highlordmugfug

Vegan 2008-death. And whatnot.

[a-trex]

NOTICE:

Due to the lack of cicadas so far this summer I will climb the trees and scream in their absence

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you are a black driver in USA, you should immediately install a dash cam facing the interior of your car.

[breakxxallxxrules]

I’m about to do that

[audreynical2]

This is one that has a built in mic and films both inside and outside the car with a rotating lens with night vision and saves footage on an SD card.  

It’s fairly low profile too (fits over your rear-view mirror) so even if a cop tries to take your phone, they may not notice it.  If the shit goes down with iPhone blocking people taking video, it wouldn’t affect this.

It’s good for car insurance claims as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Zero-F360-HD-Mirror/dp/B00E56WY18/ref=pd_ybh_a_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FFYMP56VQWH9QCDDX7Q2

[sourcedumal]

yeah. Definitely doing this

[lovehateink]

#Art by Yuma Yamashita #macabre #illustration #surreal

[acti-veg]

Anti-Vegan Arguments Debunked: Masterpost

Since it seems that every vegan is expected to constantly defend themselves regardless of their willingness or ability, I have created a list of what I consider to be the twenty most commonly used anti-vegan arguments and their rebuttals. These arguments are not intended to convert anyone, but to assist vegans who may struggle to defend themselves for whatever reason, whether it be cognitive difficulties, a lack of time to do the research required, or just not being naturally gifted debaters. You are free to reproduce these, copy and paste them, link them on your own site or post them elsewhere with or without credit. 

Eating animals is normal.

Eating animals is natural.

Eating animals is necessary.

Eating animals is a personal choice.

Eating animals is part of our culture/heritage.

Eating animals is ethical because it is legal.

Eating animals is okay so long as they are killed humanely.

It is okay to eat animals because we are top of the food chain.

Humans have always eaten animals.

Animals are bred to be eaten.

Plants are alive/ feel pain too.

Poor people can’t go vegan.

It is impossible to be 100% vegan.

Going vegan won’t save animals.

If we didn’t eat animals they would overpopulate/ go extinct.

God made animals to be eaten.

Humans are more important than animals.

Going vegan would put farmer’s jobs/ the economy at risk.

There isn’t enough land/water for everyone to go vegan.

Veganism ignores human suffering.

[stability]

[highlordmugfug]

One tree falling, 3 calls to the utility company, and 26 hours later and my power is still off.

[necessaryveganism]

The number of teenage boys I’ve seen getting shit from their “friends” for going vegan is ridiculous. Stay strong in fighting the pressure to be “real men” by pretending not to care about anything. 

[dopenmind]

I’m doing a thing.

[ambercxo]

UPDATE: Mark Hughes, who’s face & information was put all over the news & media accused of being the suspect who shot the Dallas police officers, speaks out after him & his brother Cory L. Hughes were released after being held in custody.

#BlackLivesMatter #RiseUp

[yungtarkatan-deactivated2018110]

Damn they lied through they teeth in an attempt to get an innocent man to take the fall. AND SHOULD BE REPRIMANDED in some form or fashion.

[highlordmugfug]

Pro-tip: police are allowed legally to lie their asses off to you to try and get you to confess to shit. They can, and will, tell you whatever they want regardless of how much of a load of crap it is to try to get you to confess to whatever they'd like to charge you with.

[allerasphinx]

shit just went down in dallas–apparently snipers shot 10 cops and some have died.

and as I type this there are white people using it to discredit protestors and black lives matter, and justifying why black people deserve to die… as I suppose an incident like this is intended to do.

people will not consider that there are white people who would kill their fellow white people in order to prove black people deserve to die by the hands of racist police.

this is not paranoia, or some fantasy, or conjecture, this is something that has happened for hundreds of years… and as a result black towns and businesses are burned to the ground and black people are lynched in retaliation.

[vegan-wastoid]

Why the fuck is fake meat made of plants seen as grosser than a literal corpse what is wrong with people 

[sassycassiesstuff]

D

[someboredidiot-deactivated20201]

Meat actually tastes great?

[vegan-wastoid]

You’re sure?

are you like, positive? 

I

had

literally

NO

idea

thank for

informing

me

[highlordmugfug]

Nothing but dense, selfish, ignorant shiteating mother fuckers, as far as the eye can see.

[vegan-wastoid]

Keep it up, you're doing good work. I am consistently polite and reasonably objective, but they still find reasons to hate me. I regularly message carnists who say they can't go vegan with factual resources that would 100% solve their issue along with genuine offers of help, 9 times out of 10 they tell me they don't care or to go fuck myself. They'll find reasons to hate us and blame us for their carnism no matter what we do. No one eats animals because we didn't ask them to stop nicely enough.

First, thank you <3 And second, I’m always happy to see your posts and arguments on my dash. You have so much patience to be able to be as polite as you are!

[revolutionarykoolaid]

I’m just done. Absolutely fucking done. The police executed another Black man tonight in Minnesota, as he attempted to comply with orders to produce an ID. He told officers that he had both a gun and conceal carry permit, but that he was reaching solely for his wallet. 

Philando Castile had a clean record according to his girlfriend, and worked in the public school system. He was murdered by police as his 4-year old daughter sat in the back seat. His courageous girlfriend did something I don’t have words for–she filmed the scene as Phil Castile bled out, while the pig did nothing to save the man he just shot point blank. The video streamed live on Facebook, but has since been taken down. It is still circulating on social media, however I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND watching it. It’s very graphic and triggering.

We didn’t even get a full 24-hours to mourn Alton Sterling before the murderous thugs stole another life. It’s beyond Black Lives Matter now. We need a revolution, we need liberation, by any means necessary. #farfromover

[lisasimpsonwannabe]

HOT DOGS AREN'T MADE OUT OF BIRD IM FI KONG PISSING UR SO DUMB

my bad i mistook the racist 4th of July for the other racist thanksgiving where u kill birds. but omg im sorry lemme reiterate: at least we don’t kill piglets and pigs and literally any other animal that bleeds and screams for some fucking hot dog you asshat

[vegan-wastoid]

literally there’s bird in hot dogs lmao nice try 

[gif-owl-blog]

This Needs to Stop

This post is directed at the blog @vegan-wastoid to call them out on why they’re not helping the vegan cause.

Ok. I have been a vegetarian for about a decade. I recently saw a video about the dairy industry and decided to go vegan. After all, why would I support the dairy industry but not the meat industry when the amount of cruelty is similar in both? Anyways, I was looking for vegan blogs to follow and came across yours. I thought you made many great points and was very passionate about animal rights. However, some of your posts have really upset me. I feel like the way you talk to some people sometimes comes across as rude and entitled. Anytime a meat eater makes a comment about why they aren’t vegan, you go on this rant, calling them assholes, dicks, saying “lmao” to their comments and questions, etc etc. and basically tell they’re terrible people for eating the way they do. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.

 First of all, why is this necessary? By belittling people and calling them names, I feel like you are not contributing to the vegan cause. You want more people to be vegan right? Why would someone want to become vegan if people like you in the vegan community treats them so disrespectfully? Hate only breeds more hate and if you treat someone like that they’re most likely not gonna be nice to you or subscribe to your cause. Sure, there are a lot of hateful carnists that bash on veganism every chance they get. But there are also meat eaters who grew up in a society where eating meat is a normal, socially acceptable thing to do and where animal’s lives are below the lives of human beings and their abuse is swept under the rug. What they need is not you telling them they’re assholes, but rather you giving them education on why being vegan is important. I think more people would be likely to consider being vegan if this were the case. People don’t tend to react well when they’re treated this way for something they’ve done their whole life and think is perfectly acceptable. This is the exact reason why a lot of society will call vegans entitled pricks. Because some of them will treat the meat eaters around them like trash which in turn makes everyone think all vegans are like that, which isn’t true.

Second, why do you care so much why someone becomes a vegan? Why does it have to be about animals rights and nothing else? It’s like you’re saying “I want more people to become vegan, but if it isn’t about animal rights then they don’t deserve to be vegan”. This makes no sense. If someone wants to become vegan because it’s better for the planet, why should it matter? Another human being just became vegan, which is what veganism needs to grow. Be thankful that for some reason someone else became vegan. If someone wants to be vegan because it’s good for the environment then leave them alone and let them be vegan rather than hating on them because they didn’t do it for the reasons you want them to. The environment is just as important as the animals that inhabit it and if we don’t care about it, then there won’t be a planet for those animals to live on will there? And as far as doing it for dieting reason, who cares. Maybe they have a negative body image and think being vegan will change that. Maybe they feel crappy because their current diet causes health risks and they want to look and feel better and not die at a young age because they fill themselves with junk food. Or even better, why can’t someone be vegan for all 3 of those reasons? Why does it have to just be about animal rights and nothing else? Just let it be and be proud that someone became vegan and is showing their support.

Thirdly, it would do a lot of good to the vegan cause if vegans like you learned to put yourselves in other people’s shoes. A meat eater might ask you a legitimate question regarding veganism such as “isn’t it expensive?” or “isn’t it the circle of life to eat animals?”. Rather than calling them assholes for being meat eaters in the first place and giving them a rude response simply because they ask, why don’t you show them facts? Add links to websites or videos that explain it? Why do you have to come across as so rude to people who just wanna know your answer? You don’t know, maybe they’re considering becoming vegan and want more information on why it’s a good thing. Maybe they were raised to think animal abuse is acceptable or doesn’t matter and they don’t understand why you’re vegan. Maybe they really do just wanna be disrespectful and hate on vegans, but hating them back doesn’t help the situation. They would be a lot more likely to hear you out if you treated them with a little respect and educated them rather than hate them.

All in all, I thought going in to your blog I would find passionate people who cared about the need for veganism and want to spread education about veganism. What I got instead was someone treating meat eaters disrespectfully because of who they are. I am in no way trying to come across as disrespectful or rude. I am simply so tired of vegans getting labeled as entitled and preachy simply because of some vegans who act that way. I was actually hesitant to become a vegan because I already get enough hate as a vegetarian as it is. I don’t want people to grow up in a world where vegetarianism and veganism are seen in such a negative way. What they should be seen as are positive movements that would make the world a better place. Yes the world needs to change. Yes the world is sick and messed up and there are a lot of terrible things that happen to animals and the environment. But, there is still a lot of good in it and a lot of vegans need to learn to see that. Pessimism and negativity and hate are not going to make the world a better place. Vegans as a whole are not the issue here. The issue is vegans that want to rant and rave and give veganism a bad reputation by yelling at every meat eater they see. It would do the world a lot more good if rather than hating every person around them, vegans like you chose to educate people, especially the younger generation who are so easily effected, and made veganism what it truly is. A beautiful movement born from animal rights that could hopefully one day save the Earth and the people and animals that inhabit it. 

[vegan-wastoid]

1. the people I call dicks are 100% dicks. Take notice of the commenters who aren’t being rude and how I respond to them 

2. Those people I’m rude to aren’t going to change. You need to understand, they’re never going to change. @acti-veg and @necessaryveganism, both of whom are eons more polite than I am, get the same amount of “you’re right, I’m going vegan” replies as I do. Which is pretty close to none. The reason they eat meat isn’t because I’m rude it’s because they’re selfish pricks who want to keep being selfish pricks. Changing my tone won’t fix that.

3. I never uselessly bash anyone. Any reply I make is informative and factual. 

4. I’m pissed off. I have every right to call assholes assholes. I have every right to be angry and reply angrily. 

5. I care about why people go vegan because unless you’re vegan for the animals, you’re not vegan. There is no, “I’m against racism because it’s good for gender equality.” they’re two separate movements that happen to intersect at some points.  Veganism is an animal rights movement. Dont turn it into a health fad and don’t turn it into an environmental cause. 

6. Unless you’re vegan for the animals, you’re more than likely not even vegan. Veganism is “a lifestyle choice which excludes all forms of animal exploitation, including food, clothing, personal products, and entertainment.” If you’re “vegan” for the health, you’ll still wear leather because that doesn’t effect your health. If you’re “vegan” for the environment, you’ll still use animal-tested products because that doesn’t effect the environment. If you’re 100% vegan, it’s for the animals. 

7. If you want to eat a plant-based diet, go ahead. If you want to eat a plant-based diet for environmental reasons, go ahead. But don’t call yourself vegan.

8. I’m not apathetic about the environment. But veganism is about the animals, not the environment. What happens when eating meat becomes sustainable? 

9. I couldn’t give less of a shit about the health aspects

10. I literally do. Like I said in point 3. I never go off on someone without backing up what I’m saying. 8/10 I provide links and sources. I would all the time but I have to type them out by hand. I always reply with information. 

11. I’m an asshole. I’m not going to get any nicer. I’m tired and I’m angry. People aren’t going to change no matter how polite I am. Feel free to unfollow and ignore my posts.

[threeknees]

Plenty of vegans start off trying to be nice and polite but it gets hard with stupid relentless fucking comments and trolling, and seeing all the pain and suffering and how people are willing and ready to make excuses and jokes about it. It just gets hard and some people get jaded fighting the same fight day in and day out while trying to remain cordial

[cadypillar]

I know that not everyone is well-versed in veganism, and I try not to criticize those who just don’t know things, but one of the most common questions I get is, “But how do you make sure you’re getting enough protein??”. Here’s the answer. And I’m happy to report that my recent bloodwork showed that my protein levels are PHENOMENAL, in fact they are better than when I wasn’t vegan! Probably because I wasn’t really paying attention to making sure i was getting enough protein in my diet when I was still eating meat and animal byproducts. So hooray for vegan protein!

[acti-veg]

You’ll also notice that almost every single one of these healthy sources of protein are pound for pound significantly cheaper than meat.

[a-compassionate-dragon]

Do you know what I find odd? In all of the anti-Yulin and anti-dog meat petitions, not a single one of them calls for the more ‘humane’ slaughter of dogs, ‘organic’ dog meat or ‘free range certified’ dog meat. There’s no big campaigns from celebrities calling for better treatment of ‘meat’ dogs. It’s always a call to completely abolish the dog meat industry and put a stop to eating dogs and the Yulin festival forever, not a call for giving dogs bigger cages or better food etc. Most people would bite your head off if you suggested ‘humane dog slaughter’ or ‘happy dog slaughterhouses’. 

But yet campaigning for ‘happy beef’, ‘humane pork’ and ‘free range chickens’ goes completely unquestioned, and those who call for an abolition to the industries that kill these animals are pretty much shat all over.