It seems like trying to change the definition of the term “vegan” invites a huge amount of confusion and blowback from people who don’t use it in the same way.
Why not just start calling your diet “cruelty-free” instead?
That’s definitely an option, but getting new terms to stick is really tough. Pragmatically, I think it makes more sense to push Vegan in a more useful direction then try to organize around a brand new term. Plus, there are a lot of activists out there with really great Vegan tattoos, it’d be a shame to drop it from the lexicon.
It seems like trying to change the definition of the term “vegan” invites a huge amount of confusion and blowback from people who don’t use it in the same way.
Why not just start calling your diet “cruelty-free” instead?
That’s definitely an option, but getting new terms to stick is really tough. Pragmatically, I think it makes more sense to push Vegan in a more useful direction then try to organize around a brand new term. Plus, there are a lot of activists out there with really great Vegan tattoos, it’d be a shame to drop it from the lexicon.