{"id":20,"date":"2022-09-07T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helpgoingvegan.info\/helpgovadmin\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:53:54","slug":"what-is-veganism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helpgoingvegan.info\/helpgovadmin\/index.php\/what-is-veganism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Veganism?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cVeganism\u201d means living in recognition of the fact that other animals are unique, individual sentient beings, with physical and psychological feelings, who are consciously aware of themselves and their world, and who have interests including an interest in their own lives. They are not only in the world, but aware of it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

They have, therefore, the fundamental rights not to be used, owned, exploited or killed by humans. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Vegans, therefore, avoid participation in exploitation of our fellow animals for food, clothing, research, entertainment, labour or any other use, in so far as is possible and practicable whilst living in a non-vegan world. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Many vegans also engage in animal rights advocacy and actively work to develop alternatives to animal use and promote public awareness of animal sentience and animal rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Non human animals are sentient and aware. When we hurt them, they feel it. There is hardly an exception to animal use that does not harm them and all animal use is unjustified and unfair.<\/em><\/strong>\n
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The only hope for other animals is complete cessation of our use of them. This defines veganism. The term \u2018vegan\u2019 came into being when the word was coined by Donald Watson, his wife Dorothy, Elsie Shrigley and others, using the first and last letters of the word vegetarian. And the philosophy was later shaped and laid out eloquently by<\/strong>\n <\/strong><\/a>\n Leslie Cross in a series of essays <\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/a>originally printed in <\/strong>\n ‘The Vegan’<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>and then later explained again by pioneers such as Eva Batt and Kathleen Jannaway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much later – Veganism came to be defined by The Vegan Society as;<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Veganism is about equality, fairness and justice for everyone. However, the focus is on other animals because in terms of both numbers and degree to which we oppress and exploit them, the greatest injustice of non vegan living is inflicted\n on non humans.\n
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At its heart, veganism is about how we relate to others, ensuring that we live in ways that accord them the things we wish for ourselves, regardless of any perception of difference to them, or distance from them.\n
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