#poc vegans

[vegantanya]

If amongst patriarchy, you can be a feminist

If amongst homophobia, you can be an ally

Then amongst speciesism, you can be vegan

Patriarchy, speciesism, homophobia etc all stem from deeply ingrained prejudices that all teach us to hate women/fellow animals/queer people etc.. But if we know that it is morally wrong to make someone else suffer, some one who has the capacity to suffer; then we should stop taking actions that cause such suffering and do better 💚

[thequeercoalition]

[hashtagveganfacts]

all vegans are rich, white women just doing it for fun and to take all the agave from the indigenous people.

if you're vegan and disabled, poor, male, black, or brown you're just invisible.

please use your invisibility for good!

and yes, that means bisexual vegans are double invisible which means you don't have to use your invisibility for good and you can do mischief. the world needs bisexual mischief vegans right now.

tag yourself if you're invisible!

[acti-veg]

Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes

African-Americans are going meatless in growing numbers, for reasons that range from politics to pop culture.

[necessaryveganism]

The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African-American community, foregrounding the health and wellness possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diets and lifestyle choices.

[thequeercoalition]

I don't want to talk about the animals suffering. I don't want to parade their pain in the vain hope you'll feel "sorry" for them and change your behavior.

I don't want to feed you cute videos and facts about their rich inner lives so you can consume it and feel happy and full.

I want you to examine why you hold supremacist beliefs so tightly. Why you clutch onto them so dearly. Why you deny animals individualism, why you have so much more Privilege than any animal and use it for evil.

I want you to question, if you don't need their suffering, then why?

[necessaryveganism]

Nuri and Terika are partners who are planning on starting a vegan food truck that will sell Vegan Fried Chic'n. They're reaching out to the community to help with start up funding. More than half will come from them, but they will need some support with the rest. Nuri is 18 years old, and Terika is 20. You can donate to their gofundme and learn more about them individually by following this link. (Source: blackvegansrock)

[veganlogic-blog1]

What do you say to social justice advocates who say that they feel for social justice, but eat meat and eat cheese and drink milk I feel like that's you can't be a real social justice advocate if you're not a vegan.

I feel like 99% of them just don't realise who much physical and social damage the meat industry does.

They love to jump to the argument that vegans are responsible for problematic fruit/veg farming (when 70% of harvest, particularly soy, goes to feeding live stock, to anyone ready to argue that)

Meat eaters consume more food than a vegan could even attempt, purely due to the food their meat eats, not even counting the fruit and veg they also eat.

It's just really REALLY easy for them to point at some shitty thing a vegan has said online and say "look how problematic these vegans are!"

Or say that vegans are white and privileged, when most of us are poor as fuck, and that erases the massive vegan poc community which is shitty.

Most young SJWs (the 15 year olds on Tumblr) want to point out everyone's problamatic shit while patting themselves on the back, they cannot stand the idea that they could be doing something harmful.

The reason they attack vegans is because the only options they have are:

Go vegan

Or prove them wrong

Guess which one is easier?

TL;DR there are too many negative stereotypes that vegans need to distroy before SJW will start seeing us as a group that is on the same side as them. We need to show that it can be easy so people don't feel like they have to make a massive sacrifice to do good.

We also need to call out the problamatic vegans and self police our community because imo we don't do that enough