In Pangaia, we value anti-oppression veganism and food justice as important pillars in the fight for social change. In practice it es reflected in the following actions:
- Renounce the consumption of food, clothing, cosmetics, etc that contain ingredients of animal origin or are tested on more-than-human animals.
- Reject and help dismantle the exploitation of humans and more-than-human animals in capitalist industries.
- Question our privileges within the hierarchical societies we have inherited and put an end to all social systems of discrimination in which we participate.
- Create bridges between communities/individuals/more-than-human animals to dismantle systems of oppression.
- Create and help promote alternatives free from suffering and exploitation.
- Prove that agriculture does not depend on destructive practices or the exploitation of other lives.
- Fight for food justice; a movement that proposes proper nutrition as a human right, to combat malnutrition in our region
We see anti-oppression veganism as an important component in the liberation for all. Our community wants to create a space to develop a more harmonious and peaceful co-existence between human communities as well as between human and more-than-human animal communities. We need to abolish food systems that were violently imposed on us by white imperialism more than 500 years ago and take part in the creation of systems of production free from exploitation, discrimination and hierarchies, where everybody has access to nutritious food. In Pangaia, the regeneration of ecosystems, peaceful co-existence with more-than-human animals and responsible agricultural practices go hand in hand.
“Our very eating habits, then, are reflections of a colonial event that very much still is a living force in our present. In how we eat and what we eat, we play and replay the very source of our collective trauma. The dinner table as colonial and neo-colonial reenactment..”
—David M. Peña-Guzmán