On the street...
AMANDA FISHER
Location: Gold Coast
Favourite vegan
restaurant: There are
so many good ones,
but I’d have to say
Greenhouse Canteen
& Bar on the Gold Coast.
Favourite vegan food product: Vegan
doughnuts from All-Time Coffee Co.
Best vegan place to shop: Mrs
Flannerys, Gold Coast.MICHAEL DELLO-LACOVO
Location: Adelaide
Favourite vegan
restaurant: Soul Burger
in Sydney for plant-based
burgers, fries and shakes.
Favourite vegan food
product: Biocheese.
Best vegan place to shop: Everything
vegan in Adelaide is great. Most large
supermarkets are pretty good now.DEAN MAHER
Location: Melbourne
Favourite vegan
restaurant: Lentil as
Anything. The food
is always changing
and awesome,
and the atmosphere is great.
Favourite vegan food product: Oreos- who knew they were vegan?!
Best vegan place to shop: The Cruelty
Free Shop in Fitzroy and Prahran
Convenience store. If you can’t find a
vegan alternative to something in these
two shops, then it doesn’t exist.
KATRINA FOX
Location: Sydney
Favourite vegan
restaurant: Gigi for
pizza and Iku in Glebe.
Favourite vegan food
product: Tofurk y Italian-
style vegan sausages and Pana Chocolate- it’s raw and organic as well as vegan.
Best vegan place to shop: The Cruelty
Free shop in Sydney, because every
single item is vegan and it carries
specialist and unique products that
aren’t easily found anywhere else.KATHY ASHTON
Location: Melbourne
Favourite vegan
restaurant: Vegie
Bar in Brunswick
Street, Fitzroy.
Favourite vegan
food product: Other than vegetables
and rice, I would say nutritional
yeast, and vegan cheeses.
Best vegan place to shop:
Sunnybrook, Ormond, has an amazing
range of things. Farmers’ markets on
Saturdays are our favoured place to
buy organic fruit and vegetables.veganism are being quashed and demand
is growing. It’s exciting.”
Driving the change is a heightened
search for wellness and a backlash
against the corporate food industry
machine. “There is a huge wave
coming, with more and more people
getting sicker and sicker and wanting
to do something about it,” says Kathy
Ashton, Melbourne-based vegan of
eight years. “More people are taking
responsibility for their own health.
More people are feeling let down by
conventional medicine, more people
are wanting to feel better.”
According to data published recently
by Google, Australia came out on top
in worldwide searches for the word
‘vegan’, which easily beat searches for‘paleo’ and ‘gluten free’. The typical
meat-loving Australian stereotype may
be just that – a mere stereotype. Vegan
product launches in Australia have
increased by a staggering 92 per cent
since 2014, says that food producers
and supermarkets are listening.
“I believe that veganism is the
largest social justice movement on
the planet,” says Mann. “The growth
is enormous with people waking
up to the fact that a plant-based
diet is unquestionably better for
your health and is responsible for
a lighter footprint. In the process,
they become more compassionate
to all living beings and the planet.
In short, in becoming vegan, we
create a better world for us all.”52 | AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HEALTH naturalhealthmag.com.au