As 2025 comes to a close, we can only say: Che anno! It’s been a whirlwind — full of challenges, lessons, and above all, deep gratitude.

This year, we’ve seen shifts in the plant-based world. News outlets reported closures of vegan restaurants, brands quietly disappeared from shelves, and the headlines shouted that “veganism is no longer trending.” And yet… here we are, pushing the message that traditional cuisine can be done 100% plant-based.

So first and foremost: grazie! Thank you to our customers, our community, our artisan producers, and to every person who chose the vegan option this year — in small and big ways. You’ve kept the spirit of Veganism alive. You helped prove something powerful: vegan isn’t a trend. It’s a commitment to kindness, culture, and the future. And Italian cuisine? It’s more than capable of being part of that future — rich in flavor, tradition, and now, compassion.

As we reflect on the year, we want to celebrate not just what we accomplished as a business — but what we all accomplished, together, as a community. Even in a challenging climate for vegan businesses, you chose to keep showing up: for animals, for the planet, for your values. And those choices added up.

Here’s what one person choosing a vegan lifestyle for a full year contributes to — and when we multiply that across a community like ours, the results are even more powerful:

Water Saved

By eating vegan for just one year, you save approximately 1.5 million liters of water — that’s enough to provide drinking water for over 800 people for an entire year. From skipping dairy to choosing legumes over meat, your food choices reduce pressure on one of our planet’s most vital resources.

Land Protected

Every vegan year saves around 4,000 square meters of land — about half the size of a football field. That’s land that doesn't get cleared for grazing, monocrops for animal feed, or industrial-scale factory farming. It’s a chance to give ecosystems space to recover.

Emissions Reduced

Going vegan for a year can reduce your food-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 60%, helping mitigate climate change. That’s equivalent to taking a small car off the road for six months — just by changing what’s on your plate.

Businesses Supported

By buying from 100% vegan brands, you help keep ethical businesses alive — businesses like ours that choose transparency over shortcuts, tradition with compassion, and flavor without cruelty. Your support helps independent makers, family-run producers, and next-generation artisans.

Animals Spared

One of the most powerful outcomes of choosing vegan can’t always be reduced to neat numbers — because what’s truly at stake is life itself.

By eating plant‑based, you remove your demand from systems that rely on the routine exploitation of animals on land and at sea. That means fewer chickens raised in intensive conditions, fewer pigs and cows confined for food production, and fewer fish, crustaceans, and marine animals pulled from ecosystems already under immense pressure.

Unlike land animals, sea life often remains invisible in conversations about food. Yet industrial fishing is one of the most destructive forces affecting our oceans — disrupting biodiversity, damaging coral systems, and threatening the balance of entire marine habitats. Choosing vegan meals helps reduce that pressure, allowing oceans the chance to recover and sustain life for generations to come.

What matters most is not the exact count, but the direction of the choice. Each vegan meal is a decision not to participate in harm. Each year of eating plant‑based is a year of non‑violence — extended across species, environments, and ecosystems.

And when this choice is multiplied across a community, its impact becomes profound.

The collective power of vegans — and those choosing plant‑based more often — creates real change. It shapes demand, influences supply chains, and gives space for kinder systems to grow. Compassion, when practiced together, becomes more than a value. It becomes momentum.

By staying vegan in 2025, you didn’t just spare lives — you helped normalize empathy. You showed that food can nourish without taking, celebrate without harming, and honor tradition without sacrifice.

That is no small thing.

A Message for 2026: Keep Going, Keep Choosing

We know that being vegan in 2025 wasn’t always easy. You may have felt misunderstood, frustrated, or alone in your choices. You might have doubted whether it still matters.

But here’s the truth: it does!

It matters for the animals.

It matters for the planet.

It matters for the next generations who will grow up knowing that compassion and tradition can live on the same plate. In a world that often pushes you to compromise, choosing to stay vegan is a quiet kind of strength. And for that, we’re incredibly proud to stand beside you.

 As we say arrivederci to 2025, let’s carry the momentum forward. Let’s keep redefining what traditional cuisine can be — rooted in memory, made for the future. Support vegan businesses. Share your table. Cook with love. And keep imagining a world where food connects us not just to each other, but to a better way of living.

Buon Anno & Happy New Year — from all of us at Vegaliano.