The woman who recently harassed pro-life activists in Toronto owns and runs, wait for it, a vegan pizza shop. Vegan. No eggs, no milk, no animal products.
When a group of anti-abortion protesters brandishing graphic posters gathered outside Jennifer Bundock’s vegan pizza shop, she knew what she had to do. In an expletive-laden video that has been shared more than 3,000 times on Facebook, Bundock films her angry encounter with those holding the signs, eventually forcing them to leave the block.
Why vegan? Cruelty? People for the Ethical Treatment of People–we still need that movement. Would have been nice if the reporter had asked about this aspect of her business. Reminds me of this piece I wrote, a while back, about conversing with some reasonable young people in Costco about veganism and abortion.
The thing is, I told them all, there’s a different question you need to ask your local vegan restaurant. Are they pro-life? If you won’t touch animal milk or eggs—certainly you wouldn’t kill a human baby in the womb, right? This caught their attention; the wheels were turning. You could almost see it. The million dollar idea young man replied slowly. Vegans are generally pro-choice, he said correctly, because they are left-wing or progressive.
I will add that I support activists using graphic images to draw attention to the injustice of abortion only in particular ways and circumstances, the reasons for which would be the subject of another post. Certainly, some see for the first time what abortion is and hearts and minds are changed. At the same time, graphic images may set some women back in their own post-abortive healing. That said, this woman isn’t one of those–from the rant it does sound like she has had an abortion (it’s hard to hear, and I don’t want to listen twice). But she has already set herself so far back there’s virtually nothing anyone could say or do that might make it worse–or sadly for her–better.
I will also add that there is nothing like her painful, expletive-laden rant to highlight that abortion is awful and that it hurts women as well as our children.
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Pro choice, pro human. says
>Why vegan? Cruelty? People for the Ethical Treatment of People
Veganism makes sense, as animals do not have the means to defend themselves from the poisoning, culling, exploitation, and other unspeakable things humans inflict on them. We, as humans, have free will and determinism that allows us to choose to act a certain way. Animals do not. I don’t see any logical equivalence between animal welfare and abortion. You do not describe them at all in the article other than some mudslinging against Jen from Apiecalypse and some weak pathos in the end.
There is such a People for Ethical Treatment of People groups, such as the UN, for example. One of their main goals for women in impoverished countries is to bring REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE to them. Do you know why? Well, probably not because you’re prolife. Reproductive rights are so important to women because it helps them avoid physical harm from multiple pregnancies/STDs (wow who woulda thunk), improve their economic prospects, and reduce their dependence on (abusive) men who, drumroll, got them pregnant, possibly multiple times. If you deny women the right to abortion, you are denying them of right to better life. How can you say it’s cruel to deprive women of that, knowing that women in impoverished countries miss out on education, a key to independence and economic success? How can you say it’s cruel when women are being raped and made to keep their babies? How is making the woman relive their traumas upon pregnancy and birth kind? Please don’t give me the contrived, boring statement that you prolifers make, that an unborn fetus is precious. Why is the woman’s life not precious? Why must we focus on the unborn child? It’s all bullshit. It’s just a ploy to keep women subservient and dependent on men.
Jen did the right thing by speaking for women who do not have the means to reproductive rights. Jen is right. Shame on all of you.
P.S. Vets and other animal rights group are for spaying/neutering of pets to reduce the number of neglected litters. Is it so much kinder to let neglected pups die because no one wants to take care of them?
P.P.S. Will all the prolifers take care of umwanted children/pets? Lobby for better childcare and child benefits? Unless you all do this, call off your bullshit.