Resources

Enjoy this list of resources selected by our team as the most relevant and fitting for the “corporate vegan” audience. This is by no means a comprehensive listing of vegan resource sites. Our main goal was to present the various categories of vegan information to encourage additional individual research. Contact us if you believe an important resource for our target audience should be added to this list.

Note: The inclusion of these sites does not mean we endorse or recommend them or their products/information. We have not researched or personally used some of these sites. VLCM is not affiliated with any of the sites or underlying organizations.

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Workplace Education Programs

Wellstart Health

A comprehensive, 12-week lifestyle change program (100% plant-based) led by physicians, dietitians and health coaches. An employer could offer the Wellstart program as an attractive benefit to the workforce. The program gives participants – even those with chronic conditions or at high risk – knowledge and new skills to take control of their own health and even reverse their illnesses. Many participants have reduced and even eliminated medications, and they report feeling better than they’d ever imagined possible.

PCRM Food For Life

This international program of nutrition and health classes – delivered by a network of certified instructors – helps people regain their health through food. The classes cover how a plant-based diet can prevent and reverse chronic diseases. Organizations can also have their employees become certified Food for Life Instructors to then bring this established and credible plant-based nutrition education program to their customers or employees.

Forward Food

A project of HSUS, this program works with corporate foodservice providers to help add more plant-based foods to the menus. The program offers free resources, toolkits, recipes, marketing materials, and even in-person events and chef training.

Friendly Food Alliance

An innovative pilot project of CIWF to partner with food companies to explore expansion of plant-based offerings, blended products and other strategies to reduce animal ingredients in their food supply chain. Uniquely, this project would help food companies capitalize on the market trend towards plant-based foods.

Green Monday

This program helps schools and other institutions work with their food vendors to offer delicious, sustainable, plant-based “Green Monday Specials” one day per week. It also offers tools to educate employees and students about the consequences of our food choices.

Plant-Based Workplace CEO Challenge

Gigi Carter is a nutritionist and author of Plant-Based Workplace. In this program, she invites CEOs to improve employee health and reduce the business’s carbon footprint by implementing a plant-based workplace through a 3-step process.

Food, Health, and Nutrition

NutritionFacts

Founded by renowned Michael Greger, M.D., author of the How Not To Die book. The site covers hundreds of nutrition, food safety and public health topics presented mostly in a video format. (Note: Dr. Greger is an entertaining public speaker – check his speaking events in your area.)

Vegan Health

This site by Registered Dietitian and Vegan Outreach co-founder Jack Norris reports on the scientific literature related to health benefits of a vegan diet, as well as evidence-based discussion of nutrition concerns and recommendations related to vegan diets.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; a non-profit founded by Neal Barnard, M.D. to “lead a revolution in medicine” by preventing chronic diseases (diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer) through a healthy diet. PCRM offers a vast library of health and nutritional resources as well as classes and programs.

Restaurants and Shopping

Happy Cow

Popular worldwide directory of vegan-friendly restaurants and stores (with user ratings and comments) by location. Excellent for traveling as well as for exploring options in home location. Also available in a mobile app format.

Boutique Vegan

The largest online vegan store in Europe, offering 4,000+ different vegan products: food, body care, pet products and more. English, French and German language options. Includes a searchable catalog of brands. Serves individual as well as B2B customers.

Vegan Essentials

Online vegan store based in US with a catalog of 2,000+ vegan products including food, beauty products, clothing, shoes, books, DVDs and other. Ships to most countries worldwide.

Vegan Grocery Shopping Guide

A list of Vegan.com recommended food items – by key categories – that can be ordered from Amazon.

Urban Vegan’s Shopping Guide

A very comprehensive list of vegan-friendly products, compiled based on a review of thousands of pages. Reader can filter by categories such as skin care, household, cleaning etc.

Clothing

Unicorn Goods

The world’s largest online vegan catalog (aggregator) for clothing, accessories and home goods. Operates as a Public Benefit Corporation with the mission to shift the market toward vegan products. While focused on casual clothing, some business attire options are available.

Jaan’s Ties

The “home of the non-silk vegan ties”, the company sells luxury satin ties as an alternative to the silk ties of most retailers. Also offers a few other types of accessories (bow ties, cufflinks etc.)

Farm Sanctuary’s Vegan Fashion

A comprehensive list of most popular vegan designers and brands as well as companies offering vegan products. The list provides brief descriptions of each brand and the links to sites.

Travel

Happy Cow

Vegan Business Travel Guide

Our own original article offering advice on how to best prepare for traveling and how to find vegan options at airports, in hotels and conference venues during business travel.

Green Earth Travel

Travel agent that books tours promoting sustainable and eco-friendly travel. The agent specializes in vegetarian and vegan travel, along with customized volunteer vacations and adventure travel packages.

Veg Jaunts and Journeys

Company that runs personalized group tours to vegan-friendly destinations. Their tours are often centred around vegan festivals, pop-up markets and other events.

VegVoyages

Tour operator that offers vegan adventure tours to a number of destinations in Asia, including India, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia.

Vegan Travel Cruises and Tours

Germany based company specializing in all-vegan, luxury European river cruises.

Investing

Cruelty-Free Investing

A non-profit investor resource which categorizes all American publicly traded companies as either “Exploits Animals” or “Does Not Exploit Animals”, with specifics.

Low Fee Vegan Investing

Low-fee vegan investing information by Tom Nowak, CFP of Quantum Financial Planning.

Humane Investing LLC

A vegan owned business provides financial planning services (fee only; not an SEC Registered Investment Advisor) for investors interested in investments to improve the world.

Optimized Partners’ Vegan Investment Management

This investment manager started in 1995 as the first and only investment adviser in the US focusing exclusively on the humane/environmentally and vegan oriented investor. Offers investment management via two investment partners.

Motif Investing – Vegetarian and Vegan Composite

Motif investment platform offers investments in “motifs”, intelligently weighted baskets of up to 30 stocks and ETFs built around themes and investing styles. A Vegan/Vegetarian oriented motif is an available option.

Vegan Publicly Traded Stocks

List of publicly traded vegan companies listed on major U.S. exchanges

Organizations

Animal Charity Evaluators

An independent non-profit focused on researching the most effective animal advocacy work based on the principle of “effective altruism”. ACE publishes an annual list of top recommended animal charities as well as other free resources to donors and advocates.

Faunalytics

A non-profit that conducts research and shares knowledge to promote effective animal advocacy. Faunalytics also provides a comprehensive research library of animal-related opinion and behavior studies.

Vegan Trade Council

The first trade association for the vegan industry aiming to promote vegan products and services in the marketplace, to be an online resource for information to the general public, and to advocate for the vegan industry.

Plant Based Foods Association

A trade association representing the leading plant-based food companies. It aims to advocate for better policies to meet the growing consumer demand for plant-based foods.

FAIRR

Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) is an investor initiative that aims to put factory farming on an Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda. The site contains well-researched facts about the factory farming issues.

Events

Wikipedia’s Veg Festival Directory

A listing of vegan and vegetarian festivals by continent. Includes a brief comment about each festival. Note: This list may not include some newer or smaller festivals; you should do your own search for your specific geography.

Vegan.com Festival Directory

A listing of vegan festivals held annually in the US (listed by state) and international. Note: This list may not include some newer or smaller festivals; you should do your own search for your specific geography.

Facts and Infographics

56 Facts about Vegetarianism and Veganism

A list of 56 miscellaneous vegan and vegetarian facts including definitions of terms, useful statistics and tidbits of knowledge.

Vegan Fact Sheets

A set of 17 printable fact sheets focused on key vegan nutritional questions (iron, calcium, protein, diebetes etc.).

Vegan Infographics

A site featuring eight useful infographic posters (with links to the native sites) covering different vegan topics including environmental impact, health & nutrition highlights, debunking of vegan myths and statistics about the lives of farmed animals.

News and Blogs