Vegeterian/Vegan

While getting ready for school this morning, I had music playing on a random cycle. And who should I hear this morning on my speakers? None other that Mister Immortal Technique. You all remember previous entries right? He later sent me a message asking me not to use his “goverment name” (if you really want to find out it is not that hard, plus he gave it to me long ago) and then blocked me on friendster. The first (and I think only) person to block me on friendster. I got skillz! Anyway, I was getting ready for school and Immortal Technique is in the background singing:

“Being a Vegetarian should never be associated with being a revolutionary or being open minded. That’s a dietary choice. If someone wants to proliferate that type of ignorance were supposed to be fighting by thinking that, you are just fucking yourself.

Their illogicality of expecting everyone to adopt their particular idea of what being healthy is, is just preposterous. I’ve seen some you herbivores and if you want to argue health, ya’ll need to eat some kind of supplement. ’Cause some of ya’ll are so skinny that it’s disgusting. Looking like the only hip-hop motherfuckers on Schindler’s list. Being a mal-nutrition- ass got nothing to do with being revolutionary or being on point.”

I started to think about it and realized I disagreed. But couldn’t really articulate it. So, I emailed my vegan sister.

I wrote only this: “why is being a vegeterian/vegan a revolutionary act?”

Her response:

“Becuase it is a challenge of our beings, it is the one act in which we
must participate as active consumers on a daily basis. It is a
revolutionary act to see yourself as the root of revolution and challenge
exterior unjust infrustrucures by challenging internal unjust
infrustructures. My sheer existance cuases the suffering of others,
therefore it is my responsability as a human being, a revolutionary to do
what is easily in my power to change. It is revolutionary becuase it
supports our mama earth, animals, people, our boides, souls and spirits. I
am a vegan becuase I believe that revolution begins with the
individual…soy una revolucionaria…porque soy vegana!”