World Vegan Day Needs More Meaningful Collaboration

Although the number of vegans around the world is rising, the speed seems poor, and we are still a minority or super minority in most countries. How can we be more organised than the LGBTQ+ folks and bloody-meat food fares? How can we be internationally recognised? In some countries like the Gambia, we are yet to even form a vegan association, to the best of my knowledge. I think vegan billionaires and vegan associations must understand the importance of collaborations and demanding our dues from governments around the world. There is a claim that about 10 million people are vegans in the u.s, but we lack national unity, national collaborations, and national demands, so how fast can we repent towards international or worldwide collaborations? Wouldn't it have been better to offer a vegan buffet at half-price in every major city/country on world vegan day and invite all major mediahouses before the day? It would have helped millions taste wide varieties of vegan meals.

National to International Vegan Associations: Although there are countless vegan associations in major cities in the u.s, I am not aware of a national vegan body to defend and promote veganism where need be. When President Trump mocked James as a vegan, your local vegan associations cannot do much. However, a national vegan association could have issued a statement and have a few very eloquent people challenge Trump. The mocking is insinuating vegans are unfit for office, or Texans or the u.s hates vegans?

Your local vegan associations prepared or organized what on this World Vegan Day? A national vegan association could have organised friendly competition of which cities offered the best vegan buffets versus most attended vegan buffets? Imagine a very long table of different vegan meals offering vegan food at around half the cost of regular buffets on world vegan day only, or monthly? A national association can lobby for the state (federal government) to partially sponsor the cost in the spirit of climate change. Or which Vegan or climate change billionaire may help? The vegan restaurants can see it as advertisement, exposure, monthly discount and competition. It could have helped millions of people taste wide varieties of blood-free vegan meat to potentially become full or partial vegans. How will such help compared to the weak social posts of 2026?

A national vegan association of the u.s with 10 million vegans and rising can start to demand things like all food courts should offer at least ten to twenty five percent of their spaces to vegan restaurants. Interested members of your vegan associations can be notified to help open more vegan restaurants.

A national vegan association in the u.s can travel around the world to help set-up vegan restaurants at ideal locations to make traveling easier for vegans. By contacting vegan billionaires, millionaires, and rich vegan associations -- we can try to convince all countries to allocate a few beach-front vegan restaurants towards daily servings and bigger world vegan day offerings. If a Vegan Billionaire and a sharp vegan representative urge President Barrow, Tinubu, Mahama, etc to offer land for a beach resort and vegan restaurants, they will have much more prospects than a local association or me and you as individuals. Can we use the Paris accord and/money for such? A success may then help less wealthy, less influential, locals be allocated land for more vegan offerings. By explaining that we will rally the rising millions of vegans in smart ways to travel to the Gambia, Nigeria, Ghana, etc that is one argument. Citing how veganism can help climate change and that countless meat eaters do enjoy our food, we can convince those with minds. We have comedians, singers, etc who are vegans -- a national association has more prospects of convincing these well known names for monthly tours around the world. For example, we can choose three countries every last Saturday/Sunday of the month, a festival for veganism. Ms. Janet Jackson or which Vegan Comedian+ may offer 3 or xyz shows per year for a national vegan association more than a local association or you and I approaching them? When Janet Jackson or xyz plays at a huge vegan spot, many meat eaters will come, and one day vegan buffet is either tolerable or when countless folks may say: ‘apparently some vegan chefs can beat bloody meat. ‘

A national vegan association of the u.s can help every country start a vegan association. A small country like the Gambia still has some vegans or at least vegetarians. By running ads, we can bring together the limited vegans in the Gambia and every country. Explain to them how world vegan collaboration matters more than world vegan day or individualism with indifference. You can suggest or propose constitutions for the associations. If a vegan 'expert' from the u.s, Germany, or xyz is coming to the Gambia or any country, then you may realise our small world demands collaborations. We can also have partnerships of associations. For example, the political world offers city to city partnership for learning purposes. The city of Banjul can partner with the city of New York or Boston as ‘sister cities’. However, in our case, country to state partnerships may be more ideal. If every state in the u.s partners with a country in Africa+, it opens up doors of learning and beyond.

Let us say the Gambia and Brazil as partners to San Francisco or California -- We can organise visits and even partnerships of vegan businesses, including health stores. We are yet to have nutritional yeast in our Gambian supermarkets, but a health store for vegans+ can supply such more than expensive alcohol poor Gambia offers. Pen-pals seem outdated, but learning some vegan or traditional meat meals from the Gambia may be interesting to someone in San Francisco. Of course I understand social media offers a bunch, but some people are not deep into such. I have cooked countless vegan meals and yet to post one video of my cooking. Perhaps, such can be very interesting. Me sharing privately with a Brazilian or Saudi-Arabian can lead to a public vegan video. Although I ate falafel long ago, but even Saudi-Arabia reportedly has about five percent vegans now. I would love to connect with the vegans in Saudi-Arabia rather than their bloody meat eaters. I may learn something much bigger than Falafel, visit Saudi-Arabia, or have Saudi-Arabians visit the Gambia, after a Gambian inspires the U.S or xyz to act beyond what Trump may desire. So the partnerships should be in groups similar to world soccer, mixing continents. Tiny Gambia won a food competition that was bloody meat based, but can tiny Gambia beat Saudi-Arabia, Brazil, and u.s in an international Vegan food competition? Are vegans that evolved yet or just fighting or fighting back on social media? Well, a Gambian beat them on ideas...

Can we have a vegan fast food chain restaurant in every country before McDonalds or any food chain restaurant achieve that? Do not tell me the Gambia is too poor for even a vegan fast food with a vegan buffet that can beat KFC buffet . We have expensive vehicles, some good Gambians, working foreigners, tourists, etc who may buy, not only vegans. We cannot wait for demand, sometimes you have to create the demand. Offer the people great quality, make it affordable, then educate the masses on how veganism may help them personally and universally.

I know Trump and countless folks look down on vegans, because he may not even know that we are up to 10 million and rising in the u.s alone. However, when Vegans are spending countless hours on social media to convince bloody meat eaters, remember words may convince one to five percent per year , but actions or real offerings can convince 25 to 90%. I mean we must ascertain affordable monthly vegan buffets are available in every country. I am sorry God, but I think helping me own a great vegan restaurant may help than many simple posts. However, this is a huge unplanned article, because I didn't know about 'world vegan day' until I opened my social media account a few hours ago.

All the simple posts about 'happy world Vegan Day' should be replaced with beautiful pictures of dishes and vegan buffets that will beat questionable LGBTQ+ parades.

So I urge you to write or call every local vegan association you may know. Try to form a national vegan association in the u.s , India, UK, and every major country. Contact the few vegan Billionaires, let each contribute at least one billion dollars towards a worldwide vegan project on availability and affordability at commercial level. Whether you agree with my ideas or not, it helps to humbly forward my article to all vegan associations, vegan billionaires, vegan politicians, vegan artists, etc. Mr. Cory Booker is reportedly Vegan, but Bernie Sanders and others may support us in the spirit of health or climate change . Urging is good, but offering is sometimes greater. 'Next week Sunday is 'world Vegan Day', we are having big shows with Janet Jackson or xyz at the biggest venue in your cities and countries; we are offering vegan buffet for one, two, or five dollars with the amazing pictures may make Melania Trump say: I am going Whether or not Trump goes. Once Trump or xyz knows we are ten million and rising, he may say: 'I am not vegan, but I will eat vegan on this day for health, climate change, etc, and I urge all Americans and the world to do the bare minimum. One day without bloody meat may be a day of blood-free meats that may lead to millions of new vegans every month, or every year. They gave us one day in a year, but our vegan buffets should offer mass invitations every month. Last Saturday or Sunday of the month should be a half-price vegan buffet offering with UNAD. Unlimited Non-Alcoholic Drink (UNAD) is a smart idea I pitched, search for it. May God bring billions of humans into veganism in 2027, help us have millions of quality vegan restaurants around the world. We must celebrate World Vegan Day in manners that will force all mediahouses to cover us in every single country. That requires coordination--so a national vegan association in the u.s or xyz must have global human love, not just animal love. May God bless Showlove Trinity: let's learn, let's work, let's have fun.

By Jarga Kebba Gigo
An Activist and Transformer
Author of Juts Quhr-aahn