About
About UVegan
UVegan is an independent educational guide to veganism, written for people who want honest answers and sources they can check. It is built and edited by Corey Kubber.
Why this site exists
Most writing about veganism is aimed at people who already agree with it. The arguments get louder, the sources get thinner, and a curious skeptic bounces off within a paragraph. UVegan is the opposite bet: state what is true plainly, link every factual claim to the study behind it, and let you decide. If you are not vegan and have honest questions, you are exactly who this is for.
The site covers six areas: the practical food side, the ethics, the health evidence, the environmental data, the documentaries and books worth your time, and a research library that the rest of the site cites. Everything cross-links, so you can follow any claim to its source and from a source to every article that uses it.
Who runs it
My name is Corey Kubber. I am not a doctor or a scientist, and I will never pretend to be one here. For most of my life I was an enthusiastic meat eater. I traveled widely and ate the local dish wherever I went. I also grew up loving animals, organized beach cleanups as a teenager, worked as an environmental camp counselor, and own rescue animals with my wife. For decades I never connected any of that to my plate.
What changed was not a documentary or a lecture. It was noticing that I no longer needed to eat animals, and that I was doing it purely because I liked the taste. Once vegan options were good enough that I had a real choice at every meal, my last excuse was gone. I went vegan, and I started reading the research properly instead of avoiding it. This site is where I put what I found, written so that the version of me from five years ago would actually read it.
I do not judge anyone who still eats meat. If anyone had an excuse to keep eating it, it was me. The goal here is not to win an argument. It is to make the honest case easy to check.
Editorial standards
- Every factual claim is sourced. Health, ethics, and environmental claims link to a peer-reviewed study, an official report, or a position paper in the Science library. If a claim cannot be sourced, it does not go on the site.
- Sources are verified, not assumed. Each entry in the library has been checked against the original publication so the title, authors, and findings match what we say they do.
- We hedge where the evidence is uncertain. Health writing distinguishes relative risk from absolute risk, and strength of evidence from size of effect. Where estimates vary, we name the range and the source.
- No invented statistics, ever. If you find a number on this site without a source, that is a bug. Please report it.
- Corrections are public. When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. See the citations and corrections policy.
How the site is funded
UVegan has no display ads and no sponsors. It is reader-supported, and it may earn an affiliate commission on some products it already recommends. Recommendations are always chosen before any link earns a cent. The full details are on the affiliate disclosure page, and you can support the site directly if you find it useful.
Acknowledgments
UVegan stands on a wide range of work. Every factual claim is credited to a peer-reviewed study, an official report, or a public dataset in the Science library and in each article's sources. A few independently compiled resource guides and educators also helped point to early research leads. Among them:
- Our World in Data, Environmental Impacts of Food Production
- The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the WHO, for their position papers and classifications
- Ed Winters (Earthling Ed), for widely used educational talks and films
- Soren Monroe, "Veganism Education and Resources Guide" (2024)
Listing a source here is an acknowledgment of help, not an endorsement of every claim it makes. The site reaches its own conclusions from primary sources.