You Know What The Most Frustrating Thing About The Vegans Throwing A Fit Over MyHumans Arent Parasites

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

yuri plisetsky is so pure someone please protect him

he gets to hasetsu right? and he’s looking at this statue and he takes a photo and he’s about to post it and then he’s like

because apparently this fifteen year old punkass bitch must’ve stolen his coach’s credit card and bought himself a damn plane ticket (i doubt he took money from his grandpa) to japan without telling anyone. including his coach… who he sees literally every day and is already having a fucking heart attack about victor quitting, can you imagine poor yakov losing his shit because he lost this small trash child

and yuri’s solution to being alone in a new place is standing out like a sore thumb in his leopard print and his studded backpack like a figure from the 90s that he wasn’t even born yet for, and basically just running around  :V yelling until someone points him in the right direction, because he came to this country with no supervision and no plan, until

aaaand he blows his fucking cover because he can’t resist posting a selfie on insta. someone please introduce yuri plisetsky and phichit chulanont i s2g.

also shoutout to yakov for being up on the times and not being one of those flip-phone weird uncles. i respect that.

Can we talk about the fact that Isaac literally blocked Death‘s number?

Everyone is talking about Alucard saying "God shits in my dinner once again" but remember that Trevor never said it in his company as far as we know so they really do just share the same braincell and every time it hits a corner Alucard continues his downward spiral.

Yuri Katsuki