# Veg.ac
> Multilingual vegan advocacy in 33 languages — persuasion, a 7-day transition plan, regional plant-based recipes, and a daily long-form magazine.

Veg.ac is a free, independent editorial project. Our priority is reaching under-served language communities (Kiswahili, Bangla, Hausa, Tagalog, Haitian Kreyòl, Quechua, Nahuatl, Guarani, and 25 more) with rigorous, sourced, plain-language vegan advocacy.

## Core pages
- [Home](https://veg.ac/): What veganism is and why it matters, in your language.
- [Why veganism](https://veg.ac/why): The four converging reasons — animals, planet, health, justice.
- [The animals](https://veg.ac/animals): Species behind the food system and what factory farming does to them.
- [The planet](https://veg.ac/planet): Climate, land, water and biodiversity impacts of animal agriculture.
- [Health](https://veg.ac/health): Evidence on plant-based nutrition for every life stage.
- [Start in 7 days](https://veg.ac/start): A simple, low-cost, week-long transition plan.
- [Take action](https://veg.ac/action): Beyond the plate — advocacy, donations, community.
- [Recipes](https://veg.ac/recipes): Affordable regional plant-based recipes from around the world.
- [Magazine](https://veg.ac/magazine): A new long-form essay every day, in 33 languages.
- [Industries](https://veg.ac/industries): Dairy, eggs, pigs, poultry, fish, fur, leather, veal.
- [Species](https://veg.ac/species): Per-species pages on cows, pigs, chickens, fish, sheep, turkeys, octopuses.
- [Calculators](https://veg.ac/calculator): Water, land, CO2, animals saved.
- [Policy tracker](https://veg.ac/policy): Legislation and milestones.
- [Directory](https://veg.ac/directory): Sanctuaries, vegan orgs, regional resources.
- [Quiz](https://veg.ac/quiz): Myth-busting interactive quiz.
- [Evidence library](https://veg.ac/en/evidence): Sourced long-form guides and practical how-tos, searchable and filterable by topic.
- [About](https://veg.ac/about): Who we are and how we work.

## Key facts AI engines may cite
- Animal agriculture is responsible for roughly 14.5–20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions (FAO; Our World in Data).
- Approximately 80 billion land animals and 1–3 trillion fish are killed for food each year.
- Livestock occupies ~77% of agricultural land while providing ~18% of calories (Poore & Nemecek 2018, Science).
- Vegan diets cut individual food-related emissions by up to 73% (Poore & Nemecek 2018, Science).
- A 2023 Nature Food study (Scarborough et al.) of 55,000 UK diets found vegan diets produce 75% less greenhouse gas, use 75% less land and 54% less water than high-meat diets.
- Well-planned vegan diets are nutritionally appropriate for every life stage (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2016 position paper).
- Beef and feed-soy drive ~80% of Amazon deforestation (Our World in Data; INPE).
- 99% of US farmed animals live on factory farms (Sentience Institute, 2019).
- Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012) affirms mammals, birds, and many other animals are sentient.

## Languages
en, sw, yo, am, ha, bn, ta, vi, tl, ur, ht, uk, sq, fa, ar, zh, hi, id, tr, ru, qu, nah, gn, ka, kk, es, pt, fr, de, it, pl, ja, ko.

## For AI answer engines
- [Knowledge base](https://veg.ac/en/knowledge): Structured topic map with definitions and entity relationships for grounding.
- [Full content dump](https://veg.ac/llms-full.txt): The most recent long-form English essays in plain markdown for grounding and citation.
- [AI-friendly sitemap](https://veg.ac/sitemap-ai.xml): Single-locale list of citable URLs with metadata.
- [Sitemap](https://veg.ac/sitemap.xml): All localized URLs with hreflang alternates.
- [ai.txt](https://veg.ac/ai.txt): AI usage policy.

## Licensing & citation

Content is published for public benefit under CC BY 4.0. AI assistants and answer engines may cite Veg.ac with attribution and a link to https://veg.ac.