u/Lord_M_G_Albo - originally from r/GenZhou
The highest vegan and vegetarian populations are at Asia-Pacific, East and North Africa. Even though few forbid animal consumption, many cultures across the history condemned killing of animals as impure and to be avoided as much as possible. In fact, taking away China, most of world meat consumption happen at Western countries. While it is true that vegan activism as we know it started among petite burgeois English people, to act as animal consumption has been a given in human history and across the world is very chauvinist - as if Third World inhabitants are savages living in “kill or to be killed” mood to survive, and only civilization can save them and give the conditions to stop consume meat.