go vegan

ethical veganism. animal rights. this is a sideblog. main blog is hotaru5

[defend-animals]

[apas-95]

[sraithpics]

David Cleary!

[aiteanngaelach-deactivated20241]

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

[undeadentropy]

Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it's a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.

[stele3]

if you complain about the Chinese government covering up Tianamen Square, then complain about this, too.

[cosmicfandomvegan]

Then only privilege going on here is being so privileged you believe your taste buds are more important than another individual’s life.

source: emptycages.vegan

[shamebats]

Someone also pointed out in the notes of one of my posts that black Americans are 3x more likely to be vegan than the national average, despite also being much more likely to be low income. I looked if up and sure enough:

Why black Americans are more likely to be vegan

African Americans are almost three times as likely to be vegan than white Americans.

"[...] nowhere has the vegan diet taken off more than in the African-American community. According to Pew Research Center survey, 8% of black Americans are strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to just 3% of the general of the population.

Those findings mirror a 2015 poll by the Vegetarian Resource Group, that found 8% of black people were strictly vegetarian, compared to 3.4% overall.

Recently, a January poll by Gallup found that 31% of non-white Americans had reduced their meat consumption in the past year, compared to only 19% of white Americans."

Vegans are a diverse bunch and globally, it's the rich white countries that consume the biggest quantities of animal products, at the expense of the poorest, who suffer the most from the consequences of the environmental damage caused by mass animal ag.

If you associate veganism with rich white people, you've fallen for propaganda and might want to look up the origins of vegetarianism and veganism, at least if you don't want to come off ignorant and racist.

[shamebats]

English translation of the poem "I No Longer Steal From Nature", written over 1000 years ago by the blind medieval Arab poet and philosopher Abu ‘L’Ala Ahmad ibn ‘Abdallah al-Ma’arri:

I No Longer Steal From Nature - Gentle World

The following poem was written in around 1000 AD by a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer named Al-Ma’arri: AD 973 - 1058.

[shamebats]

Also this what al-Ma’arri ate:

Lentils and figs.

[alone-in-a-cafe]

I'm pretty sure most anti-vegans will just scroll past this post or have the point completely go over their heads

[shamebats]

But they'll sure reblog every unsourced post racistly telling them that veganism is an unsustainable lifestyle by and for rich white colonizers (while also heavily implying that they think BIPoC and their cultures of origin are inherently less interested in questioning the ethics of animal agriculture — which is the opposite of the truth, white people were in fact very late to the party).

[moniquill]

[traycakes]

It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

[apocalypse-angel]

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

via @discipleofkleio

I hate Rowling so much.

[amuseoffyre]

Likewise, the new all-star audio books featuring people like Keira Knightley, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Gomez, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and more, only seem to have happened because Stephen Fry - who did all the original audio books - said he thought she radicalised and "was a lost cause" (x)

[drowned-princess]

Just in case anyone has any doubts as to where the money is directly going

[withstand-whats-written]

like look I know you don't go around kicking puppies but that's your lifestyle choice, don't go forcing that on me. it's my personal choice to kick as many puppies as I like. nooo don't judge me or criticize me that's so mean :(

[alone-in-a-cafe]

What? You think kicking puppies because I enjoy it is morally bad? So you think you're morally superior to me? Wow stop shoving YOUR beliefs and YOUR ideas down my throat!!

[ruinedchildhood]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Reblog to save a duck

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

Quack quack

[ijustgotherebro]

It’s getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again

[theofficialvincenzo]

Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly “oh my fucking god”

[shamebats]

[revcleo]

[flygoing]

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

[chastittie]

i trusted you

[flygoing]

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

[four-leafed-queer-gal-deactivat]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!?!?!?!

[yourstruly9489]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Don’t worry guys, fish don’t feel pain! When they’re harmed they only experience an unpleasant stimulus that they do their best to avoid any means necessary! It’s just a stimulus picked up by the nerves that’s sent to the spinal cord and the brain, it doesn’t count!

[acti-veg]

Vegan plastic is terrible you guys. Not like regular non-vegan plastic that is in all of your clothes, your electronics, your shoes and saturates pretty much every aspect of your life as a consumer it’s a totally different plastic and it’s Worse and it’s all their fault.

[acti-veg]

What’s you thoughts on what happen to Laika

I think that Laika was yet another victim of horrific animal experimentation, whose needless death was no more or less remarkable than any of the others. She died a horrible and slow death of overheating while under extreme stress, something the scientists who sent her to die knew was likely to happen.

After the Soviet Union had lied about it for years in their propaganda, in 2002, Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed that Laika had survived only about five to seven hours after liftoff before dying of overheating and panic. It was belatedly made known that Laika’s pulse rate tripled during takeoff and only came down somewhat during weightlessness.

This wasn’t a test of how the body responds to overheating in space that would at least yield useful data to prevent future deaths. Laika didn’t ensure the survival of future dogs, who had to endure the same stress. This happened because The Soviet scientists had insufficient time to perfect life-support systems, due to political pressure to launch in time for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. That is what she died for.

This was not a noble sacrifice worthy of celebration, it was an unimaginably stressed out dog cruelly sent to her death because her captors believed that animals are expendable, and that it is perfectly acceptable for them to suffer in order to serve frivolous human interests. This is unfortunately a sentiment that many people still agree with. I constantly see her death being glorified on Tumblr, as well as the repetition of literal state propaganda; all because it makes for a nicer story than the truth.

[spacefroggoo]

[veganfairylights]

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

[shamebats]

Taps the "anti-veganism is an inherently conservative sentiment" sign for the 100th time in my time on this website.

[veganfairylights]

it's never too late to go vegan btw :)

[gaytrees]

plant based diet. as opposed to meat cringe diet

[gingerswagfreckles]

I get so irrationally annoyed with people who insist on pretending they don't understand the ideology of veganism. "Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms." Yeah they're not going to do that because they believe animals should not be held in captivity for human gain. Disagreeing with this philosophy does not require you to pretend to have an IQ of 6 you can just say you disagree. "But it's good for the environment" largely untrue also they don't care they're not environmental advocates they are vegans. They have completely different philosophies and goals than environmentalists.

If you want a group of people who are going to lobby for more and better sheep farms you are looking for the term "farmer," a job that involves a lot of animal husbandry which overlaps pretty much in no way whatsoever with veganism. Hope this helps.