Veganism Roldan Arenas

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Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería
Campus Guanajuato
English
Juan Padilla Hurtado
 
Veganism
Roldan Arenas Alondra Nayely 
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Introduction
Veganism is an attitude and a way of life committed to avoiding harm to non-human animals to the extent that this is possible. This includes what we do directly, like hunting or fishing. But, more importantly (since it affects many more animals), it also includes what we promote with our consumption. Animals are killed and routinely made to suffer on farms and slaughterhouses. This occurs because there is a demand for products of animal origin, especially food products. Veganism does not mean consuming these products so as not to harm animals in the process.
Veganism transmits a message of respect towards all sentient beings. Vegan people see all sentient animals as beings that we should respect, and not as objects for our use.
Body
Veganism went from being a minority philosophy to a common one in the last decades of the 20th century, as, together with the reports of animal abuse in slaughterhouses and intensively-farmed farms, medical studies that discouraged a meat diet and rich in fats, making it responsible for many of the contemporary endemic diseases, such as cancer or diabetes.
In this way, there are different types of veganism, depending on their level of commitment not only with human health, but with respect for the dignity of other living beings, including animals and plants, for example:
Ethical veganism. The one that shows rejection for the unworthy conditions in which many breeding animals are treated in farms and slaughterhouses, through a moral rejection of the consumption of any product related to these industries: white and red meats, dairy products, products of leather, etc.
Environmental veganism. Their main motivation has to do with environmentalism and the preservation of the biodiversity of the species, for which they consider as a necessary force measure the abandonment of all kinds of consumption of products of animal origin, whether or not they are edible. They view with concern the impact of agriculture and livestock on the environment and deforestation and other industrial activities on the planet.
Differences between veganism and vegetarianism
The term “vegan” emerged in the 20th century, as has been said, as a result of the need to distinguish simple vegetarianism, which adheres to a meat-free diet of all kinds, from its most extreme variant, which rejects all food from animal, which includes eggs, milk, honey or any product made from them.
Until then, they were referred to as "total vegetarians" as they represented a more extreme view of vegetarianism, which simply avoided meat, but not other animal products.
In fact, the vegan philosophy not only covered food issues, but also promoted a paradigm of object manufacturing that also avoided the use of animals as raw materials: shoes and leather wallets, fur coats, etc.
Vegan Phobia
One of the problems that vegans face is the influence and stereotypes that society has of them and this is due to the media. In a study in British newspapers, Matthew Cole and Karen Morgan (sociologists from Brock University) discovered that newspapers stereotype vegans by creating the concept of "Vegan Phobia" "Newspapers tend to discredit veganism by making it look ridiculous or as a difficult and impossible practice to keep going ”(Cole and Morgan 2011, 134). This means that the media, especially British newspapers, disagree with vegan culture by publishing articles related to the difficulty and negative consequences of following such a lifestyle.
Conclusion
Vegans do not promote their culture in people who eat meat, but only spread it and promote people with tendencies to enter this culture; and the same is stated by the sociologist at the University of Georgia: "People present themselves, as vegans, only to people who have" potential "to be vegan" (Cherry 2003, 28) This means that a vegan will not try to change ideology of a person with a tendency to feed on food derived from animals, but influence people who have the intention or curiosity about the subject.
References
· https://concepto.de/vegano/
· http://equipo9evap.weebly.com/veganismo-un-estilo-de-vida.html
· https://www.animal-ethics.org/veganismo/