Calling veganism a white and privileged thing is crucial for carnists to continue to exploit animals bc it maintains the human/animal hierarchy while pretending to be radical. This, however, ignores the black, indigenous, disabled, queer, feminist, and similarly informed critiques and understandings of animal agriculture and specisism.

It is not hard to find oppressed vegans talking about why animal rights and animal liberation is important to them. If you're still calling veganism white or ableist or whatever, you're being purposefully ignorant.

🦈Shark Awareness Day🦈

July 14th - Sharks, skates and rays belong to a subclass of fish called 'Elasmobranchii', being notable for their primarily cartilaginous skeletons and unique diversity. Sharks play a vital role in maintaining stable ocean environments; by removing sickly fish, and controlling overpopulation of either invasive or smaller predatory fish in certain ecosystems. Filter feeders and sand sifters are just as important, being a part of the ocean's clean-up crew and nutrient cyclists. Unfortunately, over one-third of these species are at risk or threatened with extinction due to climate change and misconceptions being spurred on by popular media over the years (Jaws, Shark Week, etc.). The loss of these animals would lead to a decline in ocean ecosystem health around the world.

Sign the petition to stop octopus farming

A huge octopus farm is unfortunately set to open in the Canary Islands, murdering a million innocent kind smart creatures each year. There’s more info about the farm in the link above, but please take a minute to sign and share the petition! Demonstrations are also being organized for world octopus day (October 8th) all over, so reach out to contacts in the link to get involved!!

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Love all beings

Warning ahead of time for talking about aquatic animal death (non-mammal), trying not to talk about food preparation (I think I did good not mentioning specific things), and non-aquatic animal death.

I like watching food videos, which is great and all until it's seafood. It's either going to be palatable to watch or activate discomfort and rage.

The only way I can watch them is if the meat is already prepared, as they should be. Except shellfish (I feel so dumb asking, but that's shrimp as well, yeah? I think yeah).

But, like, there are! So many! Videos! Preparing the seafood Too Much! One was even taking a fish straight from a river and preparing it for eating! You get what I mean? I don't want to say too much.

And because of your efforts in spreading the truth of fish (and other aquatic non-mammals) having feelings and personalities and such, I start thinking... Would there be casual videos of food preparation like this for chickens? Cows? No, no there wouldn't. Because we respect them to some kind of degree, their full preparation would be greatly distressing to watch, wouldn't it? Why is it okay with seafood? You get me?

Not to worry anon, I will tag this appropriately with animal death trigger warning tags. Though I will also have to warn anyone still reading, I will also talk about the killing of animals. A bit of an essay about fish mistreatment and the possible reasons why incoming ^^''

I feel you! I have noticed this worrying trend in society myself, so have many other much wiser fish enthusiasts and activists before me. Publicly showing the preparing of fish from the live animal to the finished dish is... creepily normalised. Especially when this would never be done to mammals! Like that pufferfish meme that was popular some years back, the one where the pufferfish eats a carrot and then moans? That clip is a part of a fuller video where said pufferfish is prepared, fully on screen, into a dish. Even the actual meme, the pufferfish biting into the carrot and moaning is saddening and disturbing to me; the pufferfish is gasping for oxygen and the chef sticks a carrot in its mouth just to show how sharp its beak is, prolonging its fear and suffering.

Something that I think explains this phenomenon, and what I've heard activists talk about, is that what most dictates how we view an animal is how we first come into contact with said animal. We tend to see animals like mammals, birds, beautiful pollinators in everyday life in contexts that tend to value them just for existing as they are, like dogs and cats being pets, songbirds singing and butterflies and bees flying from flower to flower looking pretty. (As a big arthropod fan I acknowledge that invertebrates are often overlooked and underestimated as well! And I also acknowledge that not all mammals and birds are loved equally as they should. But that's a whole other story.)

But fish? Besides aquariums, I don't think people have very many experiences with fish just existing. Many people's first real memory of seeing and interacting with fish might just be going fishing with a relative or a friend. Your first meaningful encounter with a fish and it's said fish being caught with a hook in the lip, out of the water, possibly suffocating or promptly killed to be prepared into a dish? That kind of interaction immediately normalises that fish are more of a service than a group of animals that can be appreciated just as they are. It also normalises catching and preparing of fish unlike any other animal! I'm not saying fishing is inherently horrible, but see how most people don't ever get to see a cow or a chicken being slaughtered? Yet a good chunk of people must have gone fishing at some point or another. This immediately and subconsciously tells us that it's fine to see fish being killed in front of us, because it's normal.

I think what also helps us disregard the emotions and experiences of fish when we see them be killed in front of our eyes is the fact that, as humans, we can have a hard time relating to animals that don't look or emote like we do. Of course fish feel emotions, they feel joy, sadness, anger, love, and they definitely feel terrified to be out of the water and in the hands of a predator! But they don't emote it through facial expressions, they can't scream or wail, they can't wave their limbs like a terrestrial animal in distress would, they can only squirm. The emotions they feel are real, we just don't read them as strongly as we do on other animals. (And even then humans are mighty good at anthropomorphising animals when they shouldn't. Did you know that to other primates smiling is often a threat display, but some humans have gotten hurt by primates for assuming that it's a happy smile and smiling back?) So, once again we can ignore the feelings of fish much easier when they aren't screaming in fear, or crying, or clawing to get out — out of sight, out of mind. This is most likely why some folk think of fish as living decorations, also. It's easy to overlook their personalities when you don't see them displaying their emotions loud and clear.

These two reasons are why I think it's extraordinarily important to teach people about the lives of fish! Sure, fishing will always be a thing and our tendency to look for humanlike expressions is in our DNA. But how easy will it be to disregard fish once you know that cichlids form complex social circles where everyone knows who's who and their exact relationships? How manta rays and cleaner wrasse recognise their own self in a mirror and even in pictures? How catfish talk to each other with drumming sounds? How bettas have unique personalities and enjoy playing? How some sharks like to be pet? I don't think it'll come just as naturally as before. Even one visit to an aquarium or a near body of water can be a lifechanging experience. :)

Thank you anon for presenting such an interesting ask, look how it got me talking! This is all food for thought, for me and to anyone who has gotten this far. I don't think I can ever express how much I love fish. I love their little personalities so much and they all deserve to live their lives to the fullest. I hope that perhaps some people who didn't see it before will be able to see what I see, because life is so much more fun and meaningful when you appreciate all the living things around you! Not just the meowing and barking ones.

Common misconception that vegans take a away the blame from big corporations and judge the little guy instead. Wrong. We blame corporations so much that we refuse to buy their products and boycott them with all our efforts. You guys are just whiny and project it on yourselves.

Hello! Kindly share this message with all animal activists.

Thanking you in advance

Regards,

Human

Save a Paw, Don't Declaw Cat Keychain - Etsy

Hey, don’t cry. California became the first state to ban all new fur sales, ok?

Preachy vegan

Where the fuck are all the animal rights activists and vegans in the genocide Israel is commiting?

Where the fuck are all your 'exposed' posts on the war crimes?

Where are your posts advocating for human rights and a ceasefire in Gaza?

And even if you don't want to acknowledge the human lives being lost in this genocide, its not just humans living in Gaza, there are dogs and cats and birds and horses and donkeys and cattle, yet instead of advocating for any life to be protected in Gaza you're choosing to whine about the "carnists".

Israel isn't just killing human animal lives either, they are destroying the environment in Gaza as well, do you think all those bombs being dropped aren't going to have an impact on the environment? You think all the tanks and planes and drones and helicopters and ships that Israel is using are eco friendly? You think they aren't contributing to the climate crisis? Do you think Israel cares about the environmental impact of their genocide?

Why the actual fuck are almost all of you so silent?

I don't care what your reasons for opposing Israel are at this point (unless its purely racism/antisemitism), I just want more people to be talking about it and putting more pressure on everyone to do something about the genocide. I need to people to care, I need yall ARAs and vegans to actually do something that benefits EVERYONE for once.

So, my best friend and I are both vegan and *love* pigeons. We make it a habit to feed them whenever we can (as pigeons don't like flying too far and stick to places they know there will be food)

We went to the town centre and bought a huge bag of bird seed and ended up feeding all of it to the pigeons, some of whom even sat on our arms and knees which was cute.

Anyway, our lovely time was somewhat ruined after 2 families arrived and let there young kids (I'm not blaming the kids that much, mainly blaming the parents) run at, yell at, kick at and try to grab the pigeons.

Both my friend and I having extreme anxiety conditions couldn't go to the parents, one of which was filming her kids doing all of this, and tell them to teach their kids better/to have respect for animals. We did try to stop the kids by offering them bird seed to feed the pigeons thinking that they maybe just wanted attention from the birds. They all said "no" and continued to torment them.

This is mainly a psa of teach your fucking kids better. Pigeons are lovely, gentle animals who were domesticated and then abandoned by humans and they deserve more respect then what they are given. Stop letting your kids abuse animals.

Hey! I’ve come back onto this site because I’ve recently come through a breakup and I’m feeling pretty alone right now, so I’m trying to find friends with similar interests! Here’s a few of mine ;

• gaming ( borderlands, skyrim, doom, animal crossing, pokemon, etc )

• art, drawing

• tattoos and piercings

• Star Wars, Harry Potter, disney, marvel

• reading ( especially fantasy and horror )

• I’m vegetarian and a HUGE animal lover

• lg(b)tq+

Feel free to message me and hit up a conversation, even if you have none of these in common, im just looking for people to make friends with :)