#vegan posts

[becauseits]

one of the things that really strikes me as a vegan is just how often people post something that goes like this:

"climate change is bad and you should respect indigenous people and care about impoverished people but vegans are evillll!! They think animals matter more than people and want to cover everything in pleather and squirt palm oil from their nostrils!!!"

and i'm... babe I'm so tired. Vegans are either the villain or the punchline. Don't you ever get tired?

[borderlinedaemon]

carnists: sharply twisting a sheep's head back and then body slamming them to the floor does not hurt them!!! ✨🤗🐑💕 is good for them uwu 💯☺️🐏🌟

[this is not about sheep needing to be sheared. every vegan who has done a speck of research knows this and agrees that sheep need to be shorn for their health and wellbeing. but sheep are bred for profit, not happiness and wellbeing. sheep have been selectively bred over decades to produce multitudes of wool that they do not need, do not shed, and thus cannot manage, all for human profit. sheep bred for wool cannot exist without human intervention. this post is not disputing that, but disparaging the rough, careless and violent methods used by commercial shearers and farmers to subdue sheep so they can be shorn faster, which always values profit over safety, and by extension, disparaging the industry itself that values profit over lives.]

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[becauseits]

veganism as an anti-capitalist endeavor in pursuit of greater liberation, not as a merely individual endeavor. veganism where everyone has a responsibility against animal agriculture, not just those who respect or empathize with non-human animals.

We are facing the next mass extinction because people refuse to stop BUYING meat. Why do we have slaughterhouses while first nations people are facing food deserts? What you see is genocide and colonialism. Who cares about hunting. A deer died, yeah ok I'm sad but what about the millions of acres of habitat that were clear-cut for settler agriculture? A deer died but there will be more deer; there will be no more nēnē-nui. Turn the corn fields and CAFOs back into rainforests and rivers and grasslands.

It's not "veganism vs indigenous hunting," it's "veganism vs complicity in extinction." Animal agriculture took native lands away. Give it back. Stop buying animal products. Give it fucking back.

[becauseits]

maybe this is awfully jaded of me, but i deeply resent how often vegans & veganism are lifted as a caricature that needs no introduction.

mentions of the dire word "vegan" have to be said with the head tilted just so, in an acceptably disgusted intonation, so that one's distaste is certain and obvious but needlessly never discussed.

[becauseits]

we need a vegan version of shinigami eyes for all the anti-vegan trolls and meat industry bots

[borderlinedaemon]

carnists stop using indigenous people in your argument for leather and wool. indigenous people don't use toxic chemicals to tan the leather they make, they don't produce it en masse and destroy the environment around them to do so, and on top of all of this, indigenous people are not and never have been systematically abusing, killing and exploiting animals for profit.

indigenous people are part of the discussion on ethics, animal rights and veganism when they want to be, not when you decide that bringing them up in conversation would win you woke points. there are many indigenous vegans, they are and still can be in touch with their culture and their ancestors, whether they have access to animal-free products or not, the system is against them! fresh and affordable produce is not easily available to everyone, especially remote indigenous communities. whether or not an indigenous person is vegan, is not relevant to a white vegan like me, full stop. it is not for me to dictate or police what indigenous people do, as a rule. and when hunting, fishing, creating things, they still make the least amount of impact and cause as little harm as possible compared to the leather you're wearing that took up so many natural resources that could have been used to grow actual food for so many people, and the skins that made who knows how many people sick during the toxic process of commercial tanning.

veganism is about doing what you can for animals, not simply what is easy, so stop using indigenous people as a blanketed silencing tool against vegans who you think are all white. statistically and historically, you're a liar, and being pretty fuckin racist by using this as a fake argument for the fashion industry and the mass slaughter of sentient beings, just so you can wear your wool sweater, leather boots and jacket and feel righteous and not guilty when you're wearing the skin of several slaughtered beings, and the hair of beings that will statistically, most definitely be slaughtered once their wool production slows.

keep indigenous people out of your mouths when you're spreading lies about veganism. indigenous people are not your debate tools. they are not for you to speak for.

(disclaimer: i'm white, and keep seeing this strawman argument pulled out left right and centre. fucking stop it, shut up, and do some actual research that wasn't carried out by the industries you're supporting. ffs)

[becauseits]

gonna start calling carnists "PR volunteers for the animal agriculture lobby" for all the free propaganda they're doing for an industry that would gladly crush them into gravel