End of the year is always a good moment to reflect, not that you should not do that on other periods of the year, it’s just that it is a moment with clear delimitations.
For me personally, 2017 has been all about love and plant based, now how are things on a more global scale, and how is Belgium, or even more locally for me, how is Leuven doing in all that?
A good reflection, can be provided by HappyCow, founded in 1999 as a public service to assist travelers and people everywhere find plant-based / vegan options and healthy food.
On the website statistics, we see that more and more Vegan Restaurants are added and created every year over the last 10 years;
2017: 1672
2016: 1346
2015: 1128
2014: 812
2013: 604
2012: 481
2011: 380
2010: 451
2009: 296
2008: 133
2007: 518
Of these Vegan Restaurants around the World we’ve;
Africa: 56 listings
Asia: 2180 listings
Australia: 330 listings
Europe: 2533 listings
North America: 2259 listings
South America: 476 listings
So in Europe we see that we really live in a privileged position.
The 10 Top Vegan Cities In The World (Updated Aug 11, 2017),
#1 Berlin
#2 Los Angeles
#3 Warsaw
#4 Taipei
#5 New York City
#6 Singapore
#7 London
#8 Tel Aviv
#9 Portland
#10 San Francisco and Bay Area
Other noteworthy veg-friendly cities around the world:
Bangkok, Thailand
Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam
Kyoto, Japan
Montreal, Quebec
Melbourne, Australia
Paris, France
Prague, Czech Republic
São Paulo, Brazil
Seattle, Washington
Toronto, Ontario
In Belgium we’ve 36 vegan listings.
Ghent: 9
Antwerpen: 8
Brussels: 7
Leuven: 5
Liege: 3
Mechelen: 2
Charleroi: 1
Brugge: 1
More locally for me, in Leuven, we’ve 5 excellent places;
Life Bar
Worldwide we see a 24% increase of plant based places compared to 2016, in Leuven we could say that we are at 35% compared to 2016. Since we unfortunately lost Shavt, well, we did not really lost Shavt, it has become a webshop now and is thus not listed anymore on HappyCow.
Of course, on top of that, these are plant-based only, a lot of other places start to propose a lot of plant-based options as well and all indications show that, that list will grow and extend.
Thanks to all of them for making this world a nicer place to live!
Step by step we are getting there, or to say it with the words of Moby; ‘Somehow, humans overturned slavery. Against their own economic interest. And that is so encouraging. It means that even when it’s hard, humans ultimately do the right thing.’
#peace #goodfood #nature #fruitsandvegetables #plantbased #happycow #belgium #leuven #LovingHut #VegaVerso #LovingHutVeganerie #T&Ko #LifeBar #Shavt #moby
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