VEGAN CULTURE DURING THE CULTURAL WEEK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LOME/TOGO:March 22nd to March 28th, 2010

VEGAN CULTURE:

VEGAN PRODUCTS EXHIBITION DURING THE CULTURAL WEEK A THE UNIVERSITY OF LOME/TOGO.

The cultural week at the University of Lome is an open-to-public cultural festival during which every social ethnic group composed by students celebrate their cultural dances. Individuals or groups may choose to show their ethnic cuisine, cultural dressing, and etc., things that they could sell cheap so that student may afford.  It is in this perspective that Vegan Students seized the day to open a stand, similar to fair, a place where students could discover their association and its objectives.

In 2010, the Cultural Week started on March 22^nd and ended on March 28^th. During all the seven good days that we had, we display vegan products such as  soy milk, vegetarian seasoning, dried mushrooms, black mushrooms, chunks (soy meat), Gluten Flour, soy oil, etc where among many vegan products that we show to students and other visitors from the town.  We informed people about the benefits of a vegan diet. But this we were really active because we organized cooking demonstration whereby we taught students how to cook vegan soup as you will see it in the pictures. We showed them how to cook gluten from wheat flour and chunks from soya.  We cooked hot Kebabs from soya and gluten and our fellow students liked it so much. We also taught them how to make vegan mayonnaise (by using a cooked potato, soy milk, mashed garlic, sugar, salt and two or three tablespoons of oil).

 Next to our stand was a lady selling chicken sausages. The second day she her cooking because everybody wanted to try vegan kebabs. She abandoned her business because she saw how people from all races were flushing to our stand for either getting the kebab, chunks or any vegan product of their choice or having information about veganism (how to begin, where to buy vegan products regularly, how to cook). Students were eager to know how the animal-based food that we eat imbalance the imbalance our environment, and causes the global warming.

We were happy that many students know and understand the benefits of vegan diet and the necessity of joining the trend. The cultural week ended March 28^th, 2010 by 9 pm.

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