🔥 Vegan Meal Prep 101 (Free Class) — Part of the St. Louis Veganuary Challenge

RSVP now + join free: veganstl.com/veganuary

Ever wondered what it would be like to go vegan—but worried it might be…

😰 Difficult • 🥩 Protein deficient • ⏳ Time-consuming • 🔒 Restrictive • 💸 Expensive?

This class is for you.

🤤🌱🍽️ Join Tiffany Scott, Project Animal Freedom’s Vegan Mom of the Year, for Vegan Meal Prep 101—a friendly, practical session that busts common myths and shows you how to make vegan eating simple and realistic (even if you’re busy)!

You’ll leave with real-life strategies to:

• 🎯 Find your “why” (and make it stick)

• 🥦 Cover the basics of plant-based nutrition

• 🥗 Meal prep quickly and stress-free

• 🍔 Veganize the foods you already love

• 🛒 Grocery shop + budget with confidence

Perfect for vegan-curious, new vegans, or anyone who wants fresh ideas and motivation. No perfection required—just come as you are.

✅ RSVP + get the free St. Louis Veganuary Starter Kit: veganstl.com/veganuary

🐷🌱✊ Want to make St. Louis more vegan-friendly? Ready to help animals trapped in factory farms and slaughterhouses? Excited to grow the Midwestern animal rights movement?

Then don’t miss our Vegan Volunteer Orientation at Bombay Food Junkies, recently named one of the top 100 best vegan restaurants in the country!

At this informative, energizing orientation, we will:

1. 💚 Discuss who we are, what we do, and why we do it

2. 🙋‍♀️ Review volunteer roles, expectations, and responsibilities

3. 🎯 Prepare you to be an effective animal advocate with PAF

Project Animal Freedom is the only organization explicitly dedicated to building a fully vegan Midwest. How? Through a strategic, chapter-based system that emphasizes grassroots community-building, robust digital outreach, and innovative campaigns.

And St. Louis is the heart of it all, our oldest, largest, and most influential chapter. What happens here ripples across our entire network, making your help absolutely critical as we work to revolutionize the Midwest, one city at a time.

What are you waiting for? Join the movement for a fully vegan Midwest today!

🔥 Join the St. Louis Veganuary Challenge (FREE) + get event updates.

🥳🥐🌱 Kick off the new year with a delicious vegan brunch at Adina’s Vegan Cuisine—one of St. Louis’ favorite all-vegan spots!

We’ll be there as a friendly meetup table—a simple way to grab brunch and connect with others who are vegan, vegan-curious, or thinking about trying Veganuary. (The brunch may include other attendees too—RSVP so we can send “how to find our table” details!)

Why come:

1. ✅ Incredible vegan brunch (Adina’s is the real deal)

2. ✅ A low-pressure way to meet local plant-based folks

3. ✅ Perfect if you’re vegan-curious, just starting out, or already vegan

4. ✅ Leave with practical tips + motivation for the new year

Menu highlights (choose what you like):

• 🍞 French Toast

• 🥞 Pancakes

• 🍥 Cinnamon Rolls

• 🍄 Battered Oyster Mushrooms

• 🌭 Maple Lentil Sausage

• 🥔 Smothered Potatoes

• 🍳 Scrambled Tofu

• 🍉 Fruit Salad

• 🥬 Lemon-Lime Kale Salad

• 🥤 Orange Pineapple Ginger Juice

• 🍓 Strawberry Hibiscus Lemonade

✨ Get ready for an amazing brunch experience with the talented chefs at Adina’s Vegan Cuisine!

✅ RSVP + get the FREE St. Louis Veganuary Starter Kit.

🔥 Join the St. Louis Veganuary Challenge, free of charge!

Curious about veganism—or ready to finally try it with real support?

Join Project Animal Freedom for a free Veganism 101 class, a screening of Dominion (viewer discretion advised), and a guided community discussion afterward.

In Veganism 101, we’ll cover:

• ⚖️ The foundational principles of veganism

• 🌎 The environmental impacts of animal agriculture

• 🥗 The health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle

You’ll also get practical, realistic tips for how to go vegan and stay vegan—plus how to plug into our St. Louis Veganuary curriculum and community events throughout January.

After the film, we’ll hold a supportive conversation space for reflection and Q&A.

This event is for you if you want to:

• 🥕 learn more about veganism

• 🎯 work toward health, weight, or fitness goals

• 🐷 understand where animal products come from—and how your choices can help animals

💚 ABOUT ST. LOUIS VEGANUARY

St. Louis Veganuary is a community challenge to help St. Louisans go vegan for the month of January—using free resources, encouragement, and local support.

🔥 Sign up now for free!

🔥 Join the St. Louis Veganuary Challenge (FREE) + get event updates!

😋🌱🍨 Start 2026 with something joyful: decadent nondairy ice cream + friendly community.

Clementine’s is one of the most vegan-friendly ice cream spots in the St. Louis region—beloved for their rich, creative vegan flavors. Whether you’re vegan, vegan-curious, or just love amazing ice cream, this meetup is for you.

Why you’ll love it:

1. ✅ A fun, low-pressure way to celebrate the new year

2. ✅ Meet local plant-based folks (come solo or bring a friend)

3. ✅ Perfect if you’re thinking about trying vegan this January

4. ✅ Leave with motivation + easy next steps for Veganuary

Veganuary specials you can enjoy starting Jan. 1st:

• 🍪 Vegan Billie’s Tahini Chocolate Chip

• 🍊 Tangerine Sorbet

• 🍫 Vegan Malt Chocolate

• 🌸 Vegan Cherry Cardamom

• 🍦 Vegan Vanilla Bean

• 🍓 Vegan Raspberry Push Pop

✨ Grab a scoop, relax, and kick off your New Year’s resolutions in the most delicious way possible.

✅ RSVP + get the FREE St. Louis Veganuary Starter Kit.

🎲♟️😍 Join us for an evening of food, friends, and fun at Pieces, St. Louis’ premier board game bar and café!

At this lively get-together, you can enjoy:

• ✅ hours of board game fun

• ✅ a delicious vegan menu, featuring a full selection of vegan cookies

• ✅ a relaxed space to connect with local vegans

You can also enjoy beer, wine, cocktails, or coffee while you game the night away!

Here are some menu highlights:

• 🥑 Midwest Poke Bowl – sushi rice, avocado, sweet chili edamame, black sesame seeds, sriracha aioli, and sesame ginger sauce

• 🥢 Fried Rice Bowl – sesame ginger sauce, wonton chips, broccoli, edamame, and carrots

• 🥟 Pot Stickers – filled with mushrooms, topped with green onions, and served with sesame ginger sauce

Connect, unwind, and have fun with fellow vegans in a welcoming, stimulating environment.

Whether you come for an hour or stay the whole night, don’t miss out!

🐷🎄☃️ Join us as we distribute 50 roasts to cultivate compassion this holiday season!

At this kind-hearted, warm-spirited giveaway, we will:

• ☺️ Spread Vegmas cheer, one vegan roast at a time

• 🌱 Encourage people to try vegan this holiday

• 🎁 And thereby help give animals the gift of freedom

We will have educational literature, pro-vegan signs, and vegan roasts galore!

This high-visibility collaboration with PETA will take place at Winterfest, a St. Louis tradition that attracts over 65,000 St. Louisans each year.

This is the perfect opportunity to engage in gentle, loving activism that is relaxed, low-stakes, and still impactful.

Don’t miss this opportunity to share food, kindness, and compassion with our community!

🍪🎄☃️ Join us for St. Louis’ most beloved vegan Christmas tradition: Vegmas!

At this merry celebration, you will have the opportunity to:

• 😋 Enjoy a vegan Christmas feast, complete with holiday classics

• 🎅 Bid on items in our silent auction for some last-minute Christmas shopping

• 🎁 Help Project Animal Freedom give the gift of compassion to animals

Seven years in the making, Vegmas is historically our largest dinner of the year, brimming with food, merriment, and holiday cheer. It is the festive cornerstone that not only marks the end of the year, but prepares us for the next.

From mouthwatering vegan roast and irresistible dairy-free cookies to a critical mission and captivating vision, this is a 100%-vegan feast you do not want to miss!

🍽️ MENU:

• 🍍 Glazed Ham

• 🧀 Mac and Cheese

• 🧅 Green Bean Casserole

• 🍠 Sweet potatoes

• 🍒 Bread pudding

• 🥐 Dinner rolls

Whatever you do, don’t miss this one-of-a-kind compassionate Christmas celebration!

🧥🚫✊ Join us as we protest wearing anyone else’s skin other than your own!

Our core demand? Don’t buy anything made from a dead animal’s skin!

That’s right:

• 🦊 NO fur

• 🐮 NO leather

• 🐐 NO cashmere

• 🐛 NO silk

• 🦆 NO down

• 🐊 NO “exotic” skins

• 🩸 NO animal cruelty

This high-visibility, high-reach event will take place at the corner of Winterfest, a St. Louis tradition with over 65,000 attendees annually.

We will dress in animal costumes, distribute literature, and hold signs as we urge consumers to divest from blood fashion and invest in plant-based, cruelty-free fashion instead.

This event is held in collaboration with PETA, and it is being spearheaded by Project Animal Freedom’s Volunteer of the Year, Troy.

If you:

• 😡 hate the suffering caused by animal products, particularly those used in blood fashion,

• 💚 want to inspire more compassionate apparel, accessory, and other fashion decisions,

• 🗽 and believe all animals deserve to live safe, happy, and free,

then join us for yet another impactful day of action!

🧙‍♀️🌱🎥 Join us for our first-ever “Vegans at the Movies” meetup!

At this fun-spirited, changemaking event, we will:

• 🐷 Continue planning our St. Louis Veganuary Challenge

• ✨ Enjoy a showing of the newly released Wicked: For Good

• 🐐 Discuss the film and its animal rights themes afterward

Wicked: For Good is creating a true cultural moment around veganism. Not only are the two leads, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, vegan, but the film explores animal imprisonment, oppression, and liberation and has inspired at least one cast member, Jeff Goldblum, to go vegetarian.

Here is our schedule for the evening:

• 🕕 6:30-7:30 p.m.: Veganuary planning meeting

• 🕖 7:30-10 p.m.: Wicked: For Good showing

• 🕙 10-10:30 p.m.: film discussion/hangout

Don’t miss this special opportunity to spend quality time with local vegans by planning our vegan takeover, enjoying the latest blockbuster, and delving into pop culture and animal rights philosophy!

📝 Note: This screening coincides with International Animal Rights Day, is family-friendly, and will take place in Auditorium 9.

🎲♟️😍 Join us for an evening of food, friends, and fun at Pieces, St. Louis’ premier board game bar and café!

At this lively get-together, you can enjoy:

• ✅ hours of board game fun

• ✅ a delicious vegan menu, featuring a full selection of vegan cookies

• ✅ a relaxed space to connect with local vegans

You can also enjoy beer, wine, cocktails, or coffee while you game the night away!

Here are some menu highlights:

• 🥑 Midwest Poke Bowl – sushi rice, avocado, sweet chili edamame, black sesame seeds, sriracha aioli, and sesame ginger sauce

• 🥢 Fried Rice Bowl – sesame ginger sauce, wonton chips, broccoli, edamame, and carrots

• 🥟 Pot Stickers – filled with mushrooms, topped with green onions, and served with sesame ginger sauce

Connect, unwind, and have fun with fellow vegans in a welcoming, stimulating environment.

Whether you come for an hour or stay the whole night, don’t miss out!

✊👖🐮 Join us as we urge Levi’s to ditch leather and make fully vegan jeans!

Why?

• 1️⃣ Leather is horrendously cruel and environmentally destructive.

• 2️⃣ Leather is a profitable byproduct that sustains the meat industry.

• 3️⃣ Levi’s already uses vegan patches on some of their products.

Through this small, targeted ask, we can help eliminate animal leather from Levi’s supply chain, ensuring their jeans, belts, wallets, and other items are entirely vegan moving forward. Our demand? Use durable, sustainable, ethical vegan leather instead!

By inspiring Levi’s to divest from animal leather, we have the power to not only veganize the denim giant, but also set a new standard in the fashion industry that other suppliers can follow, triggering a ripple effect of change.

Pressure campaigns like this are highly winnable, generating wins that seem small but when multiplied by millions of products become massive. Millions fewer animals will be exploited and killed if this campaign and others like it succeed.

Better yet, PETA has been running this campaign for several years now, getting us close to the finish line.

Help push this campaign over the edge by sending a clear, unmistakable message that cruelty-free fashion is the future!

🥫🌱🍽️ Join local vegan restaurants and community organizations as we fight to combat hunger in our St. Louis community!

Why? Nearly 1 in 7 Americans live in food insecure households, and roughly 1 in 8 Americans depend on food stamps to meet their needs.

During this unprecedented time, we need to rally together and support those in need. Here is what you can do to help:

• 1️⃣ bring donations of shelf-stable foods to Seedz Cafe, Bombay Food Junkies, and other participating partners throughout the month

• 2️⃣ bring canned foods, dry staples, and bottled drinks to our Vegan Thanksgiving Feast on Monday, November 24th

• 3️⃣ donate to other food drives, food pantries, and other anti-hunger initiatives

• 4️⃣ spread the word by encouraging your friends and family members to support this and other food drives

Participating restaurants and organizations include:

• 🥪 Seedz Cafe

• 🍛 Bombay Food Junkies

• 🐷 Project Animal Freedom

On Wednesday, November 24th, we will assemble donations at our Vegan Thanksgiving Feast and then distribute it to those in need.

Remember to:

• ✅ mark “going” if you would like to participate in our vegan food drive

• ✅ bring donations to Seedz Cafe and Bombay Food Junkies during regular business hours

• ✅ and join us at our Vegan Thanksgiving Feast for our food drive finale

We are still finalizing details, but we will do our best to ensure as much of the food assembled as possible reaches local vegans and vegan families in need. Whatever cannot be distributed in this manner will be delivered to one or more area food banks.

This holiday season, please take action to address the compound food crises our world faces, from animals suffering in factory farms to children going hungry due to unjust food distribution.

🦃🌱😌 Join us for our second annual Vegan Thanksgiving Feast, brimming with holiday comfort!

At this cozy, big-plate dinner, you can enjoy holiday classics, from succulent “turkey” roast to the most delightful apple-peach cobbler.

Here’s our full, mouthwatering menu:

• 🍂 Roast with potatoes & carrots

• 🌽 Adina’s cornbread dressing

• 🧀 Creamy mac & cheese

• 🥬 Savory collard greens

• 🍠 Sweet candied yams

• 🍑 Warm apple-peach cobbler

Every dish is lovingly prepared by Adina’s Vegan Cuisine, one of St. Louis’ finest vegan caterers. Vegan for over 30 years, Ms. Adina has spent decades perfecting her recipes into the sweet and savory delights they are today.

This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy a 100%-vegan Thanksgiving feast as we give thanks for the sentient beings who share our planet and the people who power our work.

Whatever you do, don’t miss our vegan take on this distinctive American holiday!

🦃🌱😋 Join us as we distribute free vegan Tofurky roasts just in time for Thanksgiving!

At this warm-spirited outreach event, you can:

• 🥕 Raise awareness about the delicious, plant-based alternatives to Thanksgiving cruelty

• 💚 Distribute roasts, leaflets, and other goodies to promote compassionate living

• 🍽️ Spread holiday cheer while helping alleviate hunger in our community

This event is led by Troy, an up-and-coming PAF volunteer and member of the peta2 Youth Advisory Board.

That’s correct; we’re collaborating with PETA for this delightful holiday giveaway, and we could hardly be prouder to rep one of the most iconic, generous brands in the plant-based food space: Tofurky!

46 million turkeys are killed each year for Thanksgiving. Let’s help offset this suffering and spare dozens of turkeys from a brutal death in the process!

Additional details will be sent to people marked “going.” Don’t miss this fun, festive Thanksgiving outreach event!

🥳💗🌈 Join us for a night of friends, fun, karaoke, and cocktails at Hidden Gem, one of the most iconic bars in St. Louis!

At this high-energy, carefree rendezvous, you can:

• 🎶 sing along to your favorite karaoke tunes

• 🍹 enjoy beer, cocktails, and other alcoholic beverages from the bar

• 🎤 participate in our open mic night session

Known for their neon-pink, disco-themed vibes, Hidden Gem is a queer-friendly bastion that hosts dance nights, karaoke, trivia, drag shows, and private-event bookings. They have kindly added our Vegan Karaoke Night to their jam-packed lineup!

Let’s reward them for their generous support with a vivacious vegan turnout. Be warned, however: this event has a two-drink minimum, so come ready to PAR-TAY!

NOTE: This event is 21+. If you’re too young to attend, please consider attending some of our other events!

🥳🌱🛒 Are you an STL Vegan Market vendor? Are you interested in vending at STL Vegan Market? Then join us for a vendor appreciation party at Bombay Food Junkies!

Why? We want to celebrate you, your contributions to our market, and our successful 2025 season!

This is the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow vendors in a relaxed environment, reward yourself for all your hard work, and enjoy gourmet vegan cake, courtesy of our team at STL Vegan Market/Project Animal Freedom!

You should come if you:

• 🍛 enjoy phenomenal, award-winning vegan cuisine

• 🤝 want to build new friendships and expand your network

• 💚 and care about STL Vegan Market and its success

Bombay Food Junkies is a decorated establishment that was:

• 💯 named one of the top 100 best vegan restaurants in the nation by Yelp

• 😋 recognized for having the Best Street Food in Missouri by 5 Reasons to Visit

• 🚚 and named one of America’s 26 Best Food Trucks by Food Network

As such, you are in for a special treat, especially if you have never been to this beloved restaurant!

Whatever you do, don’t miss this special occasion to celebrate your hard work making STL Vegan Market the vibrant, thriving, awareness-raising powerhouse that it is today!

👻🍬🎃 Join us for St. Louis’ only 100%-vegan Halloween celebration!

At this fun-spirited, community-building event, you can:

• 🍲 enjoy a tantalizing vegan chili cook-off

• 🧟‍♀️ dazzle us with your striking Halloween costume

• 🍫 and participate in our candy-filled trunk-or-treat

You will also have the opportunity to connect with dozens of fellow vegans, savor over a dozen different soul-warming chilis, and enjoy devilishly good desserts that are perfectly suited to the Halloween season.

This event is the perfect opportunity to celebrate a beloved holiday in a vegan, family-friendly environment. After all, when’s the last time you went to a vegan Halloween party with a trunk-or-treat and a fully vegan food lineup?

Don’t miss our largest, spookiest, and most enjoyable vegan Halloween party yet!

✊🌎⚖️ Join us as we march to the Arch for climate justice, animal rights, and a livable future for all life on Earth!

Why? We deserve a world free from the environmental devastation caused by animal agriculture!

Through this worldwide day of action, we will:

• ✔️ expose animal ag’s insidious role in the present ecological crisis

• ✔️ champion veganism as an environmental imperative

• ✔️ demand a plant-based, veganic food system

Animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than every mode of transportation on Earth combined. We therefore cannot achieve climate justice without addressing the cow in the room.

In recognition of this fact, we call upon governments, businesses, and everyday citizens to:

• 1️⃣ embrace veganism

• 2️⃣ end subsidies to animal ag

• 3️⃣ endorse the Plant Based Treaty

We have a handful of years to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Join the Vegan Climate March movement today—before it’s too late!

🤓🌱🧠 Join us for St. Louis’ first-ever Vegan Trivia Night as we celebrate Project Animal Freedom’s 7th anniversary!

This vibrant community celebration will feature:

• 🏆 a live vegan trivia competition packed with all-original, vegan-themed questions

• 🍒 refreshing juice, bar service, light snacks, and any vegan food you bring to share

• 🐷 a celebratory speech on our progress toward a fully vegan Midwest by 2056

Grab a table with friends, put your knowledge of vegan trivia to the test, and cheer each other on! We’ll wrap up the evening with decadent vegan cake from Bombay Food Junkies, plus a special surprise!

You should attend if you:

• 📚 enjoy trivia/friendly competition

• 🥕 are vegan, vegetarian, or willing to learn

• 🤝 would like to get more involved in our local vegan community

From vegan celebrities to vegan history, come test your knowledge of all things vegan!

🥳💚🍂 Have you volunteered for PAF in the last year? Then join us for a vegan volunteer party!

At this laid-back volunteer appreciation event, we will:

• 🥜 enjoy a vegan Indonesian dinner catered by PAF super-supporter Hera Gerber

• 🎉 celebrate the progress our volunteers have generated over the past year

• 🤝 and strengthen our bonds as fellow animal advocates

This is the perfect opportunity to unwind with the passionate do-gooders who power Project Animal Freedom, one hour of volunteer service at a time.

Come relax with us in the beautiful gazebo by the pond at Town Square in Town & Country as we celebrate the critical role you play in sustaining our work and reward your dedication to our mission of building a fully vegan Midwest by 2056.

As some of PAF’s most committed supporters, you are the lifeblood of our local chapter, powering events, campaigns, and other forms of vegan outreach core to realizing our mission locally and beyond.

The Midwestern animal rights movement is stronger and more resilient thanks to you, and we’d like to express our gratitude with a free meal at this volunteer-only event.

What are you waiting for? Volunteer with us and join the party today!

🍻🌱🥳 Join us for the Midwest’s first-ever 100%-vegan Oktoberfest celebration: Vegtoberfest!

At this high-spirited, beer-infused festival, you can:

• 🌭 enjoy vegan vegan beer, brats, pretzels, and other Bavarian food

• 🎺 celebrate German heritage with live oompah music, costumes, and polka

• ⚜️ experience St. Louis' best vegan goods, all in one location

As the first and only Vegtoberfest in the Midwest, this event offers a rare and exciting opportunity for vegans to fully experience the joy, flavor, and traditions of Oktoberfest. Imagine enjoying all the beer, brats, cake, and other German-inspired food you like, all without the animal cruelty!

This is truly a one-of-a-kind event, offering a vegan twist on a beloved holiday that makes it accessible to everyone, vegans included.

What are you waiting for? Don’t miss this destination experience!

🌈🌳🥳 Join us at GroveFest as we:

• 🐷 table for animal rights

• 👕 sell vegan t-shirts

• ✌️ and spread good vegan vibes!

This is the first year we have ever tabled at GroveFest, and we are the first animal rights organization to ever do so, making history in our own small (but not entirely insignificant!) way.

As part of our Vegan Festivals Campaign, we aim to make festivals and other major community events more animal- and vegan-friendly. By tabling with us, you will help ensure vegan presence, representation, and visibility at this event, which are critical to this goal.

Why? We want to make veganism an omnipresent force in our community, ensuring the animals are represented at all major community events as we fight to advance their freedom.

🎶 ABOUT GROVEFEST:

For the past 18 years, GroveFest has welcomed thousands of St. Louis residents to The Grove to celebrate our vibrant community. This hotly anticipated event features food, live entertainment, local vendors, and more! Learn more here.

🤘🎸🌱 Join us for St. Louis’ only 100%-vegan rock show!

Merging vegan vibes with rock-and-roll energy, this unforgettable evening will feature:

• 🔥 5+ killer local bands

• 🤤 a drool-worthy vegan Italian dinner option

• 🍹 a bar stocked with vegan-friendly booze and mocktails

This epic night is for you if you:

• 🤘 love rock music

• 😻 care about animals

• 🥳 like having fun

From classic rock to punk and beyond, local vegan artists will tear up the stage with original songs and covers of rock anthems all while helping build a more compassionate, animal-friendly St. Louis.

Plus, enjoy a delicious, hearty, 100%-vegan Italian dinner prepared by Big Mama’s House, one of St. Louis’ finest vegan caterers! This mouthwatering meal will feature:

• 🥒 Gourmet Zucchini Fries

• 🥗 Caesar Salad with Freshly Made Croutons

• 🍝 Lasagna with Layers of Cheese

• 🍆 Elegant Eggplant Parmesan

Whatever you do, don’t miss this one-of-a-kind rock experience! Get tickets here.

😍🌱🛒 Join us for STL Vegan Market, your go-to event for all things plant-based, cruelty-free, and sustainable!

That’s right; at this 100% plant-powered event, you can experience St. Louis’ best vegan foods, goods, music, and more, all in one place!

Here’s just a handful of the amazing things you can find at the market:

• 🤤 Delicious vegan food and drinks

• 🐰 Cruelty-free beauty and self-care products

• 👕 Eco-friendly fashion

• 🏡 Zero-waste home goods

• 🎨 Local vegan artisans

• 💍 Handmade jewelry and accessories

• 🎓 Community and education

Our July market was our largest ever, attracting nearly 1,300 attendees. The weather was beautiful, the food delicious, and the vendors plentiful.

Whether you’re a dedicated vegan or just starting to explore a more compassionate lifestyle, STL Vegan Market is the place to be!

🍽️ ABOUT:

At STL Vegan Market, we are on a mission to build a thriving community centered on conscious eating and ethical consumerism. Learn more here.

✊🩸🐮 Join us as we march to close all slaughterhouses in St. Louis and beyond!

Slaughterhouses are places of:

• 🔪 unimaginable violence

• 💔 grotesque suffering

• 💀 and horrific death

They cause profound harm to humans, animals, and the environment—

• 🩸 Animals suffer horrifically and endure extreme distress at slaughterhouses.

• 👷‍♂️ Slaughterhouses exploit workers and cause PTSD.

• ☣️ Slaughterhouses pollute entire communities.

By marching, we will:

1. ✊ demand the abolition of slaughterhouses and the permanent cessation of animal slaughter

2. 📢 build pressure to shut down existing and proposed slaughterhouses in the St. Louis region

3. 🗽 champion a slaughter-free world where animals live safe, happy, and free

Over 80 billion animals suffer and die needlessly in slaughterhouses each year. This event is your opportunity to protest their gruesome fates while building momentum for a #SlaughterFreeSTL.

What are you waiting for? Join the slaughter-free movement today!

🥳🌱🎶 Join us for St. Louis’ first-ever 100%-vegan block party—hosted at the city’s newest vegan hotspot, Bougie Bites!

This rollicking community celebration will feature:

• 🍔 The juiciest vegan burgers you’ve ever tried

• 🍪 Vegan cookies, lasagna, pancakes, and refreshing drinks

• 🎉 And sweet summer vibes with our thriving vegan community

You’ll also enjoy a star-studded lineup of local vegan vendors, including:

• 🥞 Sweet Vibes – STL’s newest vegan food truck, dishing out steamy pancakes and other breakfast favorites

• 🍝 Big Mama’s House – famous for their lasagna, lasagna bites, and other hearty Italian fare

• 🧁 Sweet Treats of St. Louis – offering sugar cookies, cinnamon rolls, and other irresistible sweets

• 🥥 Paradise Coconut Drinks – the most thirst-quenching coconut-infused beverages in town

• 🌮 Treat Day Cafe – serving cold-pressed watermelon juice and mouthwatering walnut tacos

• 🍦 Scoops of Joy – creamy vegan chocolate and vanilla ice cream + bold fruit sorbets

• 🖖🏿 A Good Day to Be Black & Vegan – celebrating Black vegan culture with t-shirts, sauces, and vegan vibes

🎶 Plus, enjoy live music from a professional DJ and sip from our vibrant pop-up bar! 🍸

Whatever you do, don’t miss this boisterous, joy-filled, end-of-summer celebration!

✊⚖️🌎 Join us for a banner drop on World Day for the End of Speciesism!

Through this high-visibility action, we will:

• 🐷 Raise awareness about the injustice of speciesism

• 👎 Denounce speciesist discrimination

• 🗽 Champion a future where all beings live safe, happy, and free

Over 50 cities worldwide are taking part in this coordinated day of action, united around five core demands:

• 1️⃣ Create a new legal category for animals that abolishes their property status

• 2️⃣ Launch global education campaigns against speciesism and for nonviolence

• 3️⃣ Build a nonviolent dietary culture free from fishing, slaughter, and other cruelty

• 4️⃣ Advance ethical research without animal exploitation or torture

• 5️⃣ Ensure all environmental decisions consider animals’ interests, including those of wildlife

PETA has provided a giant banner that will reach thousands of passersby in just minutes. Its message is clear: end speciesism—and end all forms of oppression, including racism, sexism, and ableism.

At this political moment, a consistent anti-oppression message has never been more critical, urgent, or necessary.

Please join us as we fight for a future rooted in justice and nurtured by compassion!

🍕🌱🤤 Join us for a 100%-vegan pizza party, volunteer meeting, and campaign kickoff, all rolled into one!

At this vibrant, pizza-packed gathering, you can savor incredible culinary creations, including:

• 🍕 Seitan Pepperoni Pizza – slow-cooked tomato sauce, cashew cream, seitan pepperoni, cashew parm, olive oil drizzle, and parsley

• 🌶️ Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza – cashew cream base, house-made ranch, buffalo sauce, cauliflower florets, cherry tomatoes, arugula, and hot sauce

• 🍅 Mediterranean Pizza – cashew cream, roasted artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, kalamata olives, cherry tomatoes, pickled red onions, arugula, balsamic drizzle, and cashew parm

• 🍏 Smooth Apple-rator Pizza – smoked cashew cream, spinach, green apple, cherry tomatoes, red pepper flakes, and a red wine reduction

• 🥬 Spicy Shrimp & Greens Pizza – habanero cream, cherry tomatoes, vegan shrimp, arugula, and cashew parm

• 🧀 Classic Cheese Pizza – tomato sauce, cashew cream, cashew cheese, cashew parm, and olive oil drizzle

We’re honored to host this event at Seedz Cafe, one of St. Louis’ original vegan staples and a longtime champion of our local community, from providing daily plant-based excellence to supporting STL Vegan Market.

This isn’t just a celebration of plant-based pizza and vegan pals. It’s also the official kickoff for our Fall 2025 volunteer, K-12, and college outreach programs. This is therefore your opportunity to help shape programs and get involved with campaigns that could one day reach hundreds of thousands of St. Louisans!

Here’s what to expect:

• 🙋‍♀️ 4-5 p.m.: Pizza Party + General Volunteer Meeting

• 🍎 5-6:30 p.m.: Pizza Party + K-12 Outreach Meeting

• 🤓 6:30-8 p.m.: Pizza Party + College Outreach Meeting

Most of your time will be spent eating, socializing, and celebrating, but you’ll also play a part in launching two key programs with long-term citywide impact.

Don’t miss the vegan pizza party of the year at one of the finest plant-based restaurants in all of St. Louis!