Project Vegan 716

Mission Statement:  Our mission is to educate the public about the benefits of following a vegan lifestyle, to help others transition to a vegan lifestyle, and to work collaboratively with other business owners to help grow and strengthen the vegan community.

Veganism Defined – Not just a diet, veganism is a lifestyle that seeks to exclude all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to animals.  This includes animals used for food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific experimentation.

What We Do – Project Vegan 716 offers support, education and resources to all who wish to follow a kinder, healthier lifestyle.  We offer 1:1 and small group vegan lifestyle coaching, educational seminars, and DIY workshops.  We organize the bi-monthly Buffalo Vegan Pop-Up Markets.  We work collaboratively with other vegan businesses and start-ups to grow their businesses and fulfill needs within the vegan community.  We opened The Vegan Center on Halloween in 2020 at 60 Broad Street in Tonawanda, NY to further our collaborative efforts with vegan business owners and to bring the vegan community together in a safe, welcoming place.

Our Philosophy - Veganism is about doing the least harm.  Veganism is not and cannot be about perfection.  We live in a non-vegan world.  Each vegan needs to strive to do their best to cause the least harm, but realize that there is an imaginary line that they will need to cross at times.  Vegans strive each day to live more compassionately and more sustainably.  It is important to continue to educate yourself to ensure you are doing the least harm.  A product that may be vegan today may not be vegan tomorrow.  Manufacturers change their recipes periodically and sometimes add in an animal-derived ingredient such as whey or honey.  We believe that eliminating animal products from your diet, including meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, whey, and honey as well as not wearing animal skin and fur is a huge step in eliminating animal agriculture by-products.  Animal agriculture by-products are used in products from car tires to roads and from prescription medications to match sticks.  With animal by-products being found in things we use every day, it is impossible to avoid all of them.  However, by eliminating the primary products of animal agriculture, there will eventually be no profit incentive to raise animals for food,  and manufacturers will find humane alternatives to these by-products.