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Guides & hubs

Guides & hubs

VegEco publishes plant-based living, animal welfare, climate and sustainability journalism in 33 languages.

Food & Nutrition

Animals

Factory farming explained

How industrial animal agriculture works, and what it does to animals, workers and communities.

Factory Farming · Animal Rights

Pigs and the pork industry

Sow stalls, farrowing crates, tail docking and the intelligence of pigs.

Factory Farming · Animal Rights

Animal testing in research

Where testing still happens, its scientific limits and the alternatives replacing it.

Animal Rights · Activism

Planet

Living

Science & Policy

Culture & Society

Hubs are VegEco's standing reference pages: each one gathers everything we have published on a single question — switching to a plant-based diet, the water footprint of dairy, the welfare cost of caged laying hens — and keeps it current as new reporting lands. Where an article answers one question at one moment, a hub is meant to stay useful for years.

Every hub is assembled from our own reporting rather than syndicated summaries, and each is available in all 33 editions of the magazine. Start with the group that matches what you are trying to decide: food and nutrition, farmed animals, climate and land, or everyday consumption.

How a hub is built

A hub begins with a question readers ask repeatedly. We map the subtopics that a complete answer requires, assign each to the desk that covers it, and then link the resulting articles into a single page with a plain-language orientation at the top. When a claim in the underlying reporting changes — a new life-cycle assessment, a revised welfare regulation, a corrected figure — the hub is updated rather than replaced, so inbound links keep working.

Who hubs are for

They serve three audiences at once. Newcomers get a sequenced route through a subject instead of a pile of headlines. Readers who already know the basics can jump straight to the sub-question they came for. Teachers, campaigners and journalists get a citable overview with the primary sources attached to the individual articles, which matters more than another opinion piece.

Hubs, categories and comparisons

Categories are editorial desks — they tell you which team produced a piece. Tags are narrow subjects that cut across desks. Comparisons weigh exactly two options against shared criteria. Hubs sit above all three: a single hub will typically draw on several desks, dozens of tags and a handful of comparisons to answer one broad question properly.

Which page type answers which kind of question
Page typeBest forTypical scope
HubUnderstanding a whole subjectDozens of articles, updated continuously
CategoryFollowing one editorial deskEverything that desk publishes
TagTracking a narrow subjectOne theme across every desk
ComparisonChoosing between two optionsTwo subjects, shared criteria
ArticleOne question, one moment1,200–2,200 words
Which page type answers which kind of question

FAQ

How often are hubs updated?
Hubs re-read their underlying articles on every visit, so a new piece appears in the relevant hub as soon as it is published. The written orientation is revised whenever the evidence behind it changes materially.
Are hubs translated from English?
No. Each edition of VegEco is written natively in its own language by the desk that covers that region, so a hub in Spanish is not a translation of the English one — it reflects the reporting produced for Spanish-speaking readers.
Can I cite a hub?
Yes. Hubs have stable URLs and are intended to be linked from syllabuses, campaign materials and reference lists. For a specific figure, cite the underlying article, which carries the date and source.
What is the difference between a hub and a buying guide?
A buying guide is product-facing and explains what to check on a label. A hub is subject-facing and explains how a topic fits together, including the parts that have nothing to do with shopping.