Hey, you, yes you, anti vegan on Tumblr!!
There are many things I’d like to tell you, but so far, I’ll stick to just one.
STOP USING PEOPLE ON THIRD WORLD/ DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS AN EXCUSE FOR YOU TO NOT GO VEGAN!
You do not know how a developing country is. Do you know that meat, for example, is fucking expensive? Poor people can’t afford eating meat on a daily basis, as you seem to think. Animal products, like meat, dairy, leather, fur, etc are really expensive if they are not subsidized. Eating meat if a privilege that rich people and people living in the first world have. Have you ever seen the FAO giving meat or cheese to people in war/famine zones? No. They give them cereals and legumes. Because they are cheap and accesible. They do not root. You don’t need a refrigerator to keep them. And they last months.
So, stop with the whole: “Vegans are sooo privileged!!!!!”
And the: “Vegans are all white and live in the US and are all rich!!!!!” That just shows how ignorant you are, and how little research you’ve done about veganism worldwide, and even veganism in your own country.
Get over the fact that it is you, the meat eater, the privileged one. The one with country privilege. Money privilege. Cooking privilege. And, most important, species privilege.
Also, how is it exactly that the fact that some people are so por that they have to live off legumes and cereals on some far away country affects your food choices and your responsibility? Why do you excuse yourself with what other people can or cannot do? Do you realize how childish that is? “My friend over there never does his homework, I’m not doing it neither”, “My sister never feeds the dog, I’m not doing it anymore”, etc. Making your moral choices based on what other people do, is really immature and shows how little responsibility you take for your own actions. Stop making lame excuses and make a little effort to stop using, objectifying and murdering non human animals. See what you can really do. You’ll be amazed.
Now, think about this a little bit.
TW: Animal abuse.
EligeVeganismo’s Investigation, Chile.
Photographer: Gabriela Penela
“The mothers of mane species enjoy their children: from birth until they grow, teaching them, caressing them and every way they can show their affection. They try to end their mother work giving them all the tools needed for their independence, when their offspring endure the world on their own.
These are generations of slave mothers and children. Human use voids their most basic interests, reducing them to consumer goods, unable to obtain their happiness, and fulfil their needs.
Every animal in this world has hir own interests. The ability to suffer and enjoy make them our equals, and to understand this, all you need is a personal reflexion about our relationship with the rest of the sentient beings of the world, removing the prejudices that have grown with each and every one of them.”
Non human animals are not ours to use. They exist for their own reasons, and are in no way means to our ends, just as any other individual in this world.
Photos from animal rights organization EligeVeganismo. This was the activity performed in commemoration of the International Animal Rights Day, on 10th December 2011. We were about 80 activists, some came from outside Santiago (Chile’s Capital).
These are all victims of animal exploitation. Their corpses were collected from factory farms, dairy, labs, street, and other such places.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5TSqaGu0n0&feature=colike Here’s the video.
“63 years ago, the whole world, unanimously, condemned the atrocities of World War II, trough a Declaration that pretended that none of those horrors would recur. Until today, millions of animals die on a daily basis; most of them to be made human food, in the most absolute and painful of silences. We get them usually in pieces, as meat, leather, fur, or substances like milk and eggs, others are caged beneath a glass on a pet store, caged on a zoo, or in a circus spectacle.
For this reason, the International Animal Rights Day is more than just a memorial, it’s a call to reflection and the will to leave inertia. If we apply non violence, and look for peace, this act is a call to practice every day respect for animals, those who don’t express on languages we do, and are out of our structures, but share with us the most basic characteristics, the will to live, to determinate their own lives, and the desire to fully live their freedom.” Isabel Collao Lemus, EligeVeganismo’s coordinator. Translation of the speech from video
For the bastards that believe animals don’t have emotions, don’t feel pain even more intensely than we do, what the fuck do you have to say now?
this the saddest fucking thing
This is a baby mourning the death of a parent.
“But, yeah, animals don’t have emotions, so, uhm. yeah, I’m just so blinded by speciesism that I’ll just ignore this.”
Randomness from a queer, nerdy vegan...: When people tell me how "nicely" animals are treated on some farm they know: →
IDGAF.
I don’t care if the animals are fed gourmet, organic food out of silver-plated troughs, sleep on Tempur-Pedic mattresses, have their nails painted, are given daily massages, bathed in Whirpool bathtubs, and sang to every night. I don’t give even a single shred of fuck that a little…
(Quelle: fuckyeahveganlife, via veganmudblood)
On vegetarianism…
As I said before, I was a vegetarian for about five years. I started when I was 13 years old, and then moved forward to veganism last year. I’ve never had health related problems due my diet, I’ve constantly worried about learning all I can about nutrition, what was I supposed to eat, and so on. Those are, till now, six years reading about health, illnesses, nutrition, food and recipes, so, please, understand if I roll my eyes when someone says “But where do you get your protein?”. To me that’s actually not fresh news, I have no problem explaining it. But please, don’t act like you can come with some ambush, particularly when it’s about something so basic.
Well, that being said, some thoughts on vegetarianism. Vegetarianism, as opposed to veganism, is a diet (while veganism is a life style and a philosophy). It may include some animal products, like dairy, eggs, honey, and of course doesn’t involve being against the commodification of animals (some vegetarians use leather, don’t mind if their products are tested, go to circuses).
Anyway, some vegetarians may be vegetarians because they want to do something for the animals. And, as I see it, it’s a great start point. As long as it is seen as a way to a totally cruelty free life, and not as an end on itself. I can understand that it may be difficult, but, hey, life ain’t a piece of eggless cake! Everything worth fighting for, be it sexual minorities rights, feminism, ecology, WILL be hard, and you will have to commit, make sacrifices, and probably will cry some times. But I assure you, that it’s totally worth it. As I see it, vegetarianism is a transition point between being omni and vegan, but not a goal itself. As long as you’re doing it for the animals, of course, and want to be coherent.
Speciesist Feminist Bingo: We treat animals like pieces of meat. →
Hey, now. You didn’t think I could skewer defensive omnivores without specifically targeting the speciesist feminist set, did you? You did!? Hmph. Guess that just goes to show how little you know me.
Of course, you can certainly whip out your Defensive Omnivore Bingo cards when playing with omnivore feminists; most likely, they’re just as apt to try those silly excuses on you as are anti-feminist or feminist-ignorant omnivores. But if you’re hankering for a challenge, Speciesist Feminist Bingo is a nice change of pace, I think.
As with Defensive Omnivore Bingo, I’m already halfway through a second card, so if you’ve got any suggestions, drop ‘em in the comments. Nor have I linked to any resources in the plain-text version of the card – though I do think it would be fun to make a running series of posts out of debunking the statements, one square at a time. We shall see.
(via ibtk)
So appropriate to what I’ve just written… marvelous coincidence <3
So, you’re not vegan, hum?
As I see it, been a vegan isn’t something remarkable or a choice. Respect towards all living beings shouldn’t be a choice or an exception, it should be the rule.
I do not think that there are any reasons to not be vegan, or at least try your best. Anyway, none of us is 100% vegan. We buy some products that, although have no animal ingredients, are made by companies that are not vegan (nor vegetarian), we use medication, buy our clothes from marks which too sell leather or fur. And don’t get me started with animal experimentation, in my opinion that’s the hardest one to avoid (because since 1964, the Helsinski Declaration, from the 18th Worldwide Medicean Association Assembly, stated that all products where to be tested on animals). But we do our best avoiding them, and never expect it to be comfortable. Because if we wanted to make vegan easy, we should be already in a vegan society. If you actually care, it’s ok to not have cheese (not Daiya for everyone), to cook more (please you can do it in 15 minutes, don’t bitch about it), to have arguments, to get stupid jokes and remarks from people who think they know more than you when you’ve been on this for years and they only made a 2 min research on google. All those little things end up, well, being little, when compared to the mass murder of animals (I’m not even going graphic on this one, because everyone should now about this).
The only reason I understand to not be vegan is this: “I don’t give a fuck about animals, they are commodities to me and I’ll use and abuse them in every way possible I get. I don’t think that the fact that they feel, are conscious and are, well, pretty much not all that different from me, is relevant, because I’m really indoctrinated into Speciecism, and I love my beef, cheese and eggs over somebody’s life, freedom and rights. I, too, don’t give two fucks about environment, and will forever deny that the UN and the FAO have said that animal farming is the number 1 cause of global warming, and that experts say that we should lessen our meat consumption to zero. On the other side, I don’t give three fucks on the fact that I could live vegan healthily, as the ADA, the ADC and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have stated, that meat consumption actually increases my risk to develop several illnesses like cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, alzheimer, and to have a higher risk to have a stroke. Last but not least, I don’t give four fucks on all the starving people on this world. Because, even if the 80% of soy production (worldwide) goes to feed cattle, and it takes 16 kilo of grain to get just 1 kilo of beef (waste of food), it’s not my problem if food is poorly distributed or if I contribute to this by choosing the least reasonable and effective choice. To sum up, I’m a selfish and insensitive person, I don’t care about myself, the environment, the fellow human beings, and, OF COURSE, non human animals”.
If someone came to me, with that sincere answer, I would probably tell them they’re insensitive assholes and that they need to die and leave some space to some worth being. Even a palm tree would be better.
You can’t be “all for animals and their rights” and don’t even think about changing your habits. That’s just being an hypocrite. I actually prefer a sincere answer than the “I love dogs and they’re like my babies, I help all the stray dogs I find, because they’re worthy … But, hey, on our way home let’s go to McDonalds, it’s not like cows feel or anything”. It’s a cliché, but “why love one and eat the other”? You’re the kind of people who give actual animal rights activists, vegans and vegetarians the bad name of illogical, irrational and emotional.
I’m done ranting tonight. Tomorrow: Thoughts on vegetarians. Because being one for five years taught me something, but you’ll learn that later.
P.D.: If someone wants a source, and can’t find them by googling, drop an ask, and I’ll search it (I actually save pretty much EVERY paper, pdf and news I find regarding Veganism).
oh hey by the way, speciesism does in fact exist.
(Quelle: puzzledpantherrr)
Some stuff I hate.
I hate it when people ask me why I’m vegan while everyone’s eating. I try my hardest to not tell something that may hurt someone by accident and to not trow up because I see people eating corpses around me. But, hey, that’s not a big deal, huh? And then while trying to explain all the reasons there are to go vegan, X interrupts me, Y is a total hypocrite because ze is all about holding my back with a steak on hir hand, and Z is just an asshole with verborrea talking about what a nonsense vegans are/how I’m gonna die because I lack “real protein”/ that animals are not conscious (REALLY?) / how tasty meat is.
Truth is, I’m a hard die vegan. I know I’m not perfect, and that there are several things I’ve got to fix. I’m an activist. I’m a minority. I’m attacked everytime I eat/talk about things that matter to me, and should to everybody. I hate meat eaters. I do not insult people, even if they call me “stupid”, “childish”, “arrogant”, “ignorant”, “animal-lover”. The worst name calling comes when you do something that threatens the atrocities people have been brainwashed to believe as “normal”, “natural” and “necessary”.
I’ve been to slaughterhouses, milk farms, dog races, zoos, and several other animal exploitation places the like. I’ve, too, been to the remains of a concentration camp (Dachau), and I’m not joking when I say that those places were better than non human animals’ concentration camps. By no means I want to belittle the awful experiences jews, homosexuals, gypsies, feminists, catholic priests, communists and everyone nazis (not germans, please) didn’t like, had to endure; because, actually, there is not much of a difference between one an the other.
(I hate it too when people go all like: “Comparing holocaust victims to my sausage is insulting to those people!”. No, asshole, your SPECIESISM is insulting, demeaning and violent to non human animals and to myself. So please think twice when you happily buy somebody’s arm, leg, brain, skin, fur, secretions, etc.)
