the benefits to the environment, their health or for religion are regularly also described as vegans.

Although individuals have been renouncing the consumption of products of animal origin since ancient times, the term "veganism" itself was coined in 1944 by Donald and Dorothy Watson. The aim was to differentiate it from vegetarianism, which rejects the consumption of meat but accepts the consumption of other products of animal origin, such as milk, honey, dairy products, and eggs. Interest in veganism