Request vegan food for a child in preschool or school
Addressed to the principal, the person responsible for meal provision, the school administration or the municipality. Asks for the meals served to the child to be vegan.
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Templates – Request Vegan Food
Ready-to-use templates for requesting vegan food from public-sector organisations in Sweden. Choose your situation, read the short explanation, then copy or download a professionally written request and adapt it with your own details. The templates are practical examples, not individual legal advice, and are based on European human-rights law.
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Request vegan food during hospital care
For patients, or someone writing on a patient’s behalf, requesting vegan meals during an inpatient stay rather than having to rely on food brought in from outside.
Request vegan food in elderly care
For residents, or someone writing on a resident’s behalf, in nursing homes, residential elderly care and municipal care facilities.
Request for vegan meals during detention
A more legally focused template for people deprived of their liberty, in prison or on remand, referring expressly to Article 9 case law on diets.
General request for vegan food
An adaptable template for universities, day centres, publicly funded services and other public institutions.
Citizen proposal – a statutory right to vegan food in public services
A ready-made, editable citizen proposal (medborgarförslag) for submission to a Swedish municipality, urging it to work towards national legislation on a right to vegan food in publicly funded services.
Request for reconsideration of a refusal
For use after a public body has refused a request for vegan meals. Asks the authority to reconsider its decision and to state the factual and legal grounds relied upon.
Why can vegan food be a legal issue?
Depending on the circumstances, veganism may constitute a genuinely held ethical or conscientious conviction protected by Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The European Court of Human Rights has made clear that protection under Article 9 is not limited to religious beliefs. In G.K. and A.S. v. Switzerland (2026), which concerned vegan convictions, the Court recognised the relevance of veganism as an ethical and conscientious conviction.
The judgment does not automatically establish an absolute right to vegan food in every public-sector situation. It does, however, provide an important legal basis for arguing that authorities and public institutions must properly consider requests for vegan food where Article 9 is engaged, and give reasons for a refusal.
These templates are provided for informational and practical purposes and do not constitute individual legal advice. They contain legal arguments advanced by FFVR; parts of the reasoning are not settled law, and the applicable legal position depends on the circumstances of each case.