This is a guide for any and all vegans or wannabe vegans to abide by. It’s intersectional, meaning it treats racism, sexism, cissexism, classism, ableism and other forms of oppression as the exact same thing.

White veganism:

- Flaunting your vegan diet in front of poor people.

- Buying your groceries at Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s or other grocers which cater to white hipsters. This includes all food coops.

- Eating foods of colonized peoples if you’re not one. This includes but isn’t limited to: quinoa, falafel, hummus, tabbouleh, miso soup, seaweed, guacamole, corn tortillas, collards, kale, rice flour, yam flour, Brazilian nuts, spring rolls, bok choy, coconut milk, lemon grass, sticky rice and so on.

- Using a rice cooker. Since rice is a hugely special part of several colonized cultures, it is a slap in the face to these people that white people are using rice cookers.

- Telling colonized peoples they have to stop eating meat or eat meat differently. A very good example is the Eid lamb: yes halal slaughter isn’t nice but intersectionality should make siding with meat-eaters in the ummah over colonial vegans a PRIORITY.

- Telling trans people going through transition that their prescriptions were tested on animals. See above.

- Claiming you are more in need of gluten-free products than people who need gluten-free products due to their celiac disease and/or autism.

- Making a traditional meal of a colonized group but replacing the traditional animal products with vegan ones. In fact white people need to stop cooking their own versions of colonized people’s meals PERIOD.

Decolonized veganism:

Doing nothing I mentioned on the list above.