1) Beekeeping Is Still Exploitation Of Animals, And Vegans Are People Against Animal Exploitation. It

1) beekeeping is still exploitation of animals, and vegans are people against animal exploitation. It is humans taking what animals make and using that for our own consumption and to make a profit. It is people deciding that they are free to take what animals worked to make. Bees living under a beekeeper are still livestock, which leads to

2) Ok, the first point is more of a politics/morality high matter, so let's talk more welfarism-adjacent stuff

- if bees consent... why do you need a protective suit and a smoke machine. It seems that bees do, in fact, not like other creatures taking their honey. They even have a reputation for this. They have stingers and even die while using them... to sting whatever creatures are trying to mess with their hive;

- the fact that they stay does not mean that they understand that their honey will be taken. They are bees, they don't sign contracts and they cannot foresee that staying in this cosy place will lead to a human eventually taking their honey;

- also who says people don't take as much honey as they want... we live in a capitalist society with everything being pushed to make a profit;

- it will be replaced with a sugary syrup/substance... oh hey, if, apparently, honey can be replaced by that for bees, maybe we should replace honey with that for humans 😯 oh, is it not the same? why is it acceptable to give it to bees then;

- regarding bees being able to leave. Yeah, cutting the queen's wings so it can't lead the hive off is a practice. Also you'll find guides online telling you how to prevent swarming. You know, when a part of a hive wants to leave, it's the bees' way of reproduction. And guides on how to catch wild bees. People do, in fact, prevent them from leaving;

- bees make honey to survive the winter. Speaking of which, btw, discarding hives for winter and just buying new bees for the new season might be cheaper than sustaining the bees the whole time, so some people do that too.

Honestly... honey is one of the easiest things to abandon as a vegan. There are plenty of syrups you can use. You can even make your own stuff from sugar and dandelions! I should try making that in August when they bloom again

isn't honey always vegan? because bees basically consent to being beekept, make more honey than they need, and can leave if they want to? /gen

according to my little knowledge on bees, I do believe that bees are able to produce more honey than they need. however, bees are not always kept kindly. the conditions are often not in the best interest of the bees themselves. some vegans will eat honey from beekeepers that they know do their due diligence to protect bees, and aren't focused on extracting honey. but many vegans just wanna be distanced from consuming animals & their by-products, as much as they're practically able to, so that they can detach from engaging in exploitative dynamics between humans and other animals.

circle

[ID: Four-panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.

Panel 1: Several people are sitting in a chair circle. One of them is visibly green, another is visibly pink with a bright blue jacket and orange pointy anime glasses. A third one is wearing a blue cap. The person in the middle, who is none of these things, leads the conversation.

Middle person: "All right everyone, time to do a hexcode circle! My hexcode is #000000, what are yours?"

Several people respond "#000000".

Panel 2: Zoom in on the green person and the middle person, with a third in between them.

Green: "Mine's #00FF00."

Middle: "Oh, but we're very inclusive here! You don't have to fit into primary hexcodes!"

Green: "...I prefer #00FF00."

Middle: "I'm just saying, if you want to go with something like #33BB33 that's fine! It would suit you!"

Panel 3: Zoom on the one with the blue cap.

Closeted Blue: "I'm uh... Well, um, uh, you see-"

Middle: "Oh, looks like we have exciting news!2

Closeted Blue: "...#000000. Sorry. I'm not uh. I'm grayscale. Can we move on?"

Panel 4: Zoom in on anime glasses.

Anime Glasses: "#LEG3ND."

Middle: "That's not a real hexcode!"

Anime Glasses: "I don't give a shit."

Middle: "I'm sure you can find a valid hexcode that suits you!"

Anime glasses: "You dipshits can't handle a visually green person using #00FF00, I'm not playing this game."

End ID.]

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When the anti "LGBT propaganda" law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.

If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about "being illegal in several countries" you better fucking care about the countries you're apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.

Make sure to spread this around. This is important.

Poll idea since I'm curious: Why don't you reblog the art that you like?

-I don't like the art that much

-I don't want to

-I forget

-I don't reblog anything

-I always reblog art I like

-I don't like or reblog art

-Nuanced answer (tags)

Thanks~!

Accessibility takes too goddamn fucking long.

My brother was paralyzed in October 2023. We got him home from the hospital (in Texas, when we live in Iowa) in a clunky old hospital chair. He hated it. He was scared and angry and in pain and his life had just changed forever and he couldn’t do anything for himself in that wheelchair. His first goal (aside from learning how to transfer) was to get a wheelchair. My family was lucky enough to afford one so we thought it would be easy enough. Nope.

We couldn’t buy him a wheelchair. He needed a prescription. For a wheelchair. A doctor had to examine him and declare him in need of a wheelchair. It wasn’t good enough that he had scans and tests showing tumors cutting off his spinal cord. He needed his primary care doctor to examine him during a physical and write a prescription. He was making 2-4 transfers a day, tops. He had no energy to get to a doctor. Home health was in and out every day. He had no time to get to a doctor. He didn’t get a prescription for almost a month. Then it had to go through insurance.

We asked if we could skip insurance and just buy a wheelchair for him. Nope. They wouldn’t sell us one, not even at full sticker price. It needed to be approved by Medicare. We ordered a wheelchair, a nice one, a good shade of green, sporty, small. It would let him move around the house. He would be able to cook, to reach drawers and get stuff from the fridge and brush his teeth and put his contacts in at a sink. We were told it would take awhile, maybe two months. Silently we all hoped he would be around to see two more months.

He went on hospice care on a Saturday in March. On Monday, I was calling his friends to come see him before he died. I got a call on his phone. It was the wheelchair company. They were about to order his wheelchair, she said, but there was an issue with insurance— had he stopped being covered by Medicare? Well, yes. When he started hospice care, he got kicked off Medicare. The very nice woman I talked to told me to call her if he resumed Medicare coverage so she could order his wheelchair. He died less than 12 hours later.

We ordered that chair for him in early December. Medicare didn’t approve the order until March. He was dead before they got around to it. He wanted that fucking wheelchair so badly. The only reason he had any semblance of independence and any quality of life for the last five months of his life was because the wheelchair company lent him an old beater chair, a very used model of the chair he ordered. If I could go back and change one thing about his end-of-life, I would get him his dream wheelchair. He told me again and again he couldn’t wait to get it, so that he could feel like a person again. He made the best of what he had with that old beater chair, but it still makes me mad to this day. He was paralyzed. He needed a chair that afforded him dignity. We had the money for it. And yet, we were left waiting for five months, for a chair that wouldn’t even get ordered until the day he died.

right now it's a variation of Caesar salad I make!

well, it started more like a Caesar, but I've been too lazy to make croutons lately so I've not been adding them 😅 And I started putting more veggies in there instead.

What I do is I buy some tofu from the store, press it, cut it up and let the pieces soak in soy sauce for at least a day. Then I rinse some salad, cucumber and bell pepper, cut them up and add together with the tofu pieces. I add some mayo, finely chopped garlic, curry seasoning (idk it's just labeled that way), tumeric and nooch (nutritional yeast).

Before it was more like a Caesar with croutons instead of cucumber and bell pepper. Also one time I've added some macaroni as carbs.

I think the seasoning makes it very delicios, I love it 😋

Before I started making this my fav was probably lentil burgers, but I'm making them less frequently now.

Also I love peanut butter jelly sandwiches... They fulfill the role of a dessert very well, I don't even need much else (although I do love buying some glazed curds (a thing where I live) or vegan cakes sometimes as a treat)

Actually I really wanna know: vegans and vegetarians! What is your favorite meal? Can be as specific or nonspecific as you want <3