The Foods That African Americans Eat

I know it's been while... Missed you.

The food we chose to eat as African American is slave food if you think about it. When I think about the collard greens w/ pork and the cornbread with eggs,milk, and lard all mixed inside I yell inside. I don't understand why we continue to Enslave ourselves voluntary when we could get the fruits and vegetables so we don't have obesity and high blood pressure killing our people. I feel that black people and other people of color should be fighting and protesting the lack of healthy foods in local grocery stores in "ghetto" neighborhoods. We should not continue to accept liquor stores on ever corner and continue to have Popeye's,Chinese restaurants, and other fast food places continue to poison our bodies. I want all people to wake up and understand that we can no longer sit around and act like we are doing our bodies any good with animal flesh and by products. You do not need these Chickens,Cows,Horse( yes people eat horse) to survive in the world. We are not natural born carnivores we are herbivores check it out.

Being Black and Vegan

I have been vegan for almost 2 years an love ever minute of it. When I first went vegan I was so happy because I was feeling much healthier then I have ever felt better. But after a year I start to feel that I was missing something in my life. I wanted to be around more people of color who were Vegetarian and Vegan. So when I came home for the summer after my first year of college I found out their was a Black Vegetarian Society of New York and started to research and realized there were many more around the US. Veganism has been life changing and I'm so thankful for the person who let me read " Fast Food Nation" my life would probably be surround my meat and cheese. I learned so much from this book and then one day I went from vegetarianism for 6 days and then I went vegan. Life is full of challenges and obstacles an veganism can be a challenge at first but at the end of the day you are saving so many animals and the world is becoming a better place because of YOU.....