Notes from The VRG Scientific Department
Vegan Education
Thank you to Whitney McVerry for coordinating over 20 volunteers in reading more than 200 essay submissions to our college scholarship contest. Kudos to all the volunteers for contributing their time, and of course thank you to the donors for your support. The next deadline is February 20, 2025. See vrg.org/scholarship
Thanks to Whitney, Justin, Della, and Millie for staffing a VRG booth at the Wilmington, North Carolina VegFest. Also thank you to Heather for staffing booths at the Rhode Island VegFest and Maine VegFest. Both Whitney and Heather are fabulous former VRG interns. For information about internships, see vrg.org/student
Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, worked with intern Priscila Reis from Brazil to complete a vegan Brazilian meal plan. Look for this in the next Vegan Journal. Priscila is a nutrition major.
VRG Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou is returning to school for another master's degree and taking a course on life-cycle assessments (LCA), which assesses the environmental impact of products over their life-cycle from initial extraction to final disposal. This will enable her to analyze environmental assessments of animal-based and plant-based foods and see if the assumptions and estimations needed to do the LCA analyses are realistic. You can see Jeanne's previous work on water use at vrg.org/environment/water_brochure.pdf
