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Since the news of the Amazon fires spread, many outlets have encouraged their readers to go vegan and consume less meat. But this thinking is as flawed as the plastic straw ban. Eating sustainably and consciously is not possible if your habits and understanding are divorced from a critical analysis of access, status, geographic location, and economic and social positioning. Capitalism thrives off ever-increasing production and consumption. Who creates the products? How are they created?

Nestle, one of the most oppressive companies that pushes for the privatization of water so that it is not a human right, but a privilege for the wealthy, jumped on the opportunity to profit from the vegan movement. Nestle launched a vegan burger called The Incredible Burger just this past Spring under the brand, Garden Gourmet. So is you’re plant-based eating really cruelty-free if you are supporting a billion-dollar corporation like Nestle?


FYI: There are some folx who cannot physically survive without meat in their diet. Let's avoid shaming people for their needs, and instead shame the companies that have harmful production and agricultural practices. 

Also, let it be known that Indigenous communities have been eating meat sustainably for centuries.

This Video Talks About the Hypocrisy of the Vegan™ Movement

Mainstream veganism fails to advocate for indigenous sovereignty and rights as indigenous peoples are the original stewards of the land who have always been in reciprocity with the land and all sentient beings before colonizers infiltrated Turtle Island. Now, with food deserts and lack of resources on reservations, eating local, organic, and vegan is not accessible.

The call to go vegan blames individuals for a larger corporate and systemic problem. Vegans would be more aligned with their purported values if they denounced capitalism and the companies that produce their beloved animal-less products, since those companies are main contributors to greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution, and like Nestle, they often have a history of human rights violations.

Fight the systems. Spread awareness. Be accountable. Check and unlearn your anti-indigeneity and anti-Blackness.

We Recommend This Essay By Kima Nieves: "Vegan Activism and Anti-Indigeneity: Violating Indigenous Food Sovereignty"
Left photo: Ericka Hart struts the Chromat runway. Image courtesy of Vogue. Right photo: Ebony Donnely is seen smiling on a crowded sidewalk at Afropunk in a white T-shirt that reads, "Afropunk sold out for white consumption." Image courtesy of Ericka Hart.

Ericka Hart ( @ihartEricka ) and her partner, Ebony Donnely, are always delivering the truth in Hart's stories on Instagram, as well as in person. Hart is the perfect person to hire for a chat with your students about sexuality, or racial and social justice. Or, if you just want to host a rad event with a rad person. Hire Ericka Hart!
Newark, New Jersey Still Does Not Have Clean Water and Yet They Had Enough Money to Host the VMA's...
This week we are listening to and soaking in this episode of NPR's Fresh Air, The Renegade Anthropologists Who Reinvented How We Think About Race and Gender.

Stay outraged and hydrated. Catch you next week, 
The Terra Team


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