Editing Veganism (section)

=== ''Vegan'' etymology ===
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| image1 = [https://web.archive.org/web/20190528030736/http://www.ukveggie.com/vegan_news/vegan_news_1.pdf ''The Vegan News''], first edition, 1944
| image2 = [https://www.ivu.org/congress/wvc47/delegates3.jpg Donald Watson], front row, fourth left, 1947<ref>[https://www.ivu.org/congress/wvc47/card.html "11th IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1947"], [[Stonehouse, Gloucestershire]], [[International Vegetarian Union]].</ref>
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In August 1944, several members of the [[Vegetarian Society]] asked that a section of its newsletter be devoted to non-dairy vegetarianism. When the request was denied, [[Donald Watson]], secretary of the Leicester branch, set up a new quarterly newsletter, ''The Vegan News'', in November 1944.<ref name=WatsonInterviews>{{Cite interview|last=Watson|first=Donald|subject-link=Donald Watson|interviewer=George D. Rodger|title=Interview with Donald Watson|url=https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/DW_Interview_2002_Unabridged_Transcript.pdf|format=PDF|type=Transcript|publisher=The Vegan Society|date=15 December 2002|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314041736/https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/DW_Interview_2002_Unabridged_Transcript.pdf|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=live}}<!--Abridged version found in ''The Vegan''-->{{pb}}{{Cite interview|last=Watson|first=Donald|interviewer=George D. Rodger|title=24 Carrot Award: Donald Watson|type=[[e-Zine]]|url=https://www.vegparadise.com/24carrot610.html|magazine=Vegetarians in Paradise|volume=6|issue=10|date=11 August 2004|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314034642/https://www.vegparadise.com/24carrot610.html|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead|quote=I invited my early readers to suggest a more concise word to replace 'non-dairy vegetarian.' Some bizarre suggestions were made like 'dairyban, vitan, benevore, sanivore, beaumangeur', et cetera. I settled for my own word, 'vegan', containing the first three and last two letters of 'vegetarian'—'the beginning and end of vegetarian.' The word was accepted by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and no one has tried to improve it.}}</ref> The word ''vegan'' was invented by Watson and Dorothy Morgan, a schoolteacher he later married.<ref name="VeganSociety2014">{{Cite web |title=Ripened by human determination. 70 years of The Vegan Society |url=https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/uploads/Ripened%20by%20human%20determination.pdf#page=5 |access-date=14 February 2021 |website=[[Vegan Society]] |page=3 |quote=Watson and his wife Dorothy came up with the word 'vegan'}}</ref><ref name="Davis2016"/> The word is based on "the first three and last two letters of 'vegetarian{{'-}}" because it marked, in Watson's words, "the beginning and end of vegetarian".<ref name="WatsonInterviews"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Lowbridge|first=Caroline|date=30 December 2017|title=Veganism: How a maligned movement went mainstream|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40722965|url-status=live|work=[[BBC News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314050438/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40722965|archive-date=14 March 2018|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref> ''The Vegan News'' asked its readers if they could think of anything better than ''vegan'' to stand for "non-dairy vegetarian". They suggested ''allvega'', ''neo-vegetarian'', ''dairyban'', ''vitan'', ''benevore'', ''sanivores'', and ''beaumangeur''.<ref name=WatsonInterviews/><ref>Donald Watson, [https://issuu.com/vegan_society/docs/the-vegan-news-no.-2-february-1945 ''Vegan News''], February 1945, 2–3.</ref>

According to [[Joanne Stepaniak]], the word ''vegan'' was first published independently in 1962 by the ''Oxford Illustrated Dictionary'', defined as "a vegetarian who eats no butter, eggs, cheese, or milk".<ref>Stepaniak 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ia5eZIlgLUC&pg=PA3 3].</ref>