Is Being White And Vegan Racist?

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TODAY’S VIDEO:

In today’s video, I dive into the argument that being white and vegan is intrinsically racist. To do so, I respond to the claims made about unethical crop farming, the production of plant foods in the Global South and the wider insinuations that this argument makes. So is white veganism problematic or racist?

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SOURCES:

New documentary ‘The Smell of Money’:
https://www.smellofmoneydoc.com/

The Problem with White Veganism Article:
https://julianayaz.medium.com/the-problem-with-white-veganism-f86c0341e2a2

Articles on quinoa farming:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/16/202737139/is-our-love-of-quinoa-hurting-or-helping-farmers-who-grow-it?t=1596017853155
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/31/472453674/your-quinoa-habit-really-did-help-perus-poor-but-theres-trouble-ahead

Quinoa study:
https://webapps.towson.edu/cbe/economics/workingpapers/2016-06.pdf

Air pollution from animal farms kills around 13,000 people a year:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2013637118

Animal products use 83% of all farmland:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216

Ten times more land is used for animal products in the US:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use

Most UK farmers are white:
https://news.sky.com/story/why-farming-in-uk-is-predominantly-white-and-whats-being-done-to-increase-diversity-12618103

Thai seafood slavery:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/23/thai-seafood-industry-report-trafficking-rights-abuses

Exploitation and child labour in tanneries:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/plight-of-child-workers-facing-cocktail-of-toxic-chemicals-exposed-by-report-bangladesh-tanneries

Black vegans are the fastest growing vegan demographic in the US:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/in-depth/in-depth-why-black-americans-are-the-fastest-growing-vegan-demographic-in-the-country

Whole-foods plant-based diets are the cheapest diets:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00251-5/fulltext