recipe makers NEED to stop framing vegan food as “healthy food” and assuming that the vegan cook/eater requires caloric and macronutrient breakdowns on every recipe or food review. fixating on notions of “health” (read: weight loss) when it comes to veganism not only nullifies the ethical commitment the lifestyle implies but also assigns a new, wildly unethical and dangerous social imperative of body punishment instead. this creates a deadly environment for vegans with EDs, as well as others whose class/disability/ etc contexts require them to consume processed foods.
The imbrication of contemporary “plant based” culture with diet culture/antifatness is stripping bodily autonomy from marginalized people who want to follow their ethical commitments, but cannot do so without putting their lives in danger.
#hate that veganism is still equated with a diet
EXACTLY! veganism is not about weight loss. it is not about starvation. it is not about restriction. it is not about thinness.
& I want fat vegans, vegans healing from eds, vegans who mostly eat “junk food”, vegans who eat instant meals, vegans who are gaining weight / want to gain weight, to know: I love you so fucking much and you are doing awesome!!
as vegans, our goal is to improve our individual & collective relationships with other living things, and, through the minimization of harm + maximization of active compassion, create the ecological conditions for truly collective, multispecies liberation from all systems of hierarchy and oppression.
this praxis starts within. It is incompatible with a worldview that celebrates restriction, one that promotes hierarchical visions of “health” and “beauty” as social status markers. we have the opportunity to reimagine the world with care and intention. to cook and eat toward that purpose (how cool is that!!). don’t make the mistake of equating our political orientation with reactionary pro-diet, anti-care politics.
WORDS OF AFFIRMATION. i started this block ages ago - like ages ages ages ago - and i finally decided to do a test print on some sketchbook paper because I just couldn’t picture what it was going to look like. I’m not 100% happy with it but I do love the red. Needs a lil more work. Almost something tho.
