Going vegan: the complete beginner's hub
Everything a first-timer needs to switch to a plant-based diet without stress.
Plant-Based · Nutrizione e Salute · Ricette · Meal Prep
Content hubs
28 curated hubs that gather our reporting into complete answers — from first-week vegan basics and protein science to factory farming, ocean collapse and low-impact living. Each hub links to every relevant story in this edition.
Food & Nutrition
Plant-based protein: sources, amounts and myths
How much protein you need, where to get it, and why the 'incomplete protein' idea is outdated.
Nutrizione e Salute · Plant-Based · Meal Prep
Vegan nutrition essentials: B12, iron, omega-3 and calcium
The four nutrients worth planning for on a plant-based diet, and how to cover them.
Nutrizione e Salute · Plant-Based
Weeknight vegan recipes and 30-minute dinners
Fast, cheap, repeatable plant-based meals for ordinary evenings.
Ricette · Meal Prep · Plant-Based
Vegan on a budget: cheap plant-based eating
Cost-per-meal reporting, staple shopping lists and low-waste cooking.
Plant-Based · Meal Prep · Rifiuti Zero · Ricette
Plant-based meal prep and batch cooking
Systems for cooking once and eating well all week.
Meal Prep · Ricette · Plant-Based
Dairy alternatives: milk, cheese, butter and yoghurt
How plant milks and vegan cheeses compare on nutrition, taste and footprint.
Plant-Based · Nutrizione e Salute · Allevamenti Intensivi
Fibre, the microbiome and plant-based gut health
What thirty plants a week actually does to your digestion.
Nutrizione e Salute · Plant-Based · Ricette
Animals
Factory farming explained
How industrial animal agriculture works, and what it does to animals, workers and communities.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Diritti Animali
Inside the dairy industry: cows, calves and separation
Why milk production requires pregnancy, and what happens to the calves.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Diritti Animali · Plant-Based
The egg industry: laying hens, cages and male chicks
Cage-free versus free-range versus reality, and the chick-culling problem.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Diritti Animali
Pigs and the pork industry
Sow stalls, farrowing crates, tail docking and the intelligence of pigs.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Diritti Animali
Broiler chickens: fast growth and its costs
The most-farmed land animal, bred to a weight its legs cannot carry.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Diritti Animali
Fish, sentience and aquaculture
Sea lice, escapes, wild-caught feed and whether fish feel pain.
Conservazione Marina · Diritti Animali · Allevamenti Intensivi
Wildlife, habitat loss and animal agriculture
How grazing and feed crops drive the biodiversity crisis.
Fauna Selvatica · Clima · Vita Sostenibile
Animal rights: sentience, law and moral status
From Bentham to legal personhood cases and sentience legislation.
Diritti Animali · Attivismo
Zoonotic disease, antibiotics and pandemic risk
Why intensive farming is a public-health question, not only an animal one.
Allevamenti Intensivi · Nutrizione e Salute · Clima
Planet
Meat, dairy and the climate crisis
Emissions per food, methane, and what diet change can and cannot fix.
Clima · Plant-Based · Vita Sostenibile
Water and land footprints of what we eat
Litres per kilo, hectares per calorie, and where the numbers come from.
Clima · Vita Sostenibile · Conservazione Marina
Zero-waste kitchen and low-impact home
Cutting food waste, plastic and energy where it actually counts.
Rifiuti Zero · Vita Sostenibile · Stile Eco
Ethical and animal-free fashion
Leather, wool, down, silk and the next-gen materials replacing them.
Moda Etica · Vita Sostenibile · Diritti Animali
Ocean conservation and the seafood question
Overfishing, marine protected areas, and eating for ocean recovery.
Conservazione Marina · Fauna Selvatica · Clima
Living
Vegan travel: city guides and long-haul tips
Finding plant-based food anywhere, plus animal-free tourism.
Viaggi Vegan · Stile Eco · Fauna Selvatica
Plant-based families: kids, pregnancy and ageing
Life-stage nutrition and the practicalities of feeding a mixed household.
Nutrizione e Salute · Plant-Based · Ricette
Plant-based fitness and sport
Training, recovery and body composition without animal products.
Nutrizione e Salute · Plant-Based · Meal Prep
Advocacy that works: campaigns, policy and persuasion
Evidence on what actually changes behaviour and law.
Attivismo · Diritti Animali
Sustainable living at home: energy, transport and money
The household decisions with the biggest measured impact.
Vita Sostenibile · Stile Eco · Rifiuti Zero · Clima
Eating out and shopping vegan
Menus, labels, hidden ingredients and supermarket navigation.
Stile Eco · Plant-Based · Viaggi Vegan