
Here are some great resources for starting and maintaining a healthy, vegan lifestyle. There are many more websites to be enjoyed, but I find these to be among the best.
If anyone asks you whether vegan diets are even healthy, point them to the list in THIS post.
Getting started
- PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) 21-day Vegan Kickstart program
- Vegan Kit
- Mercy For Animals Vegetarian (vegan) Starter Guide
- Vegan Outreach Starter Guide
- Dr. McDougall’s free McDougall program
- Finding Vegan (great gateway into other blogs. Some of the best “food porn” around)
Vegan health/Studies/Nutrition resources
- VeganHealth (My favorite site for up-to-date science on being a healthy vegan)
- NutritionFacts (Another favorite on the top of my list; Highly entertaining and informative videos with sources for each study mentioned)
- Dr. McDougall (they also have an excellent forum)
- Dr. Fuhrman (a celebrity M.D of the vegan world)
- Plant Positive (an absolutely exhaustive collection of nutrition videos debunking paleo & low carb myths)
- Faunalytics (formerly Humane Research Council) (some of the most fascinating research to empower animal advocates)
- Humane League LAB (studies on how to improve animal advocacy. Very interesting research!)
- Plant-Based Research (“promoting scientific research relevant to plant-based nutrition)
- Plant-Based Doctors (a great resource for finding medical professionals who support plant-based living)
Favorite sites and blogs
- Jack Norris RD
- The Vegan RD
- Jeff Novick RD
- Brenda Davis RD
- Anya Todd RD
- Vesanto Melina RD, Nutrispeak
- Disease Proof
- The Good Human (often has vegan-related posts)
- One Green Planet
- Vegan Cooking With Love (her youtube channel is also amazing!)
- JL Goes Vegan (recipes, “Vegan news you can use”)
- Veged Out (her vegan diet has helped with her Ulcerative Colitis)
- Kris Carr (cancer survivor)
- The Lusty Vegan (some adult content)
- Meghan Telpner (has Crohn’s disease and is using a plant-based diet to keep her in remission)
- Meat Free Athlete (great info for athletes looking to go vegan)
- Girlie Girl Army (“a one-stop online resource for a ferociously progressive, urban-minded approach to cruelty-free living”)
- Your Vegan Fallacy Is (Tearing down common fallacies!)
- Eco-Vegan Gal (I’ve been a fan of Whitney’s YouTube channel for years. Great info on healthy living)
Cooking/Recipes
- Broke Bank Vegan (Inexpensive, easy, and delicious recipes!)
- It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken (Easy is the key here!)
- Cheap Lazy Vegan (an awesome channel for people on a budget).
- It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken (Sam, a fellow Canadian, has some great vegan recipes!)
- The Edgy Veg (Candice is the Queen of vegan “junk food”!)
- The Vegan Corner (Great YouTube channel that features low-fat recipes)
- Minimalist Baker (we get a lot of ideas from this website!)
- Brown Vegan (her youtube channel is wonderful!)
Activism
- Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach (essays, podcasts, and video from Professor of Law Gary L. Francione)
- BiteSizeVegan (lots of great content on many topics)
- Earthlings (film, free to watch. Perhaps one of the most difficult 1.5 hours you’ll ever watch. I call this movie “The Vegan Maker”. It’s that powerful)
- Free From Harm (some really great, thought-provoking articles in here)
- Joey Carbstrong (one of the best activists around. His story is truly inspiring.)
Documentaries
- Cowspiracy (Focuses on the environment. Incredibly powerful documentary. I would highly recommend this one)
- Forks Over Knives (Focuses on diet)
Updated Feb 27, 2024
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