Books

There exists a lot of literature, studies and articles on veganism. In research, the educational field that examines the relationship between humans and nonhuman animals with a focus on social justice is called critical animal studies.

Animal Liberation

“In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures--destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.”

Eating Animals

“Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers" -and a must-read for anyone who cares about building a more humane and healthy world.”

How Not to Die

“From the physician behind the trusted website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of premature death and disability.”

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

“In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement marked by a deconstruction of the conceptual framework that keeps activists silo-ed fighting their various oppressions--and one another. Through a subtle and extended examination of Jordan Peele's hit 2017 movie Get Out, Ko shows the many ways that white supremacist notions of animality and race exist through the consumption and exploitation of flesh. She demonstrates how a critical historical and social understanding of anti-Blackness can provide the pathway to genuine liberation. Highly readable, richly illustrated, and full of startling insights, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is a brilliant example of the emerging discipline of Black veganism by one of its leading voices.”

The Sexual Politics of Meat

“The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory explores a relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory. The New York Times called it a bible of the vegan community.”

Studies & articles

Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Animal Industries - Nordic Perspectives on the Exploitation of Animals since 1860

Bodies that challenge the military social order: unpacking institutional resistance against veganism in the military by Arita Holmberg

Men’s Veganism: a Pathway towards More Egalitarian Masculinities? by Kadri Aavik

Natural, Enjoyable, and Finnish: Social Representations of Eating Meat in Finnish Meat Product Advertisements by Timo Häkli & Eemeli Hakoköngäs

Speciesistic Veganism: An Anthropocentric Argument by A.G. Holdier

‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’ by Vasile Stănescu

Essä: Veganism - ensakspolitik eller komplex vardagspolitik by Freja Högback (in Swedish)