Kindness is on the menu this No Meat May.

Ever wondered whether one person (or one meal) can make a difference? How’s this: by loading their plates with more animal-friendly food in May 2025, participants spared the lives of an estimated 1.3 million animals.

And the impact doesn’t end there.

For many 2025 participants, the change didn’t end after May. They continued reducing or leaving animal products behind, choosing to embrace a more compassionate way of eating. With No Meat May already creating meaningful, lasting change for animals, Animals Australia is proud to be a partner — and we’d love you to be part of it.

Here are four examples of how many animals could be spared over the coming decades because of these No Meat May participants…

By taking pigs off their plate for good, No Meat May 2025 participants would spare hundreds of thousands of pigs from seeing the inside of factory farms and slaughterhouses. With every plant-based meal, you can be part of this kindness revolution for pigs.

Yes, that is over 20 million chickens who could be spared from becoming prisoners in their unnaturally large bodies —victims of profit-driven selective breeding over generations. If 43,534 No Meat May participants could have this much of an impact, imagine what even more people joining in 2026 could help achieve for chickens!

That’s thousands of sensitive individuals who could avoid being forced to suffer through the excruciating pain of ‘dehorning‘ and castration, being confined in filthy feedlots or spending their final moments in terror inside a slaughterhouse — because thousands of kind individuals switched ‘beef’ for plant-based alternatives.

Whether finned or shelled, marine animals have something critical in common with every land animal: they feel pain and they resist death with all their might. Yet they suffer in unfathomable numbers as they’re targeted in the wild, trapped as ‘bycatch‘, or farmed in underwater factory farms. Join thousands of people leaving sea animals in the sea where they belong this May.

No Meat May offers a great sense of community and plenty of support — all for free. You’ll receive:

• a free digital cookbook with tasty recipes
• weekly meal plans
• nutrition advice and shopping tips, and
• access to an online community of fellow changemakers — you can even start your own team with family, friends or colleagues to make it a fun shared initiative.

There’s an animal-friendly version of all your favourite dishes — head over to VegKit.com to start exploring right away.

The number of animals spared listed above is an estimate based on No Meat May’s 2025 reported behaviour change holding for 40 years, as many participants make a lifelong commitment to leaving animals off their plates. Source: No Meat May’s 2025 Impact Report, www.nomeatmay.org/blog/2025-impact-report