Why Vegan?

For new people; other languages and country-specific versions also available.

Starter Guide

For those who are already veg, or as a follow-up to Why Vegan?, Even If You Like Meat, or Compassionate Choices.

• Staying Healthy – Health and nutrition information, including recommended daily intakes of important nutrients.
• What Do Vegans Eat?
  • Simple Meal Ideas
  • Vegan Foods Glossary
  • Meat, Egg, and Dairy Substitutes – Links to some popular vegan products.
  • Favorite Products – Compilation of our enewsletter’s “Products of the Week.”
• Cooking
  • Do You Really Need a Recipe?
  • Substitution Tips
• Recipes
  • Breakfast
  • Sandwiches and Wraps
  • Salads and Side Dishes
  • Sauces, Dips, and Spreads
  • Soups, Stews, and Chili
  • Pasta and Rice Dishes
  • Seitan
  • Desserts
  • Product Recipes – Links to recipes using some of the vegan products available at many supermarkets and natural food stores.
  • More Recipes – Additional online resources for vegan recipes.
  • Cookbooks and Videos
• Further Reading and Resources
  • On Living with Compassion – With the Why addressed, this piece examines the What and How (more essays available here).
  • Defining “Vegan” – What “vegan” means to some people.
  • FAQ – Answers to some of the frequently asked questions we receive.
  • Contacts and Email Discussion Groups – Links to organizations, individual volunteers, and email discussion groups, listed by region.

Newsletters

• Email Newsletter – Browse our enewsletter archive to read past issues and sign up for free weekly updates.
• Print Newsletter – Download past issues of Vegan Outreach News.

Advocacy Resources

• Booklets and Other Resources – Download booklets, display prints, and tabbed flyers for advocating veganism; also includes links for video clips and a list of regional contacts.
• Banner Ads – Spread the word! Promote veganism in your emails or on your web pages.
• Catalog – Order Vegan Outreach bookets and other advocacy materials; see our merchandise page for additional information.

Advocacy Essays and Articles

• Key Essays
  • A Meaningful Life: Making a Real Difference in Today’s World
  • How Vegan? Ingredients vs. Activism – How do you make choices?
  • Tips for Promoting Veganism – After more than a decade of activism, what we have found to be effective.
  • Activism and Veganism Reconsidered – A summary of our view of animal liberation, pitfalls, activism and tactics.
• Other Essays
  • Anger, Humor, and Advocacy – More thoughts on life and advocacy.
  • Choosing Info for Advocacy – Does exaggeration work? Is credibility important?
  • Beyond Might Makes Right – An extended discussion of an animal rights perspective.
  • Be Joyous and Humble – A reprint of an interview.
  • One Possible Future: A Roadmap to Animal Liberation
  • A New World, Piece by Piece – A follow-up to One Possible Future.

• Select Articles from Our Enewsletter
  • Activist Profiles – Read about some of our top leafleters.
  • A History of Vegan Outreach and Our Influences
  • Letter to a Young Matt
  • Is Being a Vegetarian Important?
  • A Truly Inconvenient Truth – The impact of diet on climate change.
  • Animals as the Bottom Line: Global Warming, Human Psychology, and Net Impact for Animals
  • Welfare and Liberation: Mutually Exclusive? – Does working for or supporting welfare measures harm the longer-term goal of bringing about liberation?
  • Does Being a Vegetarian Really Save Animals?
  • Is Vegan Outreach Pro-Egg? Should we promote vegan spin, or work for the animals?
  • Why Not Change the Laws? – How can we best spend our efforts?
  • Why Vegan Outreach?
  • The Vital Importance of Grassroots Animal Advocacy
  • Advocacy in an Imperfect World
  • Is Veganism a Religion? – More comments on the BK Veggie.
  • Living in a Nonvegan World: Thoughts about Nature, Progress, Careers, and Money
  • Feedback on “Path” – Can we do everything, or must we focus?
  • Why Leaflet? – Vegan Outreach was founded on the principle of direct outreach.
  • Got Health? – What really is “the health argument”?
  • Real Vegan Children; see also Raising a Vegan Child.

Vegan Health

• See VeganHealth.org

Vegan Outreach

• About Vegan Outreach – Information about our organization; see also VO’s history.
• Adopt a College Program – Get involved with our campus leafleting program.
• FAQ – Frequently asked questions about Vegan Outreach.
• Contact Us – How to contact Vegan Outreach.
• Support Our Work – Ways to support Vegan Outreach.
• Search – Search the Vegan Outreach web site.
• Privacy Policy