Being a vegan freak, and living (until recently) in your everyday ‘burb, I often find I receive blank looks, sometimes full of disdain, when perusing a menu and asking about vegetarian food. This tends to be the most profound in restaurants/café’s that do not even have a vegetarian section (even option) on the menu – places I avoid at all costs accept when unable to (see recent post). I have often received similar looks, not with the same note of disdain generally, when inquiring as to vegan options in vegetarian restaurants/café’s. I had an similar, yet different, experience recently that I a…

#othering #prefigurativity #vegan

Today I came across tofurky for the first time whilst in one my favourite stores on ‘the drive’ in the east end of Vancouver (just in case the Feds didn’t know I had left the country). I have also had some conversations recently with people who, like me, do not partake of such food items preferring using fruit/vegetables and other non‐processed items. This ties well with my comments and perspective on vat‐grown meat that was the subject of a podcast (and follow‐up) by Erik Marcus and also received a mention on subsequent VeganFreak podcasts. To me, it seems that those …

I recently went to dinner with my parents. We would not be seeing each other for some time, so this was some form of doing something together. There were plans to have more of the family there, yet these did not come to be (for some of the reasons, albeit with different basis, I go into here). Aside from the issues implicit in a veg*n eating out with carni’s, there was more to this dinner. My father is a meat and two veg type: he will not try anything, especially if it is vegetarian (unless he doesn’t know). My mother was vegetarian for a while, yet found it difficult as the ‘women’ to cook di…

another year, another (white) celebration of the invasion and ongoing perpetuation of colonialism on our apparently ‘national’ day. Of note, this year was different. It was different in two ways – one emanating from what have post‐event become known as the race riots in Cronulla, the other from a meeting of Aboriginal peoples at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. January 26 is labelled as Australia Day and to many (at leat at present, and I hope this number is diminishing) it is a day of national celebration. It (generally) has two‐fold meanings in this context. The first,…