# Veg.ac
> Multilingual vegan advocacy in 25 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 17 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 25 languages.
- [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).
- Well-planned vegan diets are nutritionally appropriate for every life stage (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2016).

## 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.

## 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.

## Licensing & citation

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