hotcommunist:

pink-heaux:

hotcommunist:

me, someone recovering from an eating disorder, with a close family member who was hospitalised for 5 months with an eating disorder, who has read countless papers and doctor reccomend books on eating disorders: modern diet fads are just repackaged eating disorders. a lot of vegan diets have a purity complex attached to them that very easily enables the development of eating disorders. some vegan (and veggie but to a lesser extent) diets are so restrictive that they are outright unhealthy, despite claiming to be the healthiest diet you can have. there is a big problem in vegan activism of promoting this as good and kindest to the animals.

some dude with crusty white dreds and bunch of peta stats: why do you hate animals

My doctor literally will not allow me, in any capacity, to adopt any variety of vegetarianism or veganism because of my history of eating disorders.

Those movements provide disturbing snug shelters of self righteousness and insular thinking in terms of enabling and encouraging extremely unhealthy thoughts and attitudes towards food, the body and eating. It’s even more toxic in some senses because you can deflect it completely away from you and frame your illness entirely as a way to be kinder to animals and the planet.

It’s.. really concerning how I never see this addressed by non-survivors tbh and I wish I was brave enough to bring it up when people recommend I turn vegan for vague political reasons that ultimately are about enabling their own sense of superiority.

You’re 100% right!! My experience has been different because I was raised veggie and the family member in question was as well, and both my parents. However, I always got lots of protein and I was always told I could try meat if I wanted. It was a very healthy way of having that diet.

However.

So much of modern vegan activism – and the classism, the racism, and the ableism therein that is often not addressed – very easily fuses with purity complexes and goes nuclear.

Think of all the propaganda that revolves around veganism being CLEANER (despite the fact clean food is scientifically Not A Thing), of how it DETOXES YOU (no food detoxes you, as only your liver and kidneys can do that), or how ANYONE CAN DO IT (hint: they can’t).

The martyrdom of how it’s fine because it’s BETTER FOR THE ANIMALS.

The way it TARGETS YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS BY TELLING THEM IT’LL HELP THEM LOSE WEIGHT AND LOOK HOTTER.

It just really needs addressing but bringing it up so fucking often gets cries of “You’re just lazy!”/“here’s a graphic description of animal cruelty in x industry” and I’m tired but more than that I’m angry! !!