American Vegan Society is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that promotes, supports, and explores a compassionate, healthful, and sustainable lifestyle. The American Vegan Society promotes a compassionate, healthful, and sustainable lifestyle, empowering individuals through education and advocacy—since 1960. American Vegan Society (AVS) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that promotes, supports, and explores a compassionate, healthful, and sustainable lifestyle. The diet is entirely plant-sourced, varied, and abundant. For ethical, health, environmental, and other reasons we reject all animal products in food, clothing, and commodities. We also refuse to exploit animals for sport, entertainment, and experimentation.AVS is guided by the doctrines reverence for life and ahimsa (nonharming and nonviolence) with taking positive action for social change. AVS provides community and friendship to those following and learning about this way of living.