Last semester, Katherine Gross, campus representative for PETA’s youth division, organized students to demand more vegan dining options on campus. Now, the first of ASU’s new all-vegan stations, Daily Root, will open in the Memorial Union today.
ASU’s other dining halls to follow suit later this semester. According to a press release sent out by PETA, “Students will be able to enjoy meat-, egg-, and dairy-free fare for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert every single day, and the first week’s menu is mouthwatering: Vegan waffles, “chicken” linguine, tofu stir-fry, and “beef” enchiladas are just a few of the meals that will be offered.”
And if that is not enough to convince you that your tax dollars are well-spent on spoiled children, in addition to bumping up ASU’s rating on peta2’s Vegan Report Card from a C to an A, the move has netted the school a Compassionate Campus Award from peta2, whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat.”
“peta2 hears every day from students who want their colleges to offer vegan meals, and Arizona State’s Daily Root stations are the perfect example of how it can be done,” says peta2 Director Marta Holmberg. “As the nation’s largest university, Arizona State will surely inspire schools across the country to follow in its footsteps and start satisfying students’ hunger for food that’s healthy, humane, and eco-friendly.”
In the last year, Gross, and her student group, VegAware, gathered more than 2,200 student signatures on a petition that called for more vegan options for “health, the environment, and animals.”