Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to another vegan nugget. This video is going
to have a more casual feel than some of my other videos, but don’t worry, even when
I’m casual, I’ll still be educating the pants off of you and you won’t even know it.
That sounded a lot worse than I meant for it to.
So today I’m going to take you along with me to VegFest in Orlando Florida.
VegFest is an annual festival held in multiple
cities all around the US and internationally to promote veganism, vegetarianism, healthy
lifestyles, environmentalism, animal rights, and really, really good food. These festivals
are important because they provide an incredibly approachable opportunity to introduce people
to veganism. It’s a one-stop-shop to try all kinds of vegan food and learn that a vegan
diet is far from restricing and the opposite of dietary deprivation. It’s a place to
learn about various organizations fighting for animal rights, find vegan, cruelty-free
products for your everyday life, hear engaging speakers, and even meet some rescued animals.
Festivals like this can help bring veganism into the mainstream and can kick-start your
journey towards veganism or reignite your jounrey into vegan activism. So come along
with me to VegFest Orlando.
Alright, so I've been manning my booth this whole time, but now I'm going to take you guys
around and show you al ittle bit of what's available here at VegFest.
It looks like there's a nacho bar here, so let's take a look at that.
We use cashews, nutritional yeast, red pepper, a bunch of spices, it keeps it creamy.
But we're just trying to show people, by doing
this, that food can taste good and still be good for you, you know. It's the best outreach
that we can think of, y'know?
Let's see what else we've got around here. So there's a booth over there for Ethos Vegan Kitchen,
which is where I ate with Gary Yourofsky last time
I was here in Orlando starting the interview series with him.
So this is Vegan Outreach's booth.
They have a lot of great information about going vegan and they do a lot of activism
through leafleting and pamphlets. Let's check out the Sea Shepherd's table.
What we do is we are a marine conservation group. We actually physically go send volunteers out across the
globe to take direct action against people that are endangering our oceans or unlawfully
fishing, whaling, or hurting animals. Everything with Sea Shepherd is vegan, including all
of our crew, all of our vessels are 100% vegan, every article of everything that we sell is
all vegan material.
Alright so there's a lot more exciting stuff going on here. Let's go
check out Team Green.
Official Team Green is a group that supports vegan athletes and
individuals who are becoming more conscious and trying to make more compassionate choices.
So we invite individuals from all walks of life to join our team. So it's not just about
the diet, it's about the lifestyle and being more conscious at a global level, outside
of food. But for those who may be struggling, who aren't quite ready to make the leap, who
don't know how to and need that additional support, that's what our group is about. It's
about compassion not only to the world around us but to others- to help them become more conscious.
We've got some great vegan T-shirts over here.
So they have vegan dog treats at their booth.
Because yes your dog can be vegan, and your cat can, I actually have two videos
on vegan pets.
So let's take a closer look at some other food options here.
This is spring roll, summer roll, and barbecue- everything vegan.
Emily: Everything's vegan? Vegan muffins.
Man: Banana cake.
So that's literally just some of the food here.
So there'a a farm sanctuary booth right over here and they have paintings done by the animals at their farm.
So I'm going to take you over there and check them out.
So I'm here with my booth mates thatI shared a booth with today from Destination Vegan.
This is Jasmine and Chris. And they're
going to share a little about their exciting upcoming project. Jasmine: Destination Vegan
is a new travel and vegan dining show. We go to different destinations around the country,
hopefully the around world,pick out some cool things that you might miss as an otherwise
everyday tourist, and go to all the awesome restaurants that have vegan menus or completely
vegan cultures that we can explore as well and then we go to a local food bank and make
a donation and help to get the word out. To show people that veganism can be fun and cool
and quirky. Chris: And eat really well. Jasmine: Yeah!
I hope you enjoyed the look into VegFest Orlando. Get online and see if there is a VegFest in
your area. And if there isn’t, maybe think about starting one! Give the video a thumbs
up if you had fun and for more vegan content click that big red subscribe button down there.
I'd love to have you as a member of the Bite Size Vegan family. You can also check out
the speech I gave on effective digital activism, playing in that top video or check out some
bonus footage from my day at VegFest, including the story about my midnight hotel bathroom
head injury by clicking on that bottom video down there and becoming a member of the Nugget
Army to help support the Bite Size Vegan message. Now go live vegan, bring it to the mainstream,
and I’ll see you soon.