The Vegan Society exists to promote the rights of other animals and to demand they are respected, and to support initiatives that align with such a goal (which can include promoting plant based foods in different settings or subsidies in food production). However, it appears The Vegan Society prefers to align with nonprofits to unite and promote veg or less meat, with none of them aligned to rejecting animal use. Undermining veganism and positioning people so they can be nudged this way or that from speciesism.
KEVIN WATKINSON: The Vegan Society recently co-signed a document centred on promoting veg or plant forward diets, along with key welfare organisations like Compassion in World Farming. An organisation that spends much of its time being richly rewarded for promoting rose veal consumption and the use of factory farmed slow growing chickens. Perhaps then, it was not too surprising that one of the asks of government is for welfare labelling that is more “accurate”, something which inevitably conflicts with repecting other animals through veganism…
The issue is The Vegan Society ought to exist outside of Peter Singer’s less but better meat organisational paradigm… The Vegan Society exists to promote the rights of other animals and to demand they are respected, and to support initiatives that align with such a goal (which can include promoting plant based foods in different settings or subsidies in food production). However, it shouldn’t promote industry centred “welfare” labelling, and ought to be extremely wary of being in proximity to groups that undermine veganism to promote Peter Singer’s pragmatic ideology, which is simply what almost all of the big corporate nonprofits do…
It does appear The Vegan Society prefers to align with these nonprofits to unite and promote veg or less meat, rather than stand for a principle, it is really one of the only organisations that is empowered to do that, with others incentivised to endlessly reduce their demands to the mainstream, through an association with Peter Singer and a large pool of “less meat” philanthropy… The Vegan Society is more geared towards supporting professionalisation and a class of nonprofits that collude and operate in very similar ways, in effect creating replication and more of a sense of astroturfing than building a de-centralised movement from the ground up, which is not on the board at all. SOURCE
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