[veganpropaganda]

Text from Salam Animal Care’s tweet:

I am very disappointed.😩😭💔 It has been 5 months since the genocide😞😿💔, and now we have entered the sixth month😞😭😭💔, and there is no one who can stop this war.😓😡💔 My hair turned white from the sights I saw. We have tasted all kinds of humiliation, humiliation and killing.😭😓💔 Aren't we humans who love life? Life has become unbearable in #Gaza and we cannot stay here. We are dying slowly. 😭💔💔 Please, my friends, consider helping me and my family get out of #Gaza. I need your support🙏🆘, loyal people🫶🌹. We have not achieved a quarter of the goal yet😿😩🙏🆘🫂🫶

GFM; gofund.me/75c42982

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[depsidase]

[genderoutlaws]

ID: a post by user fightforaunion on threads.

ground beef prices are expected to soar to $20 a pound after a screw worm infestation has infected US cattle herds for the first time since the 1950s. Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE gutted all the funding for the agencies responsible for monitoring our food supply, so now the whole system is collapsing and sending grocery prices soaring. No problem for Big AG — they just pass the price on to YOU.

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A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pes

this isn't across the entire industry but it is still concerning. there are 5 confirmed cases so far, infecting 3 baby cows and a goat in texas, and a dog in new mexico, but they're still testing flies and animals in both areas to see how far it's spread. no confirmed cases in humans yet and this isn't dangerous to the average consumer but could be for communities animal and human alike that surround slaughterhouses and animal agriculture farms (as well as the animals inside obviously)

the USDA plans are to drop more sterile male flies around the texas/mexico border and eventually open a fly factory in hopes to stop them from reproducing, which is the method the US adopted in the 1950s, but it won't be operational until late 2027 at the earliest. but that method previously stemmed the screwworm population all the way down to Panama.

there's also a group of bioethicists, conservation biologists, and scientists who got together and published this perspective about a year ago, questioning if screwworm depopulation efforts should become more aggressive and lethal with the intent of species eradication, and the ethics of pursuing the science to make that possible.

[isleypig]

“plants are alive too” “eating meat is natural” “vegetables use slave labour” “fake leather is made of plastic” “cows need to be milked” “veganism is racist” “it’s symbiotic” “bees can leave whenever they want” “slaughter can be humane” “fish don’t feel pain” “hens eat their eggs if they aren’t debeaked” “ethical breeding” “sheep overheat if they aren’t sheared” “agave is bad for bats” “what about allergies” “local meat” “vegans encourage eating disorders”

[lexiiluvv]

The problem with non-vegans arguments against veganism is that they think veganism is about doing absolutely no harm in the world, when veganism is actually about reducing harm in the world.

[sanctuarytiktok]

Strong Hearts Farm Sanctuary

[less-freshly-vegan]

Whenever I read "I don't take vegans seriously because X" I'm forced to roll my eyes. You don't take us seriously because you don't want to, and you don't want to because making any kind of lifestyle change in the name of your beliefs is seen as too much effort these days.

[vegansoc]

[vegansoc]

“Drake and Pollan are also wrong to suggest that animals are not telling us what they want. Roy's phrase "the preferably unheard" is far more apt. Animals consistently voice preferences and ask for freedom. They speak to us every day when they cry out in pain or try to move away from our prods, electrodes, knives, and stun guns. Animals tell us constantly that they want out of their cages, that they want to be reunited with their families, or that they don't want to walk down the kill chute. Animals express themselves all the time, and many of us know it. If we didn't, factory farms and slaughterhouses would not be designed to constrain any choices an animal might have. We deliberately have to choose not to hear when the lobster bangs on the walls from inside a pot of boiling water or when the hen who is past her egg-laying prime struggles against the human hands that enclose her legs and neck. We have to choose not to recognize the preference expressed when the fish spasms and gasps for oxygen in her last few minutes alive. Considering animals voiceless betrays an ableist assumption of what counts as having a voice—an assumption that many disabled and nondisabled people alike often make about animals.”

-from Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor

[ecopvnk]

watching a documentary (about the exotic animal trade in the US) right now and just learned that in 2011 in ohio a private zoo owner released at least 52 animals from their cages before killing himself and that all of the animals were killed, in case anyone here still supports animal captivity/ownership.

[shamebats]

Being vegan genuinely takes way less effort and emotional energy than continuing to justify to yourself why you can't/don't have to go vegan and getting mad at vegans for *checks notes* having strongly held ethical convictions and living by them. Speaking from experience.

[rpfisfine]

[closet-keys]

It's like this.

these groups work together, cross-pollinate theory, and substantially overlap in demographics because they are all deeply invested in leveraging transmisogyny while denying transmisogyny exists.

[closet-keys]

added the tags from original as part of the diagram

[persephoneme]

deeply funny to observe the post-hoc rationalizations of the tumblr userbase re: ai and veganism because if you follow the thread of the arguments you end up in this bizarre discursive space where water usage is a pressing environmental concern but if you gesture towards the meat industry about it you’re a shill for Big Quinoa. lol.

[n0cnimura]

[togepifemme]

ID: sharpie on a red painted wall "no woman is free until trans women are free"

[normalfrogblog]

"I support animal welfare but not animal rights" what are you on about "veganism is actually more environmentally unfriendly because [insert the most environmentally unfriendly form of veganism] is worse for the environment than [insert the most environmentally friendly form of meat production]" huh??

[vegan-butch]

The current push that animal protein is 1: necessary and 2: optimal is driven by the animal ag lobby as well as a fascist association between meat and masculinity. You're not revolutionary for thinking that we need animal protein, you're thinking what the government wants you to think

[anthropophagiie]

go vegan now!