Our long-term goals
1. Improved vegan catering, nutrition, education and agriculture; encouraging government, public and private sector bodies to adopt and reward sustainable, healthy and compassionate lifestyles.
2. Greatly increase the number of people trying veganism and remaining vegan, because they believe that:
- Animals have a right to life and freedom
- Animal exploitation also negatively affects human justice (global food distribution issues, etc)
- Animal farming is not sustainable and is severely damaging to the environment
- Balanced vegan nutrition is healthy.
Ambitious but achievable goals that will ultimately make a huge difference to the future of animals, the planet and us. Here's to a brighter future for all.
Two key initiatives helping us realise our long-term goal of a vegan world are: (1) encouraging more people to give veganism a try; and (2) making the vegan lifestyle easy to follow.
How we're doing it:
1. Publicising the philosophical reasons for being vegan. People are most likely to stay committed to veganism if they believe it is wrong to exploit other animals because, like humans, they have value in their own right.
2. Promoting the benefits of the vegan lifestyle by:
- Encouraging more people to adopt it and making it easy for people to follow it
- Advancing the development and use of vegan alternatives to all commodities derived from animals
- Promoting knowledge of sound nutrition and interest in veganism as a complete and healthy diet
- Promoting vegan agricultural methods as a means of both safeguarding global food supply and avoiding environmental damage
- Campaigning for the legal recognition of veganism as a protected belief within legislation
- Driving to achieve policy change socially (citizens playing a key role) and through practice (consumers influencing the marketplace).
- Great organisational skills
- Experience of coordinating people
- Experience of working to specific dates and deadlines
- Good time keeping
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to motivate people around the topic of veganism
- Ability to stick to branding
- Ability to read emails in a timely manner and translate tasks into actions quickly
- Ability to report back on activities
- Excellent knowledge of vegan issues
The Vegan Society works to help more people become vegan with confidence, encourage more trusted Vegan Society Trademarked products to be available in shops, and take veganism to the mainstream. It provides information and guidance on various aspects of veganism for new and potential vegans, caterers, healthcare professionals, educators and the media. It also co-ordinates a variety of campaigns to raise awareness of the lifestyle.
The Vegan Society runs a mentoring scheme to help people who would like to become vegan called the Vegan Pledge. The number of Pledgers has doubled in the last year, with over 1000 people taking the Pledge each month.
Our multi-disciplinary Research Committee consists of over 25 academics pursuing research on a range of topics within veganism.
Our Opportunities
We have an ever-growing Community Network of vegans just like you, who have a passion to volunteer and promote veganism where they live.
Do you want to take part in vegan volunteering around your local area? You can do that – right here at The Vegan Society. We have an ever-growing Community Network of vegans just like you, who have a passion to volunteer and promote veganism.