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Freeganism: The practice of abstaining from the consumption of foods that contain animal products, except in those cases where the food is obtained for free. Popular mostly among North American anti-capitalists, freeganism is a practice that seeks to lessen rampant overconsumption, environmental destruction, waste, and exploitation in the developed world. Freegans and strict vegans both consider the practice of confining and killing animals for human consumption both environmentally unsound and unnecessarily cruel.

Veganism: Veganism is abstention from the consumption or use of animal products and products that have been tested on animals. An animal product in this context refers not only to meat but to any substance derived from an animal. Individuals become vegans for a variety of reasons: to support animal rights, for health benefits, for moral, ethical, religious and/or spiritual reasons, for political reasons, and/or environmental concerns.

Straight edge: advocates abstinence in relation to tobacco, alcohol and recreational drug use (especially psychoactive and stimulant drug use), and in relation to promiscuous sexual behavior.

Feminism: a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting women's rights, interests, and issues in society.

Socialism: the core belief that society should exist in which popular collectives control the means of power, and therefore the means of production. In Marxist theory, it also refers to the society that would succeed or supplant capitalism, and would later develop further into communism, as the necessity for the socialist structure would wither away. Marxism and communism are both branches of socialism.

Anti-foundationalism: a term applied to any philosophy which rejects a foundationalist approach; i.e., an anti-foundationalist is one who does not believe that there is some fundamental belief or principle which is the basic ground or foundation of inquiry and knowledge. Anti-foundationalists use logical or historical/geneological attacks on foundational concepts, often coupled with alternative methods for justifying and forwarding intellectual inquiry, such as the pragmatic subordination of knowledge to practical action or Otto Neurath's boat metaphor, according to which human knowledge is like a ship at sea which can never be dismantled and rebuilt, but rather must be repaired by workmen who, in order to replace any one plank, have to stand on planks which themselves may later have to be replaced.

Philosophical skepticism: a philosophical position according to which much of what we normally take as knowledge is not knowledge, or is not justified. The most extreme skepticism holds that no belief can ever be justified. An example of a more moderate form of skepticism is the view that we lack knowledge of the external world because our beliefs about the external world are not absolutely certain.

Religious and Scientific skepticism: a scientific, or practical, position in which one questions the veracity of extraordinary claims, and seeks to prove or disprove them using the scientific method.

Relativism: the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference. Relativists claim that humans understand and evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical and cultural context.

Anarchy: is a term that has several usages. Specific meanings include:
1. Absence of any form of state.
2. Societal harmony through voluntary cooperation.
3. Political disorder and confusion.
4. Absence of a ruler, ruling class, ruling political party or parties, or power elite.