This meetup group is sponsored by the Decatur Vegetarian Society and is open to anyone residing in Central Illinois or any visitors to our area. We welcome everybody who embraces a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle or is leaning in that direction. We will be getting together to enjoy a vegetarian meal at local restaurants or in member's homes. Also, we will be sharing the joys, pleasures, and benefits of this ethical, healthy, and environmentally sustaining lifestyle. Occasionally, we will participa …

Southeast Missouri isn't exactly a welcoming place for vegetarians/vegans, so lets get together and support each other! This is open to all vegetarians, vegans, or those who are just curious about making the switch. We can have potlucks, go to the few veg-friendly restaurants, and generally support each other. I am starting this group because I am new to the area and would like to meet friends with similar interests, and I would love to know that there's more of us out there in a town of hunting …

I am starting this group to connect with other like-minded people and share ideas. The purpose of our group would be to socialize, and figure out ways to share our lifestyle with others. Anyone interested in the vegan lifestyle, and animal lovers should join.

A motley assortment of wandering minstrels, artists and conceptual artists, scribblers and readers, poets, performers, fire-eaters, philosophers, hatters, hackers, hitchhikers, and healers, visionaries, vegans, and would-be vagrants, dadaists and post-dadaists, accountants and outcasts, bikers, renegades, pariahs, pool-side pirates, percussionists, conspiracy theorists, ne'r-do-wells, drifters, surfers, beach bums, misanthropes, magicians, minimally-functional lunatics, snake charmers, and subve …