Veg Week 2007 Wrap-Up

We kicked off Veg Week with a special presentation by Gene Baur, co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, who gave a compelling case for the rights of farm animals to live out their lives free of suffering and to create laws that codify these sentiments! Over 160 attendees came to the presentation, and many got a chance to interact with Baur, enjoy delicious food from Holy Land Restaurant, and take the Veg Pledge. The week then continued with two film showings of Peaceable Kingdom, which were well received and provoked great discussion. During the middle of the week we held a great potluck attended by dozens of hungry Veg Pledgers and CAA members who got to sample a variety of tantalizing vegan dishes and win cool prizes. On Friday, we had a skilled chef prepare all-vegan tacos, barbecued mock duck, and chocolate pudding! During the cooking class, dietitian Suzanne Sorenson presented on planning for a well-balanced and nutritious vegan diet. The week ended with two fun dine-outs at Evergreen Chinese Restaurant and Grumpy's Bar and Grill, where attendees could kick back and enjoy topnotch animal-free cuisine.

Best of all, nearly 600 people ended up pledging to go vegetarian or vegan for the week!

Please support and thank the participating restaurants and businesses for helping to make the Veg Pledge Food Showcase and Veg Week possible through their donations and/or participation on the Veg Pledge Discount Card.

Alternative Baking Company
Angie's Kettle Corn
Black Cat Natural Foods
Birchwood Cafe
Bumblebar
Camdi Chinese-Vietnamese
Charter Baking, Inc
Companion Brand
Country Choice Organics
Crofter's
Dr. McDougall's Foods
E-bar
Ecopolitan
ENER-G Foods
Enjoy Life Foods
Espresso Royale
Evergreen Chinese Restaurant
Fast and Furless
Follow Your Heart
French Meadow
Frieda's
Galactic Pizza
Glaceau
Gopher Express
Grumpy's Bar and Grill
Lesser Evil
Lightlife
Lisa's Salsa Co.
Madhava
Marla's Caribbean-Indian
Morinaga Nutritional Foods
North Country Coop
Organic Valley
Organicville
Orgran
Pangea
Peace Coffee
Pizza Luce
Primal Spirit
Purity Foods
Real Foods
Rising Moon Organics
Road's End Organics
Rudi's Organic Bakery
Seward Community Cafe
Sjaak's Organic Chocolates
Soluppa
St. Martin's Table
Sun Flour Baking Co.
Sunergia
Suzanne's Specialties, Inc.
Tasty Eats
The Vegetarian
Tofutti
Tribe of Two Sheiks
Tracy's Saloon
Triple Rock Social Club
Turtle Island (Tofurky)
Turtle Mountain
TW Garner Food Co.
University of Minnesota Bookstore
Vegan Dream
VegeCyber
Yachana Gourmet

If you would like to help make future events like this possible, please consider donating or volunteering with us.