User:Ziggy/Vegan Mall
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Overview
Vegan Mall is a website portal for finding all things vegan in your local area, and aims at making vegans' life (especially for new vegans) easier. The site doesn't sell anything, but rather catalogues products of all kinds, as well as services, recipes and various other useful information, and where to get or contact them, and prices/cost. It also ranks products and services on veganness, greenness, and fairness.
All the information in the portal is crowdsourced (i.e. user-contributed), just like the Wikipedia. Users can register and specify a number of preferences and display options so that they can access their favourite products and services quicker, as well as create shopping lists and shortlists, bookmark interesting items, add comments or reviews, communicate with other users, and offer or request shopping assistance to buy in groups or in bulk.
We hope that this service will promote the development of better consumption habits, and increase vegan to vegan trade.
Website features
Foodstuffs
Clothing
Other products
The portal will include support for cataloguing vegan alternatives to products of types which are frequently non-vegan, such as:
- Furniture
- Personal care
- Cleaning
It will also include support for cataloguing comparatively significantly greener products of types that typically have a high environmental impact, such as:
- White goods
- Electrical appliances
- Computer and electronics
Services
Recipes
Each ingredient in the list of ingredients of any recipes will link to foodstuffs catalogued in the system (including availability and pricing, and possible alternatives for foodstuffs that may not be commonly available, such as certain fruits, or that can cause allergic reactions, such as wheat flour, or compatible alternatives, such as different mylks), and vice versa (foodstuffs will link to the list of recipes in the website that make use of them).
