Comments on: Some POC environmentalists don’t want to give up their meat either

By: nosnowhere

nosnowhere — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:16:22 +0000

it is also way too tied in with racist ideas about who’s having the most kids, eugenics, as well as the “browning of america” that has white ppl so scared.

By: noemi

noemi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:53:52 +0000

I think that stance on regulating kids because of the environment is really, really problematic. One step away from calling parents breeders, cows and all that other shit. When I started writing zines, I was afraid to say I was a parent!@ ! cuz I believed most of the zine community was anti-children.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:08:02 +0000

Oh my god, the kids issue drives me nuts. How dare anyone tell me how I can or cannot use my body to reproduce or not reproduce!?

And meat-eating environmentalists… argh! It just makes me sick that something so huge as meat is so often ignored.

And hello? Why is eating meat considered more normal and natural than reproducing?

By: vegansofcolor

vegansofcolor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:21:51 +0000

Latoya — thanks for your comment! I know a lot of meat-eaters don’t know about the impact that meat has on the environment, but… I dunno, I feel like for environmentalists who pay attention to news & developments re: green living, it’s not hard to stumble upon information about it, & I wonder how, while researching/thinking about stuff to put on that website, that issue was overlooked? (especially because some of the other tips talk about local food & other food issues)

I probably should send an e-mail, & maybe I eventually will… it’s just harder to gear myself up to write an official e-mail about it, instead of just putting the blog post up as soon as I saw the Racialicious link.

(& yeah, most of the vegans I know do it primarily for ethical reasons, too, but if they’re like me they’ll at least mention the environmental impacts here & there, too…)

By: Latoya Peterson

Latoya Peterson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:15:42 +0000

Whoa, great site!

Re: The meat issue – I am sure it’s nothing new to your ears, but a lot of people are really ignorant about the impact of meat (at all phases) on the environment. I just learned about it, but kind of by accident – the friends I have who went vegan did it more for ethical and not environmental reasons.

Did you email Ayo about it? If she’s a meat eater, like I am, she probably overlooked it.