Vegan

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Fundamental definition of the word vegan :

Someone or Something or some way that does not exploit animals.

Applied définitions ofvegan :

  • A vegan is someone who seeks, as much as practicable, to live without exploiting animals.
  • To be vegan is to seek to dispense with all products made by exploiting animal. To dispense with means here to discard in a context of a progress or emancipation.
  • A vegan product is a product of which ingredients, research, development and production are done without exploiting animals.

History

The word vegan was created and adopted in 1944 among founders of the Vegan Society, using the three first and last two letters of the word "vegetarian". The word was proposed by the founder Donald Watson (1910-2005).

Veganism defined

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Fundamental definition of veganism

Veganism shall mean the doctrine that human should live without exploiting animals

Applied définitions of veganism (1979-1988, 2018)

Two other définitions of veganism have been given

  • One proposed by the Vegan Society :
    "Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose." (Source : Vegan Society)
  • The other given by the Vegan Federation (Fédération végane in France) :
    Veganism is the research and practice of techniques allowing to live without exploiting animals (humans included when enlightened consent cannot be obtained)
    Source : translated from the definition published in a press communication to distinguish veganism and antispeciesm

History

The fundamental definition was formulated by the Vegan Society and communicated to the IVU in 1951 (source : Veganism defined) in a letter that was published in a quaterly magazine at spring (source : IVU ).

In 1979, the Vegan Society gave a new definition, while it was adopting a limited company organization. This new definition was amended until 1988.

In 2018, the Vegan Federation (original name is in french : Fédération végane), a non-profit organization, declared since 1st October 2010, working exclusively on the basis of volunteer and data of reproducible évidences, formulated another applied definition of veganism; included in its statutes, it was also first publicly shared the same year, at the occasion of a press communication explaining that veganism must not be confused with antispeciesm.

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Lexicon around veganism

I give here the meaning of the keywords i use on this site, to the best of my understanding. The lexicon will evolve with the site's content.

A

  • Animal


    a group of living organisms, called metazoans as per the phylogenetic classification

D

  • Doctrine

    Set of principles related to a branch of knowledge

F

  • Flexitarian

    Someone who eats flesh occasionally (at the most, a few times in a week)

V

  • Vegan

    Name or adjective
    Someone, something or some way that does not exploit animals.
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  • Veganism

    Common name
    Doctrine that human should live without exploiting animals (from the 1951 first definition)
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  • Vegetalian

    Name or adjective
    Someone who is feeding without any product of animal origin, or something (for example a recipy, a restaurant, etc.) not using any product of animal origin (for example, honey made by bees is not vegetalian)

  • Vegetarian

    Name or adjective
    Someone who is feeding without any part of an animal body , or something (for example a recipy, a restaurant, etc.) not using any part of an animal body (for example, gelatin in some soft candies is not vegetarian)