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The Eugene VeganFest is a celebration of compassionate and sustainable living with fantastic food, innovative vendors, and inspiring speakers.

09/02/2026

Calling all caring young people! Check out this FREE virtual YOUTH FOR ANIMALS Summit on Saturday, September 19. Better Life for Animals is partnering with Danielle Hanosh and LEAP to show young people the many ways they can turn their love for animals into meaningful action. It's a great line up of speakers with Cheryl Moss hosting and Dr. Crystal Heath, Britty Mann and more!

Register today: https://betterlifeforanimals.com/blfa-leap-2026/

08/25/2026

We are getting excited for the Northwest VegFest THIS WEEKEND! There's a great line up of films at the VegFest along with fantastic food, speakers, vendors and more. It's worth the drive up to Portland! 🐓💜🤩

08/23/2026

Our VR goggle vegan outreach at the Eugene Saturday Market was awesome! We had 12 people watch the videos, up from 9 last time. We had a lot of young people watching, including a very young girl (maybe 12?) watching with her Dad’s permission and she had no idea that bacon “came from” a pig. While watching the video she asked “why are they killing the pig?” and her Dad was honest and said, “That’s where our bacon and ham come from.”

We had another woman end the dairy cow video in tears and pretty shaken. Hope sat with her and told her that she had the same reaction to the VR experience 10 years ago (true story) and that’s why we are vegan so we know that we're not complacent or causing any harm. There are so many terrible things happening in the world, but this is one thing that we can actively do something about every day.

Such an FANTASTIC and rewarding experience. 🐓💜 This event was a collaboration between Eugene VeganFest, Compassionate Living, and Animal Compassion Eugene (ACE).

08/15/2026

We're so excited for the Northwest VegFest to return to the Portland area! They have 2 days of speakers, vendors, food, films, and fun to explore. You can pre-buy tickets or get them at the door. Hope to see you there!!

https://nwveg.org/vegfest

08/01/2026

Meet Peanut: Artificial Intelligence for Vegan Encouragement! Jeannie Walter is a retired librarian, longtime animal advocate, and the creator of Peanut the pig, a vegan AI coach. Peanut uses warmth, humor, and a distinct personality to help people take meaningful steps toward eating more plants.

In the interview, Jeannie talks about the importance of embracing new technologies to assist in our animal advocacy outreach. She and Hope also discuss the concerns and challenges of Artificial Intelligence, the possibilities of AI sentience, and how this could potentially support animal advocacy.

Listen and share: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-140-can-artificial-intelligence-help-animals-with-jeannie-walter/

07/19/2026

Volunteers with Compassionate Living, the Eugene VeganFest, and Animal Compassion Eugene showed VR video of the reality of animal farming at the Saturday Market in Eugene. We had 9 people watch the videos! They could choose between a virtual reality video of the chicken, pig, or cow dairy industry. All who participated were not vegan and two vegetarians watched the cow dairy video.

We also had some great conversations and connections with folks that didn't choose to watch the video, but wanted to chat. It was overall such a receptive and positive experience! We'll be doing it again in August, get in touch if you would like to help.

Thanks to Brent for providing the VR goggles, and Lindsey, Trish, and Zay for helping throughout the day.

07/16/2026

Why should be care about bees? Why should we avoid honey and beeswax? Vegans want to eliminate as much harm, exploitation, and killing as possible. When animals are farmed for profit, there is always compromise of their wellbeing, and bees farmed for their honey and beeswax are no exception. Ethical veganism is about getting justice over the species barrier, and in this case it’s concern for the amazing, beautiful bee.

In this short episode, our host Hope Bohanec offers her knowledge about honey bees. We learn about their fascinating and complex lives, details of honey farming practices, and the truth about how our interference and manipulation of bees is hurting them and the entire planet.

Listen and share: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-139-why-do-vegans-avoid-honey-with-hope-bohanec/

07/07/2026

If you're heading out to the Oregon Country Fair, all vegan BHeavenly Cafe has a booth for the first time this year! Go check them out in the Community Village and support their mission and vision of a compassionate, sustainable, delicious world!

There's lots of other great vegan food out there too: The Golden Avatar (Indian), Vegan TruckStop (corndogs, apple fritters), Tofu Palace and more! Come support the vegan food booths at the fair!

06/23/2026

Calling all animal loving fairies, gnomes, and festival going folks! There will be (what we think is the first ever) vegan presentation at the Oregon Country Fair this year! Go beyond the grocery list and explore vegan from the perspective of social justice, ethics, philosophy, and even the spiritual. Eugene VeganFest organizer and long time Oregon County Fair lover Hope Bohanec will be presenting on Saturday, July 11 at the Community Village Dome, 3 pm.

Bonus! All vegan B-Heavenly has a new food booth this year as well! Meander your way to the Community Village and discover and support new vegan offerings at the fair! See you there! 🤩🍑🐓🧚‍♀🥑

06/15/2026

Tapping into fandom with animal protection and vegan messages, The Protego Foundation accesses sci-fi, fantasy, and other devoted fan communities to advocate for animals. Our guest is Brittany Drake, campaigns director for The Protego Foundation. Brittany talks about the foundation’s creative campaigns such as getting vegan butter beer offered at the Harry Potter theme parks, a Game of Thrones inspired campaign encouraging vendors at fan conventions not to use wild animals as props for photos, and their latest campaign around the release of the movie sequel, Wicked For Good.

Brittany and Hope go on to talk about the animal rights and vegan themes in numerous movies and television entertainment, unpacking the animal personhood vision of Wicked, the strong animal characters in The Wizard of Oz, disturbing animal eating parallels in Stargate Atlantis, and vegetarianism in Avatar: The Last Airbender. They also talk about how the use of fictional creatures and characters can garner an audience's imagination and empathy for animals.

LISTEN HERE: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-137-animal-freedom-through-fandom-with-brittany-drake/

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2690 Willamette Street
Eugene, OR
97405

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http://www.eugeneveganfest.org/

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