Veganism* is in crisis.

These racist posts harken to early campaigns of vegan centered animal rights organizations, like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who throughout the 2000s and 2010s vividly compared nonhuman animal suffering with U.S. chattel slavery and the Holocaust in Europe. At the height of recent controversies surrounding James Aspey and others in January 2021, a majority white “nonhuman animals ONLY” vegan contingent responded to the protests of BIPOC and allies by spewing indignities and more racism exposing the lack of consensus on how veganism functions as an anti-oppression social (justice) movement.

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