70. Vegan Union-Busters Extraordinaire: No Evil Foods w. Jon, Meagan, and Jeremy Total Liberation

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In this episode, Mexie catches up with Jon Reynolds and Meagan Sullivan, two former No Evil Foods employees who were pivotal in the union drive effort at the company. Jon and Meagan joined Mexie on an episode last summer to discuss No Evil Foods’ union-busting tactics (that episode is listed below). Mexie also speaks with Jeremy, another former No Evil Foods employee who was laid off last month when NEF declared they were outsourcing production and fired all workers without notice or severance. The three talk about this experience, what led up to it, and how they stepped up to support the workers.







Sources and Links







* Mo Evil Foods website: moevilfoods.com* Mo Evil Foods on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mo-Evil-Foods-109899510744712/* So Evil Foods on IG: https://www.instagram.com/soevilfoods/* Birdie Gregson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/birdiegregson?lang=en* Vegan Union Busters: No Evil Foods (Last Year’s Episode): https://veganvanguardpodcast.com/54-vegan-union-busters-no-evil-foods/ * Mexie, Why I’m No Longer VeganTM: https://youtu.be/oY_Dt1jey4M* A Privileged Vegan, Why Veganism Must be Anti-Capitalist (NOW!!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbT2y8VR7WE* Kathrin, Veganism, Capitalism, and Intersectionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xnx1eEJcDo







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Transcript







F1:  [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?







F2:  There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.







F3:  We live in capitalism.  Its power seems inescapable.  So did the divine right of kings.







MEXIE:  Hey everyone, welcome to the Vegan Vanguard.  It is Mexie, and following up on our last episode on the union-busting of vegan company Lush Cosmetics, we’re doing a little vegan union-busters mini-series here sadly, because it’s sad that there are so many vegan union-busters that we can make a whole series.  But we’re following up today with workers from No Evil Foods, the vegan food producers who used socialist iconography and messaging to market their products and then proceeded to bust the workers union drive and fire several of them, and recently have just fired their entire staff without notice or severance.  Yay; yay vegan capitalism oppressing and exploiting human animals while not mounting a significant challenge to growing global meat consumption.  Yay.







I will just reiterate from the previous episode on Lush that until the vegan movement understands speciesism as a systemic oppression and understands that animal agriculture as we know it today grew out of white supremacy and capitalism, the mainstream vegan movement will continue to promote false solutions to this problem, namely that everyone should just change their grocery lists while not actually challenging the systems at the root of both non-human and human animal oppression.  It’ll make a lot of money for certain vegan capitalists and as we have seen, it will not be able to meaningfully challenge or work to dismantle the global animal agr...