Vintage Veg

‘Radical Vegetarianism’ Is Everything Veganism Shouldn’t Be

The 1981 book argues for a fanatical, essentialist, white veganism that the movement has thankfully started to move past

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3 min readJun 5, 2020

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“Do you perceive the veal floating invisibly inside every glass of milk?” asks Mark Mathew Braunstein in the preface to…

Alicia Kennedy

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I’m a food writer from Long Island based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter on food issues: aliciakennedy.substack.com

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