Why Vegan Business Owner?
Although still a minority, we vegans are a passionate bunch who know that our choices represent a win-win-win situation: The individual vegan wins, animals win, and the world as a whole wins.
In supporting veganism, there are two basic paths to choose from. The first is trying to increase the number of vegans. The second is supporting those who are already vegan.
The first path involves the long and difficult uphill task of changing people’s awareness and thinking. This is what organizations such as PETA try to do. I’ve found that, for whatever reasons, most people just aren’t ready yet to be so conscious and open-minded.
It doesn’t make sense to try to "convert" people to veganism, any more than it makes sense to convert people to a particular religion. And in-your-face dogma typically backfires.
People are willing to give it a try only when they believe they have come to their own conclusions and feel that the time is right for them — and not a moment before.
Making factual and non-fanatical information available for non-vegans to educate themselves about the merits of a vegetable-based diet is an important part of this.
There are many intelligent and dedicated individuals and organizations pursuing this first path.
I have chosen the second path for myself. I want to help vegan entrepreneurs and businesses succeed.
Why is it so important to me that you succeed?
It’s about making a difference, and beneficially touching as many lives as possible.
There are limits to what I as an isolated individual can accomplish. So to maximize the positive value I can add to the world, I aim to leverage myself through supporting vegan entrepreneurs and vegan business owners. This is the perfect intersection among my passion, experience, and abilities.
When you, the vegan business owner, prosper, you’re in a position to make your optimal positive impact on the world. When that happens, everybody wins.
Entrepreneurs are the life blood of society. Vegan businesses add value to the lives of vegans everywhere. By helping vegan business owners, I indirectly support the vegan society as a whole and help vegans thrive.
At least, that’s my humble goal. 
Vegan Business | Chuck August 15, 2009
By Karen, August 18, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Hi Chuck,
Your goal of helping vegan businesses succeed is a worthy one. I created a new website about a week ago to try to do my part, so I’m very interested to make use of any ideas you have.
Karen
By Irma, August 23, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
I am spending hours trying to get all the pieces together to promote the Vegan lifestyle same as your goal.
However, you must be a lot more savy on all the details of promoting on the Internet.
what kind of service do you offer for we newbys?
Thank you for commenting concerning email designs where I found you.
Irma
By Vegan, November 4, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
hi Chuck — looking forward to talking with you.
By Karine, January 17, 2010 @ 12:11 am
So glad I met you today!! I’m very excited to hear all about how you can help me
Karine
By Ishmael, February 10, 2010 @ 6:54 pm
Starting a raw food & vegan resturant in COLUMBUS,OHIO.ALSO WE WOULD LIKE TO TEACH THE PUBLIC HOW TO MAKE VEGAN & RAW MEALS.
By Phil, February 17, 2010 @ 2:18 pm
Hi Chuck, I just listened to your interview with Glenn. I am in his membership club right now, struggling to find my way, learning more and more every day. It was great to hear your experiences so far. Just wanted to say hi for now. I’ll touch base again sometime. Thanks.
By Gabrielle, November 30, 2010 @ 7:52 am
Hey Chuck!
I’m in the beginning stages of building a vegan business, so happy to have found you!
Thanks for being here, let me know if you have any sample restaurant business plans that you can share….
Forward,
Gabrielle
By Eric, January 14, 2011 @ 1:10 am
Hi Chuck, I’m interested in building community while generating income for myself. I like your little online project here. I hope it’s working well for you.
By The Vegan Nurse, March 3, 2011 @ 4:48 pm
Hello Chuck, I am a vegan and I am a nurse. My goal is to teach people the health benefits of a plant based diet. Two out of three Americans are overweight and our children have adult diseases such as heart disease, adult onset diabetes etc.
All the while I am trying to help people I also need to generate an income for myself. I look forward to learning from your expertise.
By Vegan Business Alliance NYC, November 2, 2011 @ 6:23 am
We have started a small new site aimed at giving attention to vegan start-ups and small businesses looking to expand. If you know of a business or are starting one and are looking for capital via a crowd-funding site or looking for investors, please let us know. We want to help other vegan businesses succeed. Being featured is free.
http://fundingveganbiz.blogspot.com/
By Tara, March 22, 2012 @ 3:30 am
Hi Chuck,
Love what you’re doing. I just recently launched a website http://hireveg.com/ which is a veg business directory. We created the site because we want to help and promote veg businesses and support the community.
Just one more tool you can use to help your customers and your local vegan community. Keep up the great work!