In Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association News from the United States…
On November 1, 2025, our Association members from Northern California participated in the 26th Annual World Vegan Festival, hosted by the San Francisco Vegan Society at the SMC Event Center. The event drew record attendance, the highest since 2018, and featured inspirational speakers including Dr. Will Tuttle, Shining World Hero Award recipient and author of “The World Peace Diet”; renowned chef, entrepreneur, and Shining World Compassion Award recipient Miyoko Schinner, founder of Miyoko’s Creamery; and bodybuilding champion Robert Cheeke, among others. The festival featured more than 80 vegan vendors and live vegan cooking demonstrations, showcasing an abundant array of vegan products. Attendees enjoyed everything from homemade vegan kimchi and mushroom jerky to decadent baked goods, as well as hearty favorites like vegan dim sum, jackfruit kebabs, and scrumptious mushroom burgers. Our Association members were delighted to engage with attendees and share Supreme Master Television, while distributing Master’s publications and vegan recipe booklets.
“I became a champion vegan bodybuilder, and then a champion vegan bodybuilder again, a champion runner. I was on magazine covers. I wrote popular books. I was able to build my body with plants, no animals at all, all natural, lifetime drug- and alcohol-free, and now vegan for 30 years. One of my favorite slogans is ‘Anything you can do, I can do vegan.’ It doesn’t have to slow you down. Anything you can do, I can do vegan, and we can do vegan. And that’s what I want people to do, is to embrace it. Lead by example, know why you’re doing it, and never forget. I never forget why I stopped eating animals. I care about animals, and I want them to live a life free of fear, pain, and suffering, just like me.
We’ve got to make plant-based food affordable, tasty, and convenient, which is what I love about Loving Hut, for example. My favorite vegan restaurant, I wrote about it in my book, my favorite. Loving Hut is my favorite. I was just there in Arizona recently, at two different Loving Hut locations, because the food is tasty, and it’s cost-effective. It’s very tasty, and it’s convenient because you can find it in a lot of different places. I even saw, I think I found one at the Taiwan airport. It was amazing.”
“What turned me vegan was the experience of a crippling autoimmune disease. My doctor said, ‘Well, you need to take these medications, and you’re going to need to take them for the rest of your life, otherwise you won’t be able to get out of a chair.’
So I started reading about other options for people with autoimmune (diseases) and learned about a vegan diet. This is almost seven years ago now. Within weeks, my symptoms went away, completely cured. I have no medication. I hardly ever get sick. I am stronger and fitter than I was 20 years ago.”
“I think when you become vegan, the biggest benefit is that you live with your true ethics. You become the best self that you can possibly become. You nurture the compassion within, and the thing that we have to do is concentrate on how we can share that compassion with others as well.”
“We could feed far more people if the world was vegan. Reducing the amount of meat and animal products that are produced and that people consume would be phenomenal for human society, and for the environment, and for the global community of life on Earth.”
“I’m the author of ‘The World Peace Diet’ and also ‘The World Peace Way,’ which is our new book. And I’ve been vegan now since 1980, traveling the world and spreading the good news of the vegan message. Madeleine and I, we’re both long-term vegans, and Madeleine is actually 77, and her biological age is only 35. I’m 72, and mine was only 22. And I think it’s really true. I feel fantastic. I don’t get sick. I haven’t really been sick in 40 years, haven’t taken any pills. So, veganism to me is a path of joy and freedom. It’s the joy of living and the freedom of knowing that we are an expression of this beautiful life that we see all around us in nature.
I’m honored to be able to actually talk to the listeners and watchers of Supreme Master TV. And I love the work that Supreme Master TV is doing, Supreme Master is doing to help raise consciousness in the world so that people connect with the spiritual dimension of compassion and kindness, and also the truth that is one life that lives through all of us. And the more we’re kind and loving to others, the more we create a positive future for our children.”
Our heartfelt gratitude to the San Francisco Vegan Society and the SMC Event Center for this uplifting event. We also thank our Association members for their loving dedication in sharing Master’s teachings. In God’s infinite Grace, may all hearts awaken to the truth that choosing veganism is choosing love, health, and peace, for ourselves, for animal-people, and for our precious planet.
