H.E.A.L.T.H.: Table of Contents

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Critical Vegan Theory

A Critique of Consumption-Centered Veganism

Political-Economic Critique

Social Critique

Philosophical Critique

Consumerist Vegans and Consumption-Centered Veganism

Socially-centered Veganism vs Consumption-centered Veganism

Veganism as a Conversational Social Modality

Veganism as an Affirmation of Care

Veganism without Vegetarianism: On Guilt, Disability, and Ex-Vegans

Can one practice veganism without being a vegetarian?

Vegan Identity Politics & Digestion Disability

On Ex-Vegan Guilt or Purifying Good Conscience

Veganism as Social Somatic Response-Ability

The Ethics of Veganism: an Open Wound called Compassion

Humanism's Double Standard: The Unreasonableness of Consistency

Executing Human Privilege: An Intersectional, Interspecies, Social Justice Movement

Let Them Eat Meat Interview

Interview Excerpts

Background on Rhys Southan's blog

Skinny Bitch and Bulimic Vegetarians

Skinny Bitch and Bulimic Vegetarians:

Introduction

"I am a vegetarian: I don't eat meat... or anything for that matter."

I Love them Bitches: Don't Have a Cow, You Fat Pig, LOL!

PETA: People Encouraging Teen Anorectics?

Lettuce Entertain You: Vegetarianism is the New Black

Toward Radical Vegan Outreach: Out with Mainstream Advocacy, in with Alliance Politics

A Healthy Conclusion

The Racial and Colonial Politics of Meat-Eating

Part 1:

Introduction

Ethnocentric Nutrition, Identity

McWorld: Columbus, Cattle, and Colonialism

Colonialism: Domestication to Genocide

Part 2:

Colonialism: Cattle, Class, and Hunger

Being Worked Like Animals and Treated Like Meat

Making a Killing: Malnutrition and the Corporation

Conclusion

Moving Animals: Spectacular Animal Films

Part 1:

Moving Animals, Animal Affect, and Effective Movies

1. To Love or Kill: Man vs. Animal (HBO 1996, 60min)

2. Peaceable Kingdom (Tribe of Heart 2004, 77min)

Part 2:

3. The Animals Film (Beyond the Frame 1981, 137min)

4. Behind the Mask (Uncaged Films, ARME 2006, 72min)

5. You Mommy Kills Animals (Indie Genius Productions 2007, 105min)

.. Meet Your Meat (PETA 2003, 13min)

.. The Meatrix (Free Range Studios 2003, 3min)

General Conclusion

Natural Law: Species, State, Commodities, and Community

Veganism as Intersectional Social Justice (part 1):

Introduction

Humane-Cruelty: Legislating the Symptoms, Maintaining the System

LAW, CAPITAL, and COMMUNITY

HUMANE/CRUELTY

RACE, CLASS, SPECIES

PRISON

Deconstructing Veganism: Commodity, Reciprocity, & the Killing Contract:

Insturmentalism: the Logos of Animal Capital

Reciprocity: The Logic of Domination?

Contract and Care

Indigenous Spirituality

Animal Workers

Conclusion: And So the Vegan Responds (what a wor(l)d)!

End Notes: The Commodification of Veganism

Social(ist) Animals: Toward Mutual Aid against the Great Butcher:

Introduction

1. Against Contractualism: Leave No Animal Behind

2. Mutual Aid: The Corporal Compassion of Social Ecology

3. "All Animals Are Equal:" Animals of the World Unite!

4. The Great Butcher: The Political Ecology of Oppression

Conclusion: And So the Vegan Responds (what a wor(l)d)!

End Notes: The Commodification of Veganism

The Identity Politics of Breasts: Male Lactation and the Political Economy of Wo/Man

Queering the Breast and Cross-species Kinship

"Got Breast Milk?": Interspecies Suckling:

Would You Drink Breast Milk Ice Cream?

Does Dairy Harm Cows?

Is Drinking Another Species Milk "Unnatural"?

But would a Human ever Breastfeed a Pig?

Do “Modern” Women Breastfeed Animals?

Conclusion

SECTION I: Got Milk?: The Nature of Women or the Culture of Men (part 1):

Introduction

1. Breast for Men (commodification

2. Breasts for Babies: (objectification)

(part 2):

3. Male Lactation: An Unnatural Act?

4. Queering Milk Economies: Breast for Ourselves

PART II: Milk and the Nature of Things: Gender, Race, Class, Species (part 1):

5. Interspecies suckling

6. Farmed Animals and Femininity (dehumanization)

Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations

Part 1:

Are Animals the New Slaves?

What Went Wrong?

Racism, Speciesism, and Cross-racial Misunderstanding

Are human-animal juxtapositions reductionistic?

Part 2:

Animal Rights or Animal Whites?

Animal White Supremacists?

Vegan Colonialism

One Word: Empathy

Part 3:

A Colorful Movement: Debunking the White Lie of White Exceptionalism

Making us Invisible: The Epistemology of Ignorance

The White Activist's Burden: Engaging the "Other"

Part 4:

Killing Us Softly: Narratives of Alienation

With Us or against Us –or- “Sit Down and Shut Up, Little Brown Girl”

Part 5:

Eating the Other: "Exotic" Food Fetishes

Are Vegans Oppressed?

The Police & White Privilege

Freeganism: The Privilege of Free Food?

Classism & Consumer Advocacy

Toward a Mutual Trust: Veganism as a Safe Place

Review:

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Why analogizing human and animal exploitation/oppression often produces outrage and not empathy:

How do POC see vegans and AR activists (in general)?

How do some white advocates alienate advocates of color from working together?

How do (white) vegan and ARAs become better activists and allies?

Additional Resources

Blogs and other things related to Vegans of Color

Notes and Acknowledgments

The Origins of HEALTH:

The Foundational Years:

Introduction

1. Defending Otherness

2. The Heretic’s Excuses

The Milieu of Modernity:

3. The Misanthropic Defense

4. Fear and Laziness: All Theory and No Action

5. Colleges that Change Lives

The Sprouting of a Future:

6. Crisis of Identity

7. An Ecofeminist Epiphany

8. A HEALTHy Vision

Miscellaneous

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