I was so surprised by your comment that I had to check that I hadn't been using the wrong word all this time! However, I don't think it's a veganisation, as you

I was so surprised by your comment that I had to check that I hadn't been using the wrong word all this time! However, I don't think it's a veganisation, as you put it. Usage of "ends meet" dates back to at least the 17th century with uncertain origin, but possibly to do with ropes or accounting. "ends meat" seems to be a more modern derivation, sometimes given as a folk etymology for the former. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/66831/origin-of-make-ends-meet https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/66831/origin-of-... https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_ends_meet https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_ends_meet https://www.oed.com/search/advanced/Quotations?textTermText0=ends+meet&textTermOpt0=QuotText https://www.oed.com/search/advanced/Quotations?textTermText0...