VeganSTL

🍪🍦😋 Join us for a 100%-vegan ice cream social at Bombay Food Junkies, named one of the top 100 best vegan restaurants in the country!
This Froyo-style event is your chance to savor the finest nondairy treats St. Louis has to offer, surrounded by dozens of fellow vegans as we celebrate National Ice Cream Day, vegan style!
This nondairy celebration will include:

• 🥤 Unbelievably good milkshakes
• 🍦 Creamy, housemade soft-serve ice cream
• 🍪 A smorgasbord of toppings
• 🍛 And more!

Now in its fifth year, this event drew a record-breaking 237 people last year. RSVP now — it fills up fast!
📧 Want more vegan events + food finds? Join our mailing list here and visit our St. Louis Vegan Events Calendar.

🥚😱🩸 Join us as part of PETA’s latest campaign to expose the harm behind cage-free eggs!
During this friendly “egg-sposé,” we will:

1. 🎓 Educate the public about what feel-good marketing terms like “cage-free” actually mean
2. 🤒 Expose the suffering caused by the egg industry, no matter the label
3. 💚 Distribute Just Egg to encourage compassionate, plant-based living

Cage-free eggs are often promoted as a major victory for animals, but the reality is far more complicated.
Here are five reasons advocates are taking a closer look:
🩹 Cage-Free Does Not Mean Cruelty-Free
Hens in cage-free facilities may still endure severe overcrowding, painful bone fractures, aggression, respiratory illness, infectious disease, and chronic stress.
🐣 More Hens May Be Harmed
Cage-free hens often produce fewer marketable eggs. Maintaining the same level of egg production may therefore require exploiting more birds, potentially increasing total suffering.
🌎 The Environmental Impact May Be Greater
Cage-free systems can require more feed, resources, and hens per egg produced, resulting in higher greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional caged production.
🏭 Humane Labels Can Hide Industrial Conditions
“Cage-free” may conjure images of hens roaming freely outdoors, but many remain confined inside crowded industrial buildings. The label can reassure consumers without accurately showing how the birds actually live.
🌱 We Need More Transformative Solutions
Focusing on cage-free conversions may divert attention from reducing egg consumption, promoting vegan alternatives, and confronting the broader system that treats animals as production units.
⚖️ The Final Verdict
Cage-free may sound like progress, but meaningful change requires asking whether these campaigns truly reduce suffering or simply place a more compassionate label on the same exploitative industry.
Together, we will not merely challenge the animal-abuse industry; we will help dismantle it.
Please join us for this critical outreach effort as we challenge humane-washing, undermine support for animal cruelty, and show the public that animals deserve freedom, not better labels.
📧 Want more vegan advocacy opportunities and vegan events? Apply to volunteer with us here and visit our events page!

🐓🍕💚 Join Second-Hen’d, St. Louis’ leading “spent hen” adoption nonprofit, as they celebrate 10 years of saving hens from being killed!
At this joyous community celebration, you can:

1. 🍕 Enjoy delicious vegan pizza from Pizza Head
2. 💚 Connect with the leaders spearheading this critical, life-saving work
3. 🐔 Meet the chickens themselves and spend quality time with them
4. 🎓 Learn about chickens’ personalities, needs, and remarkable capacity for companionship
5. 🏡 Discover how Second-Hen’d helps former egg-industry hens find safe, loving forever homes

🐣 Ten Years of Second Chances
Second-Hen’d was “hatched” in 2016 after founder Erica Camp searched for a Missouri organization dedicated to rehoming former commercial egg-laying hens and discovered that no such local organization existed. Rather than accept that these hens had nowhere to go, she created Second-Hen’d.
The all-volunteer nonprofit works with commercial egg facilities to save hens who would otherwise be killed after the industry determines that their egg production is no longer profitable. Although these birds are commonly labeled “spent” at only one or two years old, they can still have many happy, meaningful years ahead of them.
Second-Hen’d carefully places the hens with committed adopters who promise to protect them, never sell or kill them for meat, and provide them with permanent, loving homes. By April 2025, the organization had already helped more than 1,000 chickens begin the next chapter of their lives.
🐔 Chickens Are Someone, Not Something
Second-Hen’d does more than rehome hens. Through public education, community programs, and personal encounters with the birds themselves, the organization helps people recognize chickens as intelligent, social, emotionally complex individuals.
Their outreach has included chicken-care classes, school and library visits, and the Chooks with Books program, which gives children—including children with autism—opportunities to read, learn, and enjoy positive sensory experiences alongside chickens.
Every hen Second-Hen’d saves is an individual: someone with her own personality, preferences, friendships, and desire to live. By finding adopters and forever homes, Second-Hen’d gives hens once treated as disposable commodities the opportunity to be valued as beloved family members.
🥳 Celebrate the Hens (and the Humans Helping Them!)
Whether you are interested in adopting hens, want to learn more about chickens, or simply love animals and vegan pizza, you belong at this Summer Flock Party!
Come celebrate a decade of compassion, meet some unforgettable feathered friends, and honor the volunteers and adopters who have helped save more than a thousand hens from being killed.
Together, we can build a community where no animal is considered “spent” and where every hen has the opportunity to live safely, happily, and freely.
📧 Want more vegan events, advocacy opportunities, and community? Join our mailing list here and visit our events page!

🎲♟️😍 Join us for an evening of food, friends, and fun at Pieces, St. Louis’ premier board game bar and café!
At this lively get-together, you can enjoy:

• ✅ hours of board game fun
• ✅ a delicious vegan menu, featuring a full selection of vegan cookies
• ✅ a relaxed space to connect with local vegans

You can also enjoy beer, wine, cocktails, or coffee while you game the night away!
Here are some menu highlights:

• 🥑 Midwest Poke Bowl – sushi rice, avocado, sweet chili edamame, black sesame seeds, sriracha aioli, and sesame ginger sauce
• 🥢 Fried Rice Bowl – sesame ginger sauce, wonton chips, broccoli, edamame, and carrots
• 🥟 Pot Stickers – filled with mushrooms, topped with green onions, and served with sesame ginger sauce

Connect, unwind, and have fun with fellow vegans in a welcoming, stimulating environment.
Whether you come for an hour or stay the whole night, don’t miss out!

📧 Want more vegan events + food finds? Join our mailing list here and visit our St. Louis Vegan Events Calendar.

Check out the event page here!