Hi wonderful vegans

I've been reading about the history of the origins of the vegan movement (that is, not necessarily the ideas & practices it represents which were as old as Ancient Greece if not earlier, but the modern movement in its current official capacity ever since the word "vegan"/"veganism" was coined by Donald Watson, founder of the Vegan Society in the UK in 1944).

Watson ultimately chose the word to represent "the beginning and the end of vegetarian(ism)", in quite a literal (as well as metaphorical or symbolic) sense: "vegetarian", the start and end of the word with the middle removed, but further the idea that vegetarianism was imperfect due to the increasing scrutiny on its inclusion/allowance of animal products & the problems (ethical, environmental, societal, health) with those, and that something better or more consistent needed to take its place (Though, it should be noted that it used to be the case that vegetarian, even without the clarification "strict