0 the belief that it is morally wrong to eat animals or to use animal products such as milk, eggs, or leather:
The tribunal ruled that ethical veganism is a philosophical belief and so is protected in law.
Following a plant-based diet to be healthy or lose weight, or because it benefits the environment, is not the same as ethical veganism.
Ethical veganism is based on an opposition to speciesism, the idea that one animal species is morally more important than another.
