Cultural Event – Vegan Food Tasting

The Center for Global Education is holding a “Sustaining the Globe” Program, aiming to inform the campus of North Central College about the importance of sustainability in our world, hoping to influence students to make an ever-lasting impact on the world we live in today. The campus of North Central College is holding events for global education all week long. I attended the Vegan Food Tasting held in Jefferson Lounge, which talked about the environmental impacts from food choices that people make. Participants with given different cultural sample vegan treats that are tasty & healthy alternatives to a meat centered diet. I was able to try chocolate milk that was made with peas and hemp-based protein bars and cold brew coffee, all of which were essentials for a plant-based diet found in multiple different cultures around the world. The goal of this event was to introduce students to vegan-based products adapted from other cultures and inform them about how a vegan diet can be much more beneficial for our environment than the common, meat-centered diet. Their goal being to influence students here at North Central College to explore out of their comfort zone and join other cultures with the mission of sustaining the globe that we live in today. Being that I will be studying abroad in the fall, I have become more intrigued in learning about different cultures, and the cultural events held around campus were a great way to introduce students to the norms of different cultures around the world.