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In this article, we review an array of positions in the contemporary literature that concern the moral reasons for vegan consumerism. We situate veganism within the broader field of ethical consumerism, present a variety of motivations and justifications for veganism, and discuss criticisms of vegan consumerism. The arguments presented in the article ultimately pertain to the question of whether concerns for animals, human rights, or climate justice entail strong moral reasons to adopt a vegan lifestyle. Additionally, we address issues of particular relevance for political philosophy, such as whether organized vegan consumer campaigns are a politically legitimate means to strive for structural change. We hope to show that there are anthropocentric, as well as animal‐centered, reasons that speak in favor of radically reformed human–animal relations, including diets that are at least predominantly plant‐based.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Vegetarianism as ethical protest -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Killing sentient beings -- 1.1. Why foods derived from animals are not necessary for human health -- Introduction -- Vitamin B12 and the history of vegan diets -- Other potential nutritional issues -- A longer, healthier life? -- But what about … -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.2. Against killing "happy" animals -- Introduction -- The prima facie case: killing animals harms them -- Meat-eating as an important component of a good human life? -- The replaceability argument -- Utilitarian responses to replaceability -- Theory-neutral arguments from the interests at stake at the time of killing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.3. Food ethics and justice toward animals -- Introduction -- The animal question as a political question -- The case for a political theory including animals' interests -- From theory to practice: The case for a virtue-based approach in animal ethics -- Respect for animals as the result of a way of being -- Concluding considerations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.4. Animals as honorary humans -- Introduction -- Diamond -- The strict vegan's principle -- Norms and relationships -- Why strict veganism? -- A caveat and a worry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.5. Nonhuman animals' desires and their moral relevance -- The behaviorist's argument -- Language, concepts, and nonhuman animals -- Temporal extension and the desires of nonhuman animals -- The moral significance of theoretical nonhuman animals' desires -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 1.6. Why vegetarianism wasn't on the menu in early Greece -- Notes -- Bibliography

AbstractIn the last few years, the popularity of veganism has surged. Current literature on the cultural practice, which situates it within a social movements framework, cannot adequately explain this meteoric rise. A better approach is to view veganism as an emerging lifestyle movement based on individual consumption rather than political protest. After situating veganism within the literature on animal rights, this review then explains why a lifestyle movement perspective yields a more compelling account of its growing mainstream appeal. Drawing on both cultural and organizational sociology, this review provides insights into the cultural origins of veganism, its evolving relationship to other food movements, and highlights the key role played by cultural entrepreneurs, the key changemakers who are bringing veganism from the margins to the mainstream.

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Huemer [33] argues against the killing of animals. I offer a critical libertarian analysis of his claim.

There is a surprising consensus among vegan philosophers that freeganism — eating animal-based foods going to waste — is permissible. Some ethicists even argue that vegans should be freegans. In this paper, we offer a novel challenge to freeganism drawing upon Donaldson and Kymlicka's 'zoopolitical' approach, which supports 'restricted freeganism'. On this position, it's prima facie wrong to eat the corpses of domesticated animals, as they are members of a mixed human-animal community, ruling out many freegan practices. This exploration reveals how the 'political turn' in animal ethics can offer fertile lenses through which to consider ethical puzzles about eating animals.

Despite the strength of arguments for veganism in the animal rights literature, alongside environmental and other anthropocentric concerns posed by industrialised animal agriculture, veganism remains only a minority standpoint. In this paper, I explore the moral motivational problem of veganism from the perspectives of moral psychology and political false consciousness. I argue that a novel interpretation of the post-Marxist notion of political false consciousness may help to make sense of the widespread refusal to shift towards veganism. Specifically, the notion of false consciousness fills some explanatory gaps left by the moral psychological notion of akrasia, often understood to refer to a weakness of will. Central to my approach is the idea that animal exploitation is largely systemic and the assumption that moral motivation is inseparable from moral thinking. In this light, the primary obstacle to the adoption of veganism arises not so much from a failure to put genuine beliefs into action, but rather in a shared, distorted way of thinking about animals. Thus, common unreflective objections to veganism may be said to be manifestations of false consciousness.