#animal exploitation

[veganfairylights]

So we should let endangered animals go extinct as some have recovered well what in zoos? Should we let the ones born there die in the wild as they can’t properly function outside?

The majority of animals in zoos are not endangered. They are simply there because humans want to look at them. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also, if zoos truly had the animals' best interests at heart, they wouldn't allow visitors. They'd build bigger enclosures. They'd focus on keeping the animals wild and not letting them get used to humans, ever.

There are thousands of wildlife sanctuaries that actually focus on saving endangered species without submitting them to unnecessary, stressful human contact.

@acti-veg has a post going more into detail.

And to answer your last question: if an animal cannot survive in the wild, that doesn't mean that a zoo is its best option. Yes, it may need human help to survive, but it doesn't need spectators. It doesn't need a tiny enclosure. It needs as much freedom as it can get with as little human intervention as possible, and that is something that zoos are never going to provide, because at the end of the day, they're using animals as entertainment and for profit. And that will always be unethical.

[vegandude73]

[sidewalkchemistry]

‘When scientists like me advocate for healthy and environmentally-friendly eating, it’s often said we’re sitting in our ivory towers promoting something financially out of reach for most people. This study shows it’s quite the opposite. These diets could be better for your bank balance as well as for your health and...the planet.’

Oxford University research has today revealed that, in countries such as the US, the UK, Australia and across Western Europe, adopting a vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian diet could slash your food bill by up to one-third.

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It found that in high-income countries:

Vegan diets were the most affordable and reduced food costs by up to one third.

Vegetarian diets were a close second.

Flexitarian diets with low amounts of meat and dairy reduced costs by 14%.

By contrast, pescatarian diets increased costs by up to 2%.

[morethansalad]

Gentle reminder that veganism is not a diet.

Veganism is not a lifestyle either.

Veganism is a social justice movement with the goal of liberating animals from our speciesist cultural practices which have incorrectly come to believe that exploiting animals is necessary for survival and even a civilized notion. Being vegan includes doing all that is possible in your power to practically avoid supporting industries and practices which deprive animals of a complete & happy life.

It's not new. It's not a fad. It is radical in this day and age, but simply in the same way that labor laws (eg. for children, slaves, sweatshop workers, slaughterhouse workers, etc) were and still are. Exploitation is exploitation.

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[gentle-isnt-kind]

Me, and every other vegan on this site: maybe exploiting animals... is bad? And we don't need to?

Tumblrinas: we've been exploiting animals hundreds of years, and nothing bad has come of it *sweeps all the bad that has come of it under the rug* so we're not going to change. Also, you saying that is [insert some virtue signalling thing here]

Animal exploiting farmers: umm, actually [insert animal product here] is good for you

Tumblrinas: see?? It's so so good for us! And why would they lie just because they make money off us buying these products??? Vegans are weird.

Do y'all see how you sound?

[slowandsweet]

"Tens of billions of land animals slaughtered every year; hundreds of millions every day; thousands in the time it takes to read this sentence. The number grows by billions more every year, into multiples that feel as abysmal as they are mind-numbing.

On top of 80 billion, how can we comprehend another 5, 10, 20 billion more? How can it get worse? And while we can count suffering in the aggregate, these animals experience it as individuals, each one containing an infinite depth of conscious experience. Our human world is built atop a parallel universe of their misery, an inferno from which most of us prefer to look away.

Since I made the choice to leave meat behind for ethical reasons more than a decade ago, the factory farm system has only gotten bigger and bigger. That’s one reason why I’ve spent the last several years reporting on meat’s impacts on animals, climate, politics, and culture. In this piece, I wanted to take a step back and think through the depth of the challenge facing the movement against animal exploitation" (By Marina Bolotnikova). Read the full article here.

Image by Chantal Kaufman

[bricksandmutualaid]

I know most people think it's ridiculous but honestly milk and the various alternatives to it are a clear sign of capitalism and exploitation. Not many people think about or care about the widespread exploitation of cattle to harvest milk for everyday use, even then people dismiss alternatives to this industrial scale exploitation for a wide variety of reasons often fed by capitalist propaganda and misunderstanding. It really shows the capitalist realism that grips most people, to them they can't understand or really conceive of a system that doesn't entail widespread exploitation of other living beings and they look down on others who can see and try to achieve systems that don't involve it. Just my random thoughts.

You bring up a solid point about how capitalist realism limits people’s ability to imagine alternative systems. The normalization of large-scale animal exploitation is a great example of this—most people don’t even question it because it’s been ingrained as a necessity. Even when plant-based or lab-grown alternatives exist, they’re often dismissed as ‘unnatural’ or ‘elitist,’ despite industrial dairy being one of the most artificial and resource-intensive industries around.

It’s wild how deeply these structures shape our perception of what’s ‘normal’ and ‘possible.’ If we break free from capitalist logic, we can start thinking about truly ethical and sustainable systems—not just for food but for everything. What kind of alternatives do you think would be viable on a community-based, non-exploitative scale?

[oca-rinn-a]

The Ethics of What We Eat, Singer and Mason, published 2006

[voice-of-illogical-sense]

We need to start protecting the bees a little harder! These things are amazing!

[bedtimesweets]

This video is Chumley approved!

“You are not done yet”

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

ok YES it was my circus but i firmly deny the accusation those are my monkeys.

[vegandude73]

[sidewalkchemistry]

Mindful Consumption 101 Challenge: Week 2✨🌍 | Holistic Leveling Up

🌼challenge overview🌼 week one day eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen

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Day 8: May 21: Chris Beat Cancer

+ Forgiveness Meditation

+ Malasana squat pose (5 min hold, x5)

Day 9: May 22: Our Consumer Society

+ Carl Jung NDE Guided Visualization meditation

+ Donkey Kicks (50 reps per leg, x3)

Day 10: May 23: The Next Black (The Future of Clothing)

+ Sleep Soul meditation

+ Bicep curls (5 min) and tricep extensions (5 min) - light weights (x3)

Day 11: May 24: The Medium is the Message

+ Full Body Reiki for Mindfulness & Grounding

+ Freestyle Dance Workout (25 min)

Day 12: May 25: How Herding Evolved into Capitalism, Slavery, Sexism, and more

+ Totality of Possibilities meditation

+ Alternate high knees (1 min) & mountain climbers (1 min), x10

Day 13: May 26: How Lucid Dreaming Really Works

+ Guided Meditation for Lucid Dreaming

+ Straight punches (20) and front kicks (4), as many rounds as you like

Day 14: May 27: Long Term Raw Vegan Looks Unbelievable @ 63 & Shares Her Secrets

+ Heal Your Body meditation

+ 115 squats

[morethansalad]

This is my Ex-Abolitionist Story (Ex-Vegan Parody)

[gentle-isnt-kind]

Also, if vegans are so ableist/classist/racist/this/that then why do poor vegans exist? Why do disabled vegans exist? Why do POC vegans exist? Why are POC vegans one of the fastest growing groups?

And why do they all say the same thing , that is, to go vegan?

Maybe we just care about animals? Maybe we don't have anything to gain by you going vegan? Maybe your anti vegan arguments are the same 5 fallacies over and over again? Maybe you should go vegan?