Veganism in an Oppressive World Quotes

“This suggests to me that my ancestors saw the difference between humans and other animals to be one of degree, and perhaps not one of kind”
― Julia Feliz Brueck, Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project

“I wondered if the protest of hunting in Short Hills might be an example of what Donna Baines terms the “flight to innocence,” an effort to “elude the responsibility for changing oppressive relations by hiding behind some facet of their identity that locates them close to, or within, subordinated groups” (2002, p. 192). By identifying as protectors of the deer, activists continue Settler domination while avoiding guilt for the environmental devastation by Settler occupation that reduced deer to living in a Provincial Park.”
― Julia Feliz Brueck, Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project

“food system is one that is “unjust and unsustainable but it is not broken—it functions precisely as the capitalist food system has always worked; concentrating power in the hands of a privileged minority and passing off the social and environmental “externalities” disproportionately on to racially stigmatized groups.”
― Julia Feliz Brueck, Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project

“Robinson further explained that, “intersectionality theory also highlights the connection between speciesism and sexism, revealing the way that female animals and feminized others, including the land, are treated as objects for domination and rape (Adams, 1990). Given the ongoing problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, the US, and elsewhere, it is important to highlight the role that the intersection of sexism and speciesism play in making it possible for individuals, the general public, police agencies, and governments to treat Indigenous women as if our suffering is unreal, or unimportant.”
― Julia Feliz Brueck, Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project