StretfordRed
Afro-European
I could completely destroy this point, but all things considering, I actually don’t care
The fastest-growing vegan demographic is African Americans. Wu-Tang and other artist paved the way.
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Dameon Farrow
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Being vegan is cool and all but the article is more about watching your health in general. If going vegan scares one half to death(or if you're like me and you lift and there is no feasible way you'll get protein being vegan) then you can control what you consume.
It's not always what you eat but how much of it that gets folks in a bad spot. That extra large candy bar you bought? It's supposed to last through 3 probably 4 servings. What do people do? Eat it in one sitting.
Have an avocado or two. Season them with salt free seasoning or lightly with salt based seasoning and they are the truth. Get your sugar fix from more natural sugars like raisins. It's not hard it's just folks are scared to get out of that food comfort zone.
It's not what you eat(well yes it is technically) it's portion control.
It's not always what you eat but how much of it that gets folks in a bad spot. That extra large candy bar you bought? It's supposed to last through 3 probably 4 servings. What do people do? Eat it in one sitting.
Have an avocado or two. Season them with salt free seasoning or lightly with salt based seasoning and they are the truth. Get your sugar fix from more natural sugars like raisins. It's not hard it's just folks are scared to get out of that food comfort zone.
It's not what you eat(well yes it is technically) it's portion control.
Dameon Farrow
Superstar
Nobody is forcing shyt on you. You can still go to any restaurant, grocery store or wherever you please and buy whatever the hell you want. Nobody is being forced to rock with this because an obscure article got posted about rappers being vegan. 80% of successful rappers will sit down to a nice steak tonight. There may be brocolli steamed and seasoned on the plate but only a few of those will be eaten.
Nobody is forcing shyt on you. You can still go to any restaurant, grocery store or wherever you please and buy whatever the hell you want. Nobody is being forced to rock with this because an obscure article got posted about rappers being vegan. 80% of successful rappers will sit down to a nice steak tonight. There may be brocolli steamed and seasoned on the plate but only a few of those will be eaten.
stop it. going vegan is the new wave right now, they're pushing that shyt everywhere...how many rocks do you live under?
BlackDiBiase
Superstar
Thread is filled with bullshyt dogma from both sides 
Doobie Doo
Veteran
Veganism in America is becoming increasingly Black — and hip-hop is listening
By
Dawn Onley
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January 27, 2020
Jay-Z attends the Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Sean "Diddy" Combs. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Rappers are often criticized over their lyrics and extravagant lifestyles, but a trend toward less consumption of meat among African Americans is apparently being reflected in the choice to go vegan among some hip-hop performers.
In a Gallup poll that focuses on American consumers’ meat consumption habits, whites report eating 10 percent less meat, while people of color say they are eating 31 percent less.
READ MORE: Jermaine Dupri explains why he’s been a vegan for the past 12 years
Popular and influential figures in hip-hop music including KRS-One, Stic.man and M-1 from Dead Prez, Russell Simmons, Erykah Badu, and later Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Waka Flocka Flame, A$AP Rocky, and Jermaine Dupri, have made personal choices and business investments toward veganism, according to The Washington Post.
Jay and Bey famously gave out show tickets to fans who went vegan. Cardi B launched a vegan fashion line. Jaden Smith, son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, started a vegan food truck for the homeless. Eight of the Wu-Tang clan members also say they are vegan. And A$AP Rocky rapped about being vegan on his single “Babushka Boi.” As an ambassador, Snoop Dog helps promote “Beyond Meat.”
Jay-Z’s venture capital firm Marcy Venture Partners last year invested $1 million in the Black-owned Partake Foods, which makes vegan cookies. He also has put investment support in Impossible Foods, which is behind Burger King’s Impossible Whopper.
KRS-One put out a song as far back as 1990 called “Beef” in which he cautioned listeners to think about the meat they are putting into their bodies. He rapped that it was a “public service announcement.”
READ MORE: Several months after his death, Nipsey Hussle’s legacy inspires ‘The Marathon Book Club’
“KRS-One was an inspiration for me,” Keith Tucker, a health activist in Seattle, told The Post. “His song ‘Beef’ in 1990 influenced a lot people in hip-hop to think about veganism, to think about the meat in the slave diet, about the chemicals that were starting to be put in the food and the rise of highly processed foods.”
It appears that many Black people are heeding the message. In addition to the Gallup poll, a 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that while only 3 percent of American adults said they were vegan and 1 percent of Hispanic Americans, 8 percent of African American adults identified as vegan.
READ MORE: Gross inequality in access to healthy food
“Hip-hop is the biggest influence on planet Earth when it comes to young people,” Tucker adds. “It’s the CNN for the black community. If we can move it in a green direction, the world will move in a green direction. It’s going viral right now.”
But more attention and concern for health could also be a driving force. AshEL Eldridge, an Oakland, Calf.-based rapper and activist says the plant-based food movement is catching on as a way of taking back control among Blacks.
“How do we take care of ourselves? How do we govern ourselves? How do we regain the wisdom of our ancestry? And how do we reclaim our health,” he asked. The answer is to take the reins of ones’ own body. “There’s a huge movement around decolonizing the diet. There is disease related to diets heavily reliant on meat and genetically modified crops and monocropping. How do we extricate ourselves from that? It’s revolutionary.”
That message is being heeded in hip-hop today, says Stic.man.
“When I was a young teen getting into hip-hop, LL Cool J and them [sic] were swole superheroes. Now I see a lot of cool b-boy yogis. That’s a whole movement. There were break-dance battles back in the day; now there’s a movement of calisthenics, bar athletics and Nike-sponsored events,” he says. “The New G Code takes empowerment in a healthy way: I don’t care how many weights you can lift, how many people have you lifted up?”
Veganism in America is becoming increasingly Black -- and hip-hop is listening
By
Dawn Onley
-
January 27, 2020
Jay-Z attends the Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Sean "Diddy" Combs. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Rappers are often criticized over their lyrics and extravagant lifestyles, but a trend toward less consumption of meat among African Americans is apparently being reflected in the choice to go vegan among some hip-hop performers.
In a Gallup poll that focuses on American consumers’ meat consumption habits, whites report eating 10 percent less meat, while people of color say they are eating 31 percent less.
READ MORE: Jermaine Dupri explains why he’s been a vegan for the past 12 years
Popular and influential figures in hip-hop music including KRS-One, Stic.man and M-1 from Dead Prez, Russell Simmons, Erykah Badu, and later Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Waka Flocka Flame, A$AP Rocky, and Jermaine Dupri, have made personal choices and business investments toward veganism, according to The Washington Post.
Jay and Bey famously gave out show tickets to fans who went vegan. Cardi B launched a vegan fashion line. Jaden Smith, son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, started a vegan food truck for the homeless. Eight of the Wu-Tang clan members also say they are vegan. And A$AP Rocky rapped about being vegan on his single “Babushka Boi.” As an ambassador, Snoop Dog helps promote “Beyond Meat.”
Jay-Z’s venture capital firm Marcy Venture Partners last year invested $1 million in the Black-owned Partake Foods, which makes vegan cookies. He also has put investment support in Impossible Foods, which is behind Burger King’s Impossible Whopper.
KRS-One put out a song as far back as 1990 called “Beef” in which he cautioned listeners to think about the meat they are putting into their bodies. He rapped that it was a “public service announcement.”
READ MORE: Several months after his death, Nipsey Hussle’s legacy inspires ‘The Marathon Book Club’
“KRS-One was an inspiration for me,” Keith Tucker, a health activist in Seattle, told The Post. “His song ‘Beef’ in 1990 influenced a lot people in hip-hop to think about veganism, to think about the meat in the slave diet, about the chemicals that were starting to be put in the food and the rise of highly processed foods.”
It appears that many Black people are heeding the message. In addition to the Gallup poll, a 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that while only 3 percent of American adults said they were vegan and 1 percent of Hispanic Americans, 8 percent of African American adults identified as vegan.
READ MORE: Gross inequality in access to healthy food
“Hip-hop is the biggest influence on planet Earth when it comes to young people,” Tucker adds. “It’s the CNN for the black community. If we can move it in a green direction, the world will move in a green direction. It’s going viral right now.”
But more attention and concern for health could also be a driving force. AshEL Eldridge, an Oakland, Calf.-based rapper and activist says the plant-based food movement is catching on as a way of taking back control among Blacks.
“How do we take care of ourselves? How do we govern ourselves? How do we regain the wisdom of our ancestry? And how do we reclaim our health,” he asked. The answer is to take the reins of ones’ own body. “There’s a huge movement around decolonizing the diet. There is disease related to diets heavily reliant on meat and genetically modified crops and monocropping. How do we extricate ourselves from that? It’s revolutionary.”
That message is being heeded in hip-hop today, says Stic.man.
“When I was a young teen getting into hip-hop, LL Cool J and them [sic] were swole superheroes. Now I see a lot of cool b-boy yogis. That’s a whole movement. There were break-dance battles back in the day; now there’s a movement of calisthenics, bar athletics and Nike-sponsored events,” he says. “The New G Code takes empowerment in a healthy way: I don’t care how many weights you can lift, how many people have you lifted up?”
Veganism in America is becoming increasingly Black -- and hip-hop is listening
These artists know 95% of their fans are white and these rappers have personal chefs...foh.
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
I'm all for black folk eating healthier. The white man already got us living in food desserts as a collective. I love to see that we're waking up. I don't think I'll go vegan any time soon but I'm pescatarian and not ever going back eating beef, poultry or pork.
DJ Paul's Arm
Veteran
Must be nice to be rich and have personal chefs whip up good tasting vegan meals.
Its tough as fukk to cook up a decent tasting vegan meal and every vegan spot i know charge out the ass for meals.
being vegan aint accessible for most black people.
being vegan aint accessible for most black people.
fkthisgaysite
Banned
Bro
Its so hard to stop eating certain shyt.
I mainly fukk up with Italian food...pasta without chicken, beef or sausage? Ehhh...might as well not even eat it bro.
I been tryin to stop. Ion really eat pork or beef like that. I'll slip up with some pepperoni pizza or again, sausage/beef in my pasta but I haven't had a burger in years. And I never been a big fan of steak like that.
I love chicken tho. I have issues replacing meat in my diet. Like...the fukk am i supposed to eat? Whats my "main course"?
Aw yea chicken/steak/chorizo nachos Bang
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