The Tofu Trainer

Let me just give you some pull up statistics… 😅

👉🏻 20-30% of UK adults can do 1 proper pull up.
👉🏻 Only 10-20% of that 20-30% are women (so around 3-6% of all UK adult women).

I did 4… (discarding the 5th one as a “proper” pull up) 😆

So rising Phoenix, care to elaborate in the comments for all the viewers to read what exactly it was you meant by vegan fatigue? 😊

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer

😣 Researching this was the hardest research I’ve ever had to do for a post of mine.

Reading old speeches defending slavery (and very obvious racism) and opposing women’s rights was honestly.. really hard.

The confidence, certainty and the way harmful systems were framed as normal, necessary, and even GOOD 😶

But what struck me most wasn’t just the injustice… it was also how familiar the arguments sounded to arguments I handle on the daily 😐

🙅🏼‍♀️ I’m not comparing people or equating suffering. Slavery and the fight for women’s rights involved real, devastating human harm that should never ever be minimized.

What I’m reflecting on is something else:

👉🏻 How often societies defend what benefits them
👉🏻 How normal injustice can feel in its own time
👉🏻 How history has a way of exposing our blind spots

Looking back at those movements gives me hope, because every major moral shift once seemed unrealistic, extreme, or unnecessary.. until it wasn’t 😌

And because of this pattern in history I truly believe one day we’ll look back at the vegan movement through that same lens 🌱

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer

Give this a go… let me know what it does for your gym motivation 😉🔥

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer

The way there are people demonising oat milk and not batting an eyelid at a literal carcinogenic food is just insane 🥴

The way they only mention the plant milks that have rapeseed oil in (when there are so many that don’t), but will happily have takeaways and other food with rapeseed oil in it… 😑

Anything to make them feel better about a movement that they cannot stop from growing I suppose 🤔

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer

💬 Comment GREEN GAINS below and I’ll send you the link you need 💪🏻

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer

There’s a common misconception that veganism is a diet. That’s being plant based.

Veganism is closer compared to feminism than it is to vegetarianism. It is a justice movement against non human animal oppression. It does not discriminate against any species of animal, and to be a vegan you cannot harm or exploit (use) other beings for your own benefit, enjoyment, entertainment, or profit.

When people call themselves imperfect vegans, they’re simply plant based. If you’re “mainly vegan” but will buy new wool clothing or eat honey, that’s like saying you’re “mainly feminist” but don’t always believe in equal rights. Then you’re not feminist are you?

You cannot be vegan for your health or the environment. You can however be plant based for these reasons, but veganism is and has only ever been about them.

~ Ro, The Tofu Trainer