Veganthropology: Defending vegan ethics against structural speciesism
Where ‘anthropology’ often operates within an implicit anthropocentric horizon, ‘Veganthropology’ proposes another point of departure: antispeciesism and non exploitation become ethical framework and method, so nonhuman animals enter the scene as subjects of moral concern. Its central analytical target is animal thingification, the institutional, practical, and discursive production of exploitable lives, commodification, and moral distance.
COREY WRENN: In late 2025, Annibal Gouvêa Franco and Ronaldo Guimarães Gouvêa published a founding manifesto. In 2026, they expanded it in English as “Manifesto for Veganthropology (Vegan Anthropology)”, presenting Veganthropology as a normative descriptive, interspecies approach transversal to Sociocultural Anthropology… The manifesto spatializes vegan practice across three interconnected planes: everyday life, intentional collective action, and digital territorialities…
Anthropology often operates within an implicit anthropocentric horizon. Veganthropology proposes another point of departure: antispeciesism and non exploitation become ethical framework and method, so nonhuman animals enter the scene as subjects of moral concern. Its central analytical target is animal thingification, the institutional, practical, and discursive production of exploitable lives, commodification, and moral distance. The manifesto calls for an antispeciesist ethnography with public criteria, traceable data, and replicable procedures, open to independent audit…
As a program, the manifesto sets four ethical foundations: justice for sentient beings; refusal of animal exploitation; recognition of ecological interdependence; and the moralization of consumption and habitus. It also defines alliance criteria: preserve animal centrality, keep an explicit abolitionist horizon, prevent agenda capture, and resist greenwashing and veganwashing. SOURCE
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