Dr. Roger Yates has been involved in animal rights and vegan advocacy since the 1970s. He has been a member of several animal rights organizations, served as a crew member on Sea Shepherd vessels, and helped found numerous advocacy groups. Currently, he lectures on sociology and is a co-founder and press officer of several Irish animal advocacy organizations.

2. Dr. Roger Yates.
• Vegan since 1979
• (1977+) Member Hunt Saboteurs Association
• (1982) BUAV executive committee member
• Sea Shepherd crew member (Orkney Islands, Scotland)
• Helped to start the first Animal Rights Shop in Liverpool
• Co-founded the Fur Action Group
• Co-founded Edelson Action Group/Hazleton Action Group/Wild
Bird Action Group
• Active in the Northern Animal Liberation League (NALL)
• Press officer for the Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group
• Presently lecturing in sociology at
UCD, co-founder of Animal Education
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Outreach and press officer for Vegan
Ireland

3. “VEE – GUN”
1944
Donald Watson (co-founder of the British Vegan Society).
“non-dairy vegetarians.”
“The beginning and end of vegetarian.”
The spirit of pioneers. 3

4. Definitions of veganism
• 1946) “Man’s food should be derived from
fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, and other
wholesome non-animal products.”
• Vegans “should exclude
flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, and animals’
milk, butter and cheese.”
• [(1947) the aspirations of an emerging social movement]:
• “Extend and organise Veganism
nationally and internationally and to 4
facilitate contacts between those
following the Vegan Way of Life.”

5. 1964
• “Veganism is a way of life which
excludes all forms of exploitation of, and
cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and
includes a reverence and compassion
for all life – [incorporating ideas from
Albert Schweitzer]
• “…Veganism remembers man’s
responsibilities to the earth and its
resources and seeks to bring about a
healthy soil and plant kingdom and a
proper use of the materials of the
earth.” 5

6. 1980
• “Veganism is a way of living on the
products of the plant kingdom to the
exclusion of
flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal
milk and its derivatives (the taking of
honey being left to individual 6
conscience).”

7. Different “types” of vegan?
•ETHICAL
•ENVIRONMENTAL
•HEALTH
•FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 7

8. •THE MORAL
BASELINE OF THE
ANIMAL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
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9. Recent
proposals/controversies
• “Road-kill”
• Eggs
• Honey
• Fishes
• “Lacto-vegan”
• “Venison” 9

10. Gateway…
•The modern view…
•…be as vegan as possible.
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