A Shift Toward a Vegan Attitude in Education

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Care, Veganism, Nontraditional Pathways, and Holistic Education (Table 13)

Abstract

Devaluing transcends from the subordination of animals, and considering their lives inferior to our specie, to discriminating against our own specie. Speciesism becomes supremacy. Humanity, equity, justice is at stake from this human self-centered approach.
A Vegan attitude proposes an integration of the ethics in the vegan lifestyle into the education system. It is an ethical trajectory that sets the bar for how educators should respond to the impediments of the mainstream system, it gives them a new perspective on what has been practiced in schools, and allows them to realize some discrepancies between what is morally right, rather than what the system recognizes as moral

Author

• Jihan Haidar, Florida International University
  Presenting Author