No Animal Food: The Road to Veganism in Britain, 1909-1944

Donald Watson coined the term "vegan"in 1944 because he felt that an ovo lacto vegetarian diet was still cruel. Today, unfortunately the waters are being muddied as vegans refer to themselves as vegetarians or worse ve*gan. The term vegetarian/vegan is lumped together inspite of the fact that vegetarians are still a cog in the slaughter machinery and many have no intention of becoming vegan. Ovo lacto vegetarianism is not as many suppose "a beginning" but rather a continuation of the worst forms of animal agriculture, where the most diffenceless-neonates- are ripped from their mothers to be murdered immediately or three months later. If people were indirectly responsible for the mass killing of human neonates, the response for this behaviour to cease would be enormous but since these nenates are considered "Just animals" there is cognitive dissonance and these people are viewed as compassionate as vegans. Imagine the havoc this viewpoint would wreak in a human rights context.