By Zoe Peled Founder | Vancouver Vegan Resource Centre (VVRC) BOD | People Ensuring Animal Care Exists (P.E.A.C.E.) I have some qualms about the term “plant-based”. Though we have seen a few versions of the term in discourse, for the sake of consistency in this piece, I am going to remove the quotations and use the hyphenated spelling.
Why I Call Myself Vegan *Not Plant-based
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