Go Vegan

Vegans do not consume any animal products such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs, or honey. Other animal products that vegans avoid include fur, leather, silk, and wool, as well as cosmetics and other products that have been tested on animals.

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Why vegan?

Veganism is a philosophy that promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle by avoiding all forms of exploitation of animals by humans. Humans use and kill billions of animals each year for food, clothing, research, etc. By not consuming animal products or products tested on animals, vegans save lives and reduce suffering.

Veganism is also an environmentally responsible lifestyle. In its 2010 report Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Production and Consumption, the United Nations Environment Programme stated that:

Animal products, both meat and dairy, in general require more resources and cause higher emissions than plant-based alternatives (pp79, 80).

Plant-based diets such as veganism therefore have a much lower carbon footprint than omnivore diets. Also, raising animals for food requires enormous amounts of water. For example it takes over 5,200 gallons of water to produce a single pound of beef, compared to only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat (John Robbins, Food Revolution, 2001).

Veganism is also one of the healthiest ways to live and can lower health risks such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, and high cholesterol. Eliminating animal products from your diet is much easier than you might think. For more information on veganism please visit http://veganeasy.org/

Check out the Choose Cruelty Free Website for products not tested on animals.

Where to Eat in Canberra

Vegan and Vegetarian restaurants and cafés in the ACT

Sweet Bones
Scullin Shops, 3 Scullin Place
Scullin, ACT 2614
Almost vegan cafe with wide range of vegan food and sweets. Note - serves cows milk so specify if you want your beverages cruelty-free (ie plant-based mylk). 

Au Lac Dickson Vegan Cuisine

(10% discount for ALACT members)

Shop 4
39 Woolley Street
Dickson ACT
Phone: 02 6262 8922

AuLac Woden Vegan Cuisine

Westfield Woden, Shop G90A

Corinna St, Phillip ACT 2606

Phone: 02 6281 2288

My Rainbow Dreams
Shop G1b, Dickson Chambers
Dickson ACT (at the Dickson Shops, opposite the Post Office)
Phone: 02 6247 8591

Vegetarian cafe.
Click here for their website

The Food Co-op
3 Kingsley Street Acton (near Barry Drive)
Click here for the Co-op's website

Phone: 02 6230 7505

Mountain Creek Wholefoods

Griffith Shops, 14 Barker Street

Griffith ACT
Phone: 02 6295 1474

Organic Energy

8A Barker St, Griffith ACT 2603‎

Phone: 02 6295 6700

The Allergy Centre

Shop 2 Jamison Centre, Bowman St
Macquarie 2614

Phone: 02 6251 2670

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