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“If you pay people to abuse and kill animals you can’t say you’re against animal abuse” has to be the most obvious statement in the world but people really don’t want to believe it because it forces them to think about the consequences of their actions.

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anyway. Love is the point

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So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

acti-veg

Make no mistake, this isn’t just Republicans being evil for no reason; animal agriculture industries have lobbied parties across the political spectrum for decades to allow the culling of native populations, particularly predators, and they’ve been very successful at doing so. Once the area’s natural predators are gone, they then claim that they need to cull the population of prey animals like deer as well, which is what is currently happening all over the Americas and in many parts of Europe. This, alongside clear cutting for grazing land, deforestation to grow feeder crops and pollution, is one of the key reasons why meat based diets are responsible for 60% of all biodiversity loss.

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theroguefeminist

i did some research and got to the root of the misunderstanding about the strike dates

it looks like, originally, the spanish workers were going to strike from July 10th-12th due to the working conditions at the san fernando warehouse - which is a MAJOR location for amazon spain where millions of packages are handled. but after making some progress with negotiations with amazon they called off the strike and held more meetings ahead of prime day, keeping a possible strike on prime day on the table if amazon didn’t cooperate

AT THIS POINT THE PRIME DAY STRIKE IS ON, from July 16-18, according to their official twitter.

just to be clear; the misinformation about the dates wasn’t due to random claims pulled out of nowhere - at one point this was the ACTUAL time of the strike, it just changed in the course of negotiations

so again - don’t bite people’s head’s off for wrong information during unfolding current events. those details were true at one time. then changed. it’s in the spanish news. probably not in american news bc amazon owns everything here and bc america tends to ignore shit happening in europe. i used google translate to read spanish articles on the topic there’s a lot out there if you use key terms like “amazon huelga ”

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Amazon workers on strike in France

commonvegan

- Veganism is about avoiding animal products & exploitation as far as is possible and practicable. - Veganism is about doing the best you can given your situation. - Veganism is not about perfection.

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thatdiabolicalfeminist

a lot of people are talking about how it’s pointless to boycott Amazon during the strike bc Amazon has so many subsidiaries that it seems impossible to avoid them all for a week.

but the strike is about warehouse workers for Amazon.com specifically.

if you can avoid whole foods and audible etc. during the strike, go for it!! but the really essential piece is that you do not purchase anything from Amazon.com for the duration of the strike. it’s okay to be specific here.

it is better to do something than nothing, and in this case, no one is even expecting a boycott of all the subsidiaries – the part that will be most traceable to the strike will be the drop in purchases from Amazon.com anyway.

Do not visit Amazon.com until 17 July 2018 or until the strike ends, whichever happens last.

gaydelgard

people are talking about it like it’s just the 10th but please prime day here is not until the 16th/17th

please observe the whole week long strike

emptydragonseverywhere

tumblr is massively wrong about the Amazon strike and there are a few key people trying to get the right information out and y’all are too focused on sticking it to Amazon to bother getting it right. @brainstatic started noticing yesterday that the dates people were posting were funky and @janothar started posting that even the Spanish strike isn’t starting on the 10th and yet y’all are still spreading this like it’s fact. I honestly have not seen a damn thing about the strike literally ANYWHERE but tumbr so I decided to use our good friend google and here’s what I’ve found. On July 10, 2018, Reuters reported that the Spanish workers will participate in a 3 day strike starting on July 16. NOT July 10. The strike is also, according to this article, NOT across all of Spain or all of the EU but only at ONE location - the San Fernando warehouse. It is already the second walk out this warehouse is doing this year, but y’all weren’t even aware of the first one and now are misrepresenting this one. EuroWeekly News stated the same thing as Reuters.

As of this morning (July 11, 2018)), the Independent is reporting that activists are asking consumers not to participate in Prime Day sales to support striking workers. Not asking for a week-long boycott, just a boycott of Prime Day. The Independent also confirms Reuters’ reports that the strike is ONLY 1000 Spanish workers - it does not start on the 10th and it is not an international strike.

There are a handful of other sites reporting that the strike started on the 10th and that other EU countries are participating; however, as @brainstatic pointed out already, these all link back to the same .info site that is not reliable and is not backed by reliable news sources (unlike Reuters, which is a reliable news source). The Observer article that links to the .info site above also literally uses tumblr’s “the boycott starts on the 10th” as a source for the boycott starting on the 10th… meaning that TUMBLR started those rumors, not the Observer article, and there is no reliable source for the boycott starting on the 10th other than the fact that y’all made that shit up and some online news source picked it up and ran with it. You can’t use an article that sites you as the source as a source for your bullshit. Got it? If you want to support the striking workers, know when they are striking and what they want from you. Know what the actual activists involved are calling for. Know when and where the strike is taking place. As of right now, the strike is ONLY in Spain, it is 3 days long starting on the 16th, and it is ONLY focused around Prime Day. It did not start yesterday on the 10th. It is primarily about raising wages and other similar issues in Spanish factories, which are unionized already. It is not about people dying in American Amazon factories. Having half-assed, half-researched boycotts here and there that do not correspond to the strikes and are not well coordinated is not going to make a point. Having an organized, well-informed, large movement is what gets your point across. So stop what you’ve been doing and do this right. Boycott Prime Day and stop spreading misinformation.

salty-vegan

Your taste preference is never worth more than the life of an animal.

I give 0 shits how much you love cheese or steak; your joy from eating animal products is not worth their exploitation and suffering.

bigforeheadbitch

-don’t forget the suffering of overworked brown folks & children who arduously harvest and pick & package your fruits n veggies

-don’t forget the lack of access to healthy foods in the hood

white vegans i fucking swear 🙄

salty-vegan

If we’re discussing crop picking, please keep in mind that livestock requires far more crops to feed than vegan diets do, so by eating animal products crop pickers are working much harder to pick enough soy and corn to feed animals meant for consumption. Yes vegans eat more vegetables than the average omnivore but when it comes to overal crop usage, vegans use statistically the least amount.

Not to mention, as has been said in this post by another response already, slaughterhouse and factory farm workers are often underpaid, undocumented people of color who work in literal hell and end up developing PTSD and having serious mental and physical issues for life from working in the animal agriculture industry.

Finally I realize food deserts are a serious problem, that’s not what I’m addressing here. Everyone should do their best to be vegan as much as they can, and my point is that taste preference is never as important as doing your best to save animals and our environment. Even if it’s just cutting out meat when it’s possible, or not eating dairy; Any effort is better than no effort.