Optimal Wellness

5'5". 27 y.o. Vegan. This is for me. HW: 130? ~59 kg - 21.6 BMI........ CW (as of 4-4-20): 108.6 ~49.2 kg - 18.1 BMI......... LW: 107.5 - 48.8 kg - 17.9 BMI......... GW: 105.0 - 47.6 kg - 17.5 BMI

[maria-rin-deactivated20220606]

all these animals are equal and and they are able to feel. if they are unequal in your mind, fix it.

[nocturnal-stims]

Nicecream recipe:

Frozen banana (3 cups)

Coconut puree (1 packet)

Frozen pitaya (1/2 packet)

Frozen pomegranate (1 cup)

Coconut water (1/4 cup)

Blue spirulina (2 tsp)

🥥 Smoothiesst on IG

[acti-veg]

I feel like many people who complain about “white vegans” really just mean “very specific bigoted person I just made up in my head” and it annoys me a lot

The white vegan stereotype is a very convenient tool in the arsenal of anti-vegans. Reducing us to this caricature is a way for them to dismiss us without having to actually deal with any of our arguments. That’s why when poor vegans, disabled vegans and vegans of colour speak up, they are routinely ignored.

This is a known entity in psychology, we have a specific schema for a group, we acknowledge and remember examples which fit that schema while discarding and forgetting examples that don’t. That’s where those ‘you’re not like other vegans,’ and ‘I’m so glad you’re not one of those vegans’ comments come from. I am about as ‘preachy’ as any vegan you’ll encounter but I still have this stuff said to me, because a calm, rational advocate doesn’t fit in to what they want to think of as ‘The Vegans.’

You need look no further than tumblr itself for evidence of this phenomenon. Watch how extreme examples of our ideology are spotlighted and torn to pieces, while the voices of minorities and underrepresented populations are quietly pushed to one side. I cannot count the number of posts about veganism being for white, able bodied rich people, about it being racist or anti-indigenous, where people from those groups speak up to ask people to stop tokenising and erasing them, only to be completely ignored, often even blocked.

This is the new vogue, criticising not veganism but ‘white veganism.’ Then if you try to tell them what veganism actually is, what we believe, the diverse demographics that make up this community or defend our movement in any way, they can just wriggle out of it by saying ‘no no I don’t mean you, I mean those vegans.’ Those vegans being, as you have noticed, a convenient straw man for them to beat in order to make themselves feel better about their own choices and the harm they cause.

[vegannerdgirl]

[himbrugers]

I highly recommend checking out Christopher Sebastian’s website and looking up some of his talks on YouTube. His work was only recommended to me this past week and it’s a great resource.

[izzysfood]

[growaglow]

[highcarb-vegan-deactivated20190]

[izzysfood]

x

[cashewcream-deactivated20170602]

[rhosegold]

body goals: the healthiest version of myself

[aludwick-deactivated20240209]

[rachgetsfitt-deactivated2022012]

This looks so amazing

[rooneyloublue]

[lisselundin]

November seasonal produce 🍐

[lisselundin]

August seasonal produce 🍑

[yesilinadinerdengeldi]

[closet-keys]

not to be a veganarchist on main but if this pandemic— where outbreaks are consistently concentrated in prisons and factory farms— doesn’t make folks realize trapping huge numbers of living beings, both human and non-human, in tightly packed cages is not only fundamentally incompatible with liberation but will also endanger our collective survival because all life is connected, our health and well-being and ability to live on this planet is intimately interconnected, and none of us can be truly liberated until all of us are then... please start thinking about it.

[vero-in-technicolor]

Animal agriculture is basically using food to make less food so that privileged people can eat decomposing flesh and then waste half of it. 🤷🏽‍♀️