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I don't read political vegan blogs, cause I don't identify with a lot of vegan politics. I try not to be "purist" about any of my opinions and isms, and things can just get too heated and bordering on judgmental in parts of Veganland.
But I follow some vegan food blogs because they tend to be friendlier, more laid back places. I don't read them every day, or even every week--I just pop in once a more or so. I don't even make the recipes, lol, cause I use cookbooks. I just like to see the pictures and read stories about their cats I guess.
One of my faves--I use her cookbooks all the time, especially for desserts--was telling a nice, happy, benign little story, and used this picture as a passing illustration:
It kind of bothers me. But I don't want to say anything there. I can't think of any way to phrase my feeling without sounding hostile, or it becoming A Thing. Every popular blogger has her Followers, and they will defend her to the death. We've all witnessed it, maybe we've been part of such defenses.
I just think you can make a point about McDonald's being unhealthy without using a fat image.
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It must have bothered me more than I realized cause I don't think I've been back since. Ugh. The fat hate--no thank-you. For more good writin's on that subject, see La Fokker, she regularly writes about it and just did a 9 part series on weight!
Around that time this cookbook author also started asking people to send her their stories about how switching over to veganism made them healthier/feel better, and she started getting into the China Diet stuff (of which there have been thorough critiques) and I just tuned out.
I'll always love her cookbooks cause she uses great ingredients, but... you know how it is... we tend to read information that will reinforce what we already believe, right? China Diet says veganism's best? Then that's the only study we'll talk about! Neal Barnard says veganism cures Diabetes? Bring it on!
Well, when it comes to a lot of my big beliefs, I consciously try not to only expose myself to What I Want to Hear. I try to read not just the idiots from The Other Side, but the best representatives, as JS Mill would have me do. And this tends to lead me awaaay from True Believers. And now I'm too extreme even for the cooking blogs! :-D Oh la. Good thing I never needed to be the cool kid.
Haley's chewing on the power couplings, I think she wants breakfast. Gotta go!
