Plant Based Diet
Table of Contents
Tools
Diet Trackers
Cronometer This diet tracker is free, allows you to add or change your own recipes, and add new products. Most diet tracking apps just show macro nutrients, and a few micronutrients including Iron and Calcium, but this app shows far more including zinc, selenium, iodine, and others that people should keep an eye on, especially on a plant-based diet.
Food Calculators
CarbonCloud "calculates accurate carbon footprint data for food industry companies so they can communicate, report, and improve their sustainability initiatives."
CarbonTag "By increasing consumer trust and carbon transparency, our label decreased emissions by 9.5% and increased revenue by 20.1%."
Eat Low Carbon This comic-style education tool has a quiz and offers meal ideas with their comparative impact on the environment.
Food Carbon Emissions Calculator This calculator breaks down your food emissions into a chart showing transportation, production, and waste emissions with a slider to set waste percentage.
Climate Change Food Calculator The calculator in this article lets you select a food and set how often you eat it. Then gives the impact in numbers as well as visual guides of how many mile driven, liters, of water used, days of home heating, as well as a graph showing how the emissions of your selected food compares to similar foods.
The Vegan Calculator: How Much Have You Saved? "A Vegan lifestyle saves animals, the environment & much more. Calculate how much you've saved."
Food Finders
HappyCow This app has helped many of us find delicious food in our own communities and while traveling. While it's famous for helping people find restaurants, it also lists groceries and other vegan businesses.
VeganCheese "the smart vegan cheese discovery tool, where you can filter and sort the biggest database of vegan cheeses anywhere online."
The following isn't specifically vegan, but may also be helpful for those with dietary restrictions:
Find Me Gluten Free We haven't found an environmental difference with glute-free eating, but have included this useful food finder, so people with food allergies can cross reference with Happy Cow to more easily find safe food.
Activism Resources
Activism
Activist Hub "is an online tool that allows activists to see how many people they have inspired to watch documentaries, take a vegan challenge, request a mentor, and to even go vegan!
Activist Hub is also the world’s first animal rights social network. Add friends, join groups, create or share posts, and message other activists!"
Cafés & Restaurants
Vegan Catering Made Easy (PDF) These can be shared as a link, or printed out to be given to local restaurants.
Veganise Your Town "Improving vegan options in your town will not only make life easier for you, but will also help others along the journey to go vegan. We can provide resources to get you started when speaking to your local independent cafes and restaurants."
Directories
Pros & Cons of Eating Vegan
In this section we offer studies and similar resources that explore the effects of plant-based-diets on athletes and regular people.
Fitness
Roadmap for Switching to Vegan Foods
Most of us weren't born vegan or vegetarian, and just thinking about making such a change can be really overwhelming for some people. When I first realized there were more reasons to be vegan than not, I still struggled with concerns about my (at the time) poor health, learning where to eat, or even knowing what to eat made me hesitate to even get started. Fortunately shopping guides for vegans can help you understand what vegan products you already own and use, as well as simple tips for veganizing your old recipes without even noticing any difference.
The following are steps I took during my transition period which helped ensure more positive experiences than negative:
Week 1
Search your kitchen to find which plant/mushroom/algae based products you already own and enjoy!
Open a file or pull out a piece of paper and list some vegan foods you enjoy eating these can include mushrooms and seaweed, nuts, fruits, veggies, grains and more.
List some animal foods that you feel the most upset about going without.
Search the internet, cooking magazines or books for vegan alternatives to these foods. When I did this many of the foods I wanted didn't have any vegan recipes and no companies were making them, but now brands are making everything from vegan shrimp to breaded drum sticks with edible "bones", and there have been an explosion of even allergy friendly recipes for just about everything from meringue to tres leches.
Learn about the vitamins vegans are most likely to be deficient in, and about the products they use to avoid deficiency. Be aware that most people (including those who eat meat, dairy, and eggs) are deficient or insufficient in a variety of nutrients, and decide what types of fortified foods and/or supplements you might need to include.
Make a shopping list with items from each list, subtract anything you already have at home, and see if any of the ingredients overlap, for example you might want to use "nooch" to try a new mac-n-cheeze sauce with a healthy dose of B12 and other vitamins.
Try to food prep some meals so you don't have to try making a new meal while you are already hangry. If I can't commit to batch cooking a few dishes at once, I sometimes stagger the dishes throughout a week, so one day I'll make a weeks worth of pasta salad for lunch, a day or two later I might make a big stir fry, a tray of roasted veggies, or a shepherd-less pie, and some random evening I might make up a few days worth of porridge or a tray of protein bars to snack on.
Any time you (and/or others) like a recipe: Save it in a file! Also make sure include any notes or changes ASAP otherwise they are very easy to forget.
"Nooch" (nutritional yeast) is famous for it's rich B12 content and cheezy flavor, but it is also high in niacin and other nutrients. Marmite isn't gluten-free, but it is also high in a variety of B vitamins, and gives food a beefy flavor. The British eat it on toast or in sandwiches, but it also makes a good beef broth substitute if you can't use soy sauce or find other beefless bullion alternatives.
Week 2
Look at your list and decide what if anything you want to try again or try to improve. Include anything you need for these on your shopping list.
Look at the list and pick out some foods you didn't try last week. Make sure any needed items are added to the shopping list.
Repeat the same steps, and if you are using a diet tracker (which is highly recommended, at least for your first few weeks!), then pay close attention to any nutrients you are low on. Each week I would asses which (if any) nutrients were the lowest/below the recommended level, and would search for vegan foods that were high in those nutrients, then make sure to pick recipes/food items that included these. For example if your iron or calcium get low, you might want to add some spinach to your sandwiches or learn to cook leafy greens into tasty side dishes or meals like palak (nondairy) paneer.
Week 3 +
Repeat the above steps till you have a nice collection of foods you love and will probably eventually learn to make without even looking at a recipe. Add new foods and recipes as often as you want. The biggest limiter is sometimes our imaginations ;p
If you have any health issues or tend to be deficient in any particular nutrients that you have issues with (such as needing to avoid too much salt/sugar, or if your doctor has determined your body struggles to process B12, D, iron, etc.) then it can be helpful to have a subsection or some type of tagging/colouring system for recipes/foods that help you meet your requirements.
It is generally recommended to have a yearly check up regardless of your diet, but it can be worth while mentioning your diet to your doctor as this may influence which drugs they give you, and what types of blood tests they may recommend.
Tips for "Fussy Eaters"
Before even going vegan, meal times were a huge struggle in our home, often resulting in crying, hurt feelings, and sometimes making a different meal if things came out badly enough.
The best method I've found was to ask our child (and my partner) to give ratings on the overall meal 0 = "worst thing ever/can't even eat it" to 10 = "best food ever" (adjust your phrasing as needed). Then if the meal was made of different parts, we'd go around the plate rating each part: the protein, the veggies, the carb (like rice or potatoes), the sauce if there was one.
Having a numbering system removes the opportunity for them to make cruel comments and hurtful faces, but also provides a more objective rating system especially if your child's vocabulary is still limited.
At least if your picky eater gives the veggies a 5, saying they like the flavor but hate the texture, then you might realize you just have to try a different cooking method but can use the same flavorings, instead of totally giving up on that food type all together.
This opened the door to me realizing they actually liked foods a lot more than they'd been letting on. This information helped us come up with meal plans and shopping lists together. We started letting our child pick one meal a week to learn to cook, I'd buy the ingredients, and we'd learn together or I'd teach them to cook so that they eventually gained a better appreciation for the effort that goes into making meals.
When fussy eaters learn to cook this helps them open up to new foods, and can improve their empathy for the people who usually cook for them.
Meal Planning
Recommended Replacements for Favorite Foods
The links below are collections of recipes, products, and cooking tips for replacing your favorite animal foods with, eco-friendly alternatives. Topics are listed by biggest drop in your ecological impact if you switched away from the animal-based version.
Comparing Foods & Their Impacts
Animal Products VS Supply Chain Food Waste "With a third of all food production lost via leaky supply chains or spoilage, food loss is a key contributor to global food insecurity. Demand for resource-intensive animal-based food further limits food availability. In this paper, we show that plant-based replacements for each of the major animal categories in the United States (beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs) can produce twofold to 20-fold more nutritionally similar food per unit cropland. Replacing all animal-based items with plant-based replacement diets can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people, more than the expected benefits of eliminating all supply chain food loss."
Nutritional Comparisons
Or
Click the Food Security button to learn more about the nutritional value of different foods and their impact on the environment.
Animal Farming Environmental Impacts
Harvard Study Finds Shift to Grass-Fed Beef Would Require 30% More Cattle and Increase Beef’s Methane Emissions 43% "A Harvard report published July 2018 in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that shifting U.S. beef production to exclusively grass-fed, pastured systems would require 30% more cattle just to keep up with current demand and production levels, and that the average methane footprint per unit of beef produced would increase by 43% due to the slower growth rates and higher methane conversion rates of grass-fed cattle. This would increase the U.S.’s total methane emissions by approximately 8%, according to the researchers."
Infographics
Vegan Substitutes & Recipes
Cakes
Tres Leches can be made easily by buying a box of yellow cake mix (gluten-free if anyone has wheat or gluten issues), use whatever plant-based milk you prefer and egg substitute of your choice. Flax meal is very nutritious, but the white, powdered kind from the baking isle works great too! Follow the egg-making instructions (usually mix the powder or meal with water and wait 5 minutes before mixing with the cake ingredients). Follow the baking instructions, use oil or vegan butter to grease the pan, and make the leche sauce with about 15oz non-dairy heavy whipping cream (usually in the cold dairy section), and a can each of vegan evaporated milk and sweetened condenced milk. A splash of vanilla extract optional. Mix together and chill. Poke holes all over the cake when it comes out, and allow to cool, then pour the sauce over till it absorbs. If the cake resists the sauce, you may need to squeeze it a bit to help the leche mixture soak in deeper. You can buy a tub of whipped cream from the desert freezer section or a spray can from the dairy aisle to top the cake. Use a spoon or spatula to flatten this layer on top of the cake. Decorative fruit optional.
How to Help Others
Fight Hunger
Food Not Bombs International
Lviv Vegan Kitchen is helping the Ukraine war effort by feeding vegan meals to refugees, soldiers, and volunteers.
Click the Combat Hunger button to find other ways to fight hunger with our directory of apps and charities.
Community-Level Adoption
Farmers' Markets
These can also help promote plant-based alternatives and help connect community members with how their food is produced. At the same time these gatherings support farmers with fairer prices by removing the middle man.
Groceries & Food Processors
Groceries and companies responsible for packaging foods can help people make more eco-friendly choices,
1st by offering more sustainable products in the first place, and
2nd by providing clear, and accurate information for these foods.
Product Placement
Some customers may prefer to have specific veg-only places to search for their dairy-free yogurts and cheeses, while others might enjoy seeing vegan meat-alternatives slowly crowd out the increasingly expensive meats of the deli section. Some companies appease both types of customers by having various pockets of vegan-friendly foods, but having animal-free products next to the traditional versions of those foods can help encourage purchases from meat-lovers who keep hearing of the health benefits or emissions reduction that plant-based alternatives can offer.
Restaurants & Cafeterias
School cafeterias, restaurants, hotels, elderly homes, hospitals, and businesses who offer food can all join in the transition to more planet-friendly, not to mention healthier food options.
Find vegan alternatives for the more climate-intensive foods. This could mean switching from beef of lamb, to vegan meats or beans in your main course selection. After providing alternatives for the heavy hitters, keep working down the list till you are making smaller changes like exchanging chicken eggs for flax eggs.
Menus
Menus and product packaging can include ratings to help consumers choose the more eco-friendly products. Use the resources below for inspiration and food sustainability info.
Resources
Resources
Plant-Based Menus & Events
Adopting A Menu Policy "Food for Thought works with nonprofits to align their menu with their mission. A vegan menu policy is a board-approved, written guideline which states that the food served at an organization’s events and fundraisers will be entirely plant-based (no meat, dairy, eggs). Adopting a vegan menu policy is better for animals, the environment, and human welfare."
Product Donations "When planning an animal-friendly menu for your event, look to some of these great companies for assistance with food donations, coupons, recipes, and more!"
Sample Event Menus "Hosting a vegan event and need inspiration? Check out our sample menus from real events hosted by our grant recipients!"
Plant-Based Menus & Events
Adopting A Menu Policy "Food for Thought works with nonprofits to align their menu with their mission. A vegan menu policy is a board-approved, written guideline which states that the food served at an organization’s events and fundraisers will be entirely plant-based (no meat, dairy, eggs). Adopting a vegan menu policy is better for animals, the environment, and human welfare."
Product Donations "When planning an animal-friendly menu for your event, look to some of these great companies for assistance with food donations, coupons, recipes, and more!"
Sample Event Menus "Hosting a vegan event and need inspiration? Check out our sample menus from real events hosted by our grant recipients!"
Examples
Policy Leaders (USA) "The organizations listed below have board-approved mission-driven vegan or vegetarian menu policies. If you would like to see your group listed, please submit your policy to us. Need some inspiration? Check out these sample policies!"
Sample Event Menus "Hosting a vegan event and need inspiration? Check out our sample menus from real events hosted by our grant recipients!"
Policy & Political Advocacy
Farm Transitions
"In developed countries, where more resources are available and animal products are consumed at a higher level, subsidies for animal agriculture should be cut and instead allocated to promote the production of best available replacement foods." - Climate Change And Animal Agriculture: A Three Step Plan For Policy Makers
Government programs should focus on educating farmers, and helping to support them financially with investments towards more sustainable practices including:
No-till equipment
Solar panels & find turbines where appropriate
Funding for the creation and maintenance of riparian zones and wildflowers strips
Intercropping
Converting livestock barns into indoor operations for plants, mushrooms, or algae.
Converting destroyed peatland into paludiculture farms.
Infrastructure needs to be transitioned from meat, dairy, and egg production, towards plant-based alternatives.
Resources
Climate Change And Animal Agriculture: A Three Step Plan For Policy Makers "Global commitments to limit climate change require policy actions that move towards more plant-based diets. Research suggests that starting with decreasing cow consumption may be a strategic start."
Documentaries & Movies
Health & Wellness
Medical Professionals
International
Plantrician Providers: Plant Based Docs Find nutritionists, doctors, nurses, life coaches, and more vegan-friendly professionals in your area.
Organizations
International
⭐️ 5 Minutes 5 Vegans 🖥️ 🖱️ "Our vegan robots are constantly scanning social media, they retweet people we think are looking for help with going Vegan. Below are a bunch of quick-copy resources you can reply with quickly if you'd like. Simply scroll through the lists on the right and talk to the ones that could use a little help!"
Animal Equality "is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals."
Animal Ethics "provides information and resources about the reasons to respect all animals, promotes discussion and debate about issues in animal ethics, and encourages academics and scientists to do research in related areas."
Anonymous for the Voiceless 📷 🔲 🧑🤝🧑 "(AV) is an animal rights organisation specialising in edifying the public on the streets with Cubes of Truth and fostering highly effective activism groups worldwide. We hold an abolitionist stance against all forms of non-human animal exploitation and promote a clear and direct animal rights message."
Beyond Animal 🖥️ 🖱️ 💹 💰 "Where investors and vegan businesses meet" "Using technology, for online funding, networking and business services, to accelerate the transition to an economy free of animal exploitation. Our vision: a kinder, cleaner, healthier world."
Challenge 22+ 🖥️ 🖱️ "If you’ve been vegan for over six months, have patience and empathy for new vegans and the motivation to help make the vegan population grow, you’re exactly what we’re looking for! Our Challenges take place within Facebook groups, and we ask our Challenge mentors to be present in the group on a daily basis. Our goal is around 10 comments or an hour a day (can be dispersed throughout the day)."
Direct Action Everywhere "We create empowered networks of nonviolent direct action to force animal rights into the public consciousness."
The Humane League 🖥️ 🖱️ "Our community of digital activists are driving real and meaningful change for animals, every day. Be part of the action—join the Fast Action Network!
At The Humane League, we’ve witnessed hundreds of companies crack under public pressure from online advocates, giving way to meaningful progress for animals. At the center of that progress is always a consistent force—our Fast Action Network (FAN)."Meat The Victims 🏭 📷 "A new generation of the growing community of citizens willing to disobey unjust laws altogether to abolish animal exploitation. Locking down inside the very places the animals are kept hostage and allowing the public to meet the victims of their choices through personal footage."
Mercy for Animals "believes that a world without industrial animal agriculture is possible—if we work together to create it. Imagine a world in which we nourish ourselves with food that is kind to animals and sustainable for the planet and all who share it. We envision a world in which eating is an act of compassion, in which no one is exploited or forced to exploit another."
Open Wing Alliance 🐔 "Our coalition works together toward a shared goal: to end the abuse of chickens worldwide. Our first step toward achieving this ambitious goal is eliminating cruel battery cages from our world, and we’re working toward achieving that vision, one cage-free policy at a time. "
The Save Movement 📷 "is comprised of groups around the world who bear witness of pigs, cows, chickens and other farmed animals en route to slaughter. Our goals are to raise awareness about the plight of farmed animals, to help people become vegan, and to build a mass-based, grassroots animal justice movement."
Vegan Activism "a verified list of vegan organizations from around the world! Whether you have a lot of time to commit to the animals or just a little, there's an organization on our list that aligns with your goals and interests and is looking for your help to spread the compassionate vegan message."
⭐️Vegan Hacktivists 🖥️ 🖱️ "We are a global community of passionate animal advocates offering our skills in building technology for the animal protection movement through design, development, and data. As capacity builders, we deliver innovative and quality services at no cost to advocates and organizations.
Our team is composed of highly-skilled and professional software engineers, designers, data scientists, and content creators. By leveraging our diverse background and skill sets, we design and build data-driven projects that aim to be effective and experimental.
Our capacity-building services are how we contribute to the movement. Leveraging our vast network of volunteers, we collaborate with individuals and organizations to offer web development, branding, and advisory services."
Africa
India
Dehradun Animal Save "Our goal is to achieve animal liberation by raising awareness about the plight of farmed animals..."
Kolkata Animal Save "is part of international animal rights organisation The Save Movement."
Lucknow Animal Save "is part of international animal rights organisation The Save Movement."
Veggie Mijas "We are a community of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people who are dedicated to advocating for plant-based lifestyles and food justice within marginalized communities."
Israel
Vegan Friendly ✅ 🛒 "We certify restaurants, products and businesses and label them as “Vegan Friendly”, helping vegans around the world enjoy a vegan lifestyle simply and easily.
Using our app you can discover nearby restaurants offering a variety of vegan options. Our activities make veganism accessible and easier than ever before, and with our app you can enjoy dozens of amazing benefits - at the click of a button!
We also initiate and implement growndbreaking projects and campaigns to raise awareness of the animal agriculture industry, and the climate crisis, in order to encourage change among the public."
Japan
Animal Rights Map 🌍 "With over 2,500 groups, browse the largest collection of animal rights activist groups all located in one single map!"
どうぶつのためのボランティア@水戸 "茨城の水戸駅でどうぶつのためのボランティアをしています🌱参加者大歓迎💓🌎main→manami @cmpblove"
アニマルライツセンター "Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)「すべての動物に思いやりを。」動物たちの苦しみや、差別、暴力をなくそう！
動物たちに起きている現状を発信
畜産動物の福祉の向上と動物利用を縮小させよう！
リポスト大歓迎！ボランティア募集中"
アニマルライツセンター千葉 "アクショングループです！動物たちの苦しみをなくしていくため、活動をしていきます📣 @animalrightscenter"
アニマルライツセンター兵庫 "「経済動物」として利用・搾取され続けている動物たちの現実を伝え広めることを目的としています。NPO法人アニマルライツセンター 地方グループ 本部 @animalrightscenter"
アニマルライツセンター香川 "すべての人と動物と地球に優しい気持ちを動物が動物らしくいられる権利と尊厳を求めて🐄🐖🐓🥚 NPOアニマルライツセンター本部 @animalrightscenter"
アニマルライツセンター葛飾 "NPO法人アニマルライツセンターの地方アクショングループです。人にも動物にも優しいまちを目指して"
アニマルライツセンター滋賀 "アニマルライツ情報 署名リンクをまとめました 1人1人の力が集まれば大きな声になります" lit.link/animaruraitsu
アニマルライツセンター湘南 "工場畜産を終わらせよう。NPOアニマルライツセンターのアクショングループです。湘南から動物利用の削減とアニマルウェルフェアの向上を目指します。湘南を日本で一番動物に優しい地域にするぞ！＃EndFactoryFarming @animalrightscenter"
Vegan Unite Fukuoka "動物搾取の現実を伝え、対話ベースの啓発活動CUBE OF TRUTHを2019年より福岡で行っている団体。"
Philippines
Animal Rights March Philippines "Philippines is organized by local independent animal rights activists."
Singapore
Centre for a Responsible Future "Promoting plant-based lifestyle for a greener, healthier, and more compassionate world."
NUS Vege "Interest Group promoting compassionate & sustainable living"
Saudi Arabia
Animal Save Saudi Arabia "فعالية قائمة على الحب و الاحترام لتحرير الحيوانات ✊🏽
🌍 @thesavemovement نحن جزء من الحركة العالمية
مجتمع #نباتيين_السعودية
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Europe
Phoenix Zones Initiative "Phoenix Zones Initiative is working to create a world of Phoenix Zones—places that advance the health and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet, allowing society to rise and thrive—like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
In the heart of where change is possible—from small towns to Washington, DC, and the United Nations—we work to change lives and reimagine social, economic, and legal norms for the better."The Vegan Society "The practicalities of volunteering ranges from role to role, but regardless of what you’re doing, volunteering with us will always be meaningful, enjoyable, and well supported. Every project you ever work on will hold value to the charity’s work, and will feed in to the future of veganism."
Finland
Iceland / Ísland
Samtök grænkera á Íslandi "Tilgangur samtakanna er að standa vörð um velferð og réttindi dýra sem og hagsmuni grænkera. Allt starf samtakanna er unnið í sjálfboðavinnu. Vilt þú vera félagi í samtökunum?"
Ireland
Russia
Voices for Animals "Организация по защите животных, используемых в сельском хозяйстве"
UK
Animal Justice Project "Animal Justice Project works strategically within five key areas to achieve this: Undercover investigation, pressure campaigning, education, organising and public engagement."
Plant-Based Food Alliance UK "is a coalition of organisations from across the U.K.’s plant-based value chain. Consumers are increasingly shifting to more plant-based eating, which is an opportunity to transition to a more sustainable, healthier, and secure food system.
Our key aims are to support a thriving plant-based food and drink sector in the U.K. that helps to improve public health as well as reducing industrial farming and supporting the Government’s environmental goals..."
Vegan Friendly ✅ 🛒 "We certify restaurants, products and businesses and label them as “Vegan Friendly”, helping vegans around the world enjoy a vegan lifestyle simply and easily.
Using our app you can discover nearby restaurants offering a variety of vegan options. Our activities make veganism accessible and easier than ever before, and with our app you can enjoy dozens of amazing benefits - at the click of a button!
We also initiate and implement growndbreaking projects and campaigns to raise awareness of the animal agriculture industry, and the climate crisis, in order to encourage change among the public."The Vegan Society "The practicalities of volunteering ranges from role to role, but regardless of what you’re doing, volunteering with us will always be meaningful, enjoyable, and well supported. Every project you ever work on will hold value to the charity’s work, and will feed in to the future of veganism."
Tenerife
North America
La Asociación de Emprendedores Veganos de México es una comunidad empresarial que busca empoderar a los consumidores para adoptar estilos de vida conscientes y saludables."
USA
Animal Outlook "is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC."
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition 🏭 🐄 🧑🎓 "Empowering individuals and communities to end factory farming."
Food for Thought 📝🥕🥦 🍎 "works with nonprofits to align their menu with their mission. A vegan menu policy is a board-approved, written guideline which states that the food served at an organization’s events and fundraisers will be entirely plant-based (no meat, dairy, eggs). Adopting a vegan menu policy is better for animals, the environment, and human welfare."
Generación Vegana "Trabajamos con amabilidad y empatía para promover un sistema más saludable, más sustentable y más justo para todes."
The Humane League 🖥️ 🖱️ "Our community of digital activists are driving real and meaningful change for animals, every day. Be part of the action—join the Fast Action Network!
At The Humane League, we’ve witnessed hundreds of companies crack under public pressure from online advocates, giving way to meaningful progress for animals. At the center of that progress is always a consistent force—our Fast Action Network (FAN)."New Roots Institute "is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming."
Phoenix Zones Initiative "Phoenix Zones Initiative is working to create a world of Phoenix Zones—places that advance the health and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet, allowing society to rise and thrive—like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
In the heart of where change is possible—from small towns to Washington, DC, and the United Nations—we work to change lives and reimagine social, economic, and legal norms for the better."Vegan Activism "a verified list of vegan organizations from around the world! Whether you have a lot of time to commit to the animals or just a little, there's an organization on our list that aligns with your goals and interests and is looking for your help to spread the compassionate vegan message."
Vegan Outreach 📈 💪 "is a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to end violence towards animals. We seek a future when sentient animals are no longer exploited as commodities.
We focus on reaching the people who are motivated enough to make changes now—there are always many in our target audience who just need some guidance.
Founded in 1993, we’ve been most known for our massive outreach program of leafleting on college campuses. At its peak, we were handing booklets to over 1 million students at 1,000 schools per semester.
By steadily increasing the number of vegans, we’re laying the groundwork to reach a tipping point in which sweeping public policy changes for animals will become realistic."
Oceana
Australia
Meat The Victims 🏭 📷 "A new generation of the growing community of citizens willing to disobey unjust laws altogether to abolish animal exploitation. Locking down inside the very places the animals are kept hostage and allowing the public to meet the victims of their choices through personal footage."
Fiji
New Zealand
Palm Oil Detectives (f) Palm Oil Detectives (X) "An exciting non-profit news platform for creatives, scientists, concerned consumers and corporate corruption whistleblowers to #Boycott4Wildlife"
SAFE Animal Action Network "SAFE’s community of people who use their voice to create a kinder Aotearoa for animals."
South America
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Argentina
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Brazil / Brasil
Animal Equality Brasil "A Animal Equality é formada por uma equipe de funcionários, voluntários e doadores comprometidos em criar um mundo mais solidário para os animais."
Chile
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Colombia
Ecuador
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Paraguay
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Perú
Animal Libre "Activismo por todos los animales"
Uruguay
Grants & Funding
International
Animal Charity Evaluators "ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective."
A Well Fed World "Apply for a grant to support your plant-based feeding, farming and/or advocacy."
Awesome Foundation "Every two months, the Vegan Chapter of the Awesome Foundation grants $1000 to an awesome vegan project, no strings attached."
Beyond Animal "Where investors and vegan businesses meet" "Using technology, for online funding, networking and business services, to accelerate the transition to an economy free of animal exploitation. Our vision: a kinder, cleaner, healthier world."
EA Animal Welfare Fund "The Animal Welfare Fund supports advocacy, research, and movement-building work aimed at improving the wellbeing of nonhuman animals, primarily farmed and wild animals. This includes corporate and policy advocacy, research, and the promotion of alternative products."
Farmed Animal Funders "Our group is open to all individuals and foundations giving more than $250,000 per year to end factory farming."
The Greenbaum Foundation "At The Greenbaum Foundation, we focus our funding on effective and efficient projects working to bring about the end of suffering (human and non-human) in areas of the highest need and where we can have the most impact. We assist organizations with guidance, networking and funding."
Lush Charity Pot "Charity Pot grants range from £100, up to a maximum of £10,000 per project/application. The average Charity Pot grant is between £2,000 - £4,000. It is unusual to award the maximum of £10,000, as this reduces the range of projects that can be supported."
Open Philanthropy "Open Philanthropy’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work."
The Pollination Project (TPP) "is a vegan foundation that offers seed funding to grassroots activists working to build a kinder, more compassionate world for human & non-human animals.
TPP focuses on early stage ideas and funds individuals directly. Over the years, they’ve seen the power of bottom-up, community-led grassroots activism. Through “pollination philanthropy”– a democratic model of peer-to-peer decision-making — TPP works with a global network of grantees, community partners, and volunteer advisors to identify extraordinary project leaders who, due to the grassroots nature of their work, are often not in a position to receive funding from other foundations or institutions.
They make micro grants 365 days a year to grassroots global change agents and have a growing global community of 4,500 grassroots leaders in 150 countries. They support vegan outreach projects around the world, and have a special program for farmed animal activists in Brazil, India and Mexico. Their goal is to offer not just seed funding, but capacity-building support and connectivity with other activists working in the same geographic or issue area."Pro Veg Grants "We offer financial and training support in vegan advocacy and meat reduction efforts through grants, which fund work to reduce and eliminate animal consumption and through our skill-building accelerators, which offer advocates the skills they need to manage effective organizations and campaigns."
Vegan Society "The Vegan Society Grant is open to individuals and grassroots organisations. It exists to support projects which will encourage non-vegans to go vegan and stay vegan. There is no maximum grant, but a typical award is no more than £1,000."
VegFund "offers grants to help you do just that! VegFund accepts applications for funding outreach in three areas: Community Events, Special Projects, and Online Campaigns."
Europe
UK
Lush Charity Pot "Charity Pot grants range from £100, up to a maximum of £10,000 per project/application. The average Charity Pot grant is between £2,000 - £4,000. It is unusual to award the maximum of £10,000, as this reduces the range of projects that can be supported."
Vegan Society "The Vegan Society Grant is open to individuals and grassroots organisations. It exists to support projects which will encourage non-vegans to go vegan and stay vegan. There is no maximum grant, but a typical award is no more than £1,000."
North America
Food for Thought "We have several grant opportunities to help you make these goals a reality!"
USA
A Well Fed World "Apply for a grant to support your plant-based feeding, farming and/or advocacy."
Eat The Change "ETC Impact™ is a grant program working to promote and expand access to climate-friendly foods. We're donating more than $1.25 million over three years to support a diverse group of changemaking nonprofit organizations."
Seeds of Change Grant Program "A foundation helping individuals sow the seeds of a better world."
Vegan Hacktivists: Grants "We connect you with funders providing up to $1,000 USD in seed funding for animal rights activism! We seek individual and grassroots groups whose primary purpose is to help reduce suffering for farmed animals."
Oceana
Australia
Western Australia
The Sustainability Grants Program (in the City of Cockburn) "offers funding for projects related to six sustainability themes. Open to small businesses, schools, not-for-profits, and collective households, successful applicants can receive up to $4,000 for their project."