Cruelty-Free Hookups? Vegan Speed Dating and More at the World Veg Festival

T. Palmer

Find your dairy-free love at World Veg Festival.

​SFoodie enjoyed eating healthy and creative vegetarian food at last year's World Veg Day, but organizers have stepped up the extracurricular excitement for 2009. This year's World Veg Festival, hosted by the San Francisco Vegetarian Society and In Defense of Animals, expands to two days, and with the extra time comes a little more playfulness with the format, including the oh-so-promising-sounding vegan speed dating session (Saturday, October 3, at 5:15 p.m.). We're not sure, however, if that playfulness will extend to the vendors hawking animal cruelty prevention buttons and bumper stickers -- they've still got to get a not-so-fun message across, after all. Saturday and Sunday, October 3-4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the San Francisco County Fair Building (Ninth Ave. at Lincoln). There'll be a $6 suggested donation at the door (kids, students, seniors free).