r/vegan

Credit: Danny Ishay (animal rights activist)

hey! as mentioned in the title, i’m looking for (primarily shows, but also movies) with vegan protagonists or main characters. i’m not really looking for anything where veganism is a major plot (though if you have recommendations relevant to that i’m still interested!), just where it’s a casual thing that’s mentioned occasionally, if that exists at all. the closest ive found is bones, as an example: brennan, the protagonist, is vegetarian (though the actor who plays her is vegan), and there’s the occasional episode on animal agriculture, but for the most part her vegetarianism is just something mentioned occasionally, such as when people come over for food.

i’m not sure if this is something too specific, but i hope shows like this do exist! i think media portraying and normalising veganism in this way is so powerful, and i’d love there to be more of it ^^

Hi all! This is my first 2 weeks of becoming vegan :). I stumbled across insanely disturbing and sick videos on here about animals and I could never think about eating animals or using animal products again, so I wanted to make the lifestyle change for the animals, environment, as well as my health.
I been feeling amazing and it’s awesome trying new foods that I wouldn’t normally try. I do want to try out different meals.

What are some everyday “must have” ingredients/snacks I should get? I did buy some Vegenaise today, figured I can use it for when I have my black bean burger/sandwiches.
Besides snacks/substitutes, what are some meals you all enjoy so I can give it a try.

I am excited to read what you all have to share <3 :)

like why is that a big talking point on social media now? Like you are not an Inuit whale hunter relying on ”””ethical””” whale hunting for survival, you just want to be able to eat your Big Mac and your chicken nuggies. I feel like people feel they are justified in their meat eating if they can somehow label veganism as racist or privileged, as if there aren’t poor vegans, or non-white vegans.

Where is this coming from???????

I got a response from Coca Cola asking about if their new formula is Vegan.

“Thank you for contacting Coca-Cola!

For the most part the brands of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States do not contain ingredients derived from animals.  However, there are a few products that contain ingredients such as cochineal (which is listed on the label) and products that contain milk (which is also indicated on the label) that are derived from animals.  

Also in the U.S., Coca-Cola brand products that contain milk are Core Power, fairlife, and Dunkin'. 

Some of our juice products contain Vitamin D3, which is derived from lanolin.  Lanolin is a natural oil in the fiber of sheep's wool.  It is separated from the wool after the sheep's hair is cut (sheared).  Lanolin oil is obtainable without harming the sheep but may be an issue for strict vegetarians.

None of the carbonated soft drink brands of The Coca-Cola Company contain ingredients derived from mammals or poultry. We abide by the laws and practices in every country where our brands are sold. This includes countries where Islam is the principal religion such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan, whose governments have accepted our brands as suitable for consumption by members of the Muslim community.

Additionally, some of our suppliers use a common industry practice for grape juice clarification that does involve animal by-products. The gelatin used to clarify the juice is made from bovine skin.”

This year, for Anthrocon 2026, one of the largest furry conventions in the world, they chose a charity that decided to bring live animals into the convention, including a horse named Ronny. 

Sign the petition to let Anthrocon know we are against the exploitation of animals for human entertainment!!

I’m not a newbie but it’s been weighing on me more than usual lately. I get so upset knowing what millions of animals are experiencing day to day. It feels so dystopian, evil and unfair. I almost feel guilty that I was born human and can therefore can enjoy a life that’s pretty much free of suffering.

Credit: Danny Ishay (animal rights activist)

After spending a year away for college in my vegan bubble I’ve come back to my family who doesn’t see animals as more than objects to be exploited.
They keep trying to make me eat meat and I keep refusing.
I’ve offered to cook them vegan meals multiple times but they keep refusing.
Is there a recipe for anything that tastes like it contains meat when it actually doesn’t?
I want to prove them wrong on their prejudices against veganism.

I don’t know what the purpose of this post is but god, I just feel so hopeless and sad for animals. I constantly think of the animals that at this very moment that are next in line. They never knew love and never will. They’ve been treated like shit their whole life and are about to have their throats slit open. The fear they must feel is heartbreaking.

I was a vegetarian for most of my life. I started at 11 and only just recently at the age of 30 made the jump to vegan. I feel stupid for not doing it sooner. I use to think being vegan would be so hard but it’s really not. My excuse for not making the jump was due to my love of cheese but that’s no excuse. It’s funny now, the thought of cheese grosses me out.

I just spent the weekend with my fiancé’s family for the fourth and they asked me questions about why I’m vegan and I explained how I do it for the animals. I don’t agree with the cruelty and they just don’t feel that way. They think animal products are necessary for health. I explained that being a vegan can be a very healthy lifestyle and they just think I’m crazy lol. They believe all the things that they were taught when they were young are true, like how milk is the only way to get calcium. They’re all such sweet people and I’m a very timid person so I’m not going to argue but I don’t know. Even my fiancé, he has such a good heart and is a good human but he doesn’t make that connection either. He is very open to eating vegan at home which I love, but yeah he doesn’t understand it.

And it’s the same with my own family and friends. I just don’t get how people don’t make that connection. I don’t know I guess at least I wish people had gratitude for the animals that they’re eating but, it feels like they don’t because there’s such a disconnect. (Which is not their fault, because that’s just how they were raised).

I feel so sad and like the world will never change. People are so stuck in their ways. Cows, pigs, chickens, etc, will never matter. People just don’t care and I don’t understand that. There are such good humans who don’t give a second thought about eating meat.

Sorry for the ramble. Do you guys ever have this crushing feeling?

I moved out of home to be closer to university at the beginning of last year, by July I was vegetarian and at the end of November I watched dominion and saw the reality of it all. Now as a nursing student, I am required to do several placements in hospitals in different specialities. In my country, our universities can arrange for students to work in hospitals up to 2 hours each way away from where they live. I found out for my upcoming placement, I will be working the night shift in a hospital very far from my home but close to my grandmother's house. The obvious thing to do is to stay with her and she has said I'm welcome to. The only thing being that I am vegan and haven't told anyone in my family. In my culture, being a vegetarian is not a thing, let alone being vegan and most of my relatives are very openly hostile to veganism. Without bothering to try and win them over to veganism, what are some things I can say to them that will pacify them? or should I just make the commute each day? (edit, we are Maltese diaspora)

For those of us who were loyal customers of Silk Unsweetened Soymilk, what are you buying now after the tragic recipe change?

That particular soymilk ticked so many boxes for me (great taste, good amount of protein, no/low sugar, neutral non-vanilla flavor so can be used in savory cooking, froths for coffee). I have found other milks that work fine for the coffee purpose (Oatly full fat; Planet Oat barista lovers), but am still lost when it comes to finding a good general-purpose milk.

Help!

In this article, I, Jordi Casamitjana, write about how there is such a thing as “vegan honey” that is not made by bees, and that does not include nonhuman animals in its manufacture, but which tastes very similar to traditional honey

1. When I first became vegan I had a really hard time accepting that people could know about veganism and not instantly become vegan - you could say I was delusional and pissed a lot of people off, her included

2. I participated in some pretty stupid disordered eating type diets while vegan - this definitely would have turned people off

If you are a vegan who wants to help the cause, be a likeable, fun, reasonable person. Don't get caught up in stupid diets. And honestly it helps to be very in shape.

It’s easy to say “I don’t want to hurt animals”, but meat eaters will just say that we hurt animals too by simply existing. We can come back and say only as far as practicable and possible, but if that were completely true we’d be living in huts and growing our own food or whatever (crop deaths are a non-issue because again, impracticable, but things like overeating, certain products like avocados, pet food, etc).

The only real response I have to them is that Tu Quoque (saying “well you do X too on a smaller scale so I don’t have to stop doing X on a large one”) is not a valid defense, but then we end up arguing over whether my use of streaming services, buying cat food, and having a front lawn is as bad as their use of animal products and it starts to become a giant mess of “look everyone draws the line somewhere, you just happen to dislike consuming animal products, meanwhile I don’t drive, so if you drive you’re worse than me” etc.

I am vegan and I recently got back into dating. Preferably I want to date a vegan or vegetarian person, but I would be okay with someone who is not when they do not eat meat when they are with me.

Do you think it is too much to expect an omnivore to eat vegan or veggie when you are spending time together?

I stated my preferences upfront so they can decide if they are okay with it or not.

Usually of course I am fine when people eat meat in my company but I could not kiss someone who does, same with milk. I dated men who came to this decision by themselves, they either did not eat meat when with me or were/became vegetarian/vegan. I also dated someone who kind of resented that we could not go to certain places when we went out to eat.

Thats why I would want to establish that boundary from the start of dating.

But is it crazy to ask them to refrain from eating meat while with me, from the start of dating?

I can't afford the amount of commercial vegan meal replacement drinks (Huel, Soylent etc) needed for my current situation (illness induced malnutrition) so I've been prescribed suppliment drinks like Ensure but vegan.

First one I tried was called Actagain Plant Powered & it came right up, the second was Fortisip Plant-Based but that gave me perpetual stomach upset. Hopefully third time lucky.. I'm now due to try 'Fresubin Vegan' but if that also doesn't agree with me wtf do I do?

I know I can tolerate Ensure & Boost as I had them before going vegan, idk what's in these drinks making me ill but I'm scared if the Fresubin doesn't work out. Any ideas?

Hi everyone! I (16F) have decided to go vegan about two weeks ago, it was something I'd been planning on doing for some time, but i guess I simply didn't have the guts to. I'm happy with my decision, but I'm experiencing some problems.

Food has always been a huge part of my life (and my culture), and I've always eaten anything that was placed in front of me, and since my parents are omnivores, I have very very few vegan options.

I went to the supermarket on my own to try and find something suitable, but the only things i found were foods i either hated the taste of or were too difficult to cook (WHY DOES LITTERALLY EVERYTHING CONTAIN ANIMAL PRODUCTS!??!).

My family and I also eat out often, so yesterday we went to a restaurant and in the whole longass menu the only vegan thing they had was fries. I looked up the menus of many other restaurants in my area and it's the same.

I've also really been craving the stuff I ate before, and while I haven't eaten any, I'm very worried I'm gonna give in, even if I don't want to. (I don't plan on going back to being an omnivore)

I'm very sorry for the long post, and please no flaming me in the comments, I'm looking for advice or stories of people who have been in my place, so if you have, what did you do? Thanks a lot to everyone who'll read this post, it means a lot 🤗

So I know tofu is an Asian cuisine I get it. But I just don't like that flavour profile. The majority of the food I cook is Mediterranean-adjacent and that's what I can motivate myself to cook and eat.

I'm vegetarian actively becoming vegan, and I'm wondering if anyone has some alternative tofu recipes that are closer to the Mediterranean palette?

I currently literally just fry my tofu in salt + pepper + smoked paprika and serve with sweet potato fries or another carb, but wanting to push the boat out a bit and include more completely plant-based recipes in my life. Please don't flame me for not having a good knowledge of food and cooking :")

Over the years I have interacted with different kinds of vegans but Raw Vegans specifically irritate me the most. In my personal experience, they believe in all sorts of conspiracy theories in the name of opposing capitalism and modernism. Many of them I've come across believe that the earth is flat, the moon landing was fake, viruses don't exist, AIDS and Polio and other life threatening diseases are not real and they are manufactured by the pharma industry.

They say cooking food decreases the nutrients but they don't accept that either frying, steaming or boiling are different methods of cooking and to breakdown the fiber and make it more soluble and make certain nutrients like Vitamin A, Iron, Calcium more bioavailable needs proper cooking and not just munching it raw. They make all sorts of bogus claims like one can also live without eating anything for years and just by breathing (breatharians) and that vaccines cause autism, the body has some divine healing mechanism etc. Some years ago, a raw vegan died of nutritional deficiency cause taking supplements and eating grains and cooked food isn't ‘natural’ and when such incidents happen, people blame the vegan diet for that.

These types of people exist more in the Indian vegan circle who just blindly believe anything in the name of living ‘naturally’ and even having protein powder which is cheaper and low calorie source of protein is a big NO NO for them. I've seen them interacting with people in street activism and repeating the same bogus claims in the name of vegan activism while actually they are spreading misinformation and pseudoscience and making people's life more difficult than it is already.

IMO, they should be stopped from identifying themselves as part of the Vegan community from all over the world.