Notes from The VRG Scientific Department
Vegan Education
Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, did a presentation, "Vegan at Every Age: A Guide to Healthy Vegan Diets from Conception to Older Adulthood" to the Vegan Society of Hawaii. The talk was recorded and will be rebroadcast on the Vegan Society of Hawaii weekly TV series, The Vegan Hour.
VRG Foodservice Advisor Chef Nancy Berkoff did a presentation titled "Beyond Lentil Loaf... Healthy and Tasty Vegan Food Service Menus" for the Maryland Dietitians in Health Care Conference, which is attended by health care professionals working in long-term care facilities.
The Vegetarian Resource Group gave away over 1,800 copies of Vegan Journal at Maryland's Baltimore Vegan SoulFest. The amount of interest and questions about vegan diets was amazing. Thank you to our interns, Howard University student Chelsea and Baltimore School for the Arts student Ruby, for helping at the VRG booth.
VRG volunteer Phil Becker coordinated a booth at the San Francisco, California, 24th annual World Veg Festival. Volunteer Elsa Spencer staffed a VRG booth at VegFest Richmond, Virgina.
We were contacted by the Deseret News, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, concerning a column about mixed-diet households and tips so that vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores can peacefully exist.
VRG had a booth at the Luvin Arms Sanctuary Fall Festival in Denver, Colorado. Also in Denver we had a booth at the annual meeting of The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and hosted a networking vegan dinner for dietitians and local individuals.
