Gruel

she/it | 24 | vegan | extremely gay about my girlfriend | working on blocking every terf on tumblr

[gasboss-gatelight-girlkeep]

Time to shut up anti-vegan leather glazers for good.

“If [leather’s] footprint is shocking or seems high to people, I think it should be a push to keep reflecting on the impact of raising animals for products,” Roncevich said. Leather may benefit (along with wool and other animal-derived materials) from a natural image, but on closer examination, it helps sustain one of the world’s most polluting, environmentally destructive industries.

Animal leather has plenty of toxic baggage of its own, from the chromium salts and other pollutants generated by tanneries to the manure runoff and water pollution associated with cattle ranching.

The original paper:

Sources: (paywalled) Vox article:

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/494511/leather-carbon-emissions-vegan-meta-analysis

Open access paper: The Carbon Footprint of Leather: A Comprehensive Reassessment Using Global Livestock Data and Meta-Analysis. Roncevich et al.

[unalivejournal]

Ok. What you're gonna want to do is chop up a cucumber and put it in a bowl. Then you're gonna sprinkle a generous portion of salt on top. Then you're gonna drizzle them with a balsamic vinaigrette and gently shake to combine, leaving you with a cool and refreshing summer snack. In 15 seconds dangerous and burly men are going to drag me away to an unknown second location. Remember everything I've taught you. I love you

[greelin]

you have to email me but you also have to understand that when i receive emails i want to go in the woods. I have to go in the woods

[greelin]

it’s not a choice, at that point

[pagurus-san]

Ok, I'm very surprised

Last year, wasps built this nest

This year, other species of wasps built a nest on that nest

?!?!?!

[shailion]

"Well this spot worked for the last gals"

[westformiles]

@onenicebugperday

[isleypig]

Actually I think forcing an animal to be pregnant every year of their life and subsequently slaughtered just to get their milk is cruelty and not good for them. I actually think that sounds like torture.

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[4r53n1c]

(trying to sell you supplements) don't take any medications that have chemicals in them

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[dionysiaproductions]

I've probably invested too much time into this lark.

[caspercryptid]

The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"

[caspercryptid]

On the one hand it's a bit of a pick me up in a dark place to know that this will pass because it has passed before on the other hand sometimes it isn't entirely a pleasant thought to go "wow, I used to feel like this all the time. That was pretty fucking bad. It's pretty bad right now too also."

[caspercryptid]

Someday your current baseline will be the sort of thing you consider A Really Bad Day. It does get better.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[solmanath]

you know. i must say that this is true for me as well

[cutecipher]

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

[mothorchidmicroblog]

ppl who trash on vegans r always soooo funnyyyy bc they genuinely seem to believe they're, like, punching up against this oppressive regime, challenging the mainstream in beautiful defiance, whole time they're just upholding and reinforcing widely accepted social norms