Being Black and Vegan

Posted by Drew.

Vegetarians are a pretty diverse group. Some people are vegetarian for animals, some for the environment, some for their health and some for religious or cultural reasons. It’s a diet and lifestyle with a long secular history, as well as a religious history and a number of ethnic groups have vegetarian traditions. There are Christian vegetarians, Jewish vegetarians, black vegetarians, gay vegetarians, conservative vegetarians, and so on, and so on, and so on.

It’s interesting to see how people from different ethnic backgrounds experience the world as vegans. Here’s a video of a young black woman venting about how other black people treat her when they discover that she’s a vegan.