ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the vegan cultural resources as constituting a counter-discourse, which repositions other animals and furthermore, destabilizes its entire logic and in so doing, promises the fulfilment of a Weberian dream of the re-enchantment of human-nonhuman animal relations. It deals with situating vegan children's culture in its anthroparchal context; this is key to understanding the apparent failure' of veganism to take hold on a mass scale in the contemporary West to date, as being because it is tacitly and relentlessly opposed and marginalized by anthroparchal culture. The chapter considers vegan literature as a rich and exemplary site for the contestation of anthroparchal culture through foregrounding an ethical reconfiguration of both human-other animal relations for children, and children's understanding of human ontology itself. Ruby Roth depicts a nonhuman utopia free of human exploitation in his book, That's Why We Don't Eat Animals, which contrasts with dystopian extant anthroparchal relations.
