Many vegetarians argue that their lifestyle makes them healthier than those who eat meat. Although we certainly won’t discredit the many benefits of a vegetarian diet, there’s reason to believe that a well-balanced omnivorous diet is a far healthier choice. Studies have repeatedly shown that vegetarians who fail to supplement their diets with Vitamin D, B12 and iron are prone to becoming dangerously anemic. Vegetarians also typically miss out on omega-3 fatty acids. These unsaturated acids have been proved to slow the progression of atherosclerosis, reduce triglyceride levels, act as anti-inflammatory agents, and potentially help with depression and some personality disorders.
http://www.askmen.com/money/how_to_400/477_how-to-argue-against-vegetarians.html
According to data presented in an infographic by TopRNtoBSN.com, out of the mere 1 million Americans that are vegan, 79 percent of them are women. That’s a significant majority.
Although an estimated 6% of black Americans are vegetarian or vegan, according to a 2012 Harris Interactive poll, the "mainstream" vegan movement is "predominantly led by white activists, theorists and authors" Aph Ko, a vegan, feminist blogger and activist, told Mic. Not only are the most privileged members of the movement the most visible, but they're also promoting goals that fail to account for the perspectives of the most marginalized
https://mic.com/articles/127821/the...-veganism-to-fight-white-supremacy#.OqizdPDzA
Beneath a veneer of compassion for non-humans, proponents of vegetarianism/veganism/animal rights are able to market and profit from the violence humans like them have committed on others over generations.
If a black man being lynched and a cattle being slaughtered have anything under the sun in common, it’s that white people will emphatically parade documentation of their deaths before unwitting and unwilling people, in the name of “awareness”, to yield political and financial gains.
How white is the animal rights movement? Let’s have ourselves a perfunctory peer at PETA’s leadership. And now google image searches for “vegetarian people” and “vegan people.” I guess it shouldn’t surprise to see a stark, almost unilateral whiteness in the public demonstrations PETA uses to lure the public’s eye, conscience, and wallet. The sexualization of these spectacles and the way white supremacy plays into what we constitute as “sexy” aside, people of color not being able to gather in public to peacefully express their contempt at a societal norm without remorseless violence is a large factor in why we’re all having these discussions right now.
Last year, PETA offered to pay the water bills for struggling families in Detroit if they agreed to stop eating meat. Need we go into the racial makeup of those who were likely to be struggling in Detroit? This runs laps around “problematic”—this is coercion. This is attempting to take hostages. This is lording your financial plenty over those who have less. PETA used images of violence against black folk to solicit donations, and then, when given the opportunity to give back to that community, taunted them over their systemic scarcity. If you were having trouble keeping your water on, you might not be able to afford a vegetarian diet.
This is the sort of indifference to marginalized people you are party to and perpetuate when you take to social media to decry that black people being murdered and kidnapped on live television aren’t getting the same attention as chickens and cows.
Let’s be not coy: Equating the suffering of people of color to that of animals (or in Vegan Revolution’s case, less tragic than that of animals) was kind of the philosophical and legal crux of slavery.
http://www.ravishly.com/2015/04/30/white-supremacy-and-animal-rights
But, the underlying message from this response is that only whites have the “right” morals, and non-whites must be lacking. It becomes a means of upholding white superiority.
http://www.coreyleewrenn.com/the-white-privilege-in-vegan-moral-superiority/
http://www.askmen.com/money/how_to_400/477_how-to-argue-against-vegetarians.html
According to data presented in an infographic by TopRNtoBSN.com, out of the mere 1 million Americans that are vegan, 79 percent of them are women. That’s a significant majority.
Although an estimated 6% of black Americans are vegetarian or vegan, according to a 2012 Harris Interactive poll, the "mainstream" vegan movement is "predominantly led by white activists, theorists and authors" Aph Ko, a vegan, feminist blogger and activist, told Mic. Not only are the most privileged members of the movement the most visible, but they're also promoting goals that fail to account for the perspectives of the most marginalized
https://mic.com/articles/127821/the...-veganism-to-fight-white-supremacy#.OqizdPDzA
Beneath a veneer of compassion for non-humans, proponents of vegetarianism/veganism/animal rights are able to market and profit from the violence humans like them have committed on others over generations.
If a black man being lynched and a cattle being slaughtered have anything under the sun in common, it’s that white people will emphatically parade documentation of their deaths before unwitting and unwilling people, in the name of “awareness”, to yield political and financial gains.
How white is the animal rights movement? Let’s have ourselves a perfunctory peer at PETA’s leadership. And now google image searches for “vegetarian people” and “vegan people.” I guess it shouldn’t surprise to see a stark, almost unilateral whiteness in the public demonstrations PETA uses to lure the public’s eye, conscience, and wallet. The sexualization of these spectacles and the way white supremacy plays into what we constitute as “sexy” aside, people of color not being able to gather in public to peacefully express their contempt at a societal norm without remorseless violence is a large factor in why we’re all having these discussions right now.
Last year, PETA offered to pay the water bills for struggling families in Detroit if they agreed to stop eating meat. Need we go into the racial makeup of those who were likely to be struggling in Detroit? This runs laps around “problematic”—this is coercion. This is attempting to take hostages. This is lording your financial plenty over those who have less. PETA used images of violence against black folk to solicit donations, and then, when given the opportunity to give back to that community, taunted them over their systemic scarcity. If you were having trouble keeping your water on, you might not be able to afford a vegetarian diet.
This is the sort of indifference to marginalized people you are party to and perpetuate when you take to social media to decry that black people being murdered and kidnapped on live television aren’t getting the same attention as chickens and cows.
Let’s be not coy: Equating the suffering of people of color to that of animals (or in Vegan Revolution’s case, less tragic than that of animals) was kind of the philosophical and legal crux of slavery.
http://www.ravishly.com/2015/04/30/white-supremacy-and-animal-rights
But, the underlying message from this response is that only whites have the “right” morals, and non-whites must be lacking. It becomes a means of upholding white superiority.
http://www.coreyleewrenn.com/the-white-privilege-in-vegan-moral-superiority/
