Posted on 07-21-2009
Filed Under (Vegetarian Life) by QandA

I need to find some activities for the vegan/vegetarian club at my high school to do. There aren’t any places to protest in the community. There are quite a few people in the club and I was thinking of organizing something fun we could all do together.

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Kim N on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

- Volunteer at a local animal shelter.
- Have a fund raiser help support your local center.
- Your group could sponser an adopt an pet add in your local paper.
- Most local news papers have a food and cooking section, you could contact the reporter that runs this and suggest they run more vegetarian choices in this sectoin.
- Host a vegetarian dinner for others in your community.
- Set up a veggie website for your school and town.
- Set up an information booth at community events.
- Pressure (don’t protest) your school cafeteria to be more vegetarian friendly.

BTW: Protests do very little to promote the cause. Instead do positive things that make use look good to the meat eating public. An example is the adopt a pet add verses dressing up in chicken costumes to protest KFC. What one makes the general public think well of your group?


Christine on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

1. A vegetarian potluck

2. Collect vegetarian recipes, make them into a book, and sell them as a fundraiser for your club

3. Design t-shirts that promote vegetarianism and sell them

4. Sponsor a vegetarian bake sale


purplepassion on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

Put posters around the school to see if you can get anyone to become a vegetarian, or make some simple vegetarian meals.


Woody (King Carrot) on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

Have a carrot eating contest. You could set it up like the national hot dog contests. Whoever eats the most in a set amount of time gets the vegetable of the year award.


irene on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

You should do a vegetarian cooking class kind of thing where you try out a different food every week. I recommend using ingredients like eggplant and tofu. peta.com has many recipes you could use.


Olivia C on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

Cook together! Or each bring your favorite dish to a meeting as a potluck. You could try cooking a new recipe every week or focus on a different cuisine every week. Assign recipes for everyone to make at home and bring them in and share. Or you could read books that focus on vegetarianism in some way and get together and talk about them.


molly on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

sorry i don’t have any ideas i just wanted to tell you how amazingly rad it is that you have a vegan/vegetarian club at your school!!!!
i’m like the only vegan where i live so that’s sooo cool that you have a club!!!!
sorry for my pointlessness.

good luck!!!!=)


scarheadlovesferret on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

1) cook vegetarian meals like a veg. party sort of thing and just potluck it
2)volunteer at various places like humane societies and stuff
3)have a cooking contest where everyone pairs up (or 3 people per group or 4 or whatever works for your group) and have each team make a vegetarian recipe of their choice and then have "judges" (maybe the president of the club and the officers or someone) taste the meals. there can be multiple categories of desert, starter, main dish, etc. and people can get awards for most creative, best tasting, most intricate, etc.
4)this is kind of like #3. choose a number of traditional meat meals and tell people to turn it into a vegetarian friendly meal and who ever does the best job wins the contest
5) vegetarian-friendly bake sale
6) sell club t shirts (and have a contest to design them)
sorry all out of ideas
hope that helped!


barefootandfree on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

+ You could have a day where you all swap your favorite recipes, compile them into a booklet type thing and pass them out to peoplel at the grocery stores. The recipes can also include derivatives of peoples favorite food so they can see how easy it is to go vegetarian.

Ex. Fajitas
Spaghetti and tofu/TVP* "meat"balls
Veggie pizza
TVP sausage
Black bean and rice patties (substitute for hamburger patties)
Anything else you like!

+ You could volunteer at an animal rescue shelter or raise funds for one, they usually need help and as it gets cold they need beds/blankets for the animals.

+ Learn about the impact of shopping locally for your fruits/veggies and see about making or getting some canvas bags. An easy way to make them is to check out the tutorial on http://www.morsbags.com/. I’ve found that I can make about 5 in an hour if I’m really on the ball with my rotary cutter, or you can make it a group activity with one person measuring/marking, another cutting, one ironing, someone sewing and maybe even someone doing trim.

+ Find out different plants or herbs you can grow inside over the winter and give it a try, I’m doing a tomato plant and some herbs in a window box.

Remember, being a vegetarian isn’t all about protest- it’s about being responsible for the earth we’ve been given and showing others that there are better ways to live. Have fun, be creative!

*Textured Vegetable protein, if you haven’t tried it you totally need to, it’s awesome to cook with and has a better texture than tofu IMO.


exsft on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

Talk to the school admin about some sort of "vegetarian food day" where your club can introduce vegetarian foods as an alternative to regular foods such as burgers,pizza, etc. Not that the whole school will be vegetarian but a sort of food booth where other kids can try it out. Remember, your goal is not to force other people to be a vegetarian (even for just a day) but to inform them that it is an alternative choice they can make.
Make your club room an "Nutrition information center" where you have posters/pamphlets of say a veggie burger sandwich side by side a regular burger with nutritional tables for both. Be factual, fair and avoid offensive pics that will likely turn off a lot of people.

Please don’t make protesting your number 1 priority as you seem to suggest. You will just be marginalized as another lunatic fringe group. Remember, some kids in the school may be involved (through their families, friends or whatever) in the place or group or business you will protest. All you are going to do is alienate other kids. Educating people works better than protesting them.


hellinore_rigby on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

All the answers before me are good, so I won’t repeat anything..but here’s my suggestion:

If you want to bring veg awareness to meat-eaters, you could set up a booth in the cafeteria for a few days and do blind taste-testing. Use a veggie burger and a regular burger or regular lasagna and lasagna made with veggie crumbles and see if a meat-eater can taste the difference when they eat a small sample.
You can ask for $1 donation to participate and if the person guesses correctly, they receive a sticker, key chain or other inexpensive trinket.


Bush Mama on July 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm #

How about asking your school for some space and the club could plant a community garden? If not avail there maybe a nearby space could use some greening? Set up a compost site, plant a native to your area fruit tree, give away the veggies, or give them to the school cafeteria to serve up!! Fresh organic student grown food!! How cool would that be? It’s easy to get things donated. If you are in an urban environ, maybe you could plant trees in barren spaces around the city… Be the change you want to see. good luck!


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