the sex lives and surgical makeovers of movie stars than the greatest challenge our species has ever faced. I believe that animal liberation is the next great liberation movement on this planet, and that by promoting respect for non-human animals, we are advancing human moral evolution.”

Steve Best

Are you envisioning a big event open to the general public like Slow Food was, or are you imagining workshops that would be attended only by vegans and aspiring vegans?

It would be cool if we could have some kind of all vegan marketplace with guest speakers. I guess it might be something like World Vegetarian Day but all vegan?

Moses started organizing cooking classes for vegetarian (sometimes vegan) food, and it’s a great, gentle way to introduce people to better veg*n cooking, a good mix of social, activism and food.