Abstract

In chapter 12, Nassim Nobari (US), longtime activist and co-founder of Seed the Commons, calls attention to social dynamics in the vegan food and anymal activist movements that create a rigid hierarchy within and that ultimately ally these movements with corporate capitalism. Nobari calls out the professionals of the movement for exploiting the current emphasis on identity and social justice in order to build careers and channel funds into already wealthy organizations (and businesses), at the expense of more genuine and transformative activism.