About...
HappyCow was created in 1999 as a service to help travelers and people everywhere find vegetarian, vegan, and healthy food choices. Today, our online community is powered by dedicated members from around the world who are passionate about the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle as a healthy, compassionate, and environmentally sustainable way of living. More than a restaurant and health food store guide, our website is a constant work-in-progress toward becoming a "one-stop" resource for everything VEG.
How it all began...
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Eric Brent, founder and 20+ year vegan: The idea of HappyCow started in 1997 when I first learned that the only world guide
to vegetarian restaurants and vegan restaurants on the internet at that time (now defunct) was no longer being updated. However, I had put the
idea on hold until November 1999.
I was living in
India at that time, and although I wasn't
sure exactly how a project like this could be managed, I felt compelled to take it
on. As a world traveler who's lived, worked, and visited more than 50 countries, I've encountered much difficulty looking for "safe" food each time I arrived at a new town or city. So, I taught myself html, paid for web hosting, and HappyCow was born. |
In recent years,
HappyCow has especially benefited from time contributed by Diana Hsieh,
a 15+ year vegetarian, HappyCow member/volunteers, like Evelyn H., Irene A., John E., Ken S., Lex M., Stevie, and many others. Together, with members, new partners, and volunteers worldwide, we have lots of ideas for the future of this site.
HappyCow is a free-to-use site, non profit in nature but not 501-c status, and our manpower and resources are, at times, limited. Yet each day, the HappyCow site grows and evolves with continuous flow of positive feedback and contributions from our visitors and members. Feel free to read more about us in our interview with Earth Balance (December 2010) and with VegParadise (July 2007). |
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Partners, sponsors, and volunteers
who would like to be involved in some way -- from investing and financial support, writing articles & blogs, advertising your business/projects on the site, to indirect support by offering of your programming expertise -- please email us.
Spread the word! Please link to HappyCow from your websites, blogs, twitter, and facebook.
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