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Veganism
What’s all the Fuss about?
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The term ‘vegan’ is said to have been coined in the 1940s by Donald Watson, the founder of the Vegan Society, as a way of describing non-dairy vegetarians. Collins English Dictionary defines a vegan as ‘a person who refrains from using any animal product whatsoever for food, clothing or any other purpose’.
Most of the labels – like pescatarian, freegan and lacto-ovo vegetarian – are created to identify one’s way of eating. Vegan, on the other hand, is not something related to food only, but to a whole way of living aimed at reducing any sort of animal exploitation with regard to your lifestyle and the materials you use on a daily basis.