#vegan history

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I respect vegans' love of animals, really I think animals deserve more compassion than they get. I am personally not vegan. I do not think it is wrong to eat the body of something that was once alive. Tbh thats including humans given the individual had consented, (ideally similar to how organ donations work). I think it is wrong to torture animals such as what factory farms do, I'm a strong believer in small-scale hunting and ethical farming, we as a species have been eating meat in some capacity for thousands of years, the best we can currently do is be kind about it. It's something we have to reconcile with as a species. Truly I don't think a vegan revolution will be viable until we have affordable lab-grown meat.

I disagree with everything you said, heres why. -"I respect animals" then immediately proceeds to call them "things". You respect humans because you considered their consent and previous lives in the matter and how your action may have affected them, you did not with animals. Animals do not consent to being raped farmed and slaughtered. Meat doesnt come from the sky. Vegans dont revere dead bodies either. This is not some religious crap. We care about the harm being caused to the living as a result of paying an evil industry and supporting an evil practice. We want to stop the breeding of animals for the sake of exploiting them. Vegans do not necessarily love nonhuman animals at all. Plenty dislike being around or are indifferent to nonhuman animals. Veganism is not rescue, its not about having a sex-buyer-like savior boner for them like carnists do. It's just sparing them and leaving them the fuck alone and not tormenting them. -The only way small farms are consistently "more ethical" is just that not as many animals are being abused. Any revolting disgusting practice you have seen a large scale farm practice, I have seen a small scale farmer do the same or worse. I have seen farmers prostituting their barn animals, I've seen countless horrific hoarding cases that arent technically illegal and so no one can do anything about it, I've seen every horrific practice from teeth cutting and tail docking to too small enclosures, shutting animals out to intentionally cause them to die by exposure, killing with a hammer etc etc etc. -There is no such thing as ethical exploitation. The animals in hunting zones are raised in game farms. Even if they werent, hunting is not ethical. I've seen deer with their jaws blown off slowly starving to death and every kind of terrible injury you can imagine, many inflicted on purpose. Not to mention how hunting is a practice that attracts sadists and abusers and preens their violent tendencies, increasing rates of domestic violence. -Appeal to tradition fallacy. And no it's not the best we can do lmfao veganism and not killing them is very obviously better than "being nice about how we kill them". You dont have to reconcile shit. Stop doing it. Literally just stop. Spare them. You have other food available that is nutritionally complete and cheaper that takes less resources to grow and distribute. A vegan revolution is and always has been viable since the dawn of man. People were opposing animal agriculture since it's inception. Pythagorus and his students didnt need lab grown meat in 470 BCE. Benjamin Lay didnt accept slavery of humans or animals in any capacity and refused to use horses and lived just fine. Coretta Scott King and Dexter Scott King both spoke of veganism being the next logical step to antislavery and were vegan animal rights activists. Alex Hershaft. I could go on and on and on. Please discuss this more with me if you are interested, or spend time immersing yourself in content made by animal rights activists and learn what we are actually trying to inform people of.

[vegance]

#vegan history

3300–1300 BC: first known vegetarian societies appear in what is today India

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Check out the history of veganism

Veganism as a concept originated in the mid-20th century. Here are some notable milestones in the history of veganism: The Vegan Society: In 1944, the Vegan Society was founded in the United Kingdom by Donald Watson and his associates. They coined the term “vegan” to describe a vegetarian diet that excludes all animal products. Ethical Motivations: While vegetarianism had been practiced for…

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#oh we have a holiday?#vegan#how should i celebrate?#do..do i make a cake or other sweet treat?

Yes, we have a holiday!

World Vegan Day was first celebrated in 1994, so this was the 31st one. It was established by the Vegan Society on the 50th anniversary of the organisation, which was started in November 1944 with the publication of a newsletter called "The Vegan News". The exact day the Vegan Society was founded is unknown, so they picked 1 November because it would then coincide with Halloween, Samhain, and the Day of the Dead.

1 October is World Vegetarian Month and October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, so it's also a fitting follow-up to that. November is now also recognised as World Vegan Month. I live in Belgium and there are many vegan events all over the country this month. I imagine this might be the case in other countries as well.

You can celebrate however you want, or not at all, haha. I do always like to mark the occasion and connect with other vegans. When I lived in England, my housemate always insisted to hold a Halloween party, and because that usually went on throughout midnight, we made it (translation: I insisted it be) a combined Halloween/World Vegan Day party. People would bring vegan snacks and sometimes come in fitting costumes! 😁

Whether you celebrated or not, I hope you had a good one!

HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY EVERYONE!

We dream. We fight. We persevere. 💚 🙏

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epic rap battles of history: that vegan teacher vs dr two brains

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GO VEG!? Early humans were plant based!?

The research, published in Science, focused on specimens from the Sterkfontein cave near Johannesburg, part of South Africa’s “Cradle of Humankind,” an area renowned for its abundant early hominin fossils. Using innovative chemical analysis techniques, researchers examined fossilized teeth from seven Australopithecus specimens, comparing them with teeth from other animals that lived alongside them, including ancient relatives of antelopes, cats, dogs, and hyenas.

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about early human diet. The Australopithecus specimens showed nitrogen levels similar to plant-eaters and significantly lower than meat-eaters from the same period. However, they demonstrated remarkable dietary flexibility. The seven specimens showed more variation in their chemical signatures than any other species studied, suggesting they could adapt their diet based on what foods were available.

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A fresh zine order.

Left to right.

1. From a Matter of Principle to a Matter of Tactics by Anonymous

2. It All Goes or It All Stays the Same, by Spindrift

3. Vegan Cooking is Easy (Recipe Zine)

4. Counter-Info: A "How-To" Guide

5. An Herbal Medicine-Making Primer, by Simon the Simpler

6. The Cloak & Dagger Compendium Issue #2 - Lockpicking: A Handbook of Practical Skills and Invaluable Knowledge for Thieves, Rogues, Scallywags, & Other Disreputable Persons

7. Museifushugi: A Brief History of Anarchism in Pre-War Japan

8. Mutinies: Vietnam

9. The Diary of Bobby Sands

10. Illegalism: Why Pay for a Revolution on the Installment Plan…When You Can Steal One?, by Paul Z. Simons

11. Beyond the “Movement” – Anarchy!

12. Subversive Anarchy Past and Present, by Renzo Connors

13. Professional Anarchy and Theoretical Disarmament: On Insurrectionism, by Miguel Amorós

14. Illegal Anarchism: The false dichotomy, by Gustavo Rodriguez

15. Antagonistic violence: Approaches to the armed struggle in urban environments from an anarchist perspective, by Gustavo Rodriguez

16. Revolutionary Solidarity

17. Together We Can Break These Chains: Art & Writing by Trans Prisoners in Texas

18. Heart of A Warrior: 2 texts by NC prison rebel Joseph Shine White [You can write to Shine White at:

Joseph Stewart #0802041

Maury Correctional

PO BOX 247

Phoenix, MD 21131]

19. STG, Good Time, and the Malicious Demons of Coercion, by Jonathan Summers [ You can write Summers at: Jonathan Summers #459083

Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF)

4269 W. M-80

Kincheloe, MI 49784]

20. It's Time to Turn Up the Heat, by Dan Baker

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[veganlynx]

My vegan journey

Warning: could be boring!

When I was five, I asked my mom what difference there was between our muscle tissue and that of the animals. Mom, who isn’t quite like other moms, said ’none. It’s same.’ This was back when parents were advised to lie to kids about where meat comes from. 

I remember feeling sick. How disgusting. Unfortunately, we really didn’t have any role models. It didn’t occur to us that we could stop eating dead animals. 

This despite the fact that my mother’s (maternal) grandfather was once if not actually, vegan at least maybe vegetarian. While he worked in America, he came into contact with seventh day adventists. When he returned to Sweden, his wife probably didn’t want to cook vegetarian food for him. His brother, though, stayed vegetarian. We don’t know any other details. Grandpa O passed away when mom was five. 

Actually, while not strictly speaking vegetarian at all, my mother’s paternal grandmother had a home made cookery book that contained a semi vegetarian recipe. Pea patties (’cutlets’. Unfortunately, small pieces of pork were added to the patties ’for flavor’. This was at the beginning of the 20th century. We now use that recipe too, but in our version flavor comes from either roasted peanuts or sun dried tomatoes.

To sum up my vegan journey: at five I couldn’t change my eating habits, but then at twelve, I remarked that my rabbit had such sweet-smelling breath. I wanted to be like her. Two years later I completely cut meat from my diet.  

Later someone asked why I ate fish but not meat. Not rudely, mind you. Just asking. I thought ’yeah, exactly why indeed’. And immediately quit. I was in my late teens. This was something I had struggled with some years earlier. Even later I realized that cheese contained rennet. And immediately gave up cheese. Finally, I also gave up dairy and eggs. I never liked honey and I’m allergic to wool so long before I realized the dark truth behind bee keeping and sheep farming, I didn’t use any of that.

Long story, sorry. What I really wanted to say is that I never needed to or wanted to watch distressing videos about tortured animals. Because guess what? I don’t contribute to that suffering and haven’t done so for many years. I have also signed petitions, boycotted businesses and shared info online. I don’t need to watch movie clips because even when I was five, I knew that for anyone to eat a piece of meat someone had to die. Someone who was good and innocent and had never hurt me or anyone in my family, like many humans have.

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Y'all, Christspiracy is available to watch for free!!! I've already watched it and it is AMAZING!!

[vegance]

#vegan history

~ 500 BC: Greek philosophers such as Empedocles and Pythagoras (partially) are said to have advocated against the killing of animals

[dsharma-world]

Did you know veganism has also history

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John the Baptist's Vegetarian Diet -- An Exploration of Early Christian Writings and Scholarly Texts - Spiritual Awakening Radio Encore Podcast 

@ Youtube: 

https://youtu.be/rBM34Cm4laE?si=u7tDt-Y4WeiUAHqi

Due to a mistranslation of a particular Greek work in certain gospel manuscripts John the Baptist has gained the most unfortunate cave-man reputation of being a bug eater, an eater of locusts. It's supposed to be locust beans ("egkrides"), used to make a kind of Middle Eastern flat bread or cake from carob flour, not bugs ("akrides")! If we examine early Christian writings and learn of the Nasoraean movement the Prophet John was associated with, a wilderness sect operating near the Jordan River maybe somewhat related to the Essene branch of Judaism, we will discover references to the vegetarianism of John the Baptist and his disciples (Sabians, a "People of the Book"). Contemporary scholars have also recognized this and written about it. Today on this Spiritual Awakening Radio podcast we'll sort through the evidence, including a surprising number of fascinating passages from ancient sources, as well as learn about "Saint John's Bread" and the "Saint John's Tree" of the Middle East.

Since my original research on this topic, a couple more early Christian apocryphal writings have come to light, have been made available in English. These add to the surprisingly large collection of vegetarian references in early Christian writings regarding the diet of John the Baptist. New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. III, by Tony Burke was published and some John the Baptist books are included. In one of the earlier volumes there was a John the Baptist text made available for the first time in English that has a vegetarian passage regarding John's diet in the wilderness. Included in the third volume are, The Birth of Holy John the Forerunner, and, The Decapitation of John the Forerunner, both containing plant-based passages about John's diet consisting of "locusts from the tree" (in the Middle east called "the Saint John's Tree", and "Carob Tree") and "wild honey", also "an abundance of bread and wild honey dripping from a rock". Clearly there was an understanding in early Christianity that this was referring to locust beans (carob pods), not insects. Carob pods do look a bit like locusts hanging from tree branches, hence the name. Locust beans can be ground up and used to make a kind of Middle eastern carob flour flat bread. There's a "cakes dipped in honey" reference in the Gospel of the Ebionites. The wild "honey" was not from bees but sticky desert fruit of some kind. So, as you'll hear being documented during this podcast, there are all these plant-based references to John's diet coming from many different sources, and scholars have noticed and discussed these: 

"Probably the most interesting of the changes from the familiar New Testament accounts of Jesus comes in the Gospel of the Ebionites description of John the Baptist, who, evidently, like his successor Jesus, maintained a strictly vegetarian cuisine." (Professor Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew) "His [John the Baptist's] food was wild honey that tasted like manna, like a cake cooked in olive oil." (The Other Gospels, Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman)

John the Baptist was a prophet with large number of followers in Israel and Transjordan regions. After his passing, several of his successors headed what became various rival Nasoraean (Nazorean) sects, one of those being Jesus and the Jesus movement. "Again Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than John the Baptizer." (Matthew 11:11, George Howard's translation of Shem-Tov's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, described as "the oldest extant Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew") 

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Albert Einstein: "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

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