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The temple town of Palitana is the world's first vegetarian-only city. Today, Indian vegetarians, who are primarily lacto-vegetarians, are estimated to make up more than 70 percent of the world's vegetarians. They make up 20–42 percent of the population in India, while less than 30 percent are regular meat-eaters.
World Vegan Day is held every 1 November to mark the founding of the Society, and the Society considers November World Vegan Month. [62] [63] Barbara Moore attended the first meeting of The Vegan Society as an observer. [61] The Vegan News changed its name to The Vegan in November 1945, by which time it had 500 subscribers. [64]
In March 2020, scholar Nathan Poirer reviewed Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory, a book edited by Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood, and he concluded that veganism could "infiltrate popular culture without being perceived as threatening," while noting others who contribute to the book examining vegan cinema ...
It establishes veganism as an academic topic; gathers research on veganism, the history of veganism and carnism; examines veganism's ethical, political and cultural basis and repercussions; [53] and explores how vegan identity is presented in literature, the arts, film, popular culture, advertising and the media. [54]
Veganism involves following a vegan diet, which is a diet that includes no animal products of any kind. It can extend to ethical veganism which avoids or boycotts all products and activities whose production or undertaking is perceived to exploit animals, such as leather, silk, fur, wool, and cosmetics that have been tested on animals, as well as blood sports such as bullfighting and fox hunting.
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Renan Larue is a French writer, literary scholar and historian of vegetarianism.He is the author of several books on vegetarianism or veganism, including Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2015), a history of vegetarianism from Pythagoras until the modern day, and La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale (2020).
Abolitionism or abolitionist veganism is the animal rights based opposition to all animal use by humans. Abolitionism intends to eliminate all forms of animal use by maintaining that all sentient beings , humans or nonhumans, share a basic right not to be treated as properties or objects .