Later this month, Bushwick is getting a vegan food + lifestyle festival, approriately named Plant-Based Bushwick. LightSpace Studios (1115 Flushing Avenue, near the Morgan L) will host the event from 10 AM – 6 PM on May 21st at no cost to its attendees, and seeks to turn the public on to a plant-based and vegan lifestyle.
Founder Elizabeth Walsh hopes that the fest will become an annual event for the community. PBB’s main goal is to educate the public on how embodying a plant-based life isn’t as insurmountable as one might suppose. “We’re showing Bushwick that living a plant-based lifestyle is not expensive and unattainable, but instead accessible, fun, and healthy!” promises their flyer.
Walsh, who is also an architect, became vegetarian in 2013 while studying in India. “I turned down a narrow street that was lined with tiny cages packed with chickens. The chickens looked miserable and there was blood on the ground,” She explains. “Animals are tortured in unimaginable ways when they are killed for food, but it is more than that for me. I don’t want to eat animals, even if they aren’t tortured,” she continued.
