If you’ve been feeling burned out from witnessing animal cruelty or from everything else wrong with the world, like raging wars and leaders denying climate change, I hope this brings a bit of light to you.

Lighting the Path for Future Culinary Experts

Last quarter, we launched our new Vegan Culinary Advancement Program (VCAP) to bring plant-based culinary education into mainstream hospitality training.

In September, the NIMS Institute of Hotel Management, Jaipur, and the St. Joseph’s Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology, Palai, signed Memoranda of Understanding to integrate VCAP into their degree programs. Together, over 700 students each year will now learn plant-based cooking as part of their curriculum, shaping the future of India’s food industry.

Sharing the Light: Changing the Narrative

Through our media outreach, we continue to engage regional journalists to highlight the connection between animal agriculture, climate change, and human health. Regional newspapers play a vital role in shaping public opinion, as their stories reach people in their local languages and contexts.

In the last quarter, we received 16 media mentions, amplifying awareness and helping more communities understand why transforming our food systems matters.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs Has Extended Its Collaboration With Us for Three More Years

Our Food Planet Health Awareness sessions continue to engage approximately 50,000 students annually. The impact of this work has led the Ministry of Youth Affairs to extend our collaboration for an additional three years.

As part of this partnership, we support the ministry in incorporating plant-based diets as a key strategy within the Indian government’s Fit India Movement, helping drive lasting, systemic change at the institutional level.

In the last quarter alone, we:

• Helped 15,691 students try vegan
• Organized 84 webinars
• Reached out to 382 colleges

Stories That Shine: A Dedicated Page for Impact Stories

Last quarter, we launched our Impact Story page, featuring testimonials from individuals who have transformed their lifelong beliefs about animals and adopted a vegan lifestyle.

Learn about their journeys and the stories of how they overcame their challenges!

Meet One of Our Team Members, Inspiring Thousands of Such Individuals

Headshot of Varsha Shankar, our newest Outreach Coordinator.
“Veganism unlocked a playful curiosity in me, and now the kitchen is my canvas. For me, veganism is repair in action. A plate that refuses harm, a habit that protects futures, and a promise to the voiceless. As an outreach coordinator at Vegan Outreach, I aim to educate and help shift norms toward food that harms none and returns life to animals, to people, and to the Earth.”

– Varsha Shankar
Outreach Coordinator

Your support is like a Diwali lamp, fueling hope, strength, and positivity in us. In the same way, we hope our work brings light to you. This Diwali, continue believing in us and help us save more animals across India.

If our work inspired hope and positivity in you, consider sharing it with someone who might need to read this.

Learn more about our work in India!

With gratitude,

Richa Mehta

Director of Programs, Asia-Pacific

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When Curiosity Meets Awareness

One of the most powerful things we can do through outreach is create space for questions about the food on our plates, the systems behind it, and the impact it leaves behind. For thousands of students across India, those questions begin with Vegan Outreach’s Food Planet Health Awareness Program.

For Jagruti, a tourist guide from Ektanagar and a student pursuing a Master’s in Social Work in Dabhoi, it all started with one webinar. Already a vegetarian, she joined out of curiosity. Here’s what she learned!

What was the most shocking thing you learned during the Food-Planet-Health webinar? 

I’m a vegetarian, but I hadn’t realized how much damage even vegetarian foods like dairy can cause. The webinar made me realise that when the demand for animal products like milk and meat increases, more animals are bred, and they are given chemical injections (oxytocin) to boost production. After learning that, I’ve started switching to plant-based options.

What changes when awareness becomes a daily habit?

I’ve reduced dairy since the webinar. Outside the house, I’ve stopped eating things like butter and cheese, especially from places that serve food that isn’t organic. I’ve even made almond milk at home. It takes a bit of time, but I really liked it.

Since making these changes, my migraines have gone down, and my menstrual cycle has become more regular. I didn’t expect that. I just feel like my health has improved a lot. These small changes matter.

Can small food choices really impact animals and the planet?

The amount of water used in dairy production and the injections (oxytocin) given to animals harm both our bodies and the environment. It not only affects the health of the animals, but it also affects ours. I started thinking, if I keep supporting this system, I’m part of the problem. So I decided to stop consuming these products. I feel like even these small changes in my food habits are helping the environment, animals, and my own body.

A Bigger Picture

For Jagruti, the webinar exposed the hidden costs of dairy, including its significant water footprint and the routine use of hormonal inputs to increase production at the expense of animal and human health. 

Jagruti also shared how the webinar helped her understand the wider ethical and systemic issues tied to animal agriculture. She reflected on how demand fuels production, and production often comes at a cost to both animals and people.

“The demand for milk and meat means more animals are bred, and to produce more, they’re given chemical injections. That harms them and us. These products should really be stopped.”

Her story is one of many inspired by our Food Planet Health Awareness Program. It’s a reminder that when students are given the facts, they’re more than ready to make compassionate, informed choices for themselves, for animals, and for the planet.

With your support, Vegan Outreach is able to reach thousands of students every month with life-changing information about sustainable, ethical, and health-conscious eating.

Want to help us reach more students like Jagruti?

Become a Monthly Sustainer!

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Doubling Down on Progress

Thanks to donors like you, we scaled up the Green Tuesday Initiative to double its impact this year. This means we are on track to reduce 2.2 million pounds of animal products and spare twice as many animal lives.

Here are some of the major updates:

• 41% of goals achieved
• 4,47,748 kg/987,115 lb of animal products reduced
• 65 Green Tuesday Initiative partners obtained

That’s one animal life spared every 3.5 minutes so far this year.*

*Calculated using our impact data from the past 6 months.

Our Newest Partner

Our biggest recent victory was partnering with Carelon. Through this collaboration, Carelon will reduce 59,520 kg/131,219 lb of animal products annually. They’ve also introduced vegan milk alternatives in their cafeteria.

16,354 Students joined the 10 Weeks to Vegan program

As you may have heard, recent tensions between India and Pakistan brought us dangerously close to conflict. Thankfully, it didn’t escalate into a full-scale war, but the impact was deeply felt, especially by communities in India’s border states. Our Food-Planet-Health program was not untouched. Many colleges and universities remained closed for over two months, significantly disrupting our outreach efforts.

But we’re not backing down. We remain committed to our mission, and we’re determined to make up for lost ground in the months ahead, with even more urgency, heart, and resilience. Here’s what we achieved in the last six months:

• 16,581 people, including students, joined the 10 Weeks to Vegan challenge
• 117 webinars were organized
• 282 colleges participated in webinars

Raising the Bar for Plant-Based Culinary Education

Our Vegan Culinary Advancement Program partner, SRM Institute of Hotel Management (SRM IHM), made history by setting a Nova World Record with its “Fueling 2025 with 2,025 Plant-Powered Kathi Rolls” event. At the Ekkatuthangal campus, 160 students prepared 2,025 plant-based multigrain kathi rolls in record time, a world first in plant-based culinary innovation.

Read about this delicious record-breaking moment!

Meet Our New Staff Member

We’re thrilled to welcome Kalpana Gupta to the Vegan Outreach team! With a strong background in outreach and community building, Kalpana will play a critical role in scaling up the Green Tuesday Initiative, bringing sustainable food choices to more institutions across the region.

“It’s a fulfilling experience to enable tangible changes, like a campus reducing its carbon footprint or a company introducing plant-based meals. I’m proud to be part of a mission and a purpose-driven team that helps animals and promotes environmental responsibility. Every small step we take feels like progress toward a better future.”

– Kalpana Gupta
Project Specialist (Outreach and Engagement), Vegan Outreach

Your support means the world. Have feedback, questions, or an idea you’d like us to explore in the Asia-Pacific region? Just drop us a line. I love staying connected with the people who make this work possible.

Every reply helps us do better. Tell us what you think!

Thank you for being part of this journey,

Richa Mehta

Director of Programs, Asia-Pacific

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10 Weeks to Vegan is an email series and companion Facebook support group that provides participants with motivation, recipes, and resources to help them eat animal-free. We’ve adapted dozens of versions for different countries and regions.

Most participants take a survey when they sign up, and then they’re also sent a survey two weeks after the series ends. We’ve also surveyed a segment of participants after 6 months.

Our surveys in most countries have resulted in high rates of participants becoming vegetarian or vegan, usually 10 to 30%. We’ve conducted one survey where we had a randomized control group and we’re planning to do that again relatively soon.

2025 Survey Results

In previous surveys, discussed in sections below, we limited our participants to specific countries. More recently, we finished adding the infrastructure to be able to survey participants from all countries where we have a 10 Weeks to Vegan program.

By April of 2025, we had enough results from a wide array of countries as well as from participants in our completely revamped United States 10 Weeks to Vegan series. The new version, which we refer to internally as 10 Weeks 2.0, launched at the end of October 2024. We’ve since completed 10 Weeks 2.0 for a few other countries, but they’re not in the results below from April 2025.

We’re happy to report that the conversion rates for 10 Weeks 2.0 are higher than for the original version (see our previous United States surveys below). The United States 10 Weeks 2.0 had a conversion rate to vegetarian or vegan of 34% based on diet frequency questions, while all the countries combined had a conversion rate of 16%, and English-speaking countries had a conversion rate of 22%.

We attribute some of the recidivism to people not being clear on the definitions of terms like vegan or flexitarian when taking the pre-test.

2023 Randomized Controlled Survey

In 2022-23, Vegan Outreach conducted a survey to assess the effectiveness of 10 Weeks to Vegan by including a randomized control group. Previously, we conducted numerous surveys to determine whether participants had converted to vegetarian or vegan, but this time we wanted to include a control group to see if people who sign up for 10 Weeks to Vegan were likely to change even if they don’t receive the series.

Methodology

The surveys ran in Chile, Vietnam, and the United States. Instagram and Facebook users in our target audience were shown our typical ads used to pique interest in learning more about going vegan (the image at the top of this page is representative of ads we typically run). When someone clicked on the ad, they were taken to a screen explaining that we were conducting research and asking if they would take part. We let them know that if they agreed to participate, they might not receive any information about becoming vegan for 12 weeks. If they declined to participate, we sent them to our usual signup form for 10 Weeks to Vegan and they were not part of the study.

To encourage participation, we told them that they would be added to a raffle in which two randomly chosen participants per month, from each country, would win a $50 Amazon gift card (U.S. and Chile) or a 500,000 VND Tiki voucher (Vietnam).

If they agreed to participate, they were presented with a pre-test survey. After they took the survey, they were randomly assigned to be in either the treatment group (receiving the usual emails from the 10 Weeks to Vegan program) or the control group (receiving no emails). People in the treatment group were also invited to be part of the 10 Weeks to Vegan Facebook support group for their country. After 12 weeks, both the treatment and control groups were sent a post-test survey to fill out.

Conversion Rates

The main outcome we measured was the net conversion rate of the treatment and control groups. We defined a conversion as someone who reported going from meat-eater to vegetarian, from meat-eater to vegan, or from vegetarian to vegan. A recidivist was someone who changed in the opposite direction. The net conversion rate was the number of conversions minus the number of recidivists divided by the total number of participants.

We measured whether someone was a meat-eater, vegetarian, or vegan in two different ways:

• Based on diet frequency (how often they eat various categories of animal products)
• Based on how they self-identify: meat-eater, flexitarian, pescatarian, lacto-ovo vegetarian, or vegan

We asked the diet frequency questions before asking how they identify so as not to predispose them to answer the diet frequency questions according to how they identify. We considered flexitarians and pescatarians to be meat-eaters.

Unfortunately, we made an error on the Vietnam self-identify questions rendering those responses unusable, but we were able to include the data for the diet frequency questions.

Results

The survey began in April of 2022 and lasted until June of 2023.

Our response rates were relatively low, as seen in the chart below.

We suspect that the response rate for the control group was higher than that for the treatment group because the treatment group’s post-test was longer than the control group’s. We also suspect that Chile had a higher response rate because their potential reward was relatively higher than the U.S. or Vietnam’s reward. We notified people about the post-test up to two times.

The conversion rates are shown in our Google spreadsheet, 2023 Randomized, Controlled Survey of 10 Weeks to Vegan Program.

On that spreadsheet, we did three different analyses:

1. Purple headings: Included all participants except the treatment participants who didn’t receive the 10 Weeks to Vegan emails, the control group participants who received the 10 Weeks to Vegan emails (by signing up in a different way), and the participants who chose the first answer for each question (which were incongruous and an indication someone was simply filling out the survey to be part of the raffle).
2. Blue headings: Included only treatment group participants who reported joining the Facebook support group and opening at least 4 of the 10 Weeks to Vegan emails (the “committed group”) and control group participants who reported not seeking info on how to become veg after taking the pre-test (an “uncommitted” group).
3. Yellow headings: Included all participants, even those excluded in the first (purple) analysis.

As with our previous surveys, there was a high rate of change between the pre-tests and post-tests.

Generally, for the United States and Vietnam arms, there was a difference between the treatment and control groups with mostly small overlaps between the 95% confidence intervals, giving us confidence that 10 Weeks to Vegan is having an impact.

For example, for the United States purple analysis, the treatment group had a 21% (95% CI: 14-30%) conversion rate based on diet frequency questions and a 20% (95% CI: 13-29%) conversion rate based on the identification questions, compared to the control group’s conversion rates of 12% (95% CI: 8-19%) and 14% (95% 9-20%), respectively.

In Chile, the only comparisons that showed a positive impact for the treatment group (where there wasn’t a large overlap between the confidence intervals) was in comparing the committed treatment group to the control group (for the diet frequency questions only). For the self-identify questions, the control group actually converted at a higher rate than did the treatment group (without a large overlap of confidence intervals).

Discussion

This randomized controlled survey showed that in the United States and Vietnam, participants taking part in 10 Weeks to Vegan were more likely to convert to vegetarian or vegan than participants randomized to a control group. Participants in the treatment group in Chile didn’t convert at a higher rate than the control group.

We haven’t figured out a good way to control for self-selection bias—in other words, the bias that people who are more interested in going vegan are more likely to take the survey. Making the reward higher could decrease this self-selection bias, but doing so could increase the bias that people who care about the reward—who might not be representative of the average participant in 10 Weeks to Vegan—are more likely to take the survey. In one of our past surveys, where each participant received a $5 gift card, we found a high rate of fraudulent participants.

Based partly on the results of our randomized controlled survey, we direct our ad spending for 10 Weeks to Vegan to countries where we get the most new members in our 10 Weeks to Vegan support groups; there are 49 such groups serving the many countries in which we actively promote 10 Weeks to Vegan. In 2023, we’ve averaged over 6,000 new members per month in these support groups.

In this survey, our first randomized controlled survey, we found a much higher post-test response rate among the control group. We believe this is because the treatment group’s post-test was significantly longer than the control group’s. One modification we’ll be implementing is to reduce the number of questions for the treatment group’s post-test and to allow the data to be submitted once they’ve answered the critical questions—the same questions that the control group receives.

This randomized controlled survey of 10 Weeks to Vegan is studying the impact on people who sign up through our ads but not those who, albeit in much smaller numbers, come to us organically. We’re working on ways to study those who sign up organically.

We’re in the process of adding required pre-test surveys for all 10 Weeks to Vegan participants in every country who signs up online, along with optional post-test surveys (we have no choice but to make the post-test optional). While these surveys won’t have a control group, they should allow for country-to-country comparisons and allow us to continue to monitor the program’s effectiveness.

We’re also planning a second randomized controlled survey, but it will be some time before that begins.

2022 and Previous Surveys

To assess the effectiveness of 10 Weeks to Vegan, we surveyed United States, Mexico, and India 10 Weeks to Vegan and Get Healthy participants before and after they began the email series. In order to evaluate long-term change, we sent out a follow-up survey to those in the United States for whom it has been ≥6 months since completing the series.

Methodology

The pre-test was emailed to participants within a week after they signed up for 10 Weeks to Vegan. We sent the post-test approximately two weeks after people finished the entire 10 Weeks to Vegan series. To encourage participation, we offered two randomly chosen participants per month a $50, $300 peso, or 1,500 INR, respectively, Amazon gift card.

We evaluated responses from participants who received 10 Weeks to Vegan, took both the pre-test and the post-test, and reported reading at least one email. In total, we evaluated responses from 500 US participants, 105 Mexico participants, 63 India participants, and 103 Get Healthy participants.

We asked people how often they eat various animal and plant products. The pre-test asks how often participants ate various animal products in the last month and the post-test asks how often in the last week. We follow the food intake questions with a question about whether they identify as a meat-eater, vegetarian, or vegan.

We considered those who moved from being a meat-eater to vegetarian or vegan, or from being a vegetarian to vegan, as a positive change. We classified those who moved in the reverse direction (vegan to vegetarian or meat-eater, or vegetarian to meat-eater) as a negative change. However, anyone whose self-identity was vegetarian or vegan at the pre-test and moved in a negative direction at post-test was cross-checked to see if their diet frequency showed otherwise. We counted the net changes for our total conversion figures.

For people who, based on food intake, misclassified themselves as a vegetarian or vegan in the identity question at pre-test and then reverted to a meat-eater or vegetarian at posttest, we didn’t count their reversal as a net negative. In these cases, we assume that they didn’t understand the definition of “vegetarian” or “vegan” at pre-test but then learned the definition during the series. The conversion rates would be inaccurate if we considered such people as having reverted simply because they learned the definition.

We further adjusted the results to reflect findings from the control group in our past Leafleting Effectiveness Study (LES). The LES asked the same food intake question as our 10 Weeks to Vegan surveys. We found that those in our control group had a conversion rate of 1.6%. Because we would have used this same methodology if we had a control group for our 10 Weeks to Vegan surveys, we subtracted the 1.6% rate from all our net conversion rates to arrive at the final, adjusted rates shown in the table below.

Additionally, we compared the results of those who signed up in-person versus online. In-person sources primarily came from those who signed up through public outreach on college campuses or local events. Online signups came from those who signed up via an online ad or through our website.

We determined p-values using a McNemar test comparing non-vegans at pre-test to total conversions at post-test.

Results

We received the following response rates to the surveys:

• US pre-test: 7%
• US post-test: 15.5% of those who took the pre-test
• US ≥6-months post-series follow-up: 30% of those who took the post-test
• Mexico pre-test: 10.5%
• Mexico post-test: 10% of those who took the pre-test
• India pre-test: 3%
• India post-test: 10.5% of those who took the pre-test
• Get Healthy pre-test: 9.5%
• Get Healthy post-test: 12.5% of those who took the pre-test

The adjusted conversion rates in the table below show what percentage of participants moved in a positive direction—either from meat-eater to vegetarian or vegan, or from vegetarian to vegan. In all but one instance, those who signed up online showed the greatest change.

All findings for the United States 10 Weeks to Vegan and Get Healthy were statistically significant. All but the in-person diet frequency results for Mexico were statistically significant. Because the pool of respondents from India was relatively small, the findings didn’t reach statistical significance.

Follow-up Results

We followed up with 143 US participants 6 months or longer after they’d completed 10 Weeks to Vegan. The results were very encouraging. There was no statistically meaningful recidivism between the time that they completed the post-test and the follow-up survey.

There was a slight improvement in in-person outreach and a slight decrease in online. The differences between the two were only statistically significant for the self-identity question.

Below are the results from the initial pre-test to the ≥6-month follow-up survey.

Based on this data, it appears that our work is having a lasting effect.

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This month, I want to share the kind of impact that doesn’t usually make it to the headlines. The kind that starts quietly, asking a decision-maker a difficult question, starting a dialogue about speciesism in a classroom, or inspiring journalists to write a small article about plant-based eating in a regional newspaper.

It’s the kind of work that moves slowly but steadily. And you’ve been part of it all along.

Changing Menus, Shifting Mindsets

The Green Tuesday Initiative is one of the quiet ways we create profound change. It starts with a simple shift: making plant-based food easier to choose at work. And that’s where the conversation about what’s on our plates begins.

Our New Partner: Vamsiram BSR Tech Park

At Vamsiram BSR Tech Park in Hyderabad, a single cafeteria shift is expected to drive significant environmental savings. With 7,000 employees, the scale of change is just beginning to unfold:

• 43,680 kg/96,298 lb of chicken reduced annually
• 36,000 kg/79,366 lb of paneer (cottage cheese) reduced annually

This change is expected to spare ~28,803 animal lives. That’s the size of one large commercial poultry farm in India.

What Happens After the Webinar

Each week, students join our Food-Planet-Health webinars looking for answers. This quarter, 145+ teachers joined them too, opening doors to campus partnerships, deeper engagement, and year-round events. Our Food-Planet-Health webinars are creating impact beyond university campuses. Extensive coverage in regional newspapers takes the vegan conversation beyond campuses and into everyday life. Local media speak directly to families and communities in familiar languages, making plant-based eating feel relevant and grounded in local realities and traditions.

Here’s what happened in just the first quarter of 2025:

• 55 webinars conducted
• 5,371 students reached and inspired to try plant-based meals

From Awareness to Action

Attendance numbers tell us how many people showed up to attend the Food-Planet-Health webinar. But the real story begins after the session ends.

This quarter, 1,364 people joined our 10 Weeks to Vegan Facebook group, each one taking a step toward change, like Ajay, who logged on out of curiosity and walked away rethinking his plate.

Your support is what makes every ripple possible. Thank you for everything you do to help animals! Giving each month helps our daily fight for animals. Please join our monthly sustainers now!

We would love to hear from you with any feedback, suggestions, campaign ideas, or maybe a couple of encouraging lines for my team. I will share it with them.

With gratitude for every wave you’ve initiated,

Richa Mehta

Director of Programs, Asia-Pacific

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Quick Snacks and Handy Travel Foods

• Hummus with veggies, chips, or pretzels. Most airports in the United States have convenience stores that sell small tubs of hummus with pretzels in the refrigerator cases.
• Tofurky Deli Slices sandwich with mustard or vegan mayo. I usually fly cross-country with two Tofurky sandwiches because you never know what might be available in airports or on planes.
• Many coffee shops, including Starbucks, sell oatmeal which can be a great breakfast option when traveling by car or plane.
• Trail Mix of nuts and dried fruit. In the United States, Trader Joe’s sells a wide variety of relatively inexpensive nuts and dried fruit.
• Energy bars like Lärabar or Clif Bars. Clif Builder Bars are very high in protein (20 g).
• Vegan jerky.
• Popcorn with nutritional yeast to give it a cheesy flavor.
• Vegan cheese and pepperoni on crackers.
• Celery sticks stuffed with peanut butter and raisins.
• Corn chips with guacamole and salsa.
• Dates stuffed with almond or peanut butter.
• Apple with peanut butter. These taste surprisingly close to caramel apples.
• Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Some prefer dill, others choose sweet pickles. One of our staff members insisted we include this option. Where do you stand on peanut butter and pickle sammies?

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Breaking Old Habits, Building New Futures

For Pratishtha, learning about the dairy industry changed everything. She gradually stopped consuming it, but her journey didn’t stop there. “Whenever I meet someone I know, I try to spread awareness about what veganism is.”

Vaishnavi challenged herself to go dairy-free for ten weeks, saying, “I felt happy and my heart was satisfied after not using any dairy products for 10 weeks.” When she craved ice cream, she found a plant-based version she loved, proving that eating foods that are kinder to animals is also convenient and delicious.

Kindness Can Be Delicious

For Pallavi, the transition felt overwhelming at first, but exploring new ingredients changed everything—“I have been pleasantly surprised by how delicious and satisfying vegan meals can be.”

Mohini, raised in a non-vegetarian household, thought ditching meat and dairy would be tough. But after trying plant-based alternatives, she realized, “It’s not at all tough for me.” Dairy remains her biggest challenge, but she’s taking it one step at a time.

Divya, a lifelong vegetarian, thought she couldn’t live without paneer and cheese—until she tried cauliflower cheese. “It somehow works its magic,” she said, proving that comfort food doesn’t have to come at a cost.

Your Support Changes Everything

56% of our 10 Weeks to Vegan community members are women, showing that more women are choosing veganism for the animals.

This Women’s Day, let’s support them in making the change. Donate to help more women go vegan.

Meet the Females Who Keep Us Going!

Warmly,
Richa Mehta
Director of Programs, Asia-Pacific

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Breakfast and Savory Eggs

For the main course, eggs can be replaced with tofu scramble or chickpea flour omelets. There’s also a commercial brand of eggs, JUST, with a more egg-like taste and consistency. Their JUST Egg can be used for omelettes or scrambled eggs and their JUST Egg Folded is typically used for breakfast sandwiches.

Vegan Egg Substitutes for Baking and Cooking

Replacing eggs in baking is a bit more complicated because eggs provide several functions, including:

• Leavening to make the food rise
• Moisture
• Fat to make the food soft
• Binding to hold the food together
• Flavor

But you don’t have to give up mouthwatering cakes and cookies to go vegan! Here are some basic egg substitutes:

Rather than making things up as you go, it’s best to use tested vegan baking recipes and follow the recipes carefully. Start by using tried-and-true recipes from vegan baking cookbooks or by searching the Internet for recipes with positive reviews. If you’re new to vegan baking, skip the recipes without any reviews!

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On this special occasion, each of us wants to share what your support means to us.

You’re Helping Us Save Animals

“Hi, we’re the newest members of the college outreach team, and we’re so excited to share that in 2024, our team inspired 54,000+ students to try the 10-week challenge through the Food-Planet-Health Awareness Program.

More than 25,000 students participated in our survey after attending the webinars, and 91% said that they would like to adopt a plant-based diet. Over the past 3 years, you’ve helped us double our impact.”

You’re Helping Students in India Go Vegan

Learn more about our work! 

You’re Helping Institutions Implement Plant-Based Food Policies

• Removed 6,32,918 kg/1,395,345 lb of animal products through new partnerships in India and Vietnam
• Partnered with 12 institutions across India and Vietnam
• Secured an 80% renewal rate among previous partners, reducing 16,64,448 kg/3,669,479 lb of animal products
• Supported Sourcebynet Pte. Ltd. in serving and promoting plant-based food across 8 countries

Our Total Impact!

Your unwavering support has driven real change—helping institutions adopt sustainable food practices, empowering students to explore plant-based living, and reducing the demand for high-carbon-footprint foods. None of this would be possible without you. As we step into 2025, we look forward to expanding our reach and deepening our impact together. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Richa Mehta

Director of Programs, Asia-Pacific

Vegan Outreach

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