Just so you guys know, the toxic anti-vegan/vegetarian culture in online spaces is exactly what leads people into thinking that this kind of shit is okay.
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The Game’s Not Over Yet. Here are Some Tips And Tricks to Lessen your Carbon Footprint
Step one: If you are able, change your diet. Animal Agriculture is the number 1 cause of climate change. That includes Meat, Dairy, Eggs and Fish.
Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas emissions and a leading cause of deforestation, water and
Get rid of Those, you take out a Large chunk of your Carbon Emissions. Fortunately the world doesn’t look too bleak. Try substituting:
Eggs- Vegan egg substitutes
Dairy- Vegan/Non-dairy Cheese, yogurt, Cream cheese, Earth Balance butter, Crocker Brand (or whatever it’s called. The Gray butter container present in every black household) Is accidentally vegan as well. So go ham.
Meat/Fish- Beyond Meat Products, Impossible Foods inc, Good Catch inc., Gardein products, Morning Star, etc.
Honey- Bee Free Honee, Agave Nectar, Maple Syrup, Molasses, Date syrup, etc.
[Also Try Accidentally Vegan products!]- Oreos, Spicy Sweet Chilli Doritos, Kix cereals, Most Oatmeals, Bacon Flavored (You heard me right) Pringles (google is your best friend for this one!)
A Good tip I learned, Taking a Regular Cake/ Brownie mix batter like Betty Crocker [and checking the back to make sure the powder doesn’t include milk, and eggs] Just substitue every egg for 1 banana or ¼ cup sweet potato, and Butter for Vegan butter and Boom. Vegan brownies, Cakes, etc.
You can even calculate how much Carbon Emissions and Water you save below:
Use these calculators to see the impact you have made being vegan or vegetarian. Vegan / vegetarian lifestyles require less resources like w
For those who may struggle to transition facebook has a free program called Challenge 22 where Chefs, Nutritionists, and Other vegans form a support group for those who may be interested in trying veganism for 22 days. The best part about it is It’s Free!
Are you ready for the Challenge? Join thousands of participants for a 22-day vegan experience. FREE!
In the light of big youtubers leaving veganism how do I ensure that I remain healthy on this lifestyle?
There are many long time vegans who have addressed the issues that the vegan youtubers who quit veganism had. A good Rule of thumb is to follow the Dr. Greger Daily Dozen List:
Good Long Time Vegan Youtubers to follow
Mic. The Vegan
SweetPotatoSoul
Tabitha Brown (8k subscriber one)
Mina Rome
The Vegan Jamaican
Avantegardevegan
LiveKindly
Rachel Ama
TheChicNatural (also a really good natural hair guru for type 4)
Plant Based News
BOSH.TV
PeacefulCuisine (also a japanese asmr cooking channel)
Fly Vegan Recipes
The Chocolate Vegan
Brown Vegan
The Family O
Vegan Physique
Ghetto Vegans
Vegan Athlete
RG Vegan Food
Vegan Fit Fam
The Easy Vegan
Liv B
Buzzfeed Vegan Tasty
Earthling Ed
B Forreal
Matt Cama
Healthy Crazy Cool
Shine with Plants
Cheap Lazy Vegan
That Vegan Couple
The Vegan Mechanic
Sustainably Vegan
Shelbizlee
Ask Yourself
Juice
[To Name a Few. Bc I assure you the “leaving the vegan train” vegans are few and far between]
If You’re Just Starting Out. AVOID. RAW. VEGANISM. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOU WILL GET REALLY HELLA SICK. IT IS ONE OF THE EXTREME DIETS. DO NOT DO IT.
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Next! Try Zero/Low Waste living!
Sustainably Vegan has some good tips, as well as Shelbizlee. But once again, that is a matter of location most times.
In any case here are some Easy Swaps that even the urban city dweller can adopt.
Eliminating trash from your everyday life often centers around making intentional zero waste swaps from disposable items to reusable, lastin
-Buy Second Hand Clothing/ Thrift Shop.
-Take Public Transportation or Carpool if you can
-avoid plastic use as far as is practicable (bc it doesn’t really recycle after one time)
-try reusable straws, bottles, and Jars that are glass, metal, wood, collapsible.
Oh and How can I forget a handful of awesome tumblrs?
@acti-veg
@severelynerdysheep
@zero-waste-aesthetic
@zero-min-boy
To name a few, here are some excellent tumblrs that have a lot of really good information on the topics listed above dealing with zero/low waste living and veganism please visit their blogs these guys are awesome and a lot more knowledgeable than me for certain!
We only have One Earth So Let’s Give it a Shot! We Got this!
I don’t have any statistics or anything to add, but all I can say is that I encourage you to follow this to the best of your ability. Please. For many of you all reading this, you will be alive to see earth reach that deadline. This isn’t an ancient myth about “the earth is going to end in 2030” or a man on the street yelling about the end times. This is science reaching a final conclusion that humans are destroying ourselves and everything around us, and we have a deadline to try and reverse those changes. Don’t tell me how we need to stop corporations and sit around and do absolutely nothing. They need to change, but feeling you have no obligation to even try and stop giving them money to support their environmental damage and pouring money into things like useless plastics(whether it is objectively useless or useless for you as an individual) or the animal agriculture industry, knowing it to be harmful is ridiculous. 2030 isn’t a long ways away, and I’m terrified. Please, I would personally beg you to care about this earth. It is something both a selfish and selfless act to help this planet, since you live on it too, and so does everyone else. Please, go on and make changes towards us, as earthlings, knowing this. Please, I know we can.
I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants.
people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
1) honeybees do not produce “extra honey.” And beekeepers don’t take some of the honey, they take all of it.
2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.
Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper?
Because I am!
Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don’t take all of it.
But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there’s a spike in the weather and the hive hasn’t prepared new queen brood, that’s it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn’t enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.
Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony.
I know there’s an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation.
If you’re this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way).
Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I’ll be the first to admit it’s criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this.
Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS
Many people take to raising their own hens because of America’s immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you’re not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you’re just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find
Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose
Every time people start talking about how “some people can’t go vegan” I stop listening. We are very aware some people can’t go vegan, but we’re not talking to those people when we write these posts; we’re talking to you. If you genuinely can’t go vegan but you’re doing everything else in your power to avoid animal based foods, clothes, entertainment and animal tested products then we have no problem, but for the vast majority of the people raising this objection that is not the case. So many of you are just using other people’s poverty and health issues as a smokescreen to disguise your own selfish choices and that is not okay.
Imagine thinking that you are so important as to ruin a beautiful, sensitive and intelligent creature’s life simply for a burger, an egg, a meal, when you could just as easily eat a healthy alternative. Your taste buds aren’t more important than a living thing.
Imagine thinking that you are so important as to ruin a beautiful, sensitive and intelligent pants life simply for a salad, a pie, a meal, when you could just as easily eat a healthy alternative. Your taste buds aren’t more important than a living thing.
Imagine thinking that you are so important as to ruin a beautiful, sensitive and intelligent [SENTIENT] life simply for a ---, a ----, a meal, when you could just as easily eat a healthy alternative. Your taste buds aren't more important than a [SENTIENT] thing.
Imagine thinking that you are so important as to ruin a beautiful, sensitive and intelligent creature’s life simply for a burger, an egg, a meal, when you could just as easily eat a healthy alternative. Your taste buds aren’t more important than a living thing.
Dude where tf do you think the hens that lay the infertile eggs came from?!
What do you think happens to the male chicks? They get ground up alive in macerators.
Eggs are also horrible for humans as well as diary. Hens lose massive amounts of nutrients in their bodies when they lay eggs, since they’re selectively bred as well, they’re not meant to lay eggs everyday. They’re only supposed to lay a certain amount per year. Please do you your research, I should NOT have to explain this.
“The words nutritious and healthy carry certain connotations, and because eggs have the amount of cholesterol they do, plus the fact that they’re not low in fat, [the words healthy and nutritious] are problematic.” This is the United States Department of Agriculture saying this
"In the population study “Milk Intake and Risk of Mortality and Fractures in Women and Men,” researchers following more than 100,000 men and women in Sweden for about 20 years found significantly higher rates of bone and hip fractures, heart disease, cancer, and premature death in general for women who drank more milk. Three glasses a day was associated with nearly twice the risk of dying early. Men with higher milk consumption were also recorded having a higher risk of premature death."
I’m so sick of catering to carnists’ feelings tbh. I’m sick of their guilt being projected on to me and them forcing me to change my beliefs to make them feel better!
I’m sick of them forcing me to play a role where I HAVE to ease their guilt or I’m a “radical hollier than thou” vegan. It’s not my job to hide the truth to make you feel less guilty. I don’t feel guilty when people say “plants have feelings” cause I don’t think eating plants is wrong! Yet you feel guilty when people remind you animals have feelings 🤔 I have 0 control on how you feel! You feel guilt for a valid reason!
If not being vegan makes you so guilty then just go vegan and keep your cognitive dissonance far away from me please.
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