If we’re really lucky, life sometimes sends us gifts so wonderful they seem almost too good to be true. The new app, “abillionveg” is one of these gifts. The concept is quite simple: review vegan food and a donation gets made to an animal welfare organization. The platform is very similar in layout to Instagram and highlights the food photography which we really like, because, after all, we eat with our eyes first.

Here is how it all works:

Step 1. Take a photo of a vegan or vegetarian dish you order in a restaurant, any restaurant, not only vegan or vegetarian ones.

Step 2. Open the abillionveg app (or log to the website).

Step 3. Find the restaurant.

Step 4. Post your photo and a brief review of the dish.

Step 5. After you have posted 10 reviews, choose from a list of 14 animal welfare organizations to receive a $10 donation from A Billion Veg.

That is all there is to it.

Woodstock Farm Sanctuary is one of the beneficiary organizations for the app, so that is where we send our review dollars. We often talk about using vegan food as activism and this app is a great tool for this. abillionveg literally turns vegan food into animal rights and welfare activism.

Developed by Vikas Garg, abillionveg is creating the largest online plant based menu directory in the world. Unlike Happy Cow, which only allows us to search for restaurants (and stores), abillionveg finds us meals. Not just at vegan and vegetarian restaurants, but ALL restaurants around the world. For example, let’s say we’re in Singapore and looking for a good vegan Pad Thai, we can put that into the search bar and find it.

In addition to the meal reviews, abillionveg also has tips for vegan living and lots of recipes, including some recipes from us. abillionveg also has plans to expand their review engine beyond just food at restaurants to make the experience really great for people looking for sustainable plant-based options and to influence businesses around the work to do more. These expanded reviews will include products like cosmetics, clothing, packaged foods at grocery stores.

There is so much more in this app than we could ever explain and like most apps, it’s really all about learning how to use it in an interface and we encourage you to do so.

Bottom line, if we’re going to snap a picture of our food and put it up on Instagram for all our friends and family to see, we can take that exact same photo and also put it up on abillionveg to not only tell others about the food, but also raise money that will literally save the lives of countless animals.

If you truly believe in vegan food as activism like we do, then abillionveg is the app for you. Use it, and put their money where your mouth is.