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Going Weigen : Animal Advocacy and Sustainability Intersections under Taiwan’s New Vegan Movement

Song Lopez, Gina LU orcid (2025) In International Journal of Taiwan Studies
Abstract
From compassion to animal liberation, health, and sustainability, veganism is a concept in flux in Taiwan as a new generation of actors are bringing a fresh face and tactics to a novel yet familiar practice. This article examines the emergence of Taiwan’s new vegan movement during the socially receptive period that followed the Sunflower Movement. It introduces the actors involved in vegan advocacy, noting its distinct routes of diffusion, and where new vegan identities and alternative advocacy spaces play a key role. It shows that while animal rights rationales informed the inception of the contemporary vegan movement, some actors have shifted their attention to policy processes by reconnecting their discourses to matters of dietary... (More)
From compassion to animal liberation, health, and sustainability, veganism is a concept in flux in Taiwan as a new generation of actors are bringing a fresh face and tactics to a novel yet familiar practice. This article examines the emergence of Taiwan’s new vegan movement during the socially receptive period that followed the Sunflower Movement. It introduces the actors involved in vegan advocacy, noting its distinct routes of diffusion, and where new vegan identities and alternative advocacy spaces play a key role. It shows that while animal rights rationales informed the inception of the contemporary vegan movement, some actors have shifted their attention to policy processes by reconnecting their discourses to matters of dietary sustainability, thus bringing the local movement into closer alignment with global vegan mainstreaming through engagement with sustainability regimes. (Less)
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social movements, veganism, animal rights, plant-based, sustainability
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International Journal of Taiwan Studies
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34 pages
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Brill
ISSN
2468-8800
DOI
10.1163/24688800-20251412
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New social movements and sustainable food advocacy in the Sinosphere
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English
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  doi          = {{10.1163/24688800-20251412}},
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