Sad news: Satya magazine will cease publication

[flamingyouth]

Their June/July issue will be their last.

I've always enjoyed their magazine and will miss it. :(

http://www.satyamag.com/

[flvegan]

1. Aww, shit.

Satya is one of the few mags I really liked and read without having to question where they were coming from.

This sucks.

[govegan]

2. Great article in the March issue

Although I rarely have seen a hard-copy of their mag., I have bookmarked and visited the online version. They were a very unique and dynamic force, a great resource focused on issues of great import. I wish them all success in future endeavors.

http://www.satyamag.com/mar07/harper.html

Also: http://web.mac.com/sistahvegan98/iWeb/research/Sistah_Vegan.html

Definitely not your Aunt Jemima! Check out the powerful excerpt from Sistah Tasha Edwards

http://web.mac.com/sistahvegan98/iWeb/research/tasha_edwards.html

Excerpt from The Satya Interview with Amie Breeze Harper:

Who else had a big influence on you?

Another influence that got me practicing veganism was reading about Dick Gregory in Doris Witt’s Black Hunger and seeing the connections he made to institutionalized racism dietary practices. I came across this quote that really made me think:

I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet. One of the tragedies is that the very folks in the black community who are most sophisticated in terms of the political realities in this country are nonetheless advocates of “soul food.” They will lay down a heavy rap on genocide in America with regard to black folks, then walk into a soul food restaurant and help the genocide along.

Can you talk more about veganism as an approach to combating institutional racism, and the legacies of colonialism and slavery?

It is important to note a lot of the health disparities we face result from legacies of colonialism, slavery and current systemic whiteness.

A lot of the foods African Americans have been eating we were given as part of the slave system and colonialism. Most of the food and preparation was never actually healthy—high flesh foods, high saturated fat and sugar foods. A lot of it came from exploiting nonhuman animals and the reason we are eating it is because we ourselves historically have been exploited as slaves. We need to start reflecting deeper in our practices of anti-racism and decolonization. Like Dick Gregory notes, we even need to look at our own traditional black soul food diet as part of this decolonization process.