Macarthur Vegans struggling for Restaurant choices.

Vegans living in the Macarthur region have a lack of food options because they are affected by restaurant choices compared to other districts in NSW that are spoiled for choice.   

 Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind.

  With few restaurants even offering vegetarian alternatives in Macarthur, vegans have resulted to eating options like salads that become mundane and boring, and have stopped this minority group from eating out in the Macarthur region as often as others.

 Jessica Buxton a local vegan has almost given up eating out at Macarthur all together,

 “There needs to be more Vegan restaurants so vegetarians and vegans have more options, somewhere to order a quick meal or to socialize with friends, I don’t think there’s as big of a market in the western suburbs as there is in the city. It would be a big financial risk to take opening a vegan restaurant here and I think that’s why Restaurants owners would be scared to do so”.

 Joanne Stepaniak author of Being Vegan said the most common reasons for becoming a vegan are ethical commitment or moral conviction concerning animal rights, the environment, human health, and spiritual or religious concerns. Vegans who live in the inner city have an abundance of vegan restaurants to choose from but in Macarthur, there are none.

 Vanessa Truip, a vegan from Ingleburn feels as though she will have to endure plain food options because of her diet in Macarthur this is due to the fact that she can’t leave her home as she is a university student and wouldn’t be able to afford the upkeep of living by herself.

Yes, I think it does, I don’t go out much because of the lack of choice for me, and none of my friends are vegan so it gets very repetitive for me because I’m stuck with the same small selection of food, but I try to make the most of it. It would be nice for someone to invest in a vegan restaurant some other people might like trying different things.