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it's so funny to me how people love to mention how british petroleum invented the concept of having a "carbon footprint" and how it's the fossil fuel corps that are responsible for climate change but somehow that means you can just carry on flying overseas every year and driving your car every day and using a gas stove every day. continuing to consume to create a supply and demand and then also taking no action against their own workplaces or the companies and governments that are destroying our fucking planet
western people are so protective over their consumption habits and will use any excuse not to change. instead of cutting out animal products to preserve health we instead choose to switch to 'healthier' animal products (which by the way is a privilege because even if you're opting for the "healthier" option, the pollution from those farms is still giving other people respiratory diseases and contributing to the climate crisis, which is environmental racism) like dairy, eggs, fish and birds instead of eating cows and pigs (when btw every plant based alternative is better for your health and the planet). even fucking lactose normal (aka lactose intolerant) people continuing to eat dairy products or just lactose free dairy shit instead of just... not eating the things that your body is literally unable to digest
or instead of not eating animal products they switch to "free range" or "grass fed" or "organic" like these terms aren't also just bullshit propaganda.
like animal agriculture isn't also one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases (methane from enteric fermentation, nitrous oxide from manure storage and fertiliser, as well as co2 from land use change, transportation and all the fossil fuels necessary to keep factory farms running)
and all these people talking about decolonisation and free palestine and shit yet they're eating animals from farms that are on stolen land. animal agriculture takes up the vast majority of farmland (including crops farmed for animal feed) and requires (and ruins) more land than just farming plants. in this video Christopher Sebastian talks about how animal farming is a colonial project
if you want to be healthy, if you want to protect workers rights, if you want to protect public health, if you want to practice anti-racism, if you want to protect domesticated and wild animals, if you want to preserve the environment, if you want to reverse the climate crisis you also have to take fucking personal responsibility instead of just saying "it's the richest 1%" and carrying on like nothing happened. (and btw, the rest of us in the west still have a lot of collective wealth and consume irresponsibly, it's not only the people with private jets. the spoils of imperialism are not evenly distributed amongst the west and blah blah but they're not being fucking distributed evenly in the global south are they lol)
Animals and humans suff er and die alike. If you had to kill your own hog before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the hog scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal’s eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you. In like manner, if the wealthy aristocrats who are perpetrating conditions in the ghetto actually heard the screams of ghetto suffering, or saw the slow death of hungry little kids, or witnessed the strangulation of manhood and dignity, they could not continue the killing. But the wealthy are protected from such horror. . . . If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
Dick Gregory, 1968
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OK, I used to shit on the idea of "planting seeds" to do with veganism but my mother recently went flexitarian/reducetarian and is cutting down on meat and doesn't buy cows milk anymore because of conversations we've had. Maybe there is something to it after all.
vegans who managed to turn their social circle/family vegan: how?
Becoming a vegan has opened my eyes to so many things that I had no idea were a thing before. I didn’t know about environmental racism, food deserts, artificial food scarcity, or human rights abuses in the food industry before. It was VEGANS who taught me about these things.
So how on earth people can claim that vegans don’t care about human rights is beyond me, because vegans seem to care a lot more than your average non-vegan.
wish i could send u some vegan donuts OP (':
People that live near vegan donut shops make me so mad
this looks so good 😭
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i am literally always happy for messages or asks about how to make particular dishes vegan, i am here to help you, i want you to be happy, i love you <3
But if I go vegan what will I eat? Literally almost anything if you get creative. I’m Mexican and I love my moms cookin and I’ve managed to veganize nearly every dish. Tacos, tostadas, posole, mole, enchiladas, milanesa con arroz y frijoles, etc etc. Fun and easy
they should let the obligate carnivore have it 😊
i love you baby vegans, i love you vegans who can't eat plant based right now, i love you old vegans, i love you trans vegans, i love you religious vegans, i love you struggeling vegans <3333
I do not “want animals to be treated like humans”, I want the individual needs and behaviors of these creatures to be recognized and for them to be treated accordingly. And there isn’t an animal on earth that wants to be enslaved and killed for food.
Cows should be treated like cows, pigs should be treated like pigs, sheep should be treated like sheep, and they all should be respected as individual sentient beings with a desire to live.
If to be treated with respect means to be treated like a human, then so be it.
reminder that cows don’t need to be milked, horses don’t need to be ridden, and that animals are not on this earth to be used for human convenience.
Heartstone needs to urgently relocate, which requires the acquisition of a residential 'cattle' farm in the East of the country. The situation at the current farm here in Sligo has disastrously deteriorated due to torrential rainfall caused by the unfolding climate catastrophe, causing the farm to sink and the buildings to collapse. You can find more details about the situation and some photos in my social media posts, especially on Instagram (links at the bottom of this page). On top of the need to relocate, the property we were originally fundraising for has long found another owner, and so has the second, third, fourth one... with property prices continuously skyrocketing due to Covid, Brexit and reasons unknown to me, and property being snapped up by what must be investors in a matter of days. However, there is again one (and only one!) property in all of Ireland for sale that would suit the requirements of the current and future Heartstone gang (including those in foster care), and it would thankfully still allow us to expand at least to a small extent into the other areas we want - and for environmental reasons desperately need - to branch into, most importantly vegan rewilding (or, more precise, v-wilding - see explanation below) and the practice of and education about truly sustainable veganic food growing. However, for the reasons mentioned, it is also a lot more expensive; much more so than the goal of this fundraiser suggests. Please support Heartstone and this fundraiser if you can; please share, and forward it to anyone who might be able to help; especially philanthropists, donor syndicates, or other groups or individuals who might appreciate the unique holistic and intergrated concept behind Heartstone - to my knowledge also the only vegan organic sanctuary in the world - and who might also be in the position to help out with a larger sum. Given the disastrous situation at the current Heartstone farm and the developments on the property market, the clock is very much ticking!
I’m partly vegan because I believe bigotry is wrong. Prejudice or treating others differently because of the group they’re in, is wrong.
I don’t think it’s right to kill, abuse or exploit other animals just because of their species.
If it’s wrong to kill a dog then it’s wrong to kill a cow.
If it’s wrong to fund a puppy mill then it’s wrong to fund a factory farm, as 90% of farmed animals live on factory farms.
If fur is wrong then leather is wrong.
And if as a human, I wouldn’t want to be treated like an object then I have no right to treat another animal like a product.
Speciesism is a kind of prejudice and it’s wrong.
a pet peeve of mine is stuff proudly labelled vegan but it's farmed w slave labor. like how is that vegan then.
we made this without exploiting or harming any animals!!! (but the human children forced into dangerous and underpaid agricultural labour to make this product don't matter i guess???)
like how are you gonna try to sell me child abuse chocolate and tell me it's vegan like come on
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I don’t think I’ve ever made a new year resolution. But this year I’m going to stop telling people that I don’t eat meat. It’s not that I do eat meat – I don’t. The thing is, when I tell people that I don’t eat meat, I’m saying it to be polite. I use that form of words because I don’t want to offend people. So, from now on I’m going to be more honest. I’m just going to tell people that I don’t eat animals.
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I don’t even really have a favourite animal. I just don’t think animals are here for my entertainment, or to make me feel better. When I look into the eyes of an animal, I not only see into its soul, I also see a sentient being that might have similar concerns to me. Like the need for food, shelter, and comfort, not to mention love. So even if the meat industry had zero impact on the environment, and my health was guaranteed regardless of what I ate, I still could not eat animals.