Veganism: Abolition through nutrition. Vitamin B₁₂ supplements for the vegan diet

This article shows that the vegan diet, which excludes all foodstuffs of animal origin, is based on a nutritional technology involving dietary supplements of vitamin B₁₂. Veganism achieves an anthropological break with human nutrition derived from animals, informed by the intention of repairing the living world and thus contributing to the moral betterment of the human race. Veganism can also be seen as providing a means of transcending weaknesses of the human body in order to minimize the body’s resistance to veganism. The article concludes that being—or becoming—a vegan involves self-care that is related to both asceticism and human enhancement.