The Vegan Food Justice Movement

Abstract

The vegan food justice movement combines the aims of veganism and food justice, seeking to provide communities with nutritious, affordable, and culturally appropriate foods, free from exploitation of and cruelty to all human and nonhuman animals.

Vegan Food Deserts: Between Inaccessibility, Identity, and Gentrification

“…suggesting that the gentrification of veganism is as much symbolic as it is physical. Through select semantic choices, the individual complicit in the constructing the narratives of these places effectually uses language as a vehicle for the ideological co-opting of veganism, into a definition of veganism that virtually dismisses the historic role visible minority bodies have had in making the diet more accessible (Crimarco et al, 2020;Murphy & Mook, 2021;Alkon, 2007), but not explicitly under the gentrified or ideologically co-opted "vegan" moniker. This gentrified notion of veganism is visibly reliant on the deployment of terms connoting spatiality, possession, aesthetics, and platforms as means of usurping place.…”

“…absence of literature), or ignorance to, the role of ethnic vegan (or vegan-vegetarian, vegan-friendly, etc.) retailers such as Eritrean, Ethiopian, Vietnamese, etc., folx demonstrates, a covert, but nonetheless real, extension of whiteness in vegan culture (see exceptions -Crimarco et al, 2020;Murphy & Mook, 2021;Alkon, 2007).…”