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If you’re vegan, you can eat honey. Don’t worry, it doesn’t harm bees or their colonies and hives. Beekeepers make absolute sure their bees are healthy and comfortable.
Please please reconsider making such claims like this without doing the research beforehand. I understand honey can seem like a complicated issue in regards to veganism, but it helps nobody to spread misinformation, no matter how unintentionally.
First off, standard practices in commercial beekeeping for honey include killing off entire hives before winter to reduce costs, artificial insemination, a process where which male bees are crushed and drained of their semen, which is then forcefully inserted into a queen bee, ripping the wings of queen bees to prevent them from flying away and taking all or most of the honey bees produce, and replacing it with a harmful sugar syrup substitute that is thought to contribute to the development of disease in honeybees because it does not provide the proper nutrition and may produce a toxin under heat that kills the honeybees. Honey bees make exactly enough honey for themselves, and when they make extra it is as storage food for winter periods where bees cannot otherwise find food easily. Honey making is also an incredibly exhaustive process for bees and taking ANY of their honey is harmful to bees, both those being exploited and wild bees whose populations are being damaged as a result. Honey is in no imaginable way vegan.
There are also environmental issues when it comes to the commercial production of honey with commercial honeybees threatening wild bees and other insects vital to our environment as the species of bee used for honey production (Apis mellifera) are not even close to being endangered and the honey industry only helps increase numbers of these domestic honey bees, not wild bee populations. This is a big problem since these domestic bees they exploit for honey are actually extremely threatening to wild bees populations, wild bees that are better pollinators and are crucial to the environment.
Some links;
~ Bitesizevegan has a great short video on the subject (here)
~ @acti-veg article on honey
~ Bee’s and their emotional lives
~ Info on Bee’s brains!
~ Managed honeybees linked to new diseases in wild bees, UK study shows
~ There are some great vegan substitutes to honey! and more (here
~ Some great ways to help bees which include providing shelter for bees if you have space, without taking their honey or making a profit from them as well as planting and keeping bee-friendly flowers in your garden.
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Neonicotinoids are washing off of their host seeds and into water bodies—threatening not just aquatic insects but the birds that rely on them.
Neonicotinoids are washing off of their host seeds and into water bodies—threatening not just aquatic insects but the birds that rely on them.
A 2015 study by the U.S. Geological Survey found neonics in 63 percent of water samples taken from 48 streams. In Canada, researchers detected at least one neonic—there are seven types on the market—in 91 percent of wetlands. Unlike many liquid pesticides, neonics can persist and accumulate in ponds for months, if not years. In other words, says the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable agriculture, neonics are “almost tailor-made to contaminate the environment…”
Whaling in Japan
There has been an international outrage over the fact that Japan could resume whaling as early as next week, as well there should be. It’s interesting to note though, that Japan has essentially just been making the exact same argument that hunters, fishermen and meat eaters themselves have been making for decades: It is part of our culture.
Really, how is this any worse than commercial fishing? The Japanese whaling fleet is comprised of five vessels employing only 300 people, compare that to the fishing industry, with trillions of fish killed and an estimated 300,000 dolphins, and porpoises dying from entanglement in fishing nets each year, making this the single largest cause of mortality for small cetaceans. The fishing industry is far, far worse for whales than whaling itself is, it is emptying our oceans and causing catastrophic environmental harm. Even in terms of raw impact, whale meat comes at a substantially lower carbon cost than beef, which a fact that Japan themselves are pointing out in their own defence.
It is perfectly right that the Japanese government and whaling industry should face heavy criticism over this, but it’s deeply problematic that they can pretty much blunt all of this criticism on the basis that the rest of the world is doing the exact same thing, for the same reason, just to different animals. This, alongside the dog meat industry, is the sort of activity which can’t reasonably be argued against if you’re already eating other animals. We should all be outraged about whaling, but we should apply some of that same anger to the animals on our own plates, too.
Important:
If you live in the uk and have rabbits, get them vaccinated as soon as possible.
There is a highly infectious disease going around that kills rabbits in 24hrs with no symptoms and no cure, called RVHD2 - Rabbit viral haemmorhagic disease 2.
All three of our rabbits have just passed away within a week of each other.
This post was made 23rd june 2019, from south west uk.
Please boost if you can.
Spreading for any European bunny owners
Anybody know of some good vegan sunscreen? I can only find one that I may like but it's pretty expensive. Its $15.99 for a three ounce bottle.
Amazon.com: All Good Sport Sunscreen Lotion - Zinc Oxide - Coral Reef Safe - Water Resistant - UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum - SPF 30 (3 oz): Beaut
I want it to be vegan, cruelty free, reef safe, but also water resistant because I tend to sweat and dont want it to wash off (also I want to go swimming this summer).
your pet is not ‘spoiled’ because you gave it food, water, vet care, and other basic necessities. you owe it to your pet to take the best care of them that you possibly can. when people point out ways to improve your care, it isn’t an attack on you - it comes from a place of respect and love for that animal. if you love your pet, spend time working to take care of them in the best way possible. research before, not after you bring a new pet home. continue researching and learning through your pet’s life; never stop trying to improve your care.
your kids aren’t spoiled for receiving basic care either!!!!
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awww its purring
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yes bitch I hope you suffer I hope you fucking feel pain
CONSIDER FIREFOX
Firefox? we don’t know him sis
🅱️lease do not torture your computer fans like this.
i have a fan desk thingy as well
My computer doesnt even have to have crome open to do this to me
I had a veggie burger at lunch today. Sadly it wasnt vegan because I found out the bun had milk and egg in it. But it was good, the only thing was that the mushrooms I ordered with it made it taste a little off.
Well actaully I guess the veggie burger could have egg or butter in it too....
UK: *declares climate emergency*
UK: “let’s keep printing new money on plastic and coat it in animal fat because we can”
vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why
people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
This is not true.
1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.
2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.
Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?
Because I am!
Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.
But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.
Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.
I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.
If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).
But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Please 🐝
Also if I can harp on the chicken part?
Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.
Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS
Many people take to raising their own hens because of America’s immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you’re not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you’re just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find
Yeah, as someone who like… lives on a chicken and duck farm… Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs!
Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not… By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if there’s a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!
Also - once a month? Like thousands of years ago maybe? Because Grandpa had chickens he literally let just roam around his farm and built coops and scattered corn for them and I helped collect the eggs, and believe me, those chickens each laid more than once a month.
As a beekeeper…what the fuck? No we don’t take all the honey. That would be downright ridiculous.
Reblogging for the bee facts. Love me some bees. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
And chicken facts!
Listen to the farmers and beekeepers. They know what they’re talking about, since they actually are interacting with bees and farm animals on a more or less day to day basis, @feminist-james
@acti-veg
(Sorry if you’ve seen this already, I figured I’d tag you)
“Listen to the farmers and beekeepers” as if they don’t have a vested interest in everyone believing what they do isn’t wrong? Cognitive dissonance is strong, and I’m sure they like to believe that they’re being super extra nice to the animals whose livlihood and excretions they’re stealing and exploiting, but they’re not. @acti-veg please talk some sense into these people
There is some good information here, but I just want to point out the fact that wild hives and even urban hives which aren’t managed do absolutely fine without humans taking and selling their honey. To suppose that the proper management of hives (the thing which bees have been managing all by themselves for hundreds of thousands of years) requires human intervention is frankly very silly. What we call “excess honey” is actually winter food storage. Yes it can ferment, yes it can attract predators, but that’s part of a natural process. Bees don’t need to be “saved” from themselves, and the idea that they do is part of a long-held, convenient narrative in which animals need be rescued from their state of nature by those who profit from their exploitation.
Bees need a helping hand now because of what we as a species have done to them and their habitat, but profiting from their honey is fairly obviously not the best way to save bees, as much as honey producers who stand to profit from the “save the bees by buying honey” narrative. While may beekeepers are hobbyists who go to great pains to look after the welfare of their hives, to discuss this issue as if that is the standard everywhere is very naive. Commercial honey production is a business, and like any business involving animal agriculture, profit usually comes before welfare. It is unwise to take any of this at face value when this information is coming from people who have a significant vested interest in the public’s perception of the honey industry.
Bees are often cruelly treated and exploited for profit by the honey industry. Queen bees are often artificially inseminated and many beekeepers cut off their wings to prevent them leaving the hive. It is standard practice for commercial operations to take all or most of the honey bees produce, and replace it with a sugar syrup substitute. When harvesting, beekeepers often use smoke to purposely disorient and panic bees, and some will even burn entire hives during winter to reduce costs. Even putting aside the harm caused to bees, making a profit out of the life’s work of other beings is exploitation, and harvesting honey is quite simply taking something which isn’t ours to use. Frankly, the fact that taking the food source of bees who work their entire lives to produce it is not essential to “saving them” should be intuitively obvious.
Apis mellifera, the species of bee we use for most honey production, are not even close to being endangered; but thousands of lesser known species are. The honey industry only boosts numbers of these captive bees, when in fact, wild bees are better pollinators and their populations are being threatened by the presence of domestic honey bees. Many diseases that have only ever existed in domestic bees are also spreading to wild bee populations and placing them in very real danger, this is thought to be a direct result of the commercial production of honey. If you are interested in helping bee populations, you can provide shelter for bees without taking their honey or making a profit from them. This, as well as planting and maintaining bee friendly flowers in your garden, is one of the most effective ways to genuinely help bees, rather than just helping their owners.
While chickens do produce eggs on their own with no encouragement from us, the volume they produce is highly unnatural. This is because chickens have been intensively bred to overproduce eggs for human consumption. The Wild Jungle Fowl, the closest wild relative to our domestic hens, lay somewhere between 10-15 eggs per year in only two clutches, whereas our modern farmed chickens can lay more than 300 eggs per year. This is extremely energy intensive for the chickens concerned, and is the loss of these calories and vitamins can cause a wide range of health problems. It is better for the chickens if they are allowed to eat their eggs instead, so that they can restore their invested calories, protein and energy. This means that the chickens are benefiting from their own production, rather than us.
We’ve all been conditioned to think of a chicken eating their own egg as strange, but chickens will actually do this anyway without any human intervention. In fact, if you type “chickens eating their own eggs” into any search engine you’ll be presented with almost nothing but advice articles and problem pages from farmers to try to get their chickens to stop doing this, or as they put it, to “break them out of this bad habit.” That “bad habit” being their natural way of regaining lost calories and energy from overproducing eggs. If you have hens and they don’t do this by themselves, cracking the shells will usually do it, otherwise chickens love to eat eggs mashed up or scrambled. Either way, feeding eggs back to the chickens means that they get to benefit from what they produce, rather than us taking it from them.
This concept that it matters who benefits from what hens produce is an important one, and it’s the primary reason why taking eggs from captive hens is unethical. An animal shouldn’t have to pay “rent” for their care, and they shouldn’t need to be exploited for us to keep them safe and healthy. Whether or not animals are being treated well is irrelevant, because their producing something for us to enjoy should not be a requisite for us maintaining their welfare. This is not a case of a symbiotic relationship, as is often claimed with animal farming, since chickens do not have the capacity nor the opportunity to enter into this relationship willingly, nor are they able to leave them if they would rather you didn’t take what they produce. Using another being for your own personal gain is clearly exploitation, and even if that isn’t the primary reason you keep chickens, we shouldn’t need to find ways to benefit from our relationships with animals in order to care for them properly.
Taking eggs from backyard hens is not even close to being the most significant animal rights issue in the world, but it is part of a wider narrative where animals are subject to us and it is okay to take from them whatever we want so long as it benefits us. Whether or not animals are being treated well is irrelevant, because their producing something for us to enjoy should not be a requisite for us maintaining their welfare. Considering the fact that chickens clearly benefit from eating their own eggs, taking them because we like the way they taste is a clear demonstration that we think that think of our desires and preferences as inherently more important than theirs. Rescued chickens should be pets and companions, treated no differently and valued no lower than our dogs or cats. It is not for us to decide that it is okay to take something from them which they make, which they spend energy and time producing, just because we like the way it tastes.
So in summary, what vegans object to in cases of either the commercial or back yard production of eggs or honey, is primarily exploitation. You can make all the arguments you want about how you don’t take all their honey (despite the fact that we both know some keepers absolutely do do that), or about how chickens produce eggs anyway, but it cannot reasonably be argued that we need to take anything from these animals. Bees should benefit from their own honey, and chickens should benefit from their own eggs; you can provide shelter and food for both birds and bees without ever making a profit from them. There are arguments which attempt to justify exploitation of these animals, but absolutely none which defend the necessity of it.
As vegans, we believe that animals are not ours to exploit for personal gain, and that we should not seek to profit from their bodies or what they produce. We don’t object to keeping bees or chickens, we only object to taking what is not ours. The idea that these animals require us to profit from their bodies in order to survive is a self-serving fantasy, that what is “best for them” just so happens to also be what is profitable for us is a convenient lie. Animals don’t need help from humans to fulfill their basic biological functions, they did just fine for a few millions years before we started exploiting them, and if given the chance, they’ll continue to do so long after we are gone.
My boyfriend's brother and sister in law are anti-vax, and they have a two month old. My boyfriend's mom is trying to convince them to vaccinate.
I fucking hate anit-vaxxers for spreading this bullshit.
I stilllllll have yet to have someone logically argue why natural service is more humane than AI
literally all their complaints come from a place of sexualizing cows and that’s the Tea
I think humans breeding cows for milk production in general is disgusting.
Never said cows aren’t sexual animals. All things that reproduce by sex are sexual animals. You are the ones saying that they want to have sex so badly that they harm themselves.
We just shouldn’t be breeding them for milk, beef, etc. Either by ai or by keeping them in a pen with a bull. Their “products” are not ours to take, and it’s entirly possible to live your life without harming them.
I say its more humane in a sense that if we were breeding cows, to say, keep as pets, it would be the most natural way to do it. I know animals rape each other in the wild, but dont think that they they have no concept of consent. For example they know how to attack or run away from someone/something trying to kill them. They would have the freedom to attempt to buck that bull off of them or run away if they didnt want it. Ai restrains them and they have absolutely no freedom to run away.
You don’t need to restrain them to do AI.
They don’t want to have sex, they want to get pregnant. There’s no benefit to getting harassed by an aggressive bull for hours at a time other than getting pregnant. They only mate when they’re able to get pregnant. I feel like if it was the sex they were interested they would do it more than for just 6-12 hours a month.
I personally see nothing wrong with collecting animal products from well-cared for animals. We act as stewards for their species and provide for them, they provide us with food. It’s symbiosis. Both parties need to pull their weight but when they do there’s nothing wrong with it as far as I’m concerned.
And no they don’t have any concept of consent. They have “in heat” or “not in heat”. If they’re in heat they’ll stand, if they’re not in heat they’ll move away.
See that’s where we differ. I see talking animal products as wrong and exploitative. We feed and shelter you therefore we are entitled to your life, freedom, and labor. It isnt okay to do it to humans. (To most of the world.) Why is it okay to do it to animals?
Cattle aren’t humans, though. Our brains are wired completely different than that of ANY other creature on this planet. Livestock don’t understand nor care about things like ‘freedom’ or ‘exploitation’. Although they definitely do experience emotions, they aren’t able to conceptualize long-term goals and have little self-consciousness compared to humans. Animals like cattle only think about what’s happening to them at any given moment. They are only interested in: reproduction (w the exception of castrated males), access to food/water, space, shelter from the elements, and mental stimulation.
Given that we provide our animals with all they need to live out healthy lives free of stress, there is nothing morally wrong with using them for our food.
Cattle definitely have the capacity to understand that they don’t want to be hurt or be killed.
No creature wants to. But which is better?
1) death via stunning by captive bolt gun immediately following by bleeding out, which involves only an instant of pain if done right. Or:
2) death via natural causes. This includes dying of old age, predators, and illness/injury. These deaths are more prolonged and involve lots of suffering and immense stress on the animal.
Very few animals living in the wilderness will experience a painless death. Humans have designed modern abbatoirs to minimize fear in animals, and we have an economic incentive to do so, too: livestock that are calm at the time of death produce higher quality meat. There is no reason for farmers to make their animals suffer at all.
This is what it means when you hear people say that livestock and those who raise them have a mutualist relationship. We give the animals a good and stress-free life, and in return they benefit the environment (if properly managed) and are later killed in the quickest way possible so that their bodies can be used for a variety of purposes.
I'm sorry but all the slaughterhouse and factory farm footage does not tell me that it looks stress free. If it was stress free, why are the animals desperately trying to escape the production lines. You don't think taking a calf from their mother isn't stressful?
Humans die of old age. Are you saying we shouldnt let people get old cause they could they could devolop diseases? Not to mention a lot of these animals get really sick with the conditions they are kept in. Why do you think they are pumped with tons of antibiotics?
Yes the wilderness is violent. But we are talking about capitve animals here, not the wild. No one is suggesting that we release all the cows into the wild. What will happen is the demand for milk will go down, so farmers stop breeding their cows. The leftover cows will be sent to sanctuaries, or be continued on as a pet.