Plant-Based News has exploded on the worldwide web and is delivering cutting-edge news and information across several social media platforms. We need help to continue to grow and to deliver regular professional news content.

I started as a one-man show in 2015, as I saw that vegan and animal rights news was everywhere on the Web. But I noticed that there was no one unifying force keeping track and helping to interpret the macro perspective of all the individual events. I created the annual summary documentaries to capture the trends and news of each year (VEGAN 2015 can be seen above). The response to these videos has been amazing (VEGAN 2015 & VEGAN 2016 have had nearly half a million views combined).

I started the website plantbasednews.org in November 2016 (built by Plant Based News partner Robbie Lockie) as I wanted to expand the organisation into a more credible news outlet outside of social media. It has been a huge success from its inception, with over 15,000 hits in the first two weeks (see the website trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tQJvKmTMNs).

Despite the rapidly increasing health, environmental and ethical awareness around the Globe, it is clear that a lot of this isn't covered in traditional news sites and magazines. We want to fill this void and speak up for the voiceless. Our audience is unique in that we report on vegan news Worldwide. While we have an incredibly large audience in the US and the UK, we also have great reach and participation in Australasia and all over Europe.

I am now pulling together a team including journalists and video editors so that we can effectively gather and present the news stories shaping this movement. We are looking for fund-raising support for film and editing equipment, travel to industry events that we send journalists to cover, support staff and administrative costs.