Vegan Outreach Welcomed at Hospital in Mexico

Emmanuel Márquez, the  México Outreach Coordinator for Vegan Outreach found the staff and students at the School of Medicine and Nutrition at Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED) very receptive to information.  
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Mario Arce, MD [pictured right] leads the Healthy University Program, and he was very excited about our visit. He and many others used the iAnimal virtual reality headsets to see factory farming from an animal's perspective, and they took literature and signed up for our emails to receive recipes and support.

Dr. Arce talked with us about the increasing demand for nutrition services for vegans and vegetarians, asking if the school should consider including a plant-based nutrition course. We said yes, of course! He also told us he used to recommend fish and chicken to his patients, but he will no longer do that.

Dr. Arce then gathered groups of students to come to the table so I could explain what we were doing, give them information, and invite them to use the virtual reality headsets. The Coordinator of the Nutrition Studies Department also used the headset and then signed up to receive more information from us!

The rest of the afternoon, we had countless positive interactions with nutrition and medical students open to veganism. Brenda [pictured left] studies medicine and told us she tried to stop eating meat a few times but failed. With the info and support she received from us, she is ready to make it permanent.

Today, VO not only created more vegans and vegetarians, we helped to create more professionals in the health sciences field who will support people who want to make these same changes toward vegan eating and who will use food as medicine. We're now in talks about having more and bigger events to promote plant-based eating among UJED students.