Its the name

[vavaving]

I don't really like the name "vegan". It simply doesn't appeal to me. Never will. Vegetarian sounds fine, herbivore is kind of novel, fruitarian is almost foreign, but vegan just smacks of a tacky brand name. Many "vegan" products have tacky names as well, so I suppose it all balances out! I wouldn't announce myself as "vegan", regardless of my lifestyle. Its OK with me if anyone else is in love with it; I'm sure its saucy.

[ChenLi]

Hmm, I don't find it tacky at all O-o

[paul]

I dont think its tacky, there are some vegan products that dohave tacky names.

[Ayashi Foxtail]

If you could rename Veganism then, what would you call it?

[Fauxmage]

Since I think veganism should be the default condition for all humans, I would rather give up the name, and call people who aren't vegan something instead. Something that would stigmatize them.

[Ayashi Foxtail]

Since I think veganism should be the default condition for all humans, I would rather give up the name, and call people who aren't vegan something instead. Something that would stigmatize them.

I can think of a few names I already call them, rofl ;)

[Petie]

Since I think veganism should be the default condition for all humans, I would rather give up the name, and call people who aren't vegan something instead. Something that would stigmatize them.

Ooh, yes - exactly my sentiments as you know, Fauxmage, from reading a post I’ve must made about this very subject, on another forum. These people should be labelled as ‘necrotarians’ - eaters of dead flesh, which is what in fact, they are. Dead and decaying flesh, at that - which few of them seem to even realise! :disbelief:

The vegan (totally vegetarian) diet is, after all, the only diet that’s appropriate to our herbivorous physiology. It’s much stranger to be eating dead animals’ body parts, drinking their mammary secretions and eating food items made from such (dairy milk and cheeses, etc.), and consuming avian menstrual waste matter (eggs), than it is to be eating only vegetation!

There’s nothing wrong with the name vegan - but I don’t think we are the ones who should need to be labelled at all, simply for consuming the only diet appropriate to our species, and living a lifestyle compassionate toward other living beings, which is after all, the only decent and ethical way to live! :sigh:

[Stormy]

I am proud of the name vegan and actually really like it but I suppose as a label I have been carrying for so long, with many wonderful memories attach to it, of a life style among amazing non human and human animals then it all good for me .... OK it is another label but then how do we find fellow kindred spirits and like minds if we didn't have something to call ourselves... so for me long may the name carry on :) ...and if it should even disappear from the English language then that would be very worrying!!

That's a thought and I have never looked into it but is it a word that has a translation in other languages?

[Ayashi Foxtail]

I think I looked it up once and I *think* that a lot of languages now have a word that has been invented as an alternative to Vegan, but if you went there and said that word to people, I doubt anyone would have a clue what you are saying.

[vavaving]

If you could rename Veganism then, what would you call it?Something other than veeeeeeeeegaaaaaaaaan! :rottentomato:

Besides, I'm more of a subsistance eater. Is there different name for this?

[Fauxmage]

Subsistatarian.

[Ayashi Foxtail]

I hate to sound dumb, but what does subsistance mean?

[vavaving]

Subsistence can be thought of as essentialism, or maybe contra-consumerism. Its like trying to be fuel-efficient or something...

How about subs-eater? :D

[Gliondrach]

Plant nosher.

[vavaving]

Herb herder.

[Stormy]

Greens Grabber or

Pulses pusher or

Things without a nervous system or pulse muncher :D

[vavaving]

Seed slinger.

[Gliondrach]

Non-animalproductsvore.

[vavaving]

legume licker

[Stormy]

Cruelty-freegan (whoops back to almost vegan hehehe but then again it could also be mistaken for being cruel :confused:)

cruelty-free plant consumer

inanimate ingester

Tis getting silly hehehe :D

[Fauxmage]

Piusperussi ~ Latin for "compassionate consumer"

Subsidoperussi ~ Latin for "subsistence consumer"

At least, that's what the online translator says. ;)

I like the sound of piusperussi.

[vavaving]

Oligophage

Oligophagous: Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.

Oops. :bee2:

Semivore, partial eater...