How Vegans Betray Animals? Catherine Frachisse

There are two tragic moments in a vegan’s life: The first is when we discover our direct responsibility in the horror animals endure. The second is when we understand that the overwhelming majority of so-called “animal advocacy” organizations are active participants in their oppression.

Either by promoting another way of exploiting and killing animals, or by lulling the public to sleep through symbolic legislative measures that target already marginal forms of exploitation, thereby diverting attention from the daily systemic violence that every non-vegan continues to endorse.

In this powerful testimony by Catherine Frachisse, vegan educator and Head of Education at Vegan Education Publishing, we enter this second shock in a vegan’s life.

Catherine describes the mental and emotional journey that led her to this realization: what began as a diffuse discomfort became the unbearable evidence of collaboration. A cold, strategic, and unimaginable collaboration between the so-called “defenders of animals” and their oppressors.

This narrated story is adapted from Catherine’s 2025 report, which you can find here.