Being a bad vegan

Authors

Lelia Green, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

M/C Journal

Publisher

Media and Culture

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

29855

Comments

Green, L. (2019). Being a bad vegan. M/C Journal, 22(2). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/vegan

Abstract

According to The Betoota Advocate (Parker), a CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) paper has recently established that “it takes roughly seven minutes on average for a vegan to tell you that they’re vegan” (qtd. in Harrington et al. 135). For such a statement to have currency as a joke means that it is grounded in a shared experience of being vegan on the one hand, and of encountering vegans on the other. Why should vegans feel such a need to justify themselves? I recognise the observation as being true of me, and this article is one way to explore this perspective: writing to find out what I currently only intuit. As Richardson notes (516), writing is “a way of ‘knowing’—a method of discovery and analysis. By writing in different ways, we discover new aspects of our topic and our relationship to it. Form and content are inseparable” (qtd. in Wall 151)...

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