- [Narrator] Here are 17 vegan-friendly resources.
Veganism has hit the mainstream,
600,000 vegans now live in the UK,
2.5 million Australians have ditched meat
and in the US 80% of consumers want to swap meat
for vegan food.
Fast food giants like KFC, McDonald's
and Pizza Hut now offer plant based options.
Supermarket shelves are filled
with exciting meat free alternatives
and major coffee shop chains
like Starbucks offer vegan milk.
It's never been easier to ditch animal products
but if you need a little more assistance
in your vegan journey, these resources may help.
If you're looking for something
to help you check ingredients in food or beauty products
or materials in clothes,
there are a number of apps available.
Number one, Is It Vegan?
Confused by the back of a packet?
You're not the first and you won't be the last.
The good news is Is It Vegan can help.
If you're in the store, it's very easy to use as you shop.
You simply open it up,
scan the barcode of whatever products you're interested in
and it will tell you whether the product is vegan,
vegetarian or neither.
Number two, Vegan Pocket.
Vegan pocket works like Is It Vegan?
Except it also includes cruelty free
and vegan beauty products.
Just scan a product and it'll tell you
if it contains animal ingredients.
Number three, Barnivore.
Like a tipple, it can be confusing figuring out
which alcoholic beverages are vegan.
Animal products like eyes and glass and gelatin can be used
to filter drinks like wine and beer before they are bottled.
With more than 48,000 entries,
Barnivore helps you find vegan friendly alcohol easily.
Search for a brand specifically to check if it's vegan
or browse through its list to find something you fancy.
Number four, Leaping Bunny's cruelty free app.
If you're after cosmetics Leaping Bunny's cruelty free app
will help you find products
that haven't been tested on animals.
It features an up to date list
of all the cosmetic brands currently certified
by Leaping Bunny.
As well as special promos and discounts for users.
You can also use the app to create
your own personalized shopping list
of cruelty free cosmetics.
Number five, Cruelty-Cutter app.
Created by the Beagle Freedom Project,
the Cruelty-Cutter app will help you cut all the cruelty
from your life.
It has a large database of cruelty free products,
including those certified by Leaping Bunny and PETA.
If you scan a barcode and a product isn't cruelty free,
the app allows you to bite back at that company
by posting on their social media channels
and asking them to stop animal testing.
The more action you take,
the more doggie dollars you receive.
You can save up these doggie dollars
for deals on your favorite ethical products.
Number six, the Good On You app.
Into fashion, the Good On You app will help you find ethical
and sustainable clothes, shoes and accessories.
With more than 2000 brands listed,
the app will help you discover new
and exciting ethical products.
It also gives you offers and promo codes.
The goal is to help bridge the gap between brands
and the consumer.
If you want more from a brand
or you wanna give them positive feedback,
you can use the Good On You app's brand messaging feature.
Wanna know about nutrition and health?
There are a few resources that can help like websites,
podcasts, Netflix documentaries and even Facebook groups.
Number seven, Nutritionfacts.org.
Founded by vegan physician, Dr Michael Greger,
Nutritionfacts.org provides free science based updates
on the world of plant based nutrition.
Every day, new articles and videos are uploaded
to the site covering everything
from the link between eggs and diabetes,
to the role of soy foods in prostate cancer prevention.
- [Michael] More than 12,000 Adventist men were asked about
their use of soy milk
and then they were followed for up to 16 years
to see who got cancer and who did not.
So does high soy milk intake
reduce prostate cancer incidence?
Frequent consumption of soy milk was associated
with a whopping 70% reduction of the risk
of prostate cancer.
- [Narrator] When you subscribe,
you'll receive a free copy
of Greger's evidence based eating guide.
It's easy to understand and provide sample menus
and tips on which foods are healthiest based
on Greger's traffic light system.
The website also includes links to Gregers podcast,
Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger
and links to buy his books,
including the international bestseller, How Not To Die.
The book looks at the 15 top causes of death in America
and examines how a change of diet
and lifestyle may help to prevent them.
Number eight, Challenge 22.
If you're new to the vegan lifestyle,
Challenge 22 can help too ease you in gently.
The project,
launched in 2014 by Israeli animal rights organization,
AnimalsNow offers free online support
for people who are trying out the vegan lifestyle
for 22 days.
So far more than 100,000 people have participated
in the interactive program,
which is supervised by registered dietitians.
When you sign up to Challenge 22,
you're added to a secret Facebook group.
Once you're added you will have access
to a wealth of information
from experienced vegan volunteers,
including culinary experts.
If you wanna ask questions privately,
you can also ask to be assigned your own personal mentor.
Once you're in the group,
every day for 22 days you'll be given
a small task to complete.
By the end of the program,
the idea is that you'll have enough nutritional information,
recipes and cooking tips to feel confident
in your new vegan lifestyle.
Number nine, podcasts.
Love podcasts,
you're not alone,
more than half of Americans have listened to a podcast
at some point in their life.
They're popular for a number of reasons.
Often educational
and sometimes comedic podcasts offer listeners
an insight into new and interesting subjects like veganism.
There are a few podcasts out there at the moment
that will help get you excited about living plant based.
Main Street Vegan is hosted by author
and speaker, Victoria Moran.
Episodes feature nutrition experts,
activists, speakers and authors.
Catch up on your nutrition with Dr. Michael Greger
or get inspired by nine year old activist Vegan Evan
or maybe The Bearded Vegans is more your style.
Hosted by Andy Tabare and Paul Stellar,
the podcast covers topics including
why misanthropy is bad for veganism?
The podcast aims to have in depth
and open minded discussions about the vegan movement.
If you're interested in the vegan movement,
as well as mental and physical health
and general wellness tips,
Deliciously Ella could be the podcast for you.
British food writer
and plant based blogger entrepreneur, Ella Mills hosts
the podcast with her partner Matthew Mills.
Together they talk about topics including the meat myth,
having a healthy gut
and overcoming issues like imposter syndrome and self doubt.
Number 10, Netflix.
Streaming service Netflix is home
to a number of eye opening documentaries
about our food system,
the climate crises
and the rise of diet related diseases.
2014's Cowspiracy examines
the link between animal agriculture
and ecological crises such as climate change,
ocean dead zones and water shortages.
Made by the filmmakers behind Cowspiracy,
2017's What The Health,
explores the health benefits of a plant based diet.
It also exposes the reluctance of health
and nutrition organizations
to point out the negative effects
of consuming animal products.
Before What The Health,
there was Forks Over Knives.
The 2011 documentary follows the personal journeys
of vegan medical experts Dr Caldwell Esselstyn,
a former top surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic.
- When a Japanese women would migrate
to the United States.
By the second and third generation,
still pure Japanese American,
they now had the same rate of breast cancer as
their Caucasian counterpart.
- [Narrator] A Nutritional Biochemist Dr T Colin Campbell.
Campbell is the author of The China Study,
a comprehensive scientific resource on the health benefits
of the vegan diet.
There's also 2018's, The Game Changers.
The film features names like Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Lewis Hamilton.
It aims to challenge the world's most dangerous myth
that meat is necessary for protein.
- [Arnold] They show these commercials.
- [Narrator] Steak, that's what a man eats.
- Selling that idea that real men eat meat.
- [Narrator] Serious man food.
- But you got to understand that's marketing.
- [Narrator] Number 11, National Farmers Market Directory.
If you're looking for plant based ingredients
to cook with,
the United States has more than 8000 farmers markets
with the freshest ingredients available.
The Department of Agriculture
has a National Farmers Market Directory
that can help you locate these markets.
Farmers Markets support local farmers in your area.
This means food is at its nutritional peak
but it also means its carbon footprint is low
and it hasn't traveled thousands of miles
to end up on a supermarket shelf.
Number 12, vegan cookbooks.
If you're ready to start cooking,
you'll be pleased to know there are so many vegan cookbooks
on the shelves these days.
The Forks Over Knives,
the cookbook is the companion recipe guide
for the successful film.
The New York Times bestseller features more
than 300 recipes.
There's also 15 Minute Vegan which as the name suggests,
will help you cook up a vegan storm in just 15 minutes.
It has more than 100 easy recipes
all of which use fresh basic ingredients.
If you're cooking on a budget try Vegan-ish by Jack Monroe.
Despite the name every recipe in this cookbook
is plant based.
- I'm gonna chuck that in the oven,
180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Told you it was simple, told it was easy and that's it.
- [Narrator] They're all affordable, tasty and easy to make.
Number 13, YouTube.
If you're more of a visual learner,
YouTube is home to plenty of recipe vloggers.
Hot For Food aka Lauren Toyota,
puts out new recipe videos every Wednesday.
She makes drool worthy vegan food helping
you create everything
from vegan Nashville hot chicken tacos,
to vegan pumpkin spice latte pie.
If you're a meat lover who doesn't wanna eat meat,
try Edgy Veges YouTube channel.
Canadian recipe vlogger, Candace Hutchings
will show you how to make super meaty vegan dishes
like Satan steak, fried chicken sandwiches
and spicy nuggets.
If you're feeling lazy and you're cooking on a budget,
Cheap, Lazy Vegan could be the channel for you.
It's filled with mukbangs,
what I eat and a day vlogs and simple recipe videos.
Like to travel, going abroad as a vegan is simple,
thanks to these handy apps and websites.
Number 14, Happy Cow.
Whether traveling or you just wanna
find out more about vegan friendly restaurants in your area,
Happy Cow can help.
The online service lists vegan
and vegan friendly restaurants all over the world.
You simply enter your destination
and the site will show you
which establishments near you sell vegan food.
It also provides top 10 restaurant lists
for a number of popular cities like Lisbon, London,
Budapest, Chicago and New York.
As well as recipes, travel guides
and advice on how to eat veggie food while traveling.
If you need a laugh,
it even has a vegetarian humor section.
If you want easy access on your phone,
the site has its own app.
Number 15, Air Vegan.
Air Vegan helps you take a little bit
of stress out of traveling.
The app shows you which airport terminals
have vegan friendly restaurants,
so you don't have to rush around trying to find something
to eat before your flight.
To help you out even more,
it uses a color coding system.
If it has a red rating,
it has barely any plant based options.
If it's green, you have loads to choose from.
Number 16, Responsible Travel.
Responsible Travel is an online service
that works like a travel matchmaker.
The Brighton travel agent aims
to connect conscious consumers with smaller travel companies
that are offering responsible
and sustainable trips around the world.
The site also has lots
of information surrounding animal based attractions
like safaris and offers in depth guides
on which ones are best to choose.
If you wanna meet like minded people,
there's an app for that too.
Number 17, Meetup app.
Use event app Meetup, to meet new vegans,
find animal rights meetups or environmental activist groups.
If you can't find exactly what you're looking for,
you can start your own Meetup group too.
Have you used any of these resources?
Which ones are your favorite?
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