Great American Meatout

Since 1985 Meatout has become the world’s largest annual grassroots diet education campaign, activists around the world have celebrated March 20th, the first day of Spring, by sharing their love of vegan food as part of a huge international event called Meatout. Every year, Meatout introduces thousands of people to the benefits of a compassionate diet for achieving great health, helping the environment, and of course, saving animals. Thousands of events throughout the U.S. and in dozens of other countries mark this day.

Every year, Meatout is supported by a broad coalition of environmental and animal issue-focused nonprofits, plant-based food companies, elected officials across the country, and countless individuals.

In some parts of the world, a diet that totally excludes meat or seafood is almost unimaginable. In far northern areas, for example, the growing season is short. In traditional cultures there may be no well-stocked market anywhere within reach. And island countries are surrounded by oceans abundant with protein sources. Even in the U.S. at present, in densely settled poor urban neighborhoods known as "food deserts," fresh vegetables are rarely seen or are of substandard quality.

Source: peoplesworld.org | meatout.org

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Peter Singer

Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Steve Simmons

I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer.

Ellen DeGeneres

I didn’t change, I just woke up.

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