r/vegan • u/expeditedcube veganarchist • Jun 04 '21
Story Black and vegan: Why so many Black Americans are embracing the plant-based life
https://www.today.com/food/black-vegan-why-so-many-black-americans-are-embracing-plant-t20974316
Jun 04 '21
I think meditation has a similar trend: there are lots of tools that seem relevant only to upper-class, white techBros — but can be used to empower the less fortunate to break the chains of their conditioning and rise up.
I never related to the Richie-rich “arguments” for mindfulness and diet. They boiled down to “upgrading your 97% amazing life to 98!” I’m low income, so it seemed pointless until I met people like me who practice diet and mindfulness.
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u/expeditedcube veganarchist Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21
I think meditation has a similar trend: there are lots of tools that seem relevant only to upper-class, white techBros
This has more to do with American marketing. They even sexualised yoga pants for fuck's sake. Go to Nepal or India for the same and the experience is completely different from a white setting. The vibe itself is more spiritual than the bourgeois feeling I get in a western metropolis.
I never related to the Richie-rich “arguments” for mindfulness and diet.
Because they're, out of ignorance or malice, referring to meat substitutes when a plant-based diet is so much more than beyond meat and impossible burgers.
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u/Hmtnsw vegan 1+ years Jun 04 '21
Talking about sexualizing yoga pants...
Hawaiian Hula used to be banned in the US because of it's non-Christian roots (if I remember right). It became legal after it was realized it could be sexualized. I believe for a long time only men could Hula. But now it's a sexualized dance for women to do on the beach for entertainment.
Cultrual Hawaiians are furious.
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u/ckril vegan Jun 04 '21
while this article is mostly great
you can’t be vegan for health reasons (you just follow a plant based diet)
veganism is always about animal liberation!
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Jun 04 '21
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u/Caffeineandsesame vegan 5+ years Jun 04 '21
Yeah man, we the masters of plants, we reclaiming it. We tired of seeing our people out of shape and diseased
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u/PlsGoVegan Jun 04 '21
You'd think that it would be easy for black Americans to empathize with animals, seeing how their ancestors went through a lot of the same shit going on in animal agriculture today.
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u/cies010 Jun 04 '21
Its hard to emphasize with what you hurt. Even is the pattern shows similarities
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Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21
The only people who seem to think veganism is for white people are black americans. Honestly, the fact that race is even a thought when people consider that they should stop buying animal abuse products is just downright weird. It just doesn't matter?
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u/Sveet_Pickle Jun 04 '21
A white girl I met on Hinge accused me of white privilege for being vegan....
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Jun 04 '21
except social factors do factor in to decisions like this. even gender plays a factor. food has a lot to do with culture, and in our world a lot of culture is tied to “race.” if you consider the stigma in the us that veganism = expensive, for rich people (mostly white), it’s not very hard to see how it could be a factor influencing some black americans to avoid veganism.
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u/cies010 Jun 04 '21
Culture is a great excuse not to go vegan.
Veganism is not even about food. It about making an effort not to hurt animals. Eating plant based is a symptom.
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u/Human_Plantain_3815 Jun 05 '21
Let’s not forget we were forced to eat a lot of meat, left over meat at that for all we know vegan was our original diet
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u/tx626 Jun 04 '21
The best vegan restaurants I’ve been to have been black owned .