#vegan stuff

[inclosed-outsider]

just had to repost this

[tomhoppusdelonge]

Hey Nik! Here is a website that lists if alcohol is vegan or not. It doesn’t have everything, but it is useful and has a lot of the bigger brands. My sister uses it because she’s allergic to the protein in milk that some people use in wine processing:

https://www.barnivore.com

Hope that helps!

!!!!!!!!!!!

[cannilyuncanny]

Big Autistic Mood

When you have a set answer to a question that has a short version and a long version that are technically opposites lol.

For example:

Person talking to me, a vegan, at a meal, likely the first meal we've ever eaten together: Is it all right if I eat meat/animal products in front of you?

Me: The short answer is "yeah, sure"

My internal monologue: The long answer is that it actually bothers me and genuinely makes me sad that most of the animals most of us interact with on a daily basis are dead and commodified. This is arguably true, but if you were to make that point, most non-vegans would feel like you're a dramatic, militant vegan for just stating that fact plainly. At the same time, I understand that any individual person's decision to not eat animal products in front of me for this one meal isn't really impactful, especially if they're just going to go back to consuming them without any effort to reduce that consumption. So even though animal products do kind of gross me out and make me sad at this point, that's really small potatoes considering what the animals go through, and I'd rather they consider that real pain and suffering, not my personal discomfort. And I won't say this out loud because you didn't ask for all that, and I know you're just asking to be polite.

[viktheviking1]

Soooooo, I may have seen something that bee post with like a million notes. I suddenly can't find it, but if you haven't seen it, it basically amounted to "vegans can eat honey. it doesn't hurt the bees. They actually prefer it. They make too much and it means a giant ape protects them from predators and the elements. It's a win win. They could leave at any point but they don't unless their beekeeper is doing a bad job taking care of them. Them staying the closest thing to consent for use of an animal product as you can get."

Obviously, big companies still do things that we shouldn't ignore, but local bee keepers and hobby beekeepers often treat their 20,000-80,000 little pets very well. (Obviously, you should still judge on an individual basis)

Anyway, I may have spent an hour and a half making this:

It's supposed to be a Twitter header kinda thing. Feel free to use it! (Let me know if you do? You don't have to, I just like knowing when people like my art :)

[moralitybog]

I want to put here as a pre-commitment that even if I someday experience something health-wise that makes me start incorporating animal products back into my diet, I'm not going to fail with abandon--I'm still going to do my best to minimize harm to animals with my diet. Currently, this is the order in which I would start incorporating things:

(1) Dairy products--from extremely vetted-on-ethics sources, we're talking calling up the Hare Krishnas to ask about their Ahimsa cows

(2) Oysters and mussels (in truth, I do eat these very occasionally, but I don't seek them out. I'd go for smoked not raw though because nobody wants vibrio infections)

(3) Wild caught salmon (the idea being that these are caught close ish to the end of their life cycle so you are not robbing a young animal of its natural lifespan)

(4) If I had the opportunity to find eggs where (a) there was no killing-at-birth of the male chicks and (b) there was acceptable conditions for the laying hens, I would incorporate eggs (or raise chickens myself if it were somehow an option)

This isn't something I foresee happening but I wanted to put this here for some sense of social accountability.

[ididntorderthesoup]

I'm happy to say this is my month mark of no meat!! The cravings dissipated and I honestly don't see it as food anymore. I'm excited for the months/years to come.

Now I'm going to start going plant based.

[bohemian-summers]

[helianthus-valley-scholar]

I couldn't really get a good shot ( so i'm not posting a picture, sorry!) but I finally have a pair of Mary Jane heels! I have wanted a pair for ages! It feels nice to have them!

Now these, on the other hand:

Are my treasures from Etsy!

The perfumes are from Andromedascurse on Etsy! She creates perfumes ‘for the darkly inclined’; they are all vegan and smell wonderful!!

The lovely teal stoneware bowl as well as the leaf bowl are from CashmereCurios also known as @cashmerecrow here on Tumblr! One houses my stickers that I use in my cookbook and the other houses my perfumes! They are always so kind and helpful when I go to their shop! When I say I love their shop and everything in it- I mean it! These pieces make me so happy and that’s a gift these days!

Finally! The vegan stickers that you see in the wooden bowl are from VeganVeins on Etsy, also known as @vegan-veins, on tumblr. I have these stickers, one of which I placed on a glass water bottle I thrifted, and a vegan 'What do you eat?' t-shirt! while shipping took a while due to circumstances, I love the items that I've received and I recommend her shop!

Please consider showing them some support if you can!

Links To the Shops mentioned:

CashemereCurios - https://www.etsy.com/shop/CashmeresCurios?ref=profile_header

AndromedasCurse - https://www.etsy.com/shop/AndromedasCurse?ref=usf_2020

VeganVeins - https://www.etsy.com/shop/VeganVeins?ref=usf_2020