History

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.

The Yorkshire woodworking teacher who coined the word "vegan" and co-founded the UK Vegan Society in November 1944.

From Pythagorean abstention and Jain ahimsa through the 1944 coinage of "vegan" to the global plant-based movement of the 21st century.

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.

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.

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.

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.