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Alberta Organizations

Alberta Environmental Network
"The AEN is a non-profit, non-partisan umbrella organization dedicated to helping preserve and protect Alberta's environment."

Alberta Food Not Bombs
"Food Not Bombs is an anti-poverty, anti-war collective, with active chapters in Edmonton and Calgary and around the world. FNB recovers unused food and prepates free vegetarian meals that are shared on the streets with anyone who is hungry."
(Also check out Food Not Bombs International site.)

Biofreedom (Edmonton)
"We call on the Canadian government to create mandatory labelling for any products that contain GE crops and to issue a moratorium on all GE crops until sufficient long-term scientific tests have been performed and proven safe beyond a reasonable doubt. Everyone can play a role in the battle against GE products!"

Calgary Vegetarian Association
"CVA promotes the health, ethical, environmental, humanitarian, and spiritual benefits of a plant-based diet, bringing together vegetarians in the City of Calgary and surrounding area for a common cause."

Slow Food Edmonton
"Slow Food Edmonton is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of Edmonton and Northern Alberta."

Note: Slow Food Edmonton is not strictly vegetarian. However, they do support many VOA values: eating locally produced foods, against factory farming and against genetically engineered food.

SOAR - Students' Organization for Animal Rights (Calgary)
"SOAR is a student club at the University of Calgary which strives to promote the education and awareness of animal rights issues to students and others alike."

Voice for Animals Humane Society (Edmonton)
"V4A is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting animals, through advocacy and education, from neglect, abuse and exploitation."

Canadian Organizations

ARCHalifax (NS)
"Discrimination based on species must be challenged in the same way as discrimination based on race, disability, religion, age, gender, or sexual orientation must be challenged. To further this social justice cause, Animal Rights Collective Halifax works towards creating a caring and supportive environment for all creatures on the planet, and promotes a lifestyle that recognises the rights of all animals, human and non-human alike."

ARK II (ON)
"The Animal Rights Kollective II seeks to promote and protect the rights of all animals and foster their individual liberties through direct action, political action and public awareness campaigns. We will strive to build a world where animal liberation and human liberation become one in a fabric of mutual respect, tolerance and compassion."

Association Végétarienne de Montréal (QC)
"L'AVM a pour mission de promouvoir le végétarianisme et ses advantages. Grâce à ses bénévoles, l'AVM organise des activités sociales, culturelles et sportives pour les végétarienes."

"The Montreal Vegetarian Association promotes vegetariaism and its benefits. Thanks to its volunteers, MVA is organizing social gatherings, cultural events and sports activities for vegetarians."

Canadian Environmental Network

Canadian Federation of Humane Societies
"The CFHS is the national voice of humane societies and SPCAs. We bring together those who work with, and care for animals to promote respect and humane treatment toward all animals."

Canadian Vegetarian Association
"A non-profit organization formed to create a united, national vegetarian voice and promote vegetarianism across Canada."

Earthsave Canada (BC chapter)
"Earthsave is a non-profit, educational organization promoting awareness of the health, environmental, and ethical consequences of our food choices. Earthsave advocates the move towards a plant-based diet for better health, environmental sustainability, and compassion toward non-human animals."
(Also check out Earthsave International)

Freedom for Animals (ON)
Freedom for Animals believes that animals should live freely, without being oppressed and abused by our own species. We oppose any exploitive use of animals, be it for food, clothing, science, entertainment, or sports. We work to expose cruelty in all these areas.

Halifax Association of Vegetarians (NS)
"Our Association aims to create a network of individuals and enterprises that promote the benefits of vegetarianism. Moreover, we are a social network that offers support, education, and resources amongst one another."
(Also check out HAV's blog)

Toronto Vegetarian Association (ON)
"Inspiring people to choose a healthier, greener, more peaceful lifestyle."

Real Raw Food (BC)
"Distributors organically grown, truly raw foods. Our purpose is to provide unheated, non-GMO, pure organically grown foods at a fair price."

SimplyRaw (ON)
A raw vegan consulting service based in Ottawa, Canada.

Vancouver Vegetarian Association (BC)
"Our objective is to spread the message that going vegetarian is the biggest change a person can make in their life to reduce environmental destruction, prevent suffering of both animals and humans, and to live a healthier, happier life."

Vegan Québec (QC)

Winnipeg Vegetarian Association (MB)
"A non-profit group dedicated to fostering and encouraging vegetarianism in Winnipeg through social and educational activities."

International Organizations

American Vegan (USA)
"Together we explore and apply compassionate living concepts, and reflect on them and ourselves. We learn how to revere the Earth, how to save the animals, and how to care for ourselves." Click on the "other events with a vegan message" icon in the left sidebar for a great list of events in the USA. Maybe it's time for a vacation!

Australian Vegetarian Society
"The Australian Vegetarian Society's aim is to increase the number of vegetarians in Australia in order to stop cruelty to animals, benefit human health, protect the environment and preserve world food resources."

Dr. McDougall's Health & Medical Centre (USA)
John A. McDougall, M.D., teaches better health through vegetarian cuisine. He has been studying, writing and 'speaking out' about the effects of nutrition on disease for over 30 years."

East Tennessee Vegetarian Society (USA)

European Vegetarian Union (EU)

Food For Life
"FFL is a nonprofit organization, bringing food and life to the needy of the world through the liberal distribution of karma-free vegetarian meals."

Go Veg (USA)
PETA's great big website about vegetarianism.

Greenpeople
The "world's largest directory of eco-friendly and holistic health products."
(Check out their listing of Vegetarian societies.)

International Vegetarian Union
"The IVU was founded in 1908 when the first World Vegetarian Congress was held in Dresden, Germany. The aim of the IVU is to promote vegetarianism throughout the world."

Japan Vegetarian Society
"Our motto is: 'To always consider the well-being of our earth and its people' and we aim to teach and promote vegetarian as it is concerned with general well-being, nutrition, ethics, respect for life, preservation of our environment, and stopping starvation in developing countries."

North American Vegetarian Society

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) (USA)
"PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns."
(Also check out PETA's youth site, PETA2, and PETA's kid site, PETAkids)

Plenty International
"Plenty's focus is on Indienous People, youth, women and the environment. In practical terms, this translates into sustainable development to promote local self-sufficiency in economically disadvantaged or otherwise threatened communities." It is based out of The Farm, a cooperative, intentional community in Tennessee.

Rochester Area Vegetarian Society (USA)

Sea Shepard Conservation Society (USA)
"Sea Sheperd is committed to the eradication of pirate whaling, poaching, shark finning, unlawful habitat destruction, and violations of established laws in the World's oceans. To that end, Sea Sheperd assists national and international bodies in the enforcement of international law under authority of the United Nations World Charter for Nature."

The Triangle Vegetarian Society (North Carolina, US)

Vegan Outreach (USA)
"VO is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing animal suffering by promoting a vegan lifestyle."

Vegan Peace (USA)
"Vegan Peace is about striving towards peacefully sharing the Earth. We can all play a part in lessening the suffering that so many people and animals go through every day."

The Vegetarian Society (UK)
"The oldest vegetarian organisation in the world! It is an educational charity promoting understanding and respect for vegetarian lifestyles."