History
From ancient roots to the modern movement — how we got here.
- Animal Liberation (1975)
Peter Singer's book, grown from a 1973 New York Review of Books essay, that brought utilitarian philosophy to bear on factory farming and laboratory experimentation and gave the modern animal movement its vocabulary.
#peter-singer#animal-liberation#speciesism#utilitarianism - Donald Watson
The Yorkshire woodworking teacher who coined the word "vegan" and co-founded the UK Vegan Society in November 1944.
#donald-watson#vegan-society#1944#etymology - History
From Pythagorean abstention and Jain ahimsa through the 1944 coinage of "vegan" to the global plant-based movement of the 21st century.
#vegan-society#donald-watson#pythagoras#vegetarianism - Jainism and ahimsa
The oldest living lineage of principled non-harm, from Mahavira's five vows through graded respect for life to the contemporary Jain vegan turn on dairy ethics.
#jainism#ahimsa#mahavira#tirthankaras - Pythagoras and the Pythagorean diet
How the sixth-century BCE philosopher of Samos became the West's longest-standing byword for meat abstention, and why his ethics survived into modernity.
#pythagoras#ancient-greece#metempsychosis#porphyry - The founding of the Vegan Society (1944)
How Donald Watson, Elsie Shrigley, and a handful of non-dairy vegetarians broke from the Vegetarian Society in November 1944, coined the word "vegan," and built the institutional apparatus that still carries the movement.
#vegan-society#donald-watson#elsie-shrigley#leslie-cross - Veganuary
The UK-born pledge campaign that since 2014 has invited participants to try veganism for the month of January, reshaping retail ranges and public discourse about plant-based eating.
#veganuary#pledge-campaign#matthew-glover#jane-land