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vegan-yums

Vegan Panko-Crusted Mac + Cheeze

#recipes

vegan-yums

Pulled mushroom tacos / Recipe

vegan-yums

Crispy tofu with sweet chile sauce / Recipe

vegan-yums

Pulled mushroom tacos / Recipe

acti-veg

In my experience it is working class vegans who are the driving force behind the animal rights movement, and the constant insistence that poor vegans don’t exist is purposeful erasure of those efforts. It is absolutely a class issue when you’re consistently told that you must not be working class if you’re vegan, as if the belief that animals should have rights somehow changes something fundamental about your socioeconomic status or cultural identity.

working-class-vegan

I’m super tired of being told what I can and can’t participate in solely because of my poverty.

I’m not saying literally everyone has the capability to go vegan right this very second, but we do what we can with the resources we have, and I’ve found that veganism is the least I can do. I’m still too poor to attend rallies and protests if it involves travel more than a few miles, I still have to sell people animal products at my job with a smile or else risk getting fired and ending up homeless, I can’t rescue (let alone foster) a bunch of animals and keep them in my apartment, I can’t donate food or money to shelters, sanctuaries, or animal advocacy groups, but I can sure as hell pick up the beans instead of the hamburger when I shop for groceries.

karalora

Animal Intelligence

Ever notice how they keep moving the goalposts when it comes to animal intelligence vs. human intelligence?

“Humans are completely unique. No other animal uses tools.”

“Actually, wild sea otters have been observed using rocks to open shellfish.”

“Okay, but that’s not true intelligence. They just pick the rocks up; they don’t alter them in any way.”

“Chimps peel the leaves from sticks to make more effective termite probes.”

“Well, that’s just technology. Only humans have art.”

“What about painting elephants? Art critics often can’t tell the difference between their work and a human’s.”

“Okay fine. But only humans have language. That’s the mark of true intelligence.”

“These African Grey Parrots use hundreds of words correctly and even ask original questions.”

“Oh yeah? Well, does any non-human species demonstrate self-awareness?”

“Dolphins pass the mirror test without training.”

“Pfft. How about problem-solving?”

“I can’t keep squirrels out of my bird feeder no matter what I do.”

“Aha! Bet you can’t think of a species that possesses all these traits! Only humans! We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!”

“Crows.”

“LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOOOOUUUUUUUUU…”

pom-seedss

Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? by Frans de Waal explores this exact question and its a fascinating read.

nelkitty

Humans had enough trouble seeing other humans as human. We are not even remotely smart enough to know how smart animals are. We would have a huge existential crisis if we realised other creatures are as sentient and aware as we are.

acti-veg

Its also important to recognise that this is not just human ignorance, we all have a vested interest in pretending animal intelligence cannot ever compare to ours. How intelligent an animal is when compared to humans shouldn’t even matter, but it turns out it is much easier to exploit and kill animals if we pretend they are mindless automaton.

tamarhope

Hi, I just had a bowl of all bran cereal (Kellogg's) and the ingredient seem vegan but out of interest i googled whether it was vegan and there were loads of things say it is not! Because of where the vitamins are derived from - animal sources not plant sources! Did you know this? I didn't realise I've eaten loads of things like this and different kinds of cereal with these vitamins and now I'm kinda paranoid about it all - do you/ any of your followers know about any of this? I'm so confused !

I’m also really confused about this!! So far I’ve only known these vitamins were in Cheerios, didn’t know they were in other cereals?? Can anyone help us out? Haha! It’s so annoying because cereal is so gooooood

veganforever

Vitamin D is often sourced from Lanolin (from sheep's wool) and I *think* B12 can be sourced from animals too. Kellogs cereals source their vitamin D from animals,in the UK at least.

Sorry :(

athenagray

Tweet 1: I can see a lot of people either avoiding Plan B & ending up pregnant or attempting to take multiple doses & getting sick.

Tweet 2: anyone w a credit card (not everyone, I know) can/should use ella ella-rx.com they’ll ship it overnight $45

SIGNAL BOOST. Ella is another form of emergency contraception/the morning-after pill. It’s more effective than Plan B and can be taken up to FIVE DAYS after your mishap, rather than three days. Please spread this around; with all of the anti-choice legislation flying about and how difficult it can be for some people to get Plan B even OTC (like minors, people living in small towns, etc.), this might be the only way a lot of people can get their hands on the morning-after pill.

queenconsuelabananahammock

Boooooost

imperiology-deactivated20140429

I’ve also read that Ella is more effective for plus size people.

sourcedumal

This is important. Ella works for everyone. Plan B is not effective for people over 176 pounds. Protect yourself

madnessinthemist

Everyone?

Boosting the shit outta this.

the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d

Plan B is not effective for people over 176 pounds.

cosmic-noir

BOOST BOOST BOOST

breelandwalker

BOOSTING INTO ORBIT

theflemface-deactivated20210507

Sea Shepherd Global:

‘Imagine Spending a Lifetime in This box

Sea Shepherd director Pamela Anderson was the first volunteer to step foot in the Tilikum Tank.

After the doors were closed the full impact of Orca captivity became very real.

It is hot just like the waters in the tanks at Marineland or SeaWorld where Orcas experience something they rarely suffer from in the wild – heat exhaustion and sunburn.

The floor, the walls and the ceiling are mirrors and because cetaceans can “see” with their ears, all that they perceive is the constant reflection of their own voices and that is overlaid with piped in trashy music just like the Orca prisons blast out to keep their paying human customers entertained.

The tank is a simulation for land dwelling primates of the torturous confines of the water filled cellblocks.

“ Dolphins are animals “built” to travel hundreds of kilometers per day and experience their environment through their sonar. They have a whole sensorial world we cannot even begin to understand. By building the Tilikum Tank, in tribute to Tilikum, the orca that captivity have transformed into a psychotic killer, we wanted to allow people to get a slight taste of the lifetime of torture these sensient and intelligent animals are enduring for the only purpose to entertain us and our children during couple hours.“ said Lamya Essemlali, President of Sea Shepherd France and co director of Sea Shepherd Global

Spending only a few minutes in this mirrored and noisy box is an extremely experience uncomfortable for a human being.

"I could not even stay the whole 3 minutes and when I got out of there, I wanted to bite someone. I can’t imagine the hell it must be to spend your life in such conditions. This has to stop. I would like to see all these animals released in the wild where they belong, during my life time” stated Sea Shepherd director Pamela Anderson.

It is difficult to imagine the misery an Orca must endure year after year, held prisoner in a hostile alien environment that weakens their immune system and shortens their life.

Around the world some 70 Orcas are prisoners kept in sensory deprivation tanks. Some Orcas like Lolita have very small tanks and others have larger tanks they have to share with other Orcas.

These are wild intelligent self aware sentient beings, they were born to swim free in the sea, born to hunt and to socialize with their own kind. They were never meant to be imprisoned in concrete tanks and fed dead cold fish, to have humans masturbate them for their sperm and to breed them for their own amusement.

The Tilikum Tank will be circulating in France within the three main delphinariums and the public will be invited to step inside and experience for few minutes, the life of a captive dolphin.

The conditions are inhumane and captivity of such wondrous intelligent cetaceans is amoral and a disgrace to the human race.

Captain Paul Watson challenges the director of the Marineland, Arnaud Palu to spend 5 minutes isolated in the Sea Shepherd Tilikum tank and to emerge without feeling empathy for his prisoners.’

bookphile

I don’t think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible. When I really think about it, I realize the culprit is the language generally used to praise women. Especially mothers. “She sacrificed everything for her children… She never thought about herself… She gave up everything for us… She worked tirelessly to make sure we had what we needed. She stood in the shadows, she was the wind beneath our wings.” Greeting card companies are build on that idea. “Tell her how much all the little things she does all year long that seem to go unnoticed really mean to you.” With a $2.59 card. Mother’s Day is build on that idea. This is good, we’re told. It’s good how Mom diminishes and martyrs herself. The message is: mothers, you are such wonderful and good people because you make yourselves smaller, because you deny your own needs, because you toil tirelessly in the shadows and no one ever thanks or notices you… this all makes you AMAZING.

Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes

Can we talk about how Shonda is just fearlessly laying down the truth and not censoring the awful truth? And before anyone stupid jumps in, Shonda is not saying Motherhood shouldn’t be praised, she’s saying we shouldn’t be praising women for erasing themselves.

(via kceyagi)

closingtomb

I’m bedbound [medical evidence] and unable to leave my room with any safe transport until I pay the majority of $3475 in outstanding paramedic invoices [linked]. I require spine board transfer as I’m not able to sit up for any duration without extremely serious physical harm to myself. My temporary accommodation is pushing me to move out ASAP. To guarantee access to transport for relocation within a month, I would need to pay up to $868.75/week towards the paramedic invoices. Further details on this post.

Also, though it would be immediately obvious that I require ongoing medical care, I’ve had to postpone neurologist appointments for two months due to issues paying for/booking paramedic transport, and I haven’t seen my neurologist since Nov. 2015. My next appointment is on 21st April and I fear if I postpone the appointment once again, it will seriously jeopardise or ruin the working relationship with my doctor that is vital to my prognosis. I have no ability to work and I would really appreciate any donations through my PayPal to help me out of this predicament. Here is medical evidence of my condition. Thank you.

heartteyez

Iraqi man cries bitterly at the British Museum when he sees his country’s stolen cultural heritage on display.

vladworksjustfine

Deserves the spread because when they steal it for display it’s not stealing. Trash.

fandomsandfeminism

The Primary Goal of Education SHOULD NOT be to make children into “productive, useful members of society”

Because children do not exist primarily to produce profit or to be used to produce capital.

The primary goal of education should be self improvement, social awareness, and the curation of democratically competent and socially responsible citizens.

You should leave school able to function as a citizen and community member, not just as a worker and employee.

#FUCK functionalism honestly

findingwordsforthoughts

where is the safe check-in in beirut?

where is the lebanese flag on facebook?

where are the news headlines, and lights on government buildings and honouring and remembering the lebanese victims? or the syrian victims? or the iraqi victims? or the schoolchildren in pakistan, who get killed while in class?

these lives matter too. they too were daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. they too had struggles and dreams. they too were killed prematurely. these losses deserve the same outrage and empathy, the same outpour of love and sympathy.

if you gather and protest, march, or pray remember all victims of terrorism - not just the european ones. be aware of media bias, fight against it. educate yourself and educate others. be informed, that is the only way you can offer support.

riotrite-deactivated20171226

I realized that an academic concept I talk about a lot, but haven’t necessarily ever explained, is structural violence. So this is what I mean when I say it:

Structural violence is a non-traditional way of thinking about violence. Essentially, it considers harm enacted by social systems, implicit and explicit, to be just as violent as interpersonal violence and warfare. It’s the starvation of one person while another has more than they can eat. It’s workplace discrimination, and therefore the deprivation of entire demographics of people of opportunities and well-being. It’s a lack of healthcare systems because of bloated military budgets.

You get the idea. All these things hurt people physically, emotionally, and so on just as much as intentional/interpersonal violence, but they’re much easier to ignore. The lines are often blurred, though- police violence against black people is both structural and interpersonal. It’s not exclusive. It’s just a way of thinking about the world that equally values human life and wellness regardless of how it’s threatened.

musicalbunny

I think this is necessary to post. I see a lot of people “saving” bunnies.

“*Bunnies are one of the most frequently “kidnapped” mammal species. *Mothers dig a very shallow nest in the ground that is easily uncovered when mowing or raking the yard. If you find a rabbit nest-leave it alone!! *Mother rabbits only return to the nest two or three times a day, usually before dawn and right after dusk. *To determine if they are orphaned, either place a string across the nest in a tic-tac-toe shape or circle the nest with flour. Check the nest the next day. If the string or flour is disturbed, the mother has returned. If not, take the bunnies to a rehabilitator. * A bunny that is bright eyed and 4-5 inches long is fully independent and does NOT need to be rescued! *If you find a bunny that does need to be rescued, put it in a dark, quiet location. Bunnies are a prey species and while they may look calm, they are actually very, very scared!”

flashinglightsandecstasy

Never knew this, keeping this for reference

kazuha159

As a student of Veterinary Medicine I can completely confirm this! Do NOT take them out of their nest unless you’re 100% sure that the mother did not come back for them after at least one day!