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Originally posted by Yndda
lol ok tell me who this ~creator~ is and show me a source that explicitly shows how they defined it. I'll gladly eat my words.
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I think Abyssy is referring to the Vegan Society which has been in existence since the 1940s
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The term vegan was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson when he co-founded the Vegan Society in England, at first to mean "non-dairy vegetarian" and later "the doctrine that man should live without exploiting animals".
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so whilst it began as a diet, it evolved into a lifestyle (i.e. you can't regress BACK into it being a DIET like you've been oddly pushing all this time). Pythagoras in 500BCE promoted a "vegan lifestyle" (use that loosely here) because he believed in the benevolence among all species so the Vegan Society didn't necessarily conceive veganism initially but solidified it as a movement that we all know and love today
Anywho, I hope you eat your (vegan) words now!