As part of my Environmental Philosophy Master program project, I made a cooking video based on making veganism more accessible to people of color. My project is called Cooking, Colonialism, and Color. Interaction with my cooking video will really help. Feel free to like and comment if you enjoy the video.

https://youtu.be/HT2M9_Ayeow

It would be lovely if you could help me with my school assignment by sharing your opinion in the google form attached, mostly about issues on intersectionality that are prevalent in the western veganism movement!

google form

Thank you so much 😊

https://www.happycow.net/blog/10-inspiring-vegan-women-you-need-to-know-about/

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Hello, we are a group of psychology researchers from the University of Kent, UK. It would be a huge help if any vegans interested would fill out our quick survey (18+ only) about your personal views surrounding your dietary lifestyle choices.

https://kentpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Ku4sTRSxSv8RZH

The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and we're happy to answer any queries or questions you may have.

Thanks for your time.

Edit: The survey is now closed! Thanks very much for your time, we'll be sure to post any results here when they're ready!

I’m a first gen Latino. I’ve been cooking my own vegan meals for the past 2 months but it’s been hard to convince my parents that they should go vegan, I care about my parents health and the environment and livestock affected by their purchases. I just wish it was easier to get my point across, every discussion just ends up in a loop, any tips?. 😔

So I was doing some online shopping for shit I don't need (mostly more vegan t-shirts because I always need more vegan t-shirts) and stumbled across several items that say "All Lives Matter." Now this is for me, somewhat obnoxious and upsetting because I am a black vegan living in the southern US. That phrase has some seriously racist connotations, especially considering that this is used as a racist response to Black Lives Matter. Like I just find it so aggravating that a pretty good chunk of white vegans don't think about how what they say/what they use as a form of protest may impact marginalized communities and trivialize their struggle. Like equating animal agriculture to slavery or the holocaust. Those are events that affected real people and still have lingering effects. Plus if the goal is to GROW the vegan movement, alienating entire groups of people by not being sensitive to how their experiences might differ.

Both me and my boyfriend (hispanic) are POC vegans and it's hard to relate to white vegans sometimes. Got called a SJW by a vegan activist. Somewhat ironic, but whatever.

There was a thread today on r/vegan with a lot of xenophobia and racism towards China and its culture as barbaric and inferior. Many comments called this out but many of these bad comments were also upvoted. Now I'm not Chinese and have no particular love for China as a nation but as an Asian person this was offensive. As any POC in general seeing this kind of racist behavior is very off-putting. Comments condemning all of Chinese culture and even trying to explain why China is so barbaric through examining historic events. I was in disbelief, not because of the racism, but because of how weirdly insulting the way the comments danced around blatant racism.

I don't excuse any animal cruelty of course, but when veganism is used as a tool by Westerners to insult other races and their cultures it is extremely harmful. POC practices need to be critiqued by POC within respective communities and not white savior types. Not the same Western vegans who enjoy the fruits of labor and exploitation provided by Yellow, Black, and Brown bodies.

I hate how foods like tofu and seitan were widely used by Buddhists to substitute meat and yet (white) redditors consider Asian cultures beneath the principles of superior Western veganism. As if America didn't have absurd rates of meat consumption per capita and colonizes the world with McDonalds and Kentucky Chicken.

But it seems a lot of white vegans don't really give a shit about POC being faces of the vegan movement. It makes them feel even more superior to the non-whites I guess.