Pedaling Resistance

Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. <i>Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy Subversion and Vegan Cycling</i> examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys experiences and reflections of a dozen vegan cyclists from the United States and beyond.<br>  <br> The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health work competition transport and joy and the issues of animal suffering environmentalism and speciesism inherent in veganism-all through lenses of class race gender and disability. <i>Pedaling Resistance</i> illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.<br>