I’m sorry if this is controversial but it’s honest

I stay out of the vegan debates because I’m poor, disabled, and struggling with an eating disorder. But I just want to know what’s feminist about caring more about animals than living suffering women and girls? It breaks my fucking heart to hear about the cruelty in the meat industry, not just for the animals but for the workers too, and I do my best when I can to limit the amount that I contribute to, but the thing that drew me into radical feminism was the idea that y'all protected my right to prioritize women over everything else. I’m sorry but that also means veganism. When you’re not listening to the voices of the poor and disabled, when you’re making antisemitic tone deaf comparisons for shock value, when you’re comparing a basic need like food to an industry like porn: YOU are not prioritizing women. YOU are choosing divisiveness and antifeminism because you believe that the lives of animals are more important than the lives of human beings, of women. And while I believe that they are equally important, I know where we are right now and I know what needs my attention more. So many meat eaters actually DO want to do something about all of this! So many of us would try it in a heartbeat if it was actually feasible for us. Maybe those of you preaching it’s affordability wouldn’t mind funding the diet for the poor? Some of us still wouldn’t because it would cause us incredible health problems but we do our best to cut back when we can and when it’s an option.

Here’s the thing. Most of us would rally behind you to go after the actual problem, to take on the corporations and make them change, make them pay. But so many of us are also really fucking angry to listen to you talk to and about us like we should drop dead or suffer because we eat meat or cant remove it from our diet, ignoring what we are actually saying to call us monsters and murderers. Hm, I wonder where else women have been hearing that lately for wanting control over their own bodies? How the fuck are you a feminist if you can’t take a moment and listen to what is actually being said and accept that some people really do have valid reasons to keep eating meat? How can you pretend that you’re not being ableist to insist that there are no excuses for disabled people to have meat and dairy in their diet? Also if you have ever used antisemitic language or comparisons in your vegan activism I actually hate you and really want you to stay away from me and my blog.

Tldr; I support the sentiment behind the animal rights movement, but I will always prioritize women over everything else, including their right to eat what they want and need to in a world that pushes us to starvation to keep us docile. Some of you are rude, discriminatory, and anti feminist, and it shows in the way you debate these issues.