Manifesto for Veganthropology (Vegan Anthropology): founding an interspecies social science against structural speciesism

This manifesto establishes Veganthropology (Vegan Anthropology) as a subfield of Sociocultural Anthropology, distinct from the anthropology of veganism (which studies veganism as an empirical object). Veganthropology is proposed as an interspecies social science grounded in anti-speciesist ethics and the principle of non-exploitation of animals. It treats animals as subjects of moral concern and analyzes how institutions, practices, and discourses produce or deactivate “animal thingification”. Ethnography is explicitly situated within this ethical framework and operates under public rules and data traceability, enabling independent audit and procedural replicability. The article outlines four operational ethical foundations; proposes norms of governance for alliances with other struggles, insisting on solidarity without erasing animal centrality; and maps three planes through which vegan practice is spatialized: everyday life, intentional collective action and digital territorialities. Structural speciesism is approached as a colonial continuity in the Plantationocene, organizing labor, space, legitimacy, and moral distance by rendering animal life as commodity. The proposal is offered as a starting point for the consolidation of the field as a teachable, researchable, and accountable practice. Veganthropology marks a disciplinary refusal: animals are no longer analyzable as resources