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[late-stage-carnism]

It's perfectly fine to discuss the ways that animal agriculture allows zoonotic diseases to flourish, and that our culture of consuming animals is part of what led to this virus coming into our society.

But please stop blaming people (and especially Chinese people) for this virus. Please stop yelling at nonvegans for an action that they aren't even responsible for. Stop acting all smug and "this is all YOUR fault"-esc. Carnism is deeply ingrained into our society and you just so happened to be lucky enough to have something that took off the blinders. Don't act like you never thought like them or like they're just being willfully ignorant. We've all been socialized into thinking eating animals is okay and that isn't something that goes away overnight. It doesn't make it okay, but recognize that "taking off the blinders" is a privilege, in a weird sort of way.

Arguing with strangers on the internet in a nonproductive way (being overly hostile and accusatory) helps nobody. Stop it.

[bad-vegan-wolves]

if you’re a meat-eating American I don’t wanna hear jack all shit bout China’s wild animal markets out of your racist mouth

America started the trend of feeding animals antibiotics, a practice that increases presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in food and water. antibiotic-resistant bacteria kills around 35,000 people each year. while the CDC is trying to limit amount and type of antibiotic feed given to animals, there’s issues with enforcement, and the CDC warns that we’re entering a post-antibiotic era where antibiotics are pretty much useless.

yes, viruses can be more dangerous than bacteria, and keeping different kinds of animals together presents different risks than raising homogenous stock,

but we need to realize that raising animals in confined spaces and then eating those animals is, in general, a dangerous practice that creates humanity-threatening pathogens. this is not any one culture’s issue. 

anyway stay the fuck inside and wash your hands

[panatmansam]

Are we ever gonna be free again?

We’re still free. We’re just on a big old sleepover. Seriously, the illness will pass and these measures will limit its lethality. The world is learning how to cooperate. Meanwhile, my wife is working from a laptop at the kitchen table. Ann is watching Netflix with her boyfriend Nate and I am here talking to you folks.

It’s going to be fine. We’re going to be fine.

[panatmansam]

Will there ever be time travel?

Perhaps on the quantum level but perhaps not even then. The math just doesn’t check out or so I understand. 

Indeed, for we three-dimensional human beings there is neither past nor future. The past only exists in our brains as memory and that memory exists in the now.

This means since the only existence the past has is in the mind then we can visit this past by remembering.

Waking memory is terrible. We see as through a glass darkly. Ah, but DREAMING memory is perfect, crystal clear and more lifelike than real life. So, each of us travels back in time every night.

[thedailyzen]

Don’t be afraid to see concepts from multiple angles. Your view is not the only view.

[vero-in-technicolor]

Cleaning the oceans one step at a time

Two Australians created this container that collects plastic, paper, oil, fuel and detergent floating in the ocean. They want to implement it the middle of next year to clean up the sea worldwide. It seems a great idea. The only “but” as always is money, so they are raising funds to get to their goal. You can see their project and donations here.

[thedarkestlovee]

Fucking genius!

[demsaymention]

Boost!!👏🏾

[soggywarmpockets]

There’s only 9 days left and they aren’t even 35% funded. Boost and help them out!

[vikingcarrot]

7 days left, please help out if you can. Trash in the ocean is a massive, massive problem to the eco-system, food chain, climate and wildlife.

[serendibitedraws]

Pleaaaaase consider. My environmental science classes talked about this for months. There are literal Giant islands sub islands of plastic floating in our oceans it affects every country if you eat fish it affects you if you eat anything from the ocean it affects you if you eat from anything that has come from water it affects you please consider funding them.

[creepydead-deactivated20200809]

[gayemo]

Oh gosh i wish I could donate but ill reblog for those who can

[sun-pathos]

This is actually an old post and the donations here have been closed but you can still support them at their website: https://seabinproject.com

And this is how they’ve been doing thus far

[japanpix]

[OC] Snow monkeys in the Jigokudani Monkey Park

[panatmansam]

Is it wrong to assume that humans are more important than the rest of the animals on Earth?

Hmmm. Deep question.

“Important” is a subjective term which only has meaning within a particular context. Is a malaria-bearing mosquito’s life less important than the life of the physician who is treating the sick child? Is the malaria protozoa’s life more important than the life of the child? 

To us, of course, the child is more important. Yet, in nature, the answer is “no”.

No living organism has any preferential status in nature. So, then, it remains a subjective judgment on the part of human beings. We are notoriously irrational when it comes to attaching importance to an organism. Cute is a big factor. Baby seals are cute so we attach importance to them. 

Big is a factor. Whales are important because they are big. Shrimp? Not so much. Anthropomorphism is another factor. If an animal is perceived as being “like us” it is more important so cats and dogs are important because we perceive them to have emotions like we do.

Also, baby animals which share characteristics similar to baby humans i.e. large eyes, small noses are considered more important. You’ll stomp on a baby cockroach without remorse but lord help you if you stomp on a newly hatched chick. 

Now when that chick grows into adulthood we think very little of cutting its head off ripping off its feathers and disassembling its body to cook for supper. Whenever you clean your bathroom you are responsible for a microbe holocaust of the first degree. Millions, perhaps even billions of life forms will die under your chemical warfare of ammonia, alcohol, and chlorine. 

So, I suppose it is all a matter of perspective.

[typhlonectes]

No chlorophyll, no problem!

Pholisma arenarium, also known as Desert Christmas Tree and Sand Plant grows no leaves and lacks chlorophyll. The plant uses it’s long underground stem to attach to another plant’s roots and absorb that plant’s nutrients. Maybe Desert Grinch would be a more appropriate common name than Desert Christmas Tree for this parasitic plant! These two Pholisma arenarium were spotted near Indian Cove Campground at Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA.

via: Joshua Tree National Park

photograph by NPS/Hannah Schwalbe

[frammento]

“E pensavano che ciò che era successo prima era passato e per quieto vivere ci mettevano una pietra sopra, eppure ci stavano dentro, alle cose di prima, e ci tenevano dentro anche a noi, e così, senza saperlo, le continuavano.”

— Elena Ferrante, L’amica geniale

[gay-for-justice-deactivated2018]

Instrumentality

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Some days it storms, some days it shines. This is how flowers grow.”

— Pavana

[star-plasma]

[godlymatt]

I saw this photo just earlier today and i just had to post it here 

[panatmansam]

Love is not just about pop music and greeting cards. It is a real power in the universe. It is an emergent property which arises in the beings with the most highly developed brains which, on our planet, means mammals. In all the rest of the universe we know about, life is about taking from other life. Only love allows for one living being to place the interests of another above its own immediate interests.

[fiori-di-ren]

I do not love animals, not those I don’t know in person. I just respect them.

And by respect I mean I generally avoid hurting them. And segregating, beating, maiming, kidnapping, torturing, killing, forcefully inseminating or commissioning one of the above all go under ‘hurting’.

[love-jk]

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