[Arnt]

Once you release a word into the wild, weird world of a living language, it's going to mean what people want. Including people who've never heard of the "vegan society" (which I presume is a registered society, in which country? NZ?).

The word vegan was explained to me, decades ago, by an swissair employee: "VGML is vegan, which is vegetarian, but also without eggs and other animal foods that leave the animal alive, and almost unspiced. If you want spices, you want AVML."

[ianai]

I’ve never heard that definition of vegan. Too funny. It’s almost a linguistic attack on veganism to define it as bland.