Has Vegan activism jumped the shark?

[dowie]

Last month JP was on Rogan and mentioned the most ridiculous rant he'd ever seen from some vegan activist, won't embed as it has some swearing in it:



link to clip here (warning bit of swearing at the end)
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1486171393985286145

The clip has been released and... well... here it is:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1491833785532530691

I think stuff like this is probably super damaging to their cause as it's the lunatics like that woman who get the attention, some mutters of "genocide" thrown in there too but she's just gone full ****** and thrown in all the "bad" woke/SJW talking points and associated them with meat eating.

I'm quite sympathetic to the idea of cutting down meat consumption, I don't think we need to eat as much meat as we currently do, we'd be healthier if most meat-eaters significantly cut their intake, though I'm skeptical about going full vegan or veggie or arbitrarily eliminating your intake of otherwise healthy food like fish, lean meats etc..

Anyway, the clip above is entertaining regardless

 

[dowie]

And here we go, death threats to someone who wants to make the world a better place. You sound more unhinged than the vegan activist in the OP

I mean if you're seriously attempting to call him out for "death threats" then that's about at the same level that your "antisemitism" is worth being called out at too tbh...

 

[dowie]

The actual video seems to come from a student debating union, so hard to know whether the woman was being genuine or not. Still, the fact she's an adult there makes me think she is a guest debater talking about her actual opinions rather than just for the sake of argument. Don't know without the context though.

It's the Oxford Union, she's a real guest/it's a real debate she's not some lecturer or mature student playing a role/side in a mock debate.

She wrote this book in 1990:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexual_Politics_of_Meat

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
[...]
The book is composed of three parts, "The Patriarchal Texts of Meat", "From the Belly of Zeus", and "Eat Rice, Have Faith in Women", as well as an epilogue entitled "Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption".

I guess she must love the fact that critical race theory and grievance studies/critical theory guff in general, has become so much more prominent in the past few years... her other books sound similarly deranged.