Key points
Constantly asking for inclusion
What is accommodation fatigue?
A disability-Driven framework that creates environment accessible for all from start; applied to food systems, it supports veganism as the inclusive default.
What is Universal Design?
A universal designed food system reduces dependence on resource-intense animal products, helping address the majority barrier to global food equity.
What is food insecurity?
Why is vegan food considered a better default for universal design than carnist food?
Because vegan food accommodates the widest range of ethical, religious, medical, and political dietary needs without excluding anyone.
How does the Ontario Human Rights COmmission's 2015 policy shift expand legal protection for ethical vegans?
By defining "creed" to include non-religious belief systems that shape identity and conduct, thereby protecting secular ethical veganism under human rights law.
What is a history both vegans and disabled groups share?
What is marginalization and medicalization?
Individualized adjustments (like special meals or extra time) that place the burden on marginalized people instead of changing the system.
What means accommodation
Veganism aligns with universal design because plant-based meals naturally accommodate many people with allergies, intolerances, or cultural restrictions.
What are accommodations?
Both often rely on special accommodations and must regularly request exceptions in spaces designed around normate, carnist assumptions.
What is shared experience between vegan and disabled people?
What is the author's non-anthropocentric argument for veganism as universal design?
They argue that veganism makes the planet more accessible by reducing environmental destruction and ending the oppression of non-human animals, who should be part of our moral and political communities.
Food justice should address...
A commitment to avoiding animal products for moral reasons; treated as a marginalized identity with legal and social implications.
What is ethical veganism?
Universal design aims to remove unnecessary barriers; veganism does this by eliminating reliance on these products that exclude people with lactose intolerance, egg allergies, etc
What are animal-derived products?
The court recognized that ethical veganism could be protected when linked to a person's religious beliefs, upholding her wrongful dismissal claim.
What is Chenzira v. Cincinnati Children's Hospital case?
In what way does the chapter frame veganism as a "crip identity", and why is this significant?
Veganism is framed as a crip identity because it distrupts normalized eating practices and exposes structural violence, aligning vegan resistance with disability politics and redefining accessibility beyond human needs.
The main argument of the chapter
What is veganism being understood as both a crip identity and a model for universal inclusion?
The idea that ethical systems should include non-human animals as members of the community whose interests matter.
What is interspecies justice?
From a universal-design perspective, veganism expands who is considered when making ethical decisions. Extending designs "for all" principle to include this group of beings.
What are nonhuman animals?
Why do authors argue that individual accommodations are insufficient for justice?
Because they place burden on the marginalized individual instead of restructuring institutions for collective accessibility.
Veganism challenges
What is anthropocentrism, arguing for interspecies justice and environmental sustainability?
Harm caused by systems and institutions that normalize exclusion, such as inaccessible buildings or animal-based menus.
What is structural violence?
Universal design promotes sustainability and long-term usability; veganism supports this by significantly lowering emissions like methane and nitrous oxide, which accelerate this global threat.
What is climate change?
How do authors connect veganism to disability activism?
Both movements challenge normalized violence and exclusion, advocating for structural change rather than individual compliance with dominant norms.