Where are the memes? Where is the hype?

Vegan hype is super unrelatable to the average joe!

Being Vegan is all about honour and self respect, thats definitely something we can push.

There is only honour in a fair fight, that is definitely something we can push.

Like with Vegan Boxing or MMA, it takes honour to fight another person head on in a ring, but paying somebody else to kill a defenceless innocent creature who has never even tasted freedom is like the total opposite of honour, its possibly the most cowardly action possible, I can't even think of a more cowardly action.

Veganism is both bad-ass and compassionate.

Hey! I’ve veen trying to find good dress shirts. I like to look for them in thrift stores and on vinted but I’m facing the problem with shirt buttons that are made from horn or mother of pearl. I know even some of the fast fashion companies use mother of pearl in their shirts.

How do you identify plastic buttons from animal-derived ones? Thank you!

Hi. For 2 weeks I’m fully vegan. I’m doing ok physically, never felt better. But my mental state is suffering.

I feel like I lived all my 25 years of life in an illusion. And that almost everybody around me is insane. I know it may sound hypocritical as I was like this myself not too long ago. But the lens I see the world now, after discovering how cruel animal exploitation industry is, have changed drastically.

I’ve always been an optimistic and quite spiritual person. I’ve seen the world as full of opportunities and well-balanced (of evil and good). After seeing photos, videos and articles about slaughterhouses and egg/milk/honey manufacturing, I cannot fathom the fact I should live in a world like this for the rest of my life. I cannot fathom mankind approves this. Goverments cover this. Trillion of animals brutally murdered each year and I can do little about this.

I’ve heard points like “You should focus on yourself and your change”, “Not everyone can change” or “You can participate in activism, tell your friends and make change” but honestly, that’s some self-soothing bs. Almost everyone understands a little can be changed. This system is so f*cked up and ingrown, it may require some kind of curse on animal industry or terrorism to end it.

Even movies like Earthlings with such powerful message, footage and cast can do so little. I agree it pushed a new vegan wave and was influential but not that much to change the entire f*cking system.

As you may see, I am angry and frustrated. But also honestly I started viewing my own death more peacefully and without fear, because thank god I won’t stay on this messed up planet forever. I’m a woman that was considering having a kid with my husband someday but we both doubt it now as we don’t want to create a kid in this cruel world.

My main question is: how do you live with it all your life? I have intrusive thoughts with images from the footages of slaughterhouses. I wake up at nights, have insomnia. I feel angry all the time and disconnected from my surroundings. I can’t stop thinking about these poor souls. And it’s so hard to talk about this topic to non-vegans without hurting anyone’s feelings because everyone becomes deffensive. I’m feeling hopeless.

Hello everyone, I'm a vegetarian for 2 years now and I have started to go towards being a vegan basically cutting out almost all my dairy products. I have had problems with low iron and I have been taking iron supplements to replenish iron levels

This has also made me have low energy levels. I've been on a lifestyle change to lose weight and looking for some ideas with a vegan diet.

Seeking some tips on how other vegans deal with some of their health problems.
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Hi vegan Redditors! Hopefully, this post is allowed & doesn't fall into the spam category.
I am helping my friends from Little Hill Sanctuary plan Santa Cruz VegFest, a vegan festival set for May 31st at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville, CA. We are looking for people interested in becoming vendors or sponsors of the event. Donations & gift baskets for a silent auction are also welcomed. Vegans & the vegan-curious are encouraged to attend. Admission is a mere $5.00 & there will be booths with vegan food, sweet treats, apparel, accessories, cheese, ice cream, & cosmetics, plus a children's area with a few bounce houses & other activities. There will be entertainment as well -- live music, vegan stand-up comedians, & a number of speakers talking about plant-based living. More info:
https://vegfestsantacruz.org
https://littlehillsanctuary.org

Hello everybody! First off, thank you so much to all of you who responded to my post from a few days ago asking non-UPF vegans how they approach their diet. I came seeking advice and you guys were all really kind and informative. Your comments and suggestions really helped to alleviate some of the stress that I had going into this. I finally was able to put together a shopping list and I just completed my first day of being purely plant-based! I even managed to cook a double tofu high-protein dal which turned out much better than I expected (for my very first attempt, anyway). I've found 2-3 ingredient plant milks, whole ingredient vegan protein powder, and a tofu press so I don't have to use heavy books with a towel more than the initial once or twice in my meal-prepping. I'm still worried about all my necessary micronutrients, but eventually with time I know I'll get the hang of figuring out how to consume everything I need. This is probably a common kind of post, I know, but I don't have many people in my life who are supportive of this change and sharing it with them would either just get me scrutiny or unnecessary backlash. I'm just happy I can evade supporting the dairy and meat industries while also keeping myself healthy. Thanks again!

My partner wanted to get an easy grab and go dinner before she headed out with friends. The sushi she brought home for me is labeled “vegan” not veg, veggie, vegetarian… “Vegan”. It’s not though. The sushi is made with the store’s seaweed salad, containing “skipjack, fish flakes..”. I’ve not intentionally consumed any earthlings for over a decade and can’t decide how to move forward. I reported this to corporate. They apologized and credited our card. I don’t want the apology and don’t want the money. I feel like the choice was taken from me. Food has been wasted, I’ve taken part in something morally wrong and it cannot be undone. Do I go to the store to see if they continue mislabeling the product. Then report it again, speak with store management, fix the label myself… all of this? Nothing?

My birthday is coming up and I'm looking for delicious vegan dishes that will feed a party worth of people. I've got vegetarian chili and pumpkin curry soup as my main courses and now looking for side dishes/munchies people can enjoy. One of my favorite dishes from when I still ate dairy was Buffalo Chicken Wing dip. Unfortunately, I live in an area where vegan cheese is hard to find and when I do find it, it is quite pricey, so please do not suggest vegan cheese products as most likely I won't be able to buy them.

I've gotten really experimental with silken tofu lately. I think it's creamy texture could replicate what cream cheese brought to the dish. Does anyone have experience using silken tofu as a replacement for cheese? Is there another ingredient I could use instead? (again, I won't be able to buy vegan cheese).

Dogs on Plants needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

Looking for developer to update and develop website

Website: https://www.dogsonplants.org

Compensation: This is a volunteer role, please help the animals!

Description: About Us At Dogs on Plants, we’re all about promoting the benefits of feeding dogs a plant-based diet while sharing science-backed information and real-life experiences from pet guardians. We’re in the process of building a website to be the go-to resource for pet guardians curious about or committed to this lifestyle—and we need your help to make it happen! What We’re Looking For We’re looking for a skilled and creative website developer to help set up and design our website using pre-written content. The framework is already in place—we just need someone to bring it to life by structuring and polishing the front page and basic sections. Responsibilities Build and design the website using pre-written copy. Set up and style the front page to make it visually appealing, engaging, and easy to navigate. Collaborate with our team to align the site with the Dogs on Plants mission. Suggest and implement any tweaks to enhance the website’s functionality and user experience.

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

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Hey all, I’m looking for other vegan streamers to do collaboration with. I am in European time the times I stream are 6:30 pm to 10, pm if i stream I usually stream on Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays, Fridays, and Thursdays . I am open for drawing together sessions. and playing games like Final Fantasy 14 . Stardew Valley. terraria. path of Titans.
Monster Hunter rizon . (Warning, I’m sucking out this game. So you might need to carry me.😂) And Elder scrolls online . Animal Crossing new Horizon.

(Vegan here), I was just watching a video about a vegan pretending to sell something else when suddenly he put a video of little piggies dying in a gas chamber... No warning or whatsoever. I transitioned without watching anything disturbing so this really shocked me. I can't stop thinking about it, do you have any advice please?

Hi, so about 5ish years ago I remember loving a vegan YouTube who would do grocery hauls, vlogs and what I eat in a day's. She had 2 or 3 or more cats. She lived in a big apartment with an electric fireplace i thing and the bedroom was adjacent to the living room. I think she did a collad with another YouTuber to make them vegan food for a day? I'm pretty sure she was Asian but I'm not positive bc years and yk not focusing on that it's hard to tell 😅. I looked up vegan grocery haul and didn't see here but I'm not sure if she just stopped or what.

International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics (ICARE) needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

Looking for an Online Event Coordinator

Website: https://icare-animals.org

Compensation: This is a volunteer role, please help the animals!

Description: We are seeking a highly organised and tech-savvy Online Event Coordinator to help us plan, promote, and execute our live bi-monthly animal rights seminar series and online live lectures/intensive seminars/short courses that promote our mission of advocating for animals' fundamental rights.

As an Online Event Coordinator, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of our bi-monthly live seminars, intensive short courses, and other virtual activities while providing a positive and professional experience for all participants (speakers, lecturers, attendees, and students).

What the role involves:

• Setting up and managing event registration systems (Luma, Zoom, etc.).
• Overseeing live seminars, courses & other events—handling logistics, recordings, and troubleshooting.
• Drafting and sending professional emails prior to live seminars & other educational virtual events, as well as follow-up emails to participants & speakers or lecturers.
• Collaborating with ICARE’s social media and marketing team to promote seminars & virtual events.
• Gathering and analysing attendee feedback to improve future sessions.

Key Skills and Requirements:

• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Excellent communication skills for liaising with speakers, lecturers, and attendees.
• Confidence in managing online event management tools and troubleshooting virtual issues.
• Experience in using online tools for event management (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet, Luma).
• Social media or YouTube experience (a plus!).

What we offer:

• The chance to contribute to impactful projects supporting global animal rights and ethics and to ensure global and equitable access to education in animal rights law and ethics.
• Opportunities to enhance your skills in event coordination, communication, and digital platforms.
• Flexible remote volunteering within a supportive and passionate team.
• Free access to our online animal rights law courses, lectures, and training, and acquire new skills.
• Grow your animal rights and advocacy network!

Time commitment: ~5 hours per week, with flexibility based on event schedules (less workload between bi-monthly seminars and live lectures/short courses). Availability before and during live seminars and virtual events is essential!

This is a long-term, remote, flexible volunteering opportunity.

If you are interested, please feel free to email us at info@icare-animals.org with your CV and a brief explanation of why you'd like to join our team of volunteers. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

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ICARE needs help! If you're interested in taking on this job, please apply to help with your resume, website, or linkedin, your email, and a little bit about you - thanks for your activism!

Looking for a Live Illustrator for bi-monthly seminars

Website: https://icare-animals.org

Compensation: This is a possible paid role!

Description: We're seeking a talented Live Illustrator to bring our online Animal Rights Seminar Series to life!

This bi-monthly series, hosted on Zoom, will feature discussions with leading animal rights lawyers and advocates. As a Live Illustrator, you will create dynamic, real-time posters that visually capture the key concepts, ideas, and insights shared during each seminar, producing lasting educational resources for ICARE's audience.

Your Role:

• Create live digital posters during bi-monthly Zoom seminars.
• Transform legal and advocacy concepts into engaging visuals, synthesising the discussion with scholars.
• Share your creative process live with attendees via Zoom.
• Finalise and refine posters to share on ICARE’s website and social media.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience with live illustration and translating words into posters (portfolio required!).
• Creativity and proficiency in digital illustration tools.
• Interest and knowledge in animal rights and advocacy (a big plus!).
• Strong attention to detail and ICARE branding alignment (branding kit provided!).
• Confidence using tech tools like Zoom for live events.

Remote volunteering, bi-monthly, stipend provided.

Why volunteer with us?

• Use your artistic talents to support education and advocacy for animal rights.
• Contribute to ICARE’s mission of advancing legal rights and protections for animals.

€50 stipend for each approx. 60-minute live illustration/bi-monthly seminar. Kindly contact us by 20 February at the latest, as the seminars are set to commence soon. This is an urgent request for a long-term volunteer position with a modest stipend.

We're looking forward to hearing from you. You can also email us your portfolio at info@icare-animals.org. Thank you so much in advance!

Interested in this request? Please click the link below to apply to help on Playground!

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Where I live (very rural) I unfortunately see a lot of roadkill. Today has been a first for me… a few minutes from my house, I saw a deer that had been hit by a car but it wasn’t dead. But it seemed like its back legs are paralyzed and it’s just laying in the mud. Every time I think about it I start crying because its eyes are so sweet and I feel horrible that it’s suffering and unable to move.

I had no clue what to do in this situation and feel like it would be best to just put it out of its misery. I have checked and none of the wildlife rehabilitators around me accept adult deer so that’s out of the question. So I called the game warden and he said they would send someone out to put it out of its misery.

For the past several hours I have been driving by to see if it is still there and unfortunately it is. So I called the game warden AGAIN and they said they had already sent someone out and it was dead. I told them that it most certainly was not, I just saw it!

I didn’t want to just go onto the property because like I said, I live really rurally and it’s a genuine concern that I would be shot if I went on someone’s else’s property. I finally decided I was going to knock on the property owners door and see if they had seen it and just talk to them about what their plans were for it. He said he would not be dealing with it and I was not to step a foot on his property again. He even told me “what are you going to do, make it more comfortable?” And was just laughing at me and how upset I was. I suppose I should have expected as much since he is literally a cattle farmer.

I guess this is a partial rant about how cruel and callous people can be. He could not have cared less and I could tell he thought I was crazy for even being concerned.

It’s also partially a question on what you all would do in this scenario? God forbid this happens again in the future. We are so sorely lacking in resources where I live so I feel that the options are just sooo limited.

Anyway, I called the department of natural resources again and I will be driving by again soon to see if it is still there and suffering.

TLDR: found a paralyzed deer on someone else’s property, no one gives a shit and I’m starting to feel a little crazy. Not sure what to do from here.

EDIT: for anyone who may end up reading this. I have OCD and really struggle with intrusive thoughts about animal suffering, so I apologize if this post came off as naive. I do know that unfortunately things happen sometimes that are out of my control. Sometimes it’s hard for me to differentiate between righteous anger and compulsive thoughts. Thanks to all ❤️

Hello,

I have been vegan for 10+ years and vegetarian for most of my life, I have never had any issues with my nutrition, health, or blood results so never tracked or measured my food too heavily.

Now I am 12 weeks pregnant and feel a lot more pressure to track my food intake to make sure I know where to optimise for the babies development and later for breast feeding.

I found a medical nutritionist who is knowledgeable on vegan diets and pregnancy, my OB is indifferent but supportive enough and told me to eat varied.

I am reaching out here to ask on advice for apps or programs where I can log my meals to see my daily/weekly/monthly nutritional needs and how I am meeting them. I would love a app that I can share with my dietician or allows me to download reports.

MyfitnessPal looks good but I’m not sure the reporting function shows enough details.

Thank you all in advance!

Hi guys! I've been a vegetarian for 15 years! I've decided to go vegan for a number of reasons! Can anyone give me some suggestions on easy breakfast and lunch/dinner ideas? I'm very busy, and I don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen. I need some motivation, but I really want to make this work 🔥

Hi there, I have a question. I discovered that the company that delivers soap to my school is not transparent about testing on animals. So, I will suggest to the school to change the soap. I would appreciate any suggestions about cost-effective vegan soaps. They need high amounts, so ideally in 5-10 liters boxes. I need to suggest something that is the same price or cheaper than the current soap, so they will not have a reason to keep supporting that cruel company. I do not however have information about the current soap price.

Bodybuilding has been a huge part of my life. I started lifting 16 years ago, and over time, my training and diet all match my goals. My routine follows a Pull-Push-Off split, with dedicated shoulder and arm days. Sessions usually last 1.5-2 hours, and I like to warm up with isolation exercises before hitting compounds, hack squats for legs, and incline smith press for chest.

For my diet, I get around 500g of carbs, 75g of fats, and 370g of protein daily. Hitting that much protein as a vegan is not hard when you know where to look. TVP, seitan, tofu, Say Grace Protein, and Vedge Nutrition make up most of my intake. My carbs come mainly from rice (cream of rice, rice pasta, rice cakes, you name it), and I throw in potatoes as well. For fats, Avocados and nuts do the job, and of course, I get plenty of fruits and veggies.

For those wondering, I’m no longer natural. As a competitive bodybuilder, I’ve chosen to compete in non-tested federations to go against the best.

Ask me anything about vegan bodybuilding, training, diet, drug use, competing, or anything else you're curious about.

Hi all! I have a foot issue which requires me to wear custom insoles. I like shoes with removable insoles, so I can easily replace them with my own.

I've been wearing Vesica Piscis Footwear which I love, but I'd love to discover some new brands for different styles! Any ideas?

Ideally from the EU, but international is fine too.

Thanks!

Hi, the title says it all. I'm 19F with a diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, I'm obese currently and have gained 3 clothing sizes in the past year due to my disorder - I've researched and it says cutting out meat and maybe dairy can help curb symptoms as well as the obesity.

The obesity is in part due to testosterone but I don't really eat a healthy diet with a lot of meat and cheese.

Is there any advice one can give a new beginner, especially so to improve health and lose a little weight?

PS I already drink soya milk and eat vegan butter

Thought I'd share this recipe with you fine people. It's a super easy, delicious snack, and yet another way to prepare tofu (and eat the whole block :)

Ingredients:

• ⁠1 TBSP white miso (shiro miso) • ⁠1 TBSP nutritional yeast • ⁠1 TSP dried oregano • ⁠2 TBSP olive oil • ⁠juice of 1/2 lemon • ⁠pepper & salt • ⁠250 g firm tofu (press it first to get the water out if necessary)

Cut tofu into cubes, mix all the other ingredients and mix with the tofu. Leave to marinate for a day and enjoy! 

Hey, my partner and I are living vegan for the most part. My diet is 100%, hers maybe like 90%

She has a ton of food intolerances which is making things a bit difficult and id never blame her one bit for not following me living a purely vegan lifestyle. Its simply much mor difficult for her than it is for me.

Protein rich foods are the worst. Cickpeas, soy beans, most other beans, lentils, you name it, shes probably intolerant to it. Peas work. So we've been eating a bunch of pea-protein based meat substitutes. I'm a sucker for those sometimes but tbh its becomming too much for me. I wanna eat something like that maybe once a week, not every other day. Its just so difficult to find protein rich foods that work for both of us.

I used to eat a ton of legumes, and i miss them a lot tbh.

What could be foods that are simply not on my radar as being rich in protein?

I eat a stupid amount of food (yet im one of the thinnest people i know) i feel like meals without any protein are the worst for me and i get hungy again very quickly.

So my partner is going to be away for a few weeks, and they normally do all the cooking. Please help a girl out and give me some recipes and lazy meal ideas that aren't too complex. I can do the basics, and I have a full kitchen. Also my pantry is pretty well stocked but I'll be shopping for fresh stuff soon. I do ask that we keep in mind that I'm in a very rural area without access to much of the convenience foods some of you might be used to so anything utilizing the basics like tofu, fresh veggies, rice, and pasta is great.

Thank you so much!

This is a very specific request, has anyone seen simple non-dairy milk (meaning 2-3 ingredients, no gums, stabilizers, etc) sold in smaller packaging, perhaps 8 ounces? I don't drink coffee or tea, nor do I eat cereal for breakfast, but I sometimes need a small amount for a recipe, and I wind up dumping out most of a 32 oz. container.

Thanks in advance!