The 10th ZeGeVege Festival – A Celebration of Sustainable Living

Zagreb is once again host to the ZeGeVege festival of sustainable living which celebrates its 10th birthday this year.

In the heart of the city, on Trg bana Jelačića, on 8 and 9 September 40,000 visitors are expected who will be able to peruse a record 100 stands exhibiting healthy food, organic and other sustainable products and cruelty-free cosmetics.

Apart from a record number of exhibitors, devotees of sustainable living can expect a packed programme with a range of educational and fun events. Visitors will be able to enjoy vegan food prepared according to original recipes from Africa, the Middle East and south Asia, for example chickpea salad in a pomegranate, rice with peanut butter and African fritters. For the first time ZeGeVege will also be offering vegan beer which uses no animal products during the filtration process. Lovers of great coffee will be able to try coffee with five different types of plant milk.

Nail varnish made from potato and sweetcorn, a kitchen appliance that prepares a complete meal from fresh plant ingredients in just 30 minutes, a folding electric bicycle and many other environmentally friendly products are a part of the rich offering at the 10th edition of this international festival. All of that is garnished with a series of useful lectures on wide-ranging subjects, e.g. vegan food, veganism and fitness, raw chocolate, sex and veganism... ZeGeVege, the biggest Veganmania in the region, is a festival with a great atmosphere and valuable messages about sustainable living without which neither humans nor animal species will survive.  

The ZeGeVege festival is part of the European Veganmania project organised by the “Friends of Animals” society, and this year it is being sponsored by the President of the Republic of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the Committee for Environmental Protection and Nature of the Croatian Parliament, the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Agriculture, the City Office for Agriculture and Forestry and the Dr Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health.

For more information on the festival of sustainable living please visit www.zegevege.com and the festival’s Facebook page.