Vegan Each Day
Providing quotes and inspiration for vegans.
- In "Veganism as Political Solidarity: Beyond 'Ethical Veganism'" Cochrane and Cojacaru give an important reminder about the origins and intersecting nature of oppression against both humans and animals and challenge activists to work together in solidarity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- A reminder in uncertain political times about the power of veganism beyond animal liberation. From Michael Corthell - michaelcorthelll.substack.com/p/veganism-i...
- A relevant quote from Jordi Casamitjana. "Veganism is the ultimate peace movement, but true pacifism is the ultimate vegan movement too, because we vegans can finally rest if pacifists succeed in making non-violence universal and permanent for all.” veganfta.com/blog/2025/03...
- Granovetter, S. (2021). Activist as Symptom: Healing Trauma within a Ruptured Collective. Society & Animals, 29(7), 659-678. doi.org/10.1163/1568...
- From @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social and @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social's article for The Vegan Society. Dhont, K., & Hodson, G. (2020). Dreaming of a Vegan Christmas?. The Vegan Society-The Expert Series 2020 (Jan). kar.kent.ac.uk/80314/1/dhon...
- From Hirschler's article in the journal Society & Animals doi.org/10.1163/1568...
- From @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social discussing his new book, The Omnivore's Deception, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-sa...
- A popular creator who built their audience around veganism has announced today they are no longer "plant-based". Don't want to attack them, but this shows why Vegan Each Day only posts quotes from scholars and thinkers in veganism, rather than celebrities/influencers. 1/2
- Their arguments are rooted in science, reason, and ethics. They could announce tomorrow they have abandoned veganism and their arguments would still stand on their own. Celebrities speaking up for animals is great, but at the end of the day what really matters is not who, but WHAT is said. /2
- Kong goes on to say "Bringing it to an end will be proof of a revolutionary kindness and one of humanity's greatest acts of compassion."
- You have a choice.
- Veganism is about nonviolence to all animals - humans included.
- Veganism has a long history with gender and sexuality, with meat-eating often associated with straight masculinity. In their article "A Queer Vegan Manifesto", Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen explores some of these connections and argues for a veganism that challenges norms. #pride
- Researching the experience of vegan women, Edwards (2013) found that they felt "fearful that meat-eaters would perceive them as being critical of their food choices simply because they are vegetarian/vegan" and that 1/2
- "without the ability to be truthful with others, we cannot truly enjoy social situations, nor can we develop genuine relationships". -Living in a Minority Food Culture: A Phenomenological Investigation of Being Vegetarian/Vegan 2/2
- "This is perhaps the greatest challenge for those of us trained as social scientists: to overhaul our repertoire of methods and poetics in ways that admit and register the creative presence of creatures and devices amongst us, and the animal sensibilities of our diverse human being." Sarah Whatmore
- From "Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the 'Human' in Human Geography"
- Powerful reminder about what veganism is really about - reducing harm and suffering.
- While not directly about veganism, this quote is powerful in a world where animal suffering is hidden behind neat packaging of happy animals on green farms, and words like "certified humane".
- Many quotes about veganism have dubious origins but have been repeated until they are no longer questioned. Other popular quotes come from celebrities who try veganism on as a fad before quitting. Quotes on Vegan Each Day always provide a source and come from great thinkers of history and our time.
- "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." -George Bernard Shaw Quoted in Hekseth Pearson's (1942) George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality.
- "Nonhuman liberation must also be part of our conversations if we are to truly achieve justice for ourselves and all others... In embracing veganism we seek to reduce cruelty committed against both nonhumans and human workers" -Julia Feliz Brueck, Saryta Rodriguez, & Ayoola M White Veganism of Color
- "The deployment of institutionalized violence is greater in industrial modernity and increases in level and tendency with these processes;" 1/2
- "at the same time, the practices of violence become increasingly regularized and extremes of violent practice may be de-legitimated, and some practices criminalized." -Erika Cudworth, Killing Animals: Sociology, Species Relations and Institutionalized Violence 2/2
- "In many ways, gender inequality is built into the species inequality that meat eating proclaims." Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
- Full quote - "We have devastated the loveliness of the world; we have exterminated several species more beautiful and less vicious than ourselves; we have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt," 1/2
- "If they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." William Ralph Inge, The Idea of Progress (1920). 2/2
- Marc Bekoff's Animal Manifesto
- "Over-use and misuse of antibiotics in animals and humans is contributing to the rising threat of antibiotic resistance." - full news release from WHO (2017) www.who.int/news/item/07... #vegan #onehealth #onewelfare #antibiotics
- Link to full study doi.org/10.1080/1040...
