Posted on Jul 1, 2022
Nonwhite Americans are eating less meat. Vegan activists of color explain why
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Toni Okamoto became overwhelmed with frustration after she watched family members suffer severe health consequences from the food they ate.
Her aunt suffered multiple amputations from Type 2 diabetes prior to dying, and her grandfather had multiple heart attacks before dying in a bypass surgery.
She also saw how their financial situations limited the choices they could make regarding their food.
So, she decided to do something.
"That's how I started Plant-Based on a Budget — I was on a limited income with limited resources to eat healthy-ish, and I started compiling those recipes for my family to benefit and saw very quickly how many people wanted to eat healthier but didn't know where to begin," she said.
Since then, the Mexican Japanese American has grown Plant-Based on a Budget into a website with free recipes, meal plans and resources to make eating plant-based cheaper and more accessible.
Toni Okamoto became overwhelmed with frustration after she watched family members suffer severe health consequences from the food they ate.
Her aunt suffered multiple amputations from Type 2 diabetes prior to dying, and her grandfather had multiple heart attacks before dying in a bypass surgery.
She also saw how their financial situations limited the choices they could make regarding their food.
So, she decided to do something.
"That's how I started Plant-Based on a Budget — I was on a limited income with limited resources to eat healthy-ish, and I started compiling those recipes for my family to benefit and saw very quickly how many people wanted to eat healthier but didn't know where to begin," she said.
Since then, the Mexican Japanese American has grown Plant-Based on a Budget into a website with free recipes, meal plans and resources to make eating plant-based cheaper and more accessible.
Nonwhite Americans are eating less meat. Vegan activists of color explain why
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Taking small steps to eating plant-based
Vegan activists of color are also working to promote plant-based eating with an understanding and awareness of the small steps people can take to implement the lifestyle.
"There's a lot of ways to push this movement, and sorry, everyone's not going vegan, and everyone may not go full-time vegetarian, but if we can get people to think if they do it for one day, one week, a month, people are learning when they probably never even thought about learning or even adopting this type of lifestyle before," Wright-Brown said.
Okamoto said she believes in progress over perfection for people trying to live a plant-based lifestyle.
"I want to encourage people that it doesn't have to be all or nothing; if you make a mistake on purpose or by accident, you can continue on, you can continue changing these generational habits that may be bad for your health and really reclaim [your] health despite [your] budgets," she said."
..."Taking small steps to eating plant-based
Vegan activists of color are also working to promote plant-based eating with an understanding and awareness of the small steps people can take to implement the lifestyle.
"There's a lot of ways to push this movement, and sorry, everyone's not going vegan, and everyone may not go full-time vegetarian, but if we can get people to think if they do it for one day, one week, a month, people are learning when they probably never even thought about learning or even adopting this type of lifestyle before," Wright-Brown said.
Okamoto said she believes in progress over perfection for people trying to live a plant-based lifestyle.
"I want to encourage people that it doesn't have to be all or nothing; if you make a mistake on purpose or by accident, you can continue on, you can continue changing these generational habits that may be bad for your health and really reclaim [your] health despite [your] budgets," she said."
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CPO David R. D.
"There's a lot of ways to push this movement,. . ." this is the issue I have with these kinds of people. They want to "push" it on to everyone else. They want to criminalize animal processing plants. Oregon is one of those evil states that has went to the extreme to push this life-style.
I'll say it again, people have choices and if you want to be vegan, go vegan until your heart is content, but leave me and my rib-eye steak alone. I'm happy eating meat!
I'll say it again, people have choices and if you want to be vegan, go vegan until your heart is content, but leave me and my rib-eye steak alone. I'm happy eating meat!
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