DC VegFest is a FREE festival that highlights how easy and delicious it is to choose vegetarian foods in and around the nation's capital. Co-hosted by Compassion Over Killing and the Vegetarian Society of DC, this festival celebrates the city's diverse palette for animal-friendly cuisine and the many benefits of a plant-based diet. Featuring speakers, cooking demonstrations, free food samples, dozens of exhibitors, commercial vendors, and area food vendors, the DC VegFest has something for everyone to enjoy!

If you'd like to get involved or volunteer, please email us.

Compassion Over Killing (COK) is a nonprofit animal advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Working to end animal abuse since 1995, COK focuses on cruelty to animals in agriculture and promotes vegetarian eating as a way to build a kinder world for all of us, both human and nonhuman. Visit COK.net to learn more about our campaigns and programs as well as how you can get involved.

Be sure to also visit our online dining guide for finding vegetarian cuisine in the nation's capital: VegDC.com.

The Vegetarian Society of the District of Columbia (VSDC) aims to promote the benefits of vegetarianism through educational and social activities throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area, including Maryland and northern Virginia. Founded in 1927, we are the nation's oldest continuously-operating vegetarian society. We welcome people wherever they are on the path toward an all plant-based diet.