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vegandalist · 10 days

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if your family was dying bc of hunger and the only think you could eat was meat, would you??

if you were not dying of hunger, lived on a planet with seven billion people, had access to unlimited fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds and other healthy foods, and knew animals suffer and die horrible deaths just so you can exploit them, would you continue to eat them?

stop asking me hypothetical questions and ask yourself a real one xx

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vegandalist · 18 days

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Recent studies conducted in Europe and North America seem to suggest that when honeybees are introduced into urban areas they can outcompete the wild bees.

In Munich, an increase in hives in the surrounding area reduced the number of wild bees recorded between May and July in the city’s botanical garden. Similarly, in Paris, fewer wild bees were observed when more hives were introduced across the city. The findings were echoed in Montreal, which between 2013 and 2020 witnessed a twelvefold increase in hives from 250 to almost 3,000. Sites with the largest increase had the biggest drop in wild bee species.

(…) Honeybees are livestock, like pigs and chicken. And just as keeping chickens won’t save wild birds, honeybees won’t save wild bees, and in some cases could be contributing to their demise.

#bees #honey #animals

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vegandalist · 21 days

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if you want to get very quickly and efficiently radicalized against the dairy industry, search the name of any dairy breed and read a cattle farming organization's article on them to see what they have to say.

once you notice it, the language they use to talk about living animals is sickening.

here are some from a cattle website's article on the Holstein breed, known famously as one of the 'highest producing' dairy cow breeds:

off to a great start - this article quietly walks around the fact that cows' lifespans are irrelevant to this topic and they should only technically be measured by the years they spend being 'productive' to the dairy industry. (because they know they won't live any longer than that, anyway.)

notice how these animals are reduced to mere numbers and statistics - how many pounds of milk, butterfat and 'protein' they can 'produce' per year. notice the fact that the dairy industry has historically had nothing but a vested interest in testing and pushing these numbers as far as they can go, beyond what is naturally biologically feasible - even demanding testing programs and constant genetic investigation to do so.

the implication that these animals can 'adapt' to farming situations they are forced into. the advertisement of these animals as being fully 'adaptable' to whichever method of explotation is chosen for them, including 'intensive farming.' think about how animals live in the wild for a moment. think about what 'intensive farming' entails. what animal could possibly 'adjust' to that?

furthermore, when these animals encounter heat stress and disease as a result of being put in an unsuitable environment, the only thing worth commenting on is their 'reduced production capacity.' no mention of their distress or wellbeing beyond that.

notice how factors that could be considered biologically unnatural, such as rapid growth and early maturity, are celebrated here, only for their benefit to the process of the dairy industry's purposes for calves.

notice how this article describes them as overwhelmingly easy to 'handle' - livestock farmers have little to no patience with 'misbehaving' animals, who exhibit 'difficult' behaviours. this article also offers the assurance that these animals are 'resistant to stress' - since it knows fully well that these cows will be encountering highly stressful environments in the dairy production industry.

noting that they exhibit herd bonds is as close as this article gets at any point to showing any kind of interest in them as what they actually are - living animals. this is the sole instance of that.

of course, in the dairy industry you should naturally expect that any sentence starting with 'Holsteins are more than just a dairy breed...' should end with 'the animal also contribute to the meat supply.' these cows have no worth in this industry's eyes beyond their bodies - what they can produce, what we can consume -- what they can sell to us. all under the convenient pretense that these animals are doing a 'service' to us by 'contributing to our supplies.'

can you imagine if your biology textbook suddenly started describing the quality, the texture, the 'fattening sectors' and 'fine fibres' of meat that compose the animals you were reading about?

and here we have one of the most horrifying sentences I've ever read:

it's self-confessional - the dairy industry is the meat industry, because dairy farming creates the 'byproduct' of useless male calves. so even under dairy circumstances, cows are still bred with beef breeds so that when they're forcefully impregnated, they can give birth to tastier babies.

the way it says all of this through pure implication is absolutely insidious.

and of course, on its final note, this article once again offers merit to these cows purely based on their milk productivity - their 'unexcelled production,' the 'greater income' they offer to the industry weighed against how much it costs to care for them. the obsession with their genetic 'qualities' goes far beyond disturbing here. their sperm, even frozen embryos are sold and exported as 'products' all around the world. just imagine what that looks like for a moment - what that requires. what a horrifying thing to do to an animal.

and how typical is it of the dairy industry to pretend that this is being done in the name of 'improving foreign food supplies' in the very same breath as celebrating how it also improves 'dairy producer incomes'? how convenient is it that the fabricated, false pretense of global necessity for dairy and meat products just so happens to make those industries one of the wealthiest on the planet?

how can anyone write or read an article like this and not instantly come to realize what kind of an abusive, exploitative, and downright dystopian system they are participating in? for the animals born and trapped within this industry, and for all the other living creatures subsequentally affected by this industry's neverending drive to increase its own profits, this is man-made, capitalistic hell in its purest form.

#animals #cows #dairy industry

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vegandalist · 22 days

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Not everybody can be plant based, because that is a diet. Everybody can be vegan, because that is about doing your best.

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vegandalist · 22 days

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Autistic people with so much empathy towards the animals that they feel like they're going to explode are so valid. I love you.

Autistic people with little to no empathy who just respect the right to live for all animals, I love you too.

And everyone in between, you're not forgotten either.

(/platonic)

#positivity #autism #neurodivergence #vegan #veganism #vegans #go vegan #vegan for the animals #vegandalist's posts

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vegandalist · 22 days

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i love you baby vegans, i love you vegans who can't eat plant based right now, i love you old vegans, i love you trans vegans, i love you religious vegans, i love you struggeling vegans <3333

#positivity

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vegandalist · 1 month

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Can’t believe there’s already ableist discourse about the two faced calf…… I sincerely hate abled bodied ppl so much it’s unreal

#disability #intersectionality

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vegandalist · 1 month

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please donate to heartstone sanctuary!!! the cows need to be tested for tuberculosis and they can't do that on the current site because of flooding. if they can't get tested they will be seized and slaughtered by the department of agriculture and they don't have much time left.

they need to raise a huge amount of money in just a short time but they have one donor who has offered €200,000 so they're much closer to their target than they were

please please share as widely as possible and donate if you can. lives literally depend on it

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vegandalist · 1 month

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vegandalist · 2 months

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Any practice done on an animal that you’d never want done to yourself can’t be called “humane”.

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vegandalist · 2 months

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I wish people got as upset about the billions of animals on which we inflict unimaginable pain and suffering on every year as they do about tumblr posts.

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vegandalist · 3 months

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Your occasional reminder that this blog is not and will never be accepting of TERFs/radfems/transphobes and neither is veganism. I am trans and support other trans people.

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vegandalist · 3 months

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If you’re not vegan and have a companion animal near you right now, feel their inhales and exhales. Stroke their head that is full of memories and emotions and love. Feel their beating chest that keeps them alive and you happy. Now tell me the animals you eat and use aren’t exactly the same.

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vegandalist · 3 months

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so so so so unbelievably frustrating when 'environmental activists' will refute or ignore the farming industry. i have a friend who's incredibly involved in stopping climate change, say that they don't drink soy milk because it's "killing the amazon" even though more than 80% of soy goes to feeding cows, chickens, etc. and then they simply ignore it and get mad at me for being right. its making me so annoyed, it's like there's this sort of stigma/hatred towards being plant-based or simply avoiding animal products to the point where facts are being denied. its so annoying !!

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vegandalist · 4 months

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“What sort of world is this? Someone’s body is made into shoes, into meatballs, sausages, a bedside rug, someone’s bones are boiled to make broth… Shoes, sofas, a shoulder bag made of someone’s belly, keeping warm with someone else’s fur, eating someone’s body, cutting it into bits and frying it in oil…”

“Can it really be true? Is this nightmare really happening? This mass killing, cruel, impassive, automatic, without any pangs of conscience, without the slightest pause for thought, though plenty of thought is applied to ingenious philosophies and theologies. What sort of world is this, where killing and pain are the norm? What on earth is wrong with us?”

Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead

#values and philosophy

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vegandalist · 4 months

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It's interesting how many of those who care about how non-human animals are talked about don't do it for the animals themselves.

In their eyes, the aggressive word choices could hurt the perceived owners of these animals.

Obviously, most non-human animals do not understand the words we are using or how their meaning subtly differs from others. Some of them do hear the possible aggression of the voices speaking or associate certain tones or words with actions.

This does not mean they understand the meaning of these words. You could teach a dog that it means going outside when you say the word "sofa", and they could start wagging their tails when you call them stupid, if you do it with the right tone.

But the reality is, that how we as humans talk about animals does affect the way we see them. If non-human animals are "them" or "it", they are easier to objectify than if, when talking about all animals, we include ourselves and do not assign the animals the pronoun typically given to objects, or if they are seen as the property of people, something to be "owned".

Of course the effect isn't 1:1. If I call the leopard gecko I care for stupid affectionately once, I won't start thinking that they were, as a species, unintelligent.

But when we stop for a moment and examine all the moments where we actually, even if often unknowingly, make a decision about how we describe non-human animals and our relationship to them, we begin to see how often that happens.

In personal use, our words can shape our own personal views of non-human animals differently, depending on the (moral) value we give these words. Someone who sees ugliness as a moral failing or a justification to make their lives harder or even to deny their inherent worth and right to live than someone who sees it as neutral or even adorable.

The objectification of non-human animals is a quite obvious issue in our daily lives, even if invisible to many.

#vegandalist's posts #values and philosophy #animals #vegan #vegan for the animals #go vegan #veganism #vegans #veganlife #animal rights

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vegandalist · 4 months

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completely normal reactions to have upon being shown an image of a pig's scorched black-red carcass with its eyes gouged out and an apple stuffed in its mouth on a dining table

#animals #tw animal death mention

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