COVID19: The Palmetto Plant Eaters Club will not be meeting until further notice. Please sign up for the newsletter below to be notified of when meetings start up again. Thank you!

The Palmetto Plant Eaters Club is a PlantPure Nation pod group that meets monthly on the 1st Wednesday at 6:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry building in Bluffton, South Carolina, USA, at 110 Malphrus Road. There are several ways to get in touch with our club and our calendar of events. Membership & meeting attendance are free and open to the public.

[South Carolina is the Palmetto State. We don’t eat palmettos!]

1. Access our event calendar HERE.

2. Join Palmetto Plant Eaters Club on Facebook HERE.

3. Sign up below to receive our newsletter including upcoming speaker bios, meeting reminders, and event announcements.

Learn more about PPEC by watching the video below:

The PPEC Mission is to teach and support whole food, plant-based eating to prevent & reverse 80-90% of the leading chronic diseases that plague Americans. The Club started in November 2015 in response to the film PlantPure Nation and has been meeting monthly ever since.

Our meetings are free, open to the public, and are for the curious, beginners, and longtime plant-based & vegan practitioners alike. We aim to keep the meeting topics interesting to those at the beginning of this path and to those well into their journeys.

We will always answer questions to the best of our abilities from anyone in attendance so feel welcomed and encouraged to ask. PPEC focuses on personal health with whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) education and explores the full vegan lifestyle. 

• Getting Started on a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet document HERE. Recipes, doctors, tips, and more!

• Join us at our annual Lowcountry VegFest on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at Shelter Cove Park on Hilton Head Island. More info HERE.

• If you would like to be considered to speak, teach, or present to the PPEC, please contact Carla HERE. (Please note that we do not accept strictly sales or MLM presentations and that we prefer informational & educational presentations and classes.) Our monthly meetings are on a 1 hour non-paid format. Saturday classes are on a 2 or 3 hour paid (class fee) format.

What is the difference between WFPB and vegan eating?

Vegan eating is part of a multi-faceted ethical lifestyle that opposes the exploitation and use of all animals for any reason. Vegan food choices are part of that lifestyle and may be unprocessed, minimally processed, or highly processed foods as long as they don’t contain animal products. 

“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.” The Vegan Society 1988

Whole food, plant-based (WFPB) eating is a diet that is based on science and promotes whole and minimally processed plant foods for the prevention and reversal of chronic diseases. 

It is possible to be WFPB and not vegan. It is possible to be vegan and not WFPB. The Palmetto Plant Eaters Club encourages you to adopt a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet as part of a vegan lifestyle…in other words, wholesome vegansism.

Click HERE to see the below chart at a larger scale.