#animal exploitation

[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?

[nemfrog]

Choses de cirque à colorier. 1950. Coloring book cover.

Gallica

[jhoumous]

Farmed animals...

[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

[oca-rinn-a]

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

[persephbug]

I was watching a cute Netflix K drama(the kings affection), and there was a chase scene where a horse takes a tumble. The fall looked really bad, so I looked up animal abuse for the show and apparently they tied the horse's leg to a rope to make it fall and its neck hit the ground at a 90° angle, broke, and it died a week later;_; i liked the show but I can't keep watching because I'm so sad and upset about this horse ;_; i know this was 3 years ago and apparently it's been talked about online but man, I wanted to tell someone ehhhh horrible i feel sick

[vegandude72]

[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”

[sidewalkchemistry]

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

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

✨continue straight to the YouTube playlist✨

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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?

[bedtimesweets]

Here's our bedtime tale of Chumley, the world's smartest rabbit ...

Tamai Shinya

marysia@marysia_cc·

[vegantipsandmore]

What Is Surprisingly Not Vegan?

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