As veganism has become more and more mainstream, general perception of the vegan lifestyle has shifted dramatically away from the crunchy stereotypes that used to dominate veganism in the popular imagination.
Now, veganism is cool. Everyone from Ariana Grande to Zac Efron is doing it, and social media influencers with vast followings make going vegan look just as shiny and chic as any other Instagram trend.
YouTube in particular is a favorite platform for vegan influencers. In fact, one of the most-viewed vloggers when I first went vegan in 2016 was an Israeli woman who filmed “what I eat in a day” videos featuring Tel Aviv’s many vegan restaurants. Not one to be behind the times, Israel’s vegan washing campaign has focused heavily on attracting the millennials scrolling through these influencers’ pages and sites.
Non-profit organization Vibe Israel invited prominent vegan bloggers and YouTubers on what amounted to an all-expenses-paid veganwashing vacation to learn about Israeli vegan culture. Vibe Israel’s stated mission is to enhance Israel’s global reputation, and the organization even states prominently on their website’s homepage that it is “harnessing the power of social media and country branding strategies” to convince the world that Israel is a hip and happening place.
Birthright Israel, a government program that offers free trips to Israel for Jews around the world ages 18-26 while completely ignoring the fact that most Palestinians can’t go home, now has a vegan option for teens and twenty-somethings who want a “cruelty-free” experience in occupied territory. Watching the video of the Vibe Vegan tour, there is no way that you would have any idea that brutal human rights violations are happening just kilometers away from the joyful shots of cooking classes and fresh produce. Which is, of course, the point.
Some of the social media influencers who went on the trip received criticism in their comments section for their promotion of Israel’s vegan brand, but it wasn’t enough to prompt any of them to attempt to exit the Brand Israel bubble. The Palestinian Animal League even made overtures to at least one of the ill-informed YouTubers, inviting The Buddhist Chef to make a visit to the Palestinian Territories while on the trip, but he declined due to a “tight schedule.” Given that he was a guest of Israel, he likely would not have been permitted to cross the checkpoint into Palestine anyways. We do not get to pretend that our choices, whether to take a sponsored trip to Israel or to patronize a certain restaurant, are free of consequences. To be clear: as a vegetarian I am happy to see people becoming more concerned about how we treat animals.
I am also sure that there are many vegan Israelis who are committed to ending the occupation of Palestine, which is why I deliberately focused on veganwashing as propagated by the Israeli government, corporations, and public figures such as bloggers and business owners, rather than private citizens of Israel. That said, I do not welcome the promotion of veganism at any cost, because a veganism that does not concern itself with intersectional questions of human oppression is both logically incoherent and of no interest to me. A critical note about the vegan community’s complicity in Israel’s vegan washing campaign is made in one of my favorite episodes of the Vegan Vanguard podcast: had vegans not been so quick to market veganism as a mere consumer lifestyle choice, veganism would not be so easily co-opted for deceitful purposes.
An explicitly intersectional, anti-capitalist vegan movement could never provide a coherent justification for human rights abuses, even on a superficial level. In our desire to make veganism more appealing to the masses, however, vegans have sold our politics out. And the wrong people bought them, along with the IDF’s favorite hummus. In models where animals were removed entirely, an interesting set of circumstances arose: The sheer amount of food we had available to eat increased by 23%. That’s because a lot of the grains that went toward feeding animals - such as corn and soybeans - would be shifted over to humans. That shift meant the supply of many important nutrients would skyrocket, and even exceed by a long shot the amount the US population would need. Those include carbohydrates, magnesium, copper, and cysteine. It also meant the supply of an important few nutrients associated with animals would decrease. Those include Calcium, vitamin A, vitamin D, B12, arachidonic, eicosapentaenoic, and docosahexaenoic fatty acids.
Some of these nutrients are linked to a reduced risk of heart disease, visual and cognitive development in infants, and visual acuity. Vegan diet is viedly promoted by Humane Society. HSUS is big, rich, and powerful. While most local animal shelters are under-funded and unsung, HSUS has accumulated $195 million in assets and built a recognizable brand by capitalizing on the confusion its very name provokes. This misdirection results in an irony of which most animal lovers are unaware: HSUS raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare, yet it doesn’t operate a single one anywhere. Instead, HSUS spends millions on programs that seek to economically cripple meat and dairy producers; eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research labs; phase out pet breeding, zoos, and circus animal acts; and demonize hunters as crazed lunatics. HSUS spends more than $4 million each year on travel expenses alone, just keeping its multi-national agenda going. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle described some of his goals in 2004 for The Washington Post: “We will see the end of wild animals in circus acts … [and we’re] phasing out animals used in research. Hunting? I think you will see a steady decline in numbers.” But Pacelle may have more ambitious anti-hunting goals. In 1991, while he was the National Director of the Fund for Animals, Pacelle told the Associated Press: “If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. Just like we would shut down all dog fighting, all cock fighting or all bull fighting.” More recently, in a June 2005 interview, Pacelle told Satya magazine that HSUS is working on “a guide to vegetarian eating, to really make the case for it.” A strict vegan himself, Pacelle added: “Reducing meat consumption can be a tremendous benefit to animals.” Shortly after Pacelle joined HSUS in 1994, he told Animal People (an inside-the-movement watchdog newspaper) that his goal was to build “a National Rifle Association of the animal rights movement.” And now, as the organization’s leader, he’s in a position to back up his rhetoric with action. In 2005 Pacelle announced the formation of a new “Animal Protection Litigation Section” within HSUS, dedicated to “the process of researching, preparing, and prosecuting animal protection lawsuits in state and federal court.”
As the author of this book Martins Ate writes in his previous book regards poetry used in his music project z Hustlers: Dairy products are the basis for ayurvedical kitchen as even an oil in which the food is cooked in is made from purified butter made from cows’ milk. And regarding the Cow - it's been a subject of a mass discussion recently which also need for deeper explanation of a cow’s essence of existence and duties from Sanskrit - Devangari - Gods language point of view. Why cow’s milk is so important - is due to that was an animal brought to the Earth by our creators from another planet - planet from where our creators came from. Planet where Egoism is at least 100 times lower than on Earth.
Planet where creatures are conscious enough to respect each other’s existence and claims for experiences unregardless of a life form taken. So on that Planet also all creatures understand their purpose of existence and use of gained body. Cow is also a creature with 100 times less ego than human and any other animal on Earth. Cow even being on Earth understands it's necessity for providing milk as its used on higher planets but on Earth it's just by accident due to creation of selfish slaves - humans - for the purpose of Creators but left here for us a gift - a gift to perceive a product which is generally from a so called paradise. We are what we eat - and Creators of us has laid down in their instructions for Humanity - Vedas - benefits of each and every creation describing cow’s milk as consciousness purifying, ego reducing product recommended for everyone saying that cow’s milk is a blessing from above. Recently there is massive vegan agenda going on again dairy products. Have you ever wondered why never vegetarianism had active social campaigns going on but vegans now are promoted everywhere? Even if badly treated cows in dairy farms is indeed an hard to accept act - it is really not reason enough to not consume milk products as milk's thin and conscious energy is 100 times higher than Earth average understanding of happiness and can give for humanity a valuable spiritual growth. It is rather a reason for humanity to rethink mass milk production policies and stronger regulate cows’ rights. If all vegans who scream for bad cows’ conditions and suggest because of that not consuming dairy products to invite people for mass actions on treating cow as something special on which humanity has grown for millennia’s on - that would be a good better step for humanity. Even if milk is boiled in microwave and with all chemicals what they add in Western countries - it's still most unique almost alien product for wonderful availability of humanity we should treat as most precious gift for us - not avoid it as it's benefits even in these conditions are tremendous. On average vegetarians live 15/20 years longer than people eating food from any thinking creature, they are less attending doctors, have more healthy and younger looking body and that’s just because of non-violence food makes non-violence and harmonious life. So rethink your diet - eat consciously. Avoid vegan Babylon system agenda, roll more spliffs and cook in ghee. Check out this latest cookbook now also in hardcopy! But milk is good to drink only in the evening, cheese in the day time, yoghurt in the mornings. If scientists who screams about bad influence of a milk on a health would read the instructions for them - they would make their decisions right. So drink milk and be vegetarian for a happy life and thank some cow each time you get a milk - as it’s a MAGIC! ;) This song is taken from a biblical passage speaking of Israel’s abundant natural produce (milk and honey), from the perspective of a people yearning for a better life. Jah, bring us to good land In this land of milk and honey. For those lucky few that made it, this was a land of milk and honey. Land flowing of Milk and Honey Land flowing of Milk and Honey But will sympathy lead us to this land flowing with milk and honey? Like a vision from the Promised Land, we are already this land a land And I heard that they can draw milk and honey from streams. I find, after all, that a man's destiny can be truly wonderful. When I think that one man, one body and one spirit, was enough to turn a desert into the land of Canaan into a Land flowing of Milk and Honey. zHustlers - Land Flowing With Milk - Eretz Zavat Halav CNBC has done a massive research on this confirming Martins Ate's daubts on veganism and it's true interests. Read below what Christina Farr has found out in her research which included everything I kne about it and much more. The vegan mafia invests in companies that aim to take animals out of the supply chain. Its members are powerful former financiers, entrepreneurs and bio-tech investors. This group isn’t interested in kale and tofu (well, sometimes it is). It's a group of powerful vegans across the country who fund start-ups, and try to wean people from their dependence on animal products. “There’s a whole community of us that are building and funding vegan companies,” said Bethencourt, himself a longtime vegan, who runs a bio-tech accelerator called IndieBio. The “vegan mafia” nickname is an informal nod to the so-called “PayPal mafia” — a group of powerful Silicon Valley investors and founders such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Reid Hoffman, who worked at the payments start-up in the 1990s. The best-known start-ups in the space include Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which make plant-based meat-like and cheese-like products; and Pembient, which bioengineers wildlife products in a lab, like rhino horn and elephant ivory. Some members of the vegan mafia are technology-focused venture capitalists such as Bill Maris, whom Bethencourt met at a vegan dinner, while others are former financiers or entrepreneurs who made their money elsewhere. (Maris confirmed that he’s vegan, but declined to discuss his investments through a spokesperson.) The network also includes: Kyle Vogt, CEO of Cruise, a self-driving car technology acquired by General Motors for more than $1 billion; Kevin Boylan, a former Wall Street trader who runs a fund for plant-centric companies called PowerPlant Ventures; His business partner Mark Rampolla, founder of ZICO Coconut Water; Jody Rasch, a former Moody’s senior vice president managing a fund called VegInvest; Seth Bannon a social entrepreneur and founding partner at a seed fund called Fifty Years; and Lisa Feria, CEO of Stray Dog Capital, a fund that also invests in early-stage companies. CNBC interviewed half-a-dozen members of this mafia, who all stressed that they aren’t solely investing in products intended for other vegans instead, they are investing in products that appeal to the masses because they are healthier and cheaper. One example of that is Geltor, which is designed to be less expensive than gelatin - which involves boiling the skin, tendons, bones from cows and pigs in a vat - as well as cruelty-free. Or Boylan’s portfolio company, an eatery chain called Veggie Grill, which primarily serves people who also eat meat. Many of these investors said they were particularly impressed by the team behind Beyond Meat, which convinced major grocery chains like Whole Foods and Safeway to sell its plant-based burgers in the meat section.
Beyond Meat also got an investment from meat processing giant Tyson Foods. Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. The theory that seed companies are investing in vegan food popularization in order to sell their seeds globaly and through necessary food production fully taking over seed business of the world. Global data makes it clear that Monsanto controls the largest share of the global seed market —about 34 percent, or more than one-third of the top 20 companies based in 2017 sales, far less than what many critics claim. The alternative seed catalogues paint the "F-1" hybrid, in particular, as an environmental menace and make a point of refusing to handle the dread seed. In the last few decades F-1 hybrids, which are simply the first generation produced by the crossing of two plant varieties, have become the stock in trade of the commercial seed industry, and they are gradually crowding traditional "open pollinated" varieties (ones pollinated by bees, birds or wind instead of plant geneticists) out of the marketplace. According to the Seed Savers Exchange, an organization established in 1975 to encourage backyard gardeners to preserve certain open-pollinated varieties, almost half of all the nonhybrid vegetable varieties on the market just 10 years ago have been dropped from mail-order catalogues. This often results in extinction, since many domesticated species will not survive unless they are planted over and over again by humans. W. Atlee Burpee & Company would tell you that the disappearance of traditional varieties is simply the Darwinian operation of the marketplace: if the old varieties were any good, they'd compete more successfully. In fact the chairman of Burpee made exactly that argument last spring in a Times Op-Ed piece in defense of the embattled hybrid, likening open-pollinated seeds to Model T's. The seed savers see another, darker reason for the hybrid's predominance. As the Seeds Blum catalogue puts it, in words plain as those of Marx and Engels, "The reason hybrids exist is to protect the breeding investment of the seed company." Unlike the seeds of open-pollinated varieties, the seeds produced by an F-1 hybrid plant don't "come true" -- their offspring are apt to exhibit the undesirable traits of one or the other parent. In other words, seeds of these hybrids can't be saved or reproduced; their biology makes them proprietary. By forcing gardeners and farmers to return for new seeds each season, the companies selling F-1 hybrids have effectively taken control of the means of production. These are not the only ways in which modern hybrids remake nature in the image of capitalism. Given heavy doses of fertilizer, F-1 hybrids grow swiftly and produce high yields. They also produce genetically uniform plants. What could better suit factory farming than a robust field of identical tomato or corn plants genetically coded to ripen all at once, thereby facilitating mechanical harvesting? Already today Just 3 companies control more than half (53%) of the global commercial market for seed. The global commercial seed market in 2020 is estimated at 40,400 million. The top 10 companies account for 73% of the global market (up from 67% in 2007). Just 3 companies control more than half (53%) of the global commercial market for seed. Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company and fourth largest pesticide company, now controls more than one-quarter (27%) of the commercial seed market. Dow Agrosciences – the world’s fifth largest pesticide company – made a dramatic re-entry on the top 10 seed company list in 2009 following a seed company-buying spree that included Hyland Seeds (Canada), MTI (Austria), Pfister Seeds (USA) and Triumph Seed (USA), among others. Source: Who Will Control the Green Economy?, ETC Group. A 2015 internet hoax purporting to show that Monsanto was creating genetically modified cannabis to supply to the cannabis industry. The hoax was created by World News Daily Report on April 9, 2015. Monsanto created a "standing denial" of the hoax on their "Myths About Monsanto" webpage, and tweeted a disclaimer prior to the 420 holiday in 2016, and on April 20, 2017 again tweeted "Happy 4-20.
