VegFest Pasifika, a festival promoting local plant-based diets for health and environmental reasons, came to Samoa for the first time in June.
The festival has been running in Fiji since 2018, with more than 55 events held so far. These include tasting dinners showcasing Pacific fruits, vegetables and crops; vegan markets and food tasting with free health screenings; nutritious cooking demos, movie nights, lifestyle medicine outreach and fun educational kids’ activities.
The festival aims to encourage the switch to whole-food, plant-based diets as a means to address the non-communicable disease (NCD . . .