Vegan Criminology

Why Vegan?

• Veganism is trendy (a term used with reluctance) and the use of this term is likely to attract attention to an important topic.
• Google Trends shows 90% increase in ‘vegan’ searches in 2016
• Veganism has grown 500% since 2014 in the US
• 10 Inspiring Stats That Prove Veganism Is Going Mainstream

• Vegans Only?
  
• Vegans (and Criminologists) have a wide range of interests and commitments, many overlapping.
• Vegan criminology focuses on animal rights and the rights of those who protect animals. Topics of interest include environmental threats, exploiting animals as entertainment, sport, and experimentation, the role of patriarchy, the legal status of animals, and the widespread acceptance of treating animals as food.
• Absolutism - Veganism's Worst Enemy?
• Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
• How the vegan movement broke out of its echo chamber and finally started disrupting things
• Reducitarian
• Reducetarian Solution
• Meatless Monday
• Becoming Vegan
• Video: Why Adopt a Plant-based Diet?

Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L. (2017). Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 30(6), 745-764. doi:10.1007/s10806-017-9697-0

Rothgerber, H. (2015). Can you have your meat and eat it too? Conscientious omnivores, vegetarians, and adherence to diet. Appetite, 84, 196-203. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2014.10.012

Resources:

• Kateman, (2017). "The Reducetarian Solution."
• Kaplan, (2012). "The Philosophy of Food."
• Leeneart, (2017). "How to Create a Vegan World."