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Plant Forward 2025 Review
Plant Forward
2025
Promoting sustainable consumption across Asia
English
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Indonesian
Plant Forward. The only regional campaign of its kind.
Plant Forward is an annual two-week festival that celebrates the benefits of a plant-based diet and raises awareness surrounding sustainable fashion and eco-friendly, cruelty-free living.
Organised by ACTAsia’s Compassionate Choices Network (CCN), Plant Forward helps people in Asia learn that the food we eat, and the choices we make in our daily lives, all have an impact on animals, people and the environment.
#PlantForward2025
This May saw ACTAsia’s fourth annual Plant Forward campaign in Asia with 44 events and activities taking place across seven countries. This year 9 CCN members from China, India, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam joined Plant Forward events with a range of exciting and engaging events. The campaign ran from 16-31st May with website landing pages available in 6 languages – English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Vietnamese.
Since launching this unique initiative in 2022, ACTAsia has seen a fantastic response from our host nations. ACTAsia’s 2025 Plant Forward Campaign was a huge success with Total Engagement of 1.2m, Total Impressions of 158.4m and 192,585 livestream views.
Watch our 2025 webinar series and event highlights online
Plant Forward offers a webinar series each year featuring an exciting line-up of guest speakers to inspire us on our journey. Learn about the health and environmental benefits of plant-based living from health professionals and more!
Reshaping Corporate Branding with Oriental Healthy Meals
Oriental Healthy Diet Café hosts “Exploring new trends of vegetarian food” with Hou Bing, the CEO of Good Food Fund and Yingchao Yin, the founder of Vegetarian Pie company, who will share her experience of developing a new plant-based food product.
Dr Mei on the Power of Plants for Health
Dr. Mei Huiwen, a Medical Doctor from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine and Physician at Caishu Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, will provide professional insights into the connection between plant-based diets, diseases, and overall health.
Greeneration – From Soil to Soul
In one day, participants are invited to delve into the concept of sustainable living through: ✅ Permaculture education and garden to table ✅Reflection on the relationship with nature, mental & spiritual health ✅ Lunch from garden produce ✅ Kombucha brewing workshop.
KVCS Korea hosts a vegan baking class
KVCS hosts a vegan baking class in partnership with KikiKuku Studio (a baking company) where university students learned to make delicious breads and cookies with all plant-based ingredients, without milk or butter.
2025 Handwritten Newspaper Competition
Livestream of Good Food Fund training workshop for the 2025 Handwritten Newspaper Competition including a discussion on how to use oriental plant-based ingredients as inspiration for creative and scientific expression.
Nutritional awakening, transcending languages
ACTAsia talks with Ms. Hailey Chang, project manager of Dr. Michael Greger’s NutritionFacts.org’s Chinese translation team on bringing the message of plant-based diet and nutrition for health to a Chinese audience.
Greeneration – Hanif Garden Tour
Join us for a relaxing tour of the Hanif Garden! 🌿 Here, plants and livestock live in harmony with nature, according to their nature. We learn how to live close to nature and protect the earth. This video is part of the #PlantForward2025 campaign from Greeneration Foundation and ACTAsia.
Join the ACRES’ wildlife rescue team in Singapore
Join the ACRES’ wildlife rescue team as they explore Singapore’s vibrant plant-based food scene from beloved hawker stalls to hidden gems in celebration of Plant Forward 2025. Follow their vlogs for easy-to-find delicious plant-based eats!
Oriental Healthy Diet Food Education and Food Fun Innovation
Good Food Fund’s Chief Project Officer Zhou Jing speaks with Sister Hui, the owner of Zhongshan Cultivation and Reading Garden Farm, and teacher Ruizi, the owner of Dali Bugu Four Seasons Garden Farm, on the topic of “Unlocking Oriental Healthy Diets from Farm to Table”
Dr Mãnez – the Philippines
PAWS hosts a webinar with renowned Lifestyle Medicine and Plant-Based Nutrition Consultant Dr. Johann Kim T. Mañez, MD, DiplIBLM, DPCLM, FPCLM, FACLM, of The Doctor’s Cuisine PH and Solid Rock Lifestyle Medicine. Parts 1 & 2.
Greeneration – Instagram Live
Greeneration Foundation talks with Keluarga Nabati, a well-known plant-based family in Indonesia, about their journey to implement plant-based diet for sustainable lifestyle and the impact for protecting the environment.
Reversing Diabetes – Sharan, India
Reversing Diabetes is a powerful documentary produced by Dr Rupa Shah and directed by Vatsal Nathwani, featuring real-life success stories and expert insights into reversing type 2 diabetes through a whole-food, plant-based diet.
Some of the many highlights from Plant Forward 2025
In INDONESIA, Greeneration Foundation hosted an immersive: “From Garden to Table” workshop inviting participants to explore the concept of sustainable living through permaculture education. The session highlighted how natural processes and nurturing the soil play a crucial role in influencing the health of plants and the quality of the food we consume. The workshop featured a reflection session on the interconnection between nature, mental health, and spirituality.
In CHINA (hosted by ACTAsia) the team partnered with schools, restaurants, cafes, vet clinics and other organisations to deliver 25 Plant Forward events across 11 cities. Activities included the now famous Plant Forward Bingo challenge which was even more popular this year thanks to the support from celebrities including Olympic Gold medallist Yang Hao, actor and singer Xu Jieer, and a number of other well-known actors. The bingo game encouraged consumers to complete a bingo card including various challenges such as ‘try a plant-based milk beverage’ and ‘plant a vegetable or herb at home’. Participants loved the idea and the incentive of winning prizes.
Events in other countries included a popular vegan baking class in KOREA. In THE PHILIPPINES, two cooking demonstrations highlighting how easy it is to adopt a plant-based diet were hugely successful and in INDIA a film screening entitled ‘Reversing Diabetes’ drew a sizeable audience. In VIETNAM – participants shared their best plant-based recipes for a chance to win prizes and have their recipe featured in the Plant Forward recipe book.
This year, Plant Forward also looked to engage university students and successfully reached out to students from 46 universities in four countries which included universities in China, Korea, The Philippines and Indonesia.
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Our Ambassadors
Chen Long
Actor
Jill Xu
Actor
Yang Hao
Olympic Gold Medallist
Jerry Huang
Actor
Our Partners
We couldn’t have made such an incredible impact without the help of our Plant Forward 2025 partners. This year the number of partner organisations including corporate partners grew and ACTAsia developed important relationships with key partners such as Starbucks and SF Express in China.
In total 109 partner organisations in 6 countries supported the event which included 83 corporate partners. Thank you!
Plant Forward is organised by ACTAsia’s Compassionate Choices Network (CCN) and contributes towards the achievement of TEN United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The CCN has 11 member organisations across 9 Asian countries and work to drive sustainability, animal welfare and social equality in the region. We promote Education for Compassionate Action.
See our previous Plant Forward campaigns
