Looking for vegan food at Stagecoach? Good luck.

Corn, baked potato, watermelon … eating options are limited if you are a vegan at Stagecoach 2022. Positive, you may possibly also seize a salad, tater tots, french fries or onion rings — observe out! They may possibly be breaded in egg — and, at least one seller is serving veggie burgers.

Stagecoach formally lists more than 15 vegan suppliers on its web-site, but some of them provide practically nothing other than lemonade or fries. One more, Spicy Pie, a pizza-by-the-slice vendor, instructed The Desert Sun it does not actually provide vegan pizza by-the-slice or checklist vegan options on its menu (other than lemonade), but it retains vegan cheese on hand in case another person had been to ask for a customized pie.

All matters viewed as, vegan “major classes” are scarce all-around the Empire Polo Grounds. It is really a stark contrast from last weekend’s Coachella Valley Songs and Arts Pageant, which VegNews referred to as “the ultimate vegan foods fest.”

Granted, the region musical festival is recognized for meaty BBQ. Superstar chef Guy Fieri has a “smokehouse” tent on the grounds in between the two principal songs phases, and his cooking demos draw significant crowds.

Still, the pageant manufacturers itself as inclusive to everyone and sustainable. Stagecoach says on its web-site, “Just about every year, we intention to get superior at utilizing sources a lot more responsibly and reducing our effects on the land.”

We know that vegan foods are accessible to most diets and typically develop much less land use impacts and a lot less carbon and methane emissions than meat-primarily based foods. The Economist described in 2021 that beef farming produces 31 moments more CO₂ emissions per calorie than tofu output does and generates only 5% of the energy that go into generating it. The same outlet reported in January that if absolutely everyone were strictly vegan, the globe would only need just one-quarter of the farmland it employs nowadays.