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115 Consumerist Veganism and “Voting with Your Dollar”
This week on VWPA we’re talking about the problems with consumerist veganism and the concept of “voting with your dollar.”
In this Episode
Nichole and Callie critically analyze the popular concept of consumerist veganism, whereby a vegan can be an activist through the purchases they make. Once consumerist vegans themselves, the princesses relate information they’ve learned along their SJW journey that led them to conclude that consumerist veganism is in many ways harmful and should not be touted as a definitive way to end animal exploitation.
Main themes addressed:
* Consumerist veganism fails to challenge systems of oppression and in fact actually supports them, particularly colonialism and the white heteropatriarchy that ensures that affluent cis white men have more economic power than anyone else
* Voting with your dollar acknowledges and encourages classism and erases the experience of people without as much economic power, while also being racially insensitive to the dark history of voting in our country and others
* 12 percent of the world’s population that lives in North America and Western Europe accounts for 60 percent of private consumption spending, while the one-third living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 3.2 percent
* Personal consumption is only 25% of money spent
– The other 75% is military, industry, government, and corporations
* Consumerism means we are still buying into marketing and are allowing corporations to tell us what is and is not possible/available = they are still in control
* Consumerist veganism is human-centric: it seeks to make humans as comfortable and accommodated as possible in choosing a diet that is free of animal products VS being animal-centric to focus on the injustices of speciesism and how to end them. It fails to challenge speciesism or the capitalist idea that it is ok to exploit living beings for profit.
* The government will subsidize and use animal surplus anyway; while some lives are being saved the numbers are still staggering. 400k out of 9.5 billion is not really progress in the grand scheme of things
* Having to pay for food is in itself a violence; by being consumerist vegan we support this violence against basic rights to life
– 1 in 8 people worldwide do not get enough food
– 1 million children die from hunger-related causes, 34 million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition
– Hunger kills more people per year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined
* Look into low/zero waste and
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This week on VWPA we’re talking about the problems with consumerist veganism and the concept of “voting with your dollar.”
In this Episode
Nichole and Callie critically analyze the popular concept of consumerist veganism, whereby a vegan can be an activist through the purchases they make. Once consumerist vegans themselves, the princesses relate information they’ve learned along their SJW journey that led them to conclude that consumerist veganism is in many ways harmful and should not be touted as a definitive way to end animal exploitation.
Main themes addressed:
* Consumerist veganism fails to challenge systems of oppression and in fact actually supports them, particularly colonialism and the white heteropatriarchy that ensures that affluent cis white men have more economic power than anyone else
* Voting with your dollar acknowledges and encourages classism and erases the experience of people without as much economic power, while also being racially insensitive to the dark history of voting in our country and others
* 12 percent of the world’s population that lives in North America and Western Europe accounts for 60 percent of private consumption spending, while the one-third living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa accounts for only 3.2 percent
* Personal consumption is only 25% of money spent
– The other 75% is military, industry, government, and corporations
* Consumerism means we are still buying into marketing and are allowing corporations to tell us what is and is not possible/available = they are still in control
* Consumerist veganism is human-centric: it seeks to make humans as comfortable and accommodated as possible in choosing a diet that is free of animal products VS being animal-centric to focus on the injustices of speciesism and how to end them. It fails to challenge speciesism or the capitalist idea that it is ok to exploit living beings for profit.
* The government will subsidize and use animal surplus anyway; while some lives are being saved the numbers are still staggering. 400k out of 9.5 billion is not really progress in the grand scheme of things
* Having to pay for food is in itself a violence; by being consumerist vegan we support this violence against basic rights to life
– 1 in 8 people worldwide do not get enough food
– 1 million children die from hunger-related causes, 34 million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition
– Hunger kills more people per year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined
* Look into low/zero waste and