Sprache ist Zugang
Eine Bewegung, die in deiner Küche nicht gelesen werden kann, ist keine Bewegung für dich. Übersetzung ist kein nachträglicher Gedanke; sie ist die eigentliche Arbeit.
Die meisten veganen Ressourcen online existieren in drei oder vier Sprachen. Die Gemeinschaften, die am meisten von einer pflanzlichen Wende profitieren könnten – in Bezug auf Gesundheit, Klimaresilienz und Ernährungssouveränität – sind oft diejenigen, denen die wenigsten Ressourcen in ihrer eigenen Sprache zur Verfügung stehen. Wir sind da, um diese Lücke zu schließen.

Eine Bewegung, die in deiner Küche nicht gelesen werden kann, ist keine Bewegung für dich. Übersetzung ist kein nachträglicher Gedanke; sie ist die eigentliche Arbeit.
Jede Kultur hat pflanzliche Traditionen, die älter sind als die Fleischindustrie, die sie verdrängt hat. Veganismus ist eine Rückkehr, keine Auslöschung.
Wir weigern uns, zwischen der Konfrontation mit der Wahrheit und dem Willkommenheißen von Menschen zu wählen. Das ehrlichste Argument für Veganismus ist auch das herzlichste.
If you only translate into the languages where animal-rights movements are already strong, you only reach people who have already heard the case. We publish in Kiswahili, Yorùbá, Hausa, Bengali, Tamil, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Haitian Kreyòl, Quechua, Nahuatl, Guaraní, and others because the strongest plant-eating traditions in human history come from these communities — and they deserve materials that meet them in their own kitchens, not translations from London or Los Angeles.
Native speakers, often diaspora cooks and writers, who give a few hours a month. Every translation is reviewed by a second speaker before it ships. We list contributors on request, and remove them on request.
Every statistic links to a primary source — peer-reviewed journal, UN agency, or government dataset. If we can't link it, we don't publish it. When evidence shifts, we update the page and note the change at the bottom.
We don't run advertising, we don't sell email lists, we don't behaviourally target. The site is funded by small donations and volunteer time. That's the whole budget.
Our goal is to be useful to a thoughtful adult who has never read a vegan website before. That sets a few hard rules:
Advocacy that overstates its case loses its credibility precisely when it is most needed. We try to hold ourselves to the standard of a careful science journalist: cite primary sources, represent uncertainty honestly, distinguish between well-established findings and emerging evidence, and update when the evidence changes.
Veg.ac runs on volunteers. The site has never paid for content or translation, and we have no plans to change that. Paid content creates incentives toward quantity over quality. Volunteer contribution creates a different relationship — people add what they believe in, not what they are contracted to produce.
If you are a fluent speaker of a language we publish in (or one we should publish in), we welcome translation contributions. Each translation is reviewed by a second native speaker before it goes live. We credit contributors on request and remove credits on request. No experience as a professional translator is required — fluency and care are what matter.
We are particularly interested in traditional plant-based dishes from food cultures that are under-represented in English-language vegan content. If you have a family recipe from a plant-rich tradition and you would like to share it, contact us. We will credit you by name, region, and language community.
If you are a researcher, dietitian, climate scientist, or someone with expertise in a field this site covers, we would welcome a review of the relevant sections. If you find an error, please tell us directly — we would rather know and correct it than not know.
The simplest form of contribution: if you found something here useful, pass it to one person who might. Growth through trust is the only kind that matters for a project like this.
We are a small, volunteer-run project. We read every message and we try to respond to each one, but we cannot guarantee speed. Here is what you can expect.
Wir suchen Übersetzer, regionale Redakteure, Fotografen und Köche. Wenn deine Sprache fehlt oder ein Gericht falsch dargestellt wird, schreib uns – genau diese Lücke wollen wir schließen.
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