To achieve a global enlightened civilization by building community through volunteer work, screening documentaries, utilizing local and social media, enjoying potlucks in nature, restaurant meetups, educational outreach, activism and policy change.
We proudly advocate for humane treatment of non-human animals, whether wild or domesticated. Many in our community conduct direct protests or marches to this point. We have participated in the banning of dog racing tracks in Florida as well as helping to shut down Ringling Circus in 2017, after 146 years of animal cruelty, to reopening in 2022 as a circus of humans only. Our biggest goal is working with statewide businesses, organizations and individuals to make Florida a vegan state by 2030. Part of this is getting city, county and state governments to endorse The Plant Based Treaty.
“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.”
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In the 1930s Donald Watson moved to Leicester to teach woodwork, and he became a leading figure in the Leicester Vegetarian Society. In November 1944 he and other "non-dairy vegetarians" formed the Vegan Society. Shortly after, Donald wrote and produced the first issue of The Vegan News from his home on Evesham Road.
Donald Watson - some information about one of the founders of the modern Vegan social justice movement for all. Started 1944 UK.
Leicester has every right to call itself the home of veganism.
The word "vegan" itself came from Donald and Dorothy, who became his wife, taking the first three and last two letters of "vegetarian". According to this Story of Leicester panel, they came up with it during an afternoon at the Palais de Danse on Humberstone Gate.
WHAT IS VEGANISM?
Veganism is often portrayed as a diet, which is not quite right:
Veganism is a wide-ranging philosophy that evolved from 1944 when the first ever vegan social movement organisation was founded, and when the word “vegan” was coined.
By 1955, a radical justice-for-all philosophy marked the meaning of veganism. Indeed, as early as 1945, the best-known co-founder of the vegan movement, Donald Watson, declared that veganism was about opposing the exploitation of sentient life, and later wrote that veganism, by definition, set out to help both other animals and human ones.
The focus of veganism is on the relations between humans and other animals. It is for animal liberation and would abolish the property status of other animals. It is also for the end of animal use rather than about regulating how we use other animals. As vegan movement pioneer, Leslie Cross wrote, vegans stand not so much for welfare as it stands for liberation; that veganism is steadfastly on the side of liberators.
The vegan vision would mean that, when humans encounter other animals, we encounter them as fellow rights-bearers. This will transform many aspects of our lives and alter how we relate to other animals, each other, and the planet.
International Law
Our rights as vegans begins with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (The Declaration). Two international covenants give legal effect to the Articles of the Declaration. These are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). They restate our rights and indicate the obligations of member nations.
In January 2020, an Employment Tribunal in England held ethical veganism to be a philosophical belief and therefore a protected characteristic pursuant to the Equality Act 2010. As such, ethical vegans may gain protection from discriminatory treatment.
For the Animals
To End Speciesism
And the Benefits
For the Environment
To End Pollution
For Compassion
To End Hunger
For Empathy
To End Poverty
For Love
To End Racism
For Our Health
To End Sickness
For Spiritual Growth
To End Ignorance
For World Peace
To End Wars
“The goal isn't to make everyone a vegan. It's to end speciesism that will render veganism obsolete.”
~Paul Murphy
