What are the benefits of a vegan diet?
Created on: 10/13/2025
Last edited on: 10/13/2025
A quick disclaimer upfront: Veganism is not a diet! Veganism is the ethical principle that humans should live without abusing other animals. Its implementation extends beyond the plate to all areas of life, such as clothing, cosmetics, and cleaning products.
The greatest benefit and actual purpose of a vegan lifestyle is, therefore, to free other animals from human abuse and enslavement. More background information can be found at WARUM-VEGAN.COM 💡
Since the overwhelming majority of people are already vegan at heart and see animals as sentient beings rather than commodities, your greatest personal benefit from living vegan is likely that you align your actions with your values. This way, you no longer have to go through life as a hypocrite and will no longer feel guilty for using animals as commodities, even though you don't see them as such.
With that said: We can identify other potential benefits of a vegan lifestyle, as long as we do not consider or present them as the reason for veganism. If you try to justify veganism with health or environmental aspects, you make yourself and the justice movement vulnerable.
What is vegan food?
Before we delve into these potential benefits, let's clarify once again which foods are vegan. By definition, a vegan diet excludes all foods for which animals are abused, i.e., used against their interests. As a vegan, you are, in essence, boycotting meat (including fish), milk, eggs, honey, and everything made from them. In this way, you send the powerful signal that animals are no longer considered commodities by you.
So, the question "What is a vegan diet?" has now been answered. Let's now look at potential benefits of a vegan diet - these are considered "nice side effects" that have nothing to do with the actual meaning and purpose of veganism ⬇️
Is vegan healthy?
We have lovingly compiled an overview of the current study situation for you here.
This analysis provides an evidence-based assessment of the widespread claim that "veganism is unhealthy," consistently distinguishing between ideological attributions and nutritional scientific evaluation. Based on large prospective cohorts, substitution analyses, and current position papers, it demonstrates under what conditions plant-based nutrition is health-promoting, neutral, or potentially risk-laden.
Insight: What matters is not the label of a diet, but its quality, planning, and realistic comparison with alternatives ✅
Does a vegan diet help with weight loss?
Losing weight vegan - is it easier? Fundamentally, you lose weight when you consume less energy than you expend over a longer period. The key, therefore, is a calorie deficit. Losing weight with veganism is thus possible. Here too, the plant-based diet alone is not the deciding factor, but primarily the quality of the specific foods. The same applies, by the way, to muscle building. All our tips on this can be found in the protein guide on WIE-VEGAN.COM 💪
Is vegan environmentally friendly?
Is vegan better for the environment and other people? Let's take a look at some interesting facts and figures:
If humans stopped breeding animals only to abuse them, greenhouse gas emissions like methane would be significantly reduced. Animal husbandry accounts for about 14.5% of human-made emissions, similar to global transport (see FAO).
Furthermore, significant amounts of water and land are used for animal feed production. In a plant-based diet, however, arable land can often be used more efficiently and with less energy loss, because the plants grown there are not first processed as feed by animals before reaching humans.
Conclusion
You have now learned what benefits a vegan diet CAN offer for human health and the environment, but does not HAVE to. However, if you take one thing away from this FAQ, it is that there is neither "vegan for health" nor "vegan for the environment" - you are vegan for the animals. They are the victims of animal slavery, and they alone are worth ending their slave status and giving them fundamental rights!
In conclusion, and for clarification, Raffaela's famous quote:
“If I pull a fish out of the water once a month and eat it, it probably won't harm my health or the environment. But it will certainly harm one thing: THE FISH.”
In this spirit: Be just and live vegan instead of brutal ⚖️
🤫 All tips to be healthy, strong, and fit for the animals as a vegan can be found at WIE-VEGAN.COM
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