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Like 80% of vegan discourse on this website is about enumerating situations where it's acceptable not to be vegan. Can you imagine if 80% of feminist discourse was men discussing situations in which their participation in the patriarchy is blameless? Sure, you can find examples if you try, but I think this hyperfixation on it belies a certain... barely disguised seething bigotry.

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listen, i care about animals and stuff and veganism is good for the environment and i think factory farming is wrong and i think it's important that we stand up for what we believe in. But I just think billie eilish should've qualified her statement by listing every possible moral exemption for eating meat. What do you mean that would've distracted from the message? What's that? A hundred billion animals died horribly in factory farms last year and I'm making this about myself? Of course it's about me, I felt uncomfortable for a second.

wontshaveforu

billie eilish says you can’t love animals and eat meat at the same time (and she’s right) and there are thousands of comments sayin she’s rich and she can’t tell people what to do and ohh it’s so easy for her. yeah it can be easier for her but when it’s a black poor vegan saying they are vegan bc they care about something bigger than them you also don’t listen. you don’t care. you just create excuses because you wanna keep harming and killing animals for your own good. instead of hating on billie you should look in the mirror.

#this #im also so so sick of people using indigenous people as scapegoats #most indigenous beliefs certainly dont aline with the factory farmed meat wrapped in plastic that youre buying at your supermarket

shamebats

"Veganism is anti-Indigenous" is a talking point non-Indigenous people use to avoid accountability, and it's literally the noble savage trope. It assumes we all hunt and fish, erasing Indigenous vegans, plant-based traditions, AND the fact that the meat and dairy industry is actively destroying Indigenous lands, waters, and food systems. Using us as a shield while buying your meat from the grocery store is tokenism. We're not your excuse.

Tiktok post by @ hiililylani (she/her).

"But what about-" what about them? Are YOU them? Is that YOUR case? If not, then stop using them as an excuse for why you walk past the black beans, tofu, lentils, and other affordable plant-based protein options in your grocery store to get your overpriced ground beef from a corporation that's destroying the Amazon rainforest to mass produce the cows yall can't stop eating.

vegspoblr

oh you can't go vegan because you love food? you see, that's not something vegans can relate to, because vegans don't like food. in fact, in my culture we hate food. we never eat and we actually think that eating is disgusting and offensive. unlike you, with your unique experience of "loving food" that prevents you from going vegan.

I love my public library, like- i could read anything i like for free? I can just go over there and get any season of doctor who that I want, on dvd to watch at home?

#gonna start studying library and info services next month #public libraries #support libraries

veganfairylights

the leftism leaving tumblr users' bodies as soon as veganism is mentioned

mellowcomet

im not only vegan for the animals. i'm vegan for the people who work on the killing floor at slaughterhouses who are deeply traumatized by the horrible acts theyre forced to commit. i'm vegan for small communities who rely on small-scale fishing to survive, who have ran out of fish to eat due to massive industrial overfishing by wealthy western countries. i'm vegan for anyone who will become a climate refugee in the future due to rising sea levels and natural disasters. i'm vegan for the wild birds suffering and dying from avian flu caused by industrial poultry farming. i'm vegan for the people in rural communities who have ancestral ties to land that was forcibly taken from them for the sake of factory farming.

human rights are animal rights and you cannot be truly vegan if you don't acknowledge the human suffering that's caused by factory farming too. veganism is part of intersectional fights for human rights. veganism is not the same as ecofascism. a significant percentage of the population going vegan is essential to secure the rights of marginalized communities and fight permanent disaster due to climate change. not literally everyone has to go vegan, everyone should see for themselves what they can do, and i am not forcing anyone into anything. but we need to treat mass animal abuse with the weight and seriousness it deserves.

katelouisepowell

Thinking about leftists who will advocate against brutality and read 500 page books about abuses of power but then laugh at the thought of taking animal rights seriously because they seemingly believe that might actually does equal right and that it’s okay to cause others to suffer as long as they’re perceived to be different enough from them

A lot of people say they’re fully against brutality, torture and exploitation *until* they have to actually analyse their own day-to-day habits, change their mindset and maybe adapt their behaviours in order to live by their own values (of not harming others for no good reason)

Until they do so, the mere mention of animal rights can provoke the kneejerk reaction of laughter and scorn, and violence remains okay to them because it’s what they want to do and it’s what everyone else is doing

Or people hide behind ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism’ when needless animal exploitation would still be unethical under socialism or another hypothetical future. ‘No ethical consumption…’ doesn’t mean ‘Let’s make the worst and most destructive choices possible, when we don’t need to, just because we can’

People will bring up the issue of subsidies/the way supply and demand doesn’t perfectly correlate as a reason for abandoning individual action, as though animal rights was solely about food choices and not dismantling the massive complex web of how we objectify and view other species as lesser and disposable (as tools/entertainment/fashion/sport)

People will advocate for things like the BDS movement and generally promote the idea of individuals joining up to build collective power to enact change until they’re faced with boycotting animal subjugation and suddenly it’s uhh everything is fucked we have no control no ethical consumption under capitalism sorrrry

People will talk all day long about fighting injustice in the abstract but scoff when confronted with the fact that the behaviours they enjoy partaking in cause harm and uphold a belief system that says that others should be harmed for the sake of the pleasure of those who hold power

So… unnecessarily inflicting unwanted pain on others is unjust except when it inconveniences you and interrupts your daily pleasure-seeking? You believe in justice and advocating for vulnerable groups unless their suffering benefits you? What kind of political stance is that

Calling yourself a leftist whilst supporting egregious, systemic violence inflicted on those with extremely limited power, committed on a scale our brains can barely comprehend, because… it feels good? because you’re in a position of dominance over those you pay to harm and you don’t want to stop? ok

(as always I’m talking about people who actively support the harm/exploitation of non-human animals for the sake of personal pleasure and convenience rather than those who are limited by their individual circumstances/surroundings. none of this is pointed at those who don’t have a choice)