About us
VeganSTL — St. Louis Vegan Events 🌱
Markets • Dinners • Outreach • Meetups
If you want more vegan friends (and more vegan things to do in St. Louis), join us. VeganSTL is welcoming, beginner-friendly, and built around real-life events you'll actually show up for.
✅ START HERE (best 2 clicks you can make):
- Email list = fastest way to hear about new events + reminders (Meetup notifications are hit-or-miss): veganstl.com/subscribe
- St. Louis Veganuary (LIMITED-TIME / January): Get a FREE Starter Kit + bonus downloads + local support: veganstl.com/veganuary
What we host most (so you know what you’re joining):
🛍️ MARKETS + POP-UPS
• STL Vegan Market + vendor events (support local vegan businesses, meet the community)
🍽️ DINNERS + SPECIAL COMMUNITY MEALS
• Group dinners, themed nights, and occasional ticketed community dinners
📣 OUTREACH + VISIBILITY
• Friendly tabling/leafleting + meetups around festivals and big community events
🤝 OTHER MEETUPS
• Coffee/brunch, park hangs, game nights, potlucks, and "new to vegan" support
Quick way to jump in:
Join the group → RSVP to one event → bring a friend.
No perfection. No pressure. Just community 💚
Powered by Project Animal Freedom (PAF) — a Midwest-focused nonprofit building thriving vegan communities through events, outreach, and local support.
Upcoming events
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Elwood's Organic Dog Meat Tasting Demo
Soulard Park, 7th and Lafayette (next to Soulard Market), Saint Louis, MO, US🐶🥩🤠 Join us for our first-ever “dog meat” tasting, hosted at Soulard Farmers Market!
That’s right: we’re bringing Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat, the internet’s most infamous family farm, to the streets of St. Louis.
At this deliciously deadpan demonstration, we will:
- 🍖 Serve free samples of “dog meat” to unsuspecting passersby (100% vegan, 0% dog)
- 🐷 Ask one simple question: why do we love dogs but eat pigs?
- 💚 Spark kind, curious conversations about veganism, one free sample at a time
Elwood’s dogs are free-range, local, organic, antibiotic-free, and humanely slaughtered. Sound familiar? That’s the point.
Elwood’s isn’t real. But the outrage it sparks is, and so is the question behind it: if the thought of eating a Labrador turns your stomach, why doesn't the thought of eating a pig, an animal every bit as sensitive and loving as any dog?
Most people never think about this at all. Our job is to make them think: with a smile, a free sample, and a menu they’ll never forget.
This tongue-in-cheek action is for you if you:
- 🐶 love dogs (and want people to love pigs, cows, and chickens just as much)
- 😂 believe humor can open hearts that arguments can’t
- 🌱 are looking for a fun, low-pressure first action
🤠 HOW IT WORKS:
We’ll set up shop with Elwood’s signage, menus, and farmhand badges, then offer free samples of “Pug Bacon,” “Labrador Steaks,” and other farm favorites to anyone who walks by. When people recoil (and they will), we’ll gently ask why. No gotchas, no lectures, and nothing about any other country or culture: this is about us and our own double standards. As Elwood’s likes to put it, anyone upset by the farm is simply having a vegan experience.
All samples are 100% vegan. Dogs are welcome (as guests, not as samples).
🐾 ABOUT ELWOOD’S ORGANIC DOG MEAT:
Elwood’s has offered “delicious dog, since 1981.” Or, more accurately, since 2021, when vegan activist (and standup comic) Molly Elwood launched a satirical “family farm” that markets dog meat using the same language real farms use to sell pigs, cows, and chickens. The farm has since racked up over 4 million website visitors, an ad campaign on the London Underground, and “dog meat” tastings from Toronto to Zagreb. Not bad for a farm with no dogs.
Every animal deserves to live safe, happy, and free, whether they sleep at the foot of your bed or behind the walls of a factory farm. What are you waiting for? RSVP today and become an honorary Elwood’s farmhand!
📧 Want more vegan advocacy opportunities + community? Apply to volunteer with us here!
Check out the event page here!
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Vegan Trivia Night 2026
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd., St. Louis, MO, US🤓🌱🧠 Join us for St. Louis’ second annual Vegan Trivia Night as we celebrate Project Animal Freedom’s 8th anniversary!
This vibrant community celebration will feature:
- 🥘 a vegan potluck complete with drinks, a silent auction, and a live jazz performance
- 🏆 a live trivia competition packed with vegan-themed trivia questions
- 🐷 a celebratory speech on our progress toward a fully vegan Midwest by 2056
Grab a table with friends, put your knowledge of vegan trivia to the test, and cheer each other on! We'll wrap up the evening with decadent vegan cake from Bombay Food Junkies, plus a special surprise!
You should attend if you:
- 📚 enjoy trivia/friendly competition
- 🥕 are vegan, vegetarian, or willing to learn
- 🤝 would like to get more involved in our local vegan community
From vegan pop culture to our local vegan scene, vegan history, and more, don’t miss our 8th anniversary party!
📧 Want more vegan events + community? Join our mailing list today!
Check out the event page here!
1 attendee
“The Pig Who Sang to the Moon” Vegan Book Club Meetup!
Adina's Vegan Cuisine, 6746 Page Ave, St Louis, MO, US🐷📚🌙 Join us for the second meeting of The Uncaged Page, St. Louis’ only vegan book club, as we discuss “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon,” a groundbreaking exploration of the emotional world of farm animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson!
To celebrate World Day for Farmed Animals (Oct. 2) and Project Animal Freedom’s eighth birthday (Oct. 19), we return our attention to the foundation of our activism, namely, the immeasurable value of our nonhuman neighbors and the incredible inner lives they live.
Drawing on five years of firsthand observation on farms and at sanctuaries, Masson (author of the bestseller “When Elephants Weep”) makes the case that the animals we call “livestock” think, feel, and suffer, and that an animal is happy only when free to live according to their own nature.
Weaving together science, history, folklore, and personal encounters, this eye-opening book devotes a chapter to each of the animals we farm the most, revealing:
- 🐷 pigs who dream, know their names, and even save human lives
- 🐔 chickens who make friends and roost together in the treetops at night
- 🐑 sheep who balance their own diets and goats who face down leopards
- 🐄 mother cows who mourn their stolen calves
- 🦆 and ducks and geese who love their mates and their young
Set against the brutal reality awaiting the vast majority of these animals on today’s farms, their stories remind us why we do what we do.
As The Uncaged Page vegan book club, we seek to liberate our hearts and minds from the prejudices that bind us, to liberate our nonhuman friends from captivity and exploitation, and to liberate our world from injustice, one page at a time.
The Uncaged Page Book Club is for you if you:
- 💚 enjoy learning more about veganism, animal rights, and social justice
- 🧠 desire stimulating conversations about thought-provoking issues connected to animals
- ✊ want to help animals by educating yourself about their plights, effective activism, and much more
A project of Project Animal Freedom, this initiative takes place at Adina’s Vegan Cuisine on the third Wednesday of the month every month. Missed our September launch? No problem! Each month’s book stands on its own, so newcomers are always welcome.
At 277 pages, the book is an easy read cover to cover, but if you’re short on time, we encourage you to prioritize the chapters on pigs, chickens, and cows (extra credit for sheep, goats, and ducks, or any other chapter that sparks your interest).
📧 Want more vegan events + food finds? Join our mailing list here!
Check out the event page here!
2 attendees
Vegan Halloween Party + Vegan Chili Cook-Off
Laumeier Sculpture Park - Moss Shelter, 12580 Rott Road St. Louis, Missouri, 63127 United States, St. Louis, MO, US👻🌱🎃 Join us for St. Louis’ only 100%-vegan Halloween celebration—hosted at the tree-shrouded Moss Shelter in Laumeier Sculpture Park!
This spooky celebration will feature:- 🍲 a vegan chili cook-off with 12+ soul-warming chilis to sample
- 🧟♀️ a Halloween costume contest with prizes for children, adults, and companion animals
- 🍫 a candy-filled trunk-or-treat where every single piece of candy is vegan
You will also have the opportunity to connect with dozens of fellow vegans and enjoy devilishly good desserts that are perfectly suited to the Halloween season.
If you’re vegan without any allergies or further dietary needs, this is truly St. Louis’ only trunk-or-treat where you don’t have to check a single label, and the rare chili cook-off where you can taste every entry without asking what’s in it.
This event is the perfect opportunity to celebrate a beloved holiday in a vegan, family-friendly environment. After all, when’s the last time you went to a vegan Halloween party with a trunk-or-treat and a fully vegan food lineup?
- 🌶️ Want to enter a chili or host a trunk? Register here!
- 🎟️ Tickets are free, though donations are strongly encouraged!
Don’t miss our largest, spookiest, and most enjoyable vegan Halloween party yet!
📧 Want more vegan events + food finds? Join our mailing list here!
Check out the event page here!
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