92B
Land animals killed every year
And 99% of them spend their lives in factory farms — the largest, most concealed system of suffering in human history.
FAO, 2023
Healing our earth,
one plate at a time.
A global transition to plant-based living is a movement for justice, health, and our shared future. Available in your language, for your community.
"Veganism isn't a Western import — it's a return to our roots."
Moussa D., Movement Lead
Our Position
The Justice Paradox
Industrial animal agriculture disproportionately harms under-served communities through climate instability and resource depletion. Choosing plants is an act of resistance.
01.
For the Planet
Conserving water and protecting soil biodiversity in regions most vulnerable to the climate crisis.
02.
For the Animals
Ending the cycle of exploitation and recognizing our kinship with every living being on earth.
03.
For the People
Securing food sovereignty and reclaiming traditional plant-based diets from global industrial food systems.
The Scale
The numbers are not the argument. They are the evidence.
Twelve verified data points behind the case for plants. Sources at the foot of each card.
1–2.8T
Sea animals killed annually
Most are not even counted in animal agriculture statistics. They die suffocating on decks, in nets, or in industrial tanks.
fishcount.org.uk
15,000 L
Water for 1 kg of beef
Animal agriculture consumes roughly one third of the world's freshwater — much of it in regions already running dry.
Water Footprint Network
80%
Amazon deforestation from cattle
Cattle ranching is the single largest driver of rainforest loss on the planet — feed crops account for most of the rest.
Yale E360 / WRI
77%
Of farmland feeds livestock
Yet livestock provides only 18% of the world's calories and 37% of its protein. The math does not work — and never has.
Poore & Nemecek, 2018
37%
Of methane from animal agriculture
Methane is roughly 80× more potent than CO₂ over 20 years. Cutting livestock is the fastest lever we have on near-term warming.
IPCC AR6
80%
Of antibiotics used on farm animals
Routine antibiotic use in crowded sheds is the primary engine of antimicrobial resistance — projected to kill 10 million people a year by 2050.
WHO
60%
Of biodiversity loss linked to food
Animal agriculture is the single largest driver of species extinction on land and in the sea.
WWF
1.04B t
Of grain fed to livestock yearly
Enough to end global hunger several times over. Meanwhile, more than 730 million people go to bed hungry.
FAO / WFP
75%
Of farmland could be returned to nature
A global shift to plant-based diets would free an area the size of the US, China and the EU combined — for forests, for wildlife, for water.
Our World in Data
8M
Lives saved per year by 2050
Modelling a global shift to plant-based eating shows up to eight million premature deaths avoided every year — and $1.5T in healthcare savings.
Springmann et al.
200
Animals spared per person, per year
That is what one ordinary person, eating differently, withdraws from the system in a single year. Multiply by a community. Then a country.
Counting Animals
The Animals
Read every species →Six species. Trillions of individuals. One pattern.
Chickens
More chickens are slaughtered than all other land animals combined.
Cows
Dairy is not a peaceful alternative to beef — it is its mother.
Pigs
Cognitively comparable to a three-year-old child. Treated as a unit.
Fish
The largest, least counted, least protected group of farmed animals.
Sheep & Goats
Live export — by truck and by sea — is built around their bodies.
Wild fish & shellfish
The ocean is being emptied faster than it can refill.
The Industries
Four industries, hiding the same machinery.
The meat industry
Behind a clean supermarket label sits the largest, most concealed system of animal suffering in human history.
Read more →The dairy industry
Milk is a mammal's milk. Producing it at industrial scale requires a system of forced reproduction and family separation.
Read more →The egg industry
Even 'free-range' and 'cage-free' eggs come from a system built on routine killing.
Read more →The fishing industry
The forgotten animals of the food system — and the largest source of animal death on earth.
Read more →Why this site exists
Most advocacy talks past the people who could actually be reached.
The loudest voices in plant-based advocacy tend to speak English, publish in Western contexts, and assume their audience already knows what tofu is. The result is content that reaches people who are already almost there — and misses the billions of people who eat largely plant-based already without calling it anything, and the millions more who would change if they encountered the case in their own language, through their own food traditions.
Veg.ac exists to close that gap. We publish the same honest, evidence-led case across dozens of languages, rooting each version in the plant traditions of the communities we're speaking to. This is not translation for translation's sake. It is the belief that where you are born and what language you speak should not determine whether you have access to clear information about food, animals, and the planet.
What you will find here
A map of the site.
The case for plants
Four interlocking reasons — animals, planet, health, justice — explained without jargon, with sources you can verify.
The animals
Species-by-species records of who these animals are and what is done to them in standard industrial practice. No graphic imagery; clear language.
The planet
The environmental data on animal agriculture — land use, water, greenhouse gases, biodiversity — translated from the research literature into plain numbers.
Health
What the peer-reviewed consensus actually says about plant-based eating for adults, children, athletes, and people managing chronic conditions.
A 7-day starter
A soft, practical guide for the first week — grounded in the staples and traditions of wherever you are.
Recipes
Dishes from plant-rich traditions around the world: Ethiopian, Senegalese, Japanese, Mexican, Lebanese, Indonesian, and many more.
Common questions
The things people ask before they read anything else.
These are the questions that come up in messages, at dinner tables, and in comment sections. We have tried to answer each one the way we would answer a thoughtful friend.
The 7-Day Transition
Daily meal plans, shopping lists, and cultural wisdom in your native script.
Bengali Roots
Chana masala and baingan bharta. A celebration of spices already on your shelf.
Caribbean Heart
Haitian mayi moulin with red beans. Rich, hearty, and fully plant-based.
Swahili Coast
Maharagwe ya nazi. Creamy coconut beans from Kenya and Tanzania.
Ready for more?
Download the full 20-page guide with nutritional breakdowns in all six languages.