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Veganism was most common in the states of Gujarat (4.9%) and Maharashtra (4.0%). [145] Israel: Five percent (approx. 300,000) in Israel said they were vegan in 2014, making it the highest per capita vegan population in the world. [146] A 2015 survey by Globes and Israel's Channel 2 News similarly found 5% of Israelis were vegan. [147]
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]
In 2016 Renan Larue, author of Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2014), began teaching a vegan studies course at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [18] [19] [20] In May 2016 the conference Towards a Vegan Theory, with Wright keynoting, was held at the University of Oxford to discuss the place of vegan theory within the humanities.
Dinshah founded the American Vegan Society early in 1960, and later that year (August) married the English-born Freya Smith. [15] Freya, whose parents were active in The Vegan Society (of Great Britain), contributed to the early growth of the American Vegan Society and is the president of the American Vegan Society today.
Jewish vegetarianism and veganism have become especially popular among Israeli Jews. In 2016, Israel was described as "the most vegan country on Earth", as five percent of its population eschewed all animal products. [178] Interest in veganism has grown among both non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews in Israel. [179]
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.
There was a widely held belief, popular among both vegetarians and non-vegetarians, that in the Golden Age of the beginning of humanity mankind was strictly non-violent. In that utopian state of the world hunting, livestock breeding, and meat-eating, as well as agriculture were unknown and unnecessary, as the earth spontaneously produced in ...
Female farmers in Kenya. Gender inequality both leads to and is a result of food insecurity. According to estimates, women and girls make up 60% of the world's chronically hungry and little progress has been made in ensuring the equal right to food for women enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.