USA, September 12, 2020 (YouTube, with Rajiv Malhotra): Very informative video interview of Siddhartha, a 19-year-old student at Stanford University in California, one of the world’s foremost universities. Having been raised in a strict Hindu home in India, he found the initial situation at the Stanford dorm made his normal daily spiritual practices impossible. Watch him tell in his own words how he appealed to the university’s Office of Religious Life for accommodation at his dorm and for his pure vegetarian meals. The office responded by arranging a private dorm room plus meals prepared especially for him, showing the value of taking the initiative and reaching out to the right people.
Stanford provides kosher meals for orthodox Jewish students (https://rde.stanford.edu/dining/glatt-kosher-dining-program), halal meat for Muslims, and vegan and vegetarian menus (https://rde.stanford.edu/dining/eat-well-stanford#veg). According to this report, https://www.tun.com/blog/14-of-college-students-are-vegans-or-vegetarians-study-finds/, 14% of American college students are vegans or vegetarians.