Veg.ac · Impact calculator

What does your plate

Pick your current diet and how long you'd commit to plant-based eating. The estimates below come from peer-reviewed lifecycle and food-system studies.

Your current diet

Time horizon

1 yr
1102550
95

Land animals spared

Mostly chickens — the species killed in the largest numbers.

200

Aquatic animals spared

Fish, shrimp, and bycatch you would otherwise have eaten or financed.

1.9k kg

CO₂-equivalent avoided

≈ 804 litres of petrol burned.

750k L

Water saved

≈ 5k days of household water use.

2.4k m²

Land freed for nature

≈ 0.48 football pitches.

130 m²

Forest spared

From land-use change driven by beef and feed soy.

360 kg

Grain freed for humans

Globally, ~77% of soy and ~36% of cereal grains feed livestock.

And your daily life

Lower blood pressure, lower LDL cholesterol, reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and several cancers.

Make the numbers real. Start the 7-day plan.

One new plant-based habit a day, built on the ingredients you already cook.

Sources & methodology

Per-omnivore-year baselines combine Poore & Nemecek (Science, 2018), FAO statistics, faunalytics estimates of animals killed per capita, and the Water Footprint Network. Diet multipliers approximate dietary impact relative to an average omnivore in a high-income country.

Numbers are rounded estimates intended for orientation, not precise accounting.