Vegan Information: Links to 200+ Resources

You’ve found it: the mother lode of vegan information. No matter what you want to learn about vegan lifestyles and plant-based eating, you’ll find links to the best stuff right here.

Essential Vegan Information

To begin exploring vegan topics, start with these six fundamental pieces:

Our “Why Go Vegan?” essay, written by Erik Marcus, is the most authoritative take available on the numerous reasons people choose a vegan diet.
If you’re sold on the idea of going vegan, don’t miss our “How to Go Vegan?” piece. It’ll take you through all the basics of making your transition.
Discover the incredible assortment of plant-based foods you can enjoy by reading our Vegan Foods Roundup.
To dig deeper into the vegan concept, check out, “What is a Vegan?“
Read our Guide to Vegan Cooking, which will speed your transition to a plant-based diet, and enable you to eat tastier and cheaper food than ever before.
Finally, for answers to all the pesky unresolved questions that crop up, check out our Vegan FAQ.

Vegan Living Guides:

Once you’ve checked out the above links, it’s time to dig a little deeper. We’ve got detailed guides to help you with every aspect of transitioning to plant-based diets. On top of all that, we we even offer the complete text to The Ultimate Vegan Guide.

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Eating Vegan (tips for grocery shopping, cooking, and dining out)
Ultimate Vegan Guide (free online first edition)
Vegan Nutrition
Try Being Vegan—Everything You Need to Succeed

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Holidays

Whether it’s a Fourth of July barbecue, vegan Halloween candy, or a fantastic Thanksgiving feast, we’ve got you covered with great options and ideas.

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Thanksgiving

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Vegan Health Coverage

We’ve got answers to the most common vegan-oriented health questions. Our Vegan Nutrition Guide is the best place to start, in terms of getting a solid grounding on all the key nutrition information. Also, every vegan needs to read up on Vitamin B-12, and we’ve got the definitive piece in terms of giving you a solid background on the topic. Also don’t miss our Vitamins Guide, which offers great deals on the supplements of special interest to vegans.

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Animals

Here’s information about factory farming animals commonly eaten for food. One of the best recent books on the topic is Project Animal Farm, by Sonia Faruqi.

Kitchenware

It doesn’t cost much to outfit your kitchen with all the essential pieces of equipment needed to make great vegan food.

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Kitchenware Guide

Activism

A primary goal of this website is to keep as many animals from harm as possible. For that to happen, our readers need to get involved. Our 10,000 word Activism Guide is one of this website’s centerpiece offerings. It’ll tell you everything you need to know make a difference in large ways and small.

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Vegan & Animal Rights Activism Guide

Animal Ingredients

Thanks to slaughterhouses killing tens of billions of animals a year, there’s an endless stream of animal byproducts that can show up in our food, cosmetics, and other consumer items. You can become acquainted with the main substances to watch out for on our Animal Ingredients page.

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Animal Ingredients

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Vegan Clothing & Apparel

Clothing, footwear, and accessories are often made from animal fibers or leather. The links below will help you to find vegan products that fit with your sense of style.

Vegan & Cruelty-Free Beauty Products

If there’s a cosmetic or personal care item you need, you can find one that’s vegan and formulated without animal testing.

Celebrities

Famous people go vegan. Famous people also stop being vegan. Lots of people care about this, for reasons that are hard to understand. So here’s our begrudgingly assembled set of pages on celebrities who are either currently vegan or toyed with it in the past.