The average person who goes vegan for just one month could save the lives of 30 animals. ... If you went vegan for a month you'd save 620 pounds of harmful carbon dioxide emissions, 913 square feet of forest – which is razed to the ground to make way for farmed animals – and 33,481 gallons of water.

Is veganism affecting the meat industry?

Given growing interest in veganism, the figure is likely to have dropped further since then. The fall in meat consumption is not to be ignored. Expenditure on meat dropped, on average, by almost 10% between 2013 and 2016. That means households were spending £1 less per week on meat in 2016 than in 2013.

Are vegans having an impact?

Studies show that vegan diets tend to have far lower carbon, water and ecological footprints than those of meat- or fish-eaters. But in one 2017 Italian study, two vegan participants had extremely high eco-impacts – this turned out to be because they only ate fruit!