This paper takes a vegan feminist perspective and argues that destigmatizing and reclaiming animality will prove beneficial, even liberatory, for women and other menstruating peopleand Nonhuman Animals.
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Animalizing Colonized People Shapes Anti-Vegan Futures
As a vegan sociologist, I apply a critical race and critical animal studies perspective, arguing that constructions of race and species in the colonial context are fundamental to contemporary narratives and decisionmaking with regard to animal agriculture and sustainability. Although more sustainable, healthy, and equitable traditions can be found in Irish culture, it is primarily the influence of colonial-capitalist rule that shapes modern Ireland’s foodways and policymaking.
Continue readingWe Need Veganism, Not Charity
To maximize the funding base, anything-but-vegan charities dilute the message so far that it applies to everyone “as they are” without pushing any significant behavioral or attitudinal change beyond socializing the populace to equate donating to charity with the mitigation of inequality.
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Ten Years Later, Veganism More Popular, but Less Political
Vegan Halloween: Remembering the Dead
Samhain, for vegans, should be a time to honour ancestors, but also recognize that “harvest time” has been a period of intense violence across the ages. Just as the mass killing of witches has been cause for sombre remembrance, so should that of Nonhuman Animals who have been harassed, killed, and “sacrificed” for entertainment, sustenance, religious bargaining for a deity’s favour, scientific advancement, and so on. For those who practice it, Halloween might be a time for vegan baking and sharing plant-based sweets, but it might also be a time to hold space for other animals. This could mean lighting a candle, sharing food with other animals, or taking a tip from the feminist witches and hexing the anthroparchy.
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Banning Live Export in Australia
Veganism and In Vitro Meat
Sexism in Animal Advocacy: The Case of Foie Gras
Foie gras victims are usually male, and both women and men are involved in victimizing them as producers and as consumers, but, because patriarchal, woman-hating culture is most accustomed to viewing women as frivilous consumers and sexy victims of violence, the Nonhuman Animal rights movement regularly employs female activists to take on these convoluted roles in protest.
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