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Introduction
Introduction
Veganism is a movement originally intended to help prevent the unnecessary suffering of animals, however it also overlaps heavily with environmental causes.
Livestock farming, fish farming, the fishing industry, the leather and wool industries all have massive negative impacts on the environment.
Hunting for bushmeat, to kill off livestock predators, as well as poaching for the pet industry, tourism and zoos, circus that use animals, private exotic animal collections, public aquariums, direction specimens, and medical test subjects are practices that are helping to drive species extinctions.
By adopting veganism as a diet, as well as other consumption habits such as clothing, animal-based medicines, and entertainment can help protect animals as well as our environment.
Benefits of Vegan Activism
Benefits of Vegan Activism
Environmental Benefits
Environmental Benefits
Carbon Sequestration
Carbon Sequestration
"Using country-level data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we estimated the growth in global food consumption by 2050, assuming that people in lower-income countries will consume more food and higher quantities of meat as economies grow. If 50–75 percent of people adopt a healthy diet of an average 2,300 calories per day and reduce meat consumption overall, we estimate at least 54.19–78.48 gigatons of emissions could be avoided from dietary change alone. Since agriculture, particularly for cattle and animal feed production, is the leading driver of tropical deforestation, reducing meat consumption can avoid additional forest loss and associated greenhouse gas emissions." - Drawdown: Plant-Rich Diets
Water Security
Water Security
Raising livestock and their feed not only require more clean water than any other human activity, while at the same time causing serious damage via water pollution.
Vegan Practices can Protect Soil
Vegan Practices can Protect Soil
Human Rights & Welfare
Human Rights & Welfare
Across the globe people suffer throughout our agriculture and food industries, however some of the worst treatment is experienced in livestock facilities and farms. Slavery type conditions are rampant from the beef ranches in Brazil to the shrimp farms and factories in Thailand and other parts of Asia, while countries in Europe and North America use human trafficking and illiterate immigrants to butcher animals in unsanitary conditions, since these are the types of people who are least likely to report workplace abuse or even know their legal rights at all.
Activism Resources
Activism Resources
Activism
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
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."
Healthy Communication Skills
Healthy Communication Skills
1:19 hour video "Many vegans find that it`s difficult or impossible to feel connected with the non-vegans in their lives and to communicate about veganism in a way that doesn`t cause cause conflict. Often, too, vegans have trouble relating and communicating with each other when they disagree with each other`s ideas. In this new presentation, psychologist Dr. Melanie Joy explains the principles and tools for creating healthy, connected relationships, and she gives tips on how to talk about even the most challenging issues productively."
Fight Hunger
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.
Classroom Activism
Classroom Activism
We can start teaching the next generation the value of animal welfare and related environmental issues starting at a very young age, and help foster behaviors that will continue to protect nature from human impact for generations to come.
Religion & Veganism
Religion & Veganism
While we don't believe you have to be religious to be vegan, many religions encourage vegan ethics, even if many practicing those religions don't adhere to veganism. The quotations from religious texts may be helpful in helping to sway religious listeners towards a kinder, more peaceful diet.
Middle East Vegan Society: Islam & Veganism "The following initiative includes hadiths from different sects and religious opinions respecting all point of views. Readers are encouraged to follow with the ones they prefer depending on their beliefs." (Information available in Arabic, English, and Spanish)
Mental Health
Mental Health
Groups & Organizations
Groups & Organizations
International
International
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."
Israel
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."
UK
UK
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..."
The Vegan Land Movement CIC (VLM) "is a collective of like-minded vegans who work together as a holistic movement to provide solutions that will effect a change in cruel exploitative farming practices, conservation and land use, based on vegan principles."
Tools & Calculators
Tools & Calculators
En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator "is a fast, powerful climate solutions scenario tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. The simulator focuses on how changes in global GDP, energy efficiency, technological innovation, and carbon price influence carbon emissions, global temperature, and other factors. It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of groups in policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.
En-ROADS is being developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, UML Climate Change Initiative, and MIT Sloan.
This guide provides background on the dynamics of En-ROADS, tips for using the simulator, general descriptions, real-world examples, slider settings, and model structure notes for the different sliders in En-ROADS."
Resources
Resources
Africa
Africa
Which Crops Have the Most Potential in a Changing Climate? Use the tabs at the top of this site to narrow your search to vegetables, fruit, etc. Includes a colour-blind option in the top right corner.
Europe
Europe
Denmark
Denmark
Grants & Funding
Grants & Funding
International
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
Europe
UK
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
North America
Food for Thought "We have several grant opportunities to help you make these goals a reality!"
USA
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."
Maps
Maps
International
International
Butterfly Conservation: Wild Spaces: Put Your Wild Space on the Map "Our interactive map shows the number and types of Wild Space near you. When you sign up in the UK, your Wild Space will also appear on the map so you can show everyone that you're taking action and encourage others to get involved too."
More People Care About Climate Change than You Think "The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share."
Europe
Europe
UK
UK
Butterfly Conservation: Wild Spaces: Put Your Wild Space on the Map "Our interactive map shows the number and types of Wild Space near you. When you sign up in the UK, your Wild Space will also appear on the map so you can show everyone that you're taking action and encourage others to get involved too."
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