It’s 2017 - almost 73 years since the term ‘veganism’ was coined, yet society still likes to label it as something ‘new’.
To a certain extent you can understand why veganism has fallen into a trap of being heavily associated with millennials or 90s and 80s babies. The majority of people have consumed at least some animal products from birth – veganism tends to be a lifestyle change that one comes to know as they evolve and learn about the world around them. And fortunately for our younger generation, they’re the ones who have been brought up in a culture where it doesn’t take 30 minutes to source information from a library; instead they have a search engine almost always held in the palm of their hands.