Milestones:
✅Most active vegan community on Lemmy.
✅3rd place in Subscriber count
✅2nd in posts
✅Most Comments
Goals:
Reach the most posts out of any vegan community on Lemmy
Surpass vegan@lemmy.ml at 2.97k
Surpass vegan@hexbear.net at 6.7k
Convince all 28k Lemmy.world active users to become vegan (17% of the active user base on world is interested in our community while 11% of Lemmy is, this percentage will only grow higher as more studies and options come out)
Convince the lw community that plant-based kibble formulated with synthetic taurine, b12 and vitamin a approved by vets is safe and healthy for cats by showing them the research from the last 3 years
Have more experiences and discussion posts than articles
Reach 10k subscribers
Most books are made using plant-based ink and glue
Implement animal product warnings on posts instancewide
Surpass Vegan World Subscriber count at 45.6k
Surpass r/vegan at 1.8m
Surpass Happy Cow at 4m
Harvard and MIT announce they will only be serving plant-based meals in their cafeterias
300 cities have signed the plant-based treaty
The admins of LemmyWorld institute a rule no longer allowing new Animal Products posts on lw
CBC, BBC and the Associated Press become vegan outlets
India becomes the first majority vegan country in the world (currently at 13%.)
Denmark and Germany become the first vegan majority countries in Europe
Mexico, Oregon and BC become the first majority vegan jurisdictions of North America
These are just the few off the top of my head as there are many goals to strive for. I love to hear from you all about the potential we can achieve!
I’ve got a few ideas. They aren’t really lofty, but they’re on-topic.
I wouldn’t mind seeing more links to research articles here. I might be able to help with that.
I’d prefer less opinion-based discussion about vegan cat food, because it’s an evidence-based question for which there’s a lack of evidence. I’ve seen surveys of owners saying their cats are healthy and/or that vegan cat food is palatable to the cats. But those data on their own are insufficient to declare a purely plant-based diet healthy for most cats given their unique nutritional needs. Long-term data (i.e., repeated blood testing, life expectancy, rate of complications in old age) are needed to make those claims. There’s a number of ethical issues at play. A vegan cat food research agenda would be helpful.
More experience posts and discussion about being vegan would be neat.
Perhaps even some posts for non-vegans, like “ask a vegan about [how they started, what was toughest to give up for them, what they say to skeptics]” or “what’s holding you back?” might be neat, but might take up an undue amount of mod time if they got out of hand