Vegan Flip

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Image with kind permission from Camilla Narea.

http://camillanarea.tumblr.com/

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[antstepsbooks]

This is my kind of propaganda

[livekindlyco-blog]

Spread that kindness💓

[devoted1989-deactivated20191014]

Kim Socha, Ph.D., is an English professor, animal advocate, and anti-oppression activist. 

[theveganmothership]

Vegan incident report.

[skarchomp]

shut the fuck up and post Dream Pig

[magicalvegan]

[treekisser-blog]

Credit.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for simply keeping it together and not sobbing all day every day despite living in a society that not only violently slaughters millions of innocent animals daily, but simultaneously vilifies us for asking others to choose compassion.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for politely smiling while you tell your bacon jokes, in hopes that our “coolness” will make you more receptive to the truth we’re trying to expose.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for starting businesses, inventing new food groups, opening farmed animal sanctuaries, figuring out how to make leather out of pineapples, practicing dozens of recipes to impress family members, and learning literally everything about protein just out of desperate hope that our contributions will convince even one person to eat plants instead of pain.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for peacefully walking through grocery stores that are lined with the body parts of those we couldn’t save in time. For conversing respectfully with shoppers whose carts are full of dead animals, because we know, we know, we know, we used to buy that stuff too.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit. But honestly, you can keep the credit- that’s not what we’re here for. We just want the needless killing to stop.

Join me.

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[choosehopefortheanimals]

[vegan-for-ever]

[planethugger17]

Ocean Dead Zones (Apoxia) and Animal Agriculture

A wise man knows that everything that we do to the sea will one day come back to haunt us. Everything that we do on land affects the sea when rivers and streams, and even our urban drainage systems, all lead to the ocean eventually. Industrial animal agriculture has dangerous and serious effects on our water systems and bodies, but this is a hidden fact to most of the public who do not actively seek out the information. Factory farming and animal agriculture have ghastly effects for both the animals being slaughtered and the environment around them. Farm waste doesn’t stay on farms, as it is carried by runoff from normal and storm-level precipitation, and when animals are fed an endless stream of antibiotics and hormones, these are excreted and ultimately end up in our waterways and ocean. These manmade chemicals finding their way into the water is bad enough, but even if the manure were from a strict grass-fed diet with no antibiotics or hormones, the scale on which factory farms produce animal waste creates nitrogen shocks to the environment. These shocks encourage disease outbreak and destructive algae blooms which lead to loss of marine life in our rivers and oceans.

Huge open-air waste lagoons, often the size of several football fields, are prone to leaks and spills, especially in areas struck by hurricanes. In 1995 an eight-acre pig waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, and this spilled 25 million gallons of manure into the New River; the spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing. Runoff of chicken and hog waste from factory farms in Maryland and North Carolina is believed to have contributed to the local outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida, which are killing millions of fish and causing skin irritation, short-term memory loss and other cognitive problems in local swimmers. The nutrients in animal waste cause algal blooms, which use up oxygen in the water, contributing to the “dead zone” effect in the Gulf of Mexico where there is not enough oxygen to support aquatic life. The dead zone grows in size each year, and it was reported to have extended 8,500 square miles during the summer of 2002 and over 7,700 square miles during the summer of 2010. On top of the local waterway effects, ammonia, a toxic form of nitrogen released in gas form during waste disposal, can be carried more than 300 miles through the air before sinking back down into the water or onto land, where it can cause algal blooms and kill marine life.

Industrial animal agriculture also contributes directly to sea temperature rise and ocean acidification. Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all transportation combined. The rising atmospheric temperature is raising global ocean temperatures which has led to widespread coral bleaching. Bleaching slows coral growth, makes them at a higher risk for disease, and leads to large-scale reef die-off. In addition, a greater concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is increasing the acidity of the global ocean, which in turn is harming the marine life reliant on finding or building shells, as the higher acidity in the water weakens calcium shells.

Source: https://mission-blue.org/2015/02/whats-the-role-of-mass-animal-agriculture-in-ocean-degradation/

Photo: https://theleft.co/what-causes-ocean-dead-zones/

Graphic: https://www.egu.eu/education/planet-press/27/uninhabitable-whirlpools-found-in-the-atlantic/

[necessaryveganism]

What upsets me most is, even as a vegan, I'm forced to support the meat industry because of government subsidies... My tax dollars are lining the pockets of animal abusers...

Unfortunately, the nature of taxes means that we all contribute to things we would like to have no part of. My money is going to fund industries and wars I wish didn’t exist at all. At the same time, it goes to worthwhile causes, such as funding crucial research, or services such as libraries. I wish it was different than how it was, but because we can’t exactly control the system, it’s just something that we have to live with. 

-Admin Samantha

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[darkagendalady]

Just in case anyone thinks that milk is necessary for strong bones, I’m reblogging this. There are other ways to get calcium, such as in non-dairy milk products. They taste good, too.

[punkassvegan]

I’m not saying that it’s all a conspiracy but… Okay, yes I am It’s a conspiracy

Wake the hell up

[devynater-blog]

not making a difference my ass

[thinkveganworld]

This is the kind of thing I like to picture in my daily visualizations for a vegan world.  Thoughts create our reality, and I hope that in addition to taking whatever action we can, more of us vegans will start to also set aside a few minutes every day to visualize or think a vegan world into being.  Imagine the meat industry going out of business for lack of customers.  Just imagine, picture, visualize, think vegan world.

[oat-leaf]

Vegan food tastes great, you just don’t know how to cook

[veganangel]

Don't take my veganism as a personal attack on your poor ethics.