Then only privilege going on here is being so privileged you believe your taste buds are more important than another individual’s life.
source: emptycages.vegan
Someone also pointed out in the notes of one of my posts that black Americans are 3x more likely to be vegan than the national average, despite also being much more likely to be low income. I looked if up and sure enough:
African Americans are almost three times as likely to be vegan than white Americans.
"[...] nowhere has the vegan diet taken off more than in the African-American community. According to Pew Research Center survey, 8% of black Americans are strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to just 3% of the general of the population.
Those findings mirror a 2015 poll by the Vegetarian Resource Group, that found 8% of black people were strictly vegetarian, compared to 3.4% overall.
Recently, a January poll by Gallup found that 31% of non-white Americans had reduced their meat consumption in the past year, compared to only 19% of white Americans."
Vegans are a diverse bunch and globally, it's the rich white countries that consume the biggest quantities of animal products, at the expense of the poorest, who suffer the most from the consequences of the environmental damage caused by mass animal ag.
If you associate veganism with rich white people, you've fallen for propaganda and might want to look up the origins of vegetarianism and veganism, at least if you don't want to come off ignorant and racist.
English translation of the poem "I No Longer Steal From Nature", written over 1000 years ago by the blind medieval Arab poet and philosopher Abu ‘L’Ala Ahmad ibn ‘Abdallah al-Ma’arri:
The following poem was written in around 1000 AD by a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer named Al-Ma’arri: AD 973 - 1058.
Also this what al-Ma’arri ate:
Lentils and figs.
I'm pretty sure most anti-vegans will just scroll past this post or have the point completely go over their heads
But they'll sure reblog every unsourced post racistly telling them that veganism is an unsustainable lifestyle by and for rich white colonizers (while also heavily implying that they think BIPoC and their cultures of origin are inherently less interested in questioning the ethics of animal agriculture — which is the opposite of the truth, white people were in fact very late to the party).
