The Distortion of Veganism

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Everything you've been told about veganism is the watered-down version.

[00:00:04]1943, [music] Leslie Cross writes a letter criticizing the Vegetarian Society. Donald Watson sees it and [music] coins a new word, vegan. With LC Shirley and others around him, Cross writes the definition. Not a menu, [music] not a lifestyle, a principle, the emancipation of animals from human exploitation. [music] By 1979, the society rewrites the definition.

[00:00:28][music] The same year, the man who wrote it dies. Convenient.

[00:00:32]Now, it's flexitarian, [music] welfare, plant-based. The principle lost and abolition rebranded into something they could sell. [music] But the original is still there. Almost no one talks about it.

[00:00:45]If we do, the animals have hope.