Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
M/C Journal
Publisher
Media and Culture
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
29855
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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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