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Indian animal rights and vegan activists across the country will use the Twitter platform to raise awareness about veganism on April 8

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Indian animal rights and vegan activists across the country will use the Twitter platform to raise awareness about veganism on April 8

One of the key themes for the vegan movement in India is laws around the exploitation of farm animals, said an organizer. Adding that most people in India are still unaware about the vegan movement or veganism, which is often described as a diet in popular parlance, Amjor Chandran, one of the organizers of Vegan India Movement, says: “It’s not a diet, but a social justice movement for animals to dismantle speciesism. Speciesism is the human-held belief that all other animal species are inferior. Speciesist thinking involves considering animals–who have their own desires, needs, and complex lives–as means to human...

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