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A fact from Free-produce movement appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know
- ... that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave?
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Veganism and the Free produce movement

Yesterday I added “Veganism” in the “See also” section of the article. User Binksternet deleted it, commenting “No, veganism has nothing to do with a boycott against slavery-derived products”.

I don't know exactly what may be the Wikipedia guidelines for the “verifiability” or whatever of an issue being included in a “See also” section. However, if the issue Binksternet is onto is that animal exploitation has nothing to do with human slavery, then that is just one particular POV.

The fact is that vegans generally do perceive themselves as a refusal to participate as consumers in what they see as a form of slavery, inflicted on animals; and often claim that such a boycott is a central tool in abolishing that slavery. Within the animal rights movement, that stance is also criticized as ineffective, exactly as the Free produce movement was criticized among abolitionists of human slavery. The similarity of the two situations is obvious to anyone familiar with the animal rights movement.

That is quite enough, I believe, to justify the inclusion of veganism in the “See also” section, whether or not one agrees with animal slavery being comparable with human slavery.

David Olivier (talk) 07:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no occurrence at all of the words 'slave' or 'slavery' in the Veganism article. It appears to me that you are pushing a point of view not shared with mainstream vegans. I agree with User:Kellen` and the second deletion of 'Veganism' from the See also section. Binksternet (talk) 15:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wrenn, Corey Lee. "Abolition Then and Now: Tactical Comparisons Between the Human Rights Movement and the Modern Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement in the United States". Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics: 1–24. doi:10.1007/s10806-013-9458-7. ISSN 1573-322X 1187-7863, 1573-322X. {{cite journal}}: Check |issn= value (help) --goiken 11:10, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]