An independent, reader-supported guide
Veganism, explained with evidence.
You don't have to take our word for anything here. UVegan covers the ethics, the health research, the environmental data, and the practical food side, and links every claim to the study it came from. Skeptics are the readers we write for.
- Food The practical on-ramp: a 30-day meal plan, shopping lists, grocery swaps, and brands that hold up.
- Ethics Sentience, what standard farming involves on land and at sea, and the labels that obscure it.
- Health What peer-reviewed evidence says about disease risk, longevity, fitness, and nutrient adequacy.
- Environment Water, carbon, land, and the math of feeding crops to animals, from the strongest datasets.
- Resources Documentaries, books, and tools worth your time, organized by topic, with honest caveats.
- Science The research library behind the site. Every source links out to the study and back to every article that cites it.
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Heart Disease, Longevity, and Plant-Based Diets
The largest cohorts we have, what they show about hearts and lifespans, and the honest caveats that come with them.
Read on → Ethics 9 minThe Animals Nobody Counts: Fishing and Aquaculture
Wild fishing is measured in tonnes, not lives. The numbers, the sentience evidence, and what aquaculture changes.
Read on → Science 8 minHow to Read a Nutrition Study Without Getting Fooled
Relative vs. absolute risk, confounding, and why one headline study never settles anything.
Read on → Resources 7 minVegan Documentaries, Organized by What You Care About
The films worth watching first, depending on whether you care most about the animals, your health, or the planet. With honest caveats.
Read on → Environment 10 minWhy Animal Farming Needs So Much Land
Most of the world's farmland feeds animals, not people. The calorie math that explains why, from the strongest datasets.
Read on → Environment 9 minThe Water Footprint of Food, Compared to AI
Everyone is worried about AI's water use. Here is how it compares to what's on your plate, with named sources.
Read on →How this site works
A claim and its study are one click apart
Read that plant-based diets are linked to lower heart-disease risk, and the study is named in the same breath, linked at the bottom of the article, and filed in the Science library. The library entry links back to every article that cites it, so you can follow any thread in either direction: claim to study, or study to everything we built on it.
Tags work the same way across sections. The water-use numbers in an environment article connect to the meal plan that puts them to work, and the welfare claims in an ethics article connect to the labels guide for your next grocery run.
Claim: "Beef uses about 60 times the land of peas per gram of protein."
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