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abolitionistveganlife:

ih8religion:

Religion has you make many sacrifices … but none quite as horrific as giving-up pork products.

I would hardly call giving up something that didn’t belong to you in the first place a “sacrifice”. You wanna talk about horrific? Try being born into this world as a pig. To their mothers, a perfect little pink baby, but to cold-hearted humans they are nothing more than a new piece of property, they do not even own their own bodies. Now THAT is a horrifying thought, being born onto this earth not owning your own body parts. On the day you are born, the farmer already knows the day you will die. To them, you are nothing more than a biological machine, a means to an end. 

All baby pigs are castrated sans anesthesia near birth, that is also pretty horrific. Mother pigs are confined in gestation crates during their pregnancy to the point where they cannot even turn around, they go mad from the boredom. Now that is horrifying.

As atheists, we know that “tradition” and “false comfort/convenience” is not a justifiable excuse for our actions or the actions of others. Please, use your critical thinking and dig a little bit deeper into the world of other animals on this planet. We are all equal in that we can love, feel pain and experience joy and loss. Non-human animals do not deserve to be demonized and belittled, they deserve happiness, they deserve to live their lives free of exploitation. Go vegan today and start living your true values.

Buy some tempeh, it’s cheaper than bacon but it’s healthy and delicious. Slice it thin then marinate it in a little oil, a few drops of liquid smoke and a little maple syrup and voila! you have smokey maple tempeh bacon!

(via theveganabolitionist)

liberateanimals:

• The developed world exports grains to developing countries and imports meat with it. If this trend continues, the developing world will not be able to produce enough food to feed itself as farmers are abandoning traditional crops in favour of raising animals to sell meat-eaters in the first world e.g. 80% of starving children live in countries that actually have food surpluses but farmers use the surplus grain to feed animals instead of people.
• In some of the world’s poorest nations, grain and land that could be used to feed the hungry are instead being fed to animals whom end up on the dinner plates of the rich e.g. famine in Ethiopia during the 1980s did not occur because there was no food but on the contrary, European nations imported grain from the impoverished country to feed chickens, pigs and cows… during the crisis tens of thousands of people died but if the grain had been used to feed the Ethiopians who grew it, the famine could have been averted.
• 2/3 of the grain exports to other countries is used to feed farm animals instead of people, as Dr Waldo Bello, the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, states, “there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world’s food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock—food for the well-of—while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation. In Central America, staple crop production has been replaced by cattle ranching”.
• American companies are moving into South American countries and buying up land and grain so that they ca raise animals to sell to meat-eaters in the States. These companies use the resources that should be used to feed the local people, so millions of people in South America and around the world are going hungry while animals raised for food consume their grain and destroy their environment e.g. in Guatemala, 75% of children under the age of 5 are malnourished and yet the nation continues to produce and export around 40 million pounds of meat to the U.S. every year.
• In 2010 Human Rights Watch began a campaign to end immigrant child labour in U.S. agriculture. They found child labourers (who are often as young as seven or eight) working on these industrial farms can expect to work 14-16 hours a day, seven days a week.
• An inquiry in 2010 into the treatment of agency and migrant staff at meat and poultry-processing firms showed widespread evidence of abuse and exploitation. Additionally, there was a lack of health and safety protection and workers did not know their rights. The inquiry on 260 workers found workers were being pushed, kicked, verbally abused, refused permission to go to the toilet, and pregnant workers were mistreated and suffered instant dismissal.
• Supermarkets have driven down the costs so you can buy your meat/dairy/eggs cheaper which has also driven down the costs of the supply chain with tens of thousands of workers paying the price, suffering discrimination and unfair treatment i.e. a two-tier market in which there are migrant agency workers that are exploited on poor conditions which undercuts employed workers on better conditions.
• Americans pay a fantastically low percentage of our income on food—less than in any other developed country. But cheap food comes at the cost of a child who works 30 hours a week and earns $1000 a year according to the USDA.
• Australia’s meat industry has been at the forefront for exploiting foreign workers to overcome a chronic labour shortage. The Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says she is aware that the system may have been abused, and  officials from her department are tackling the problem.

(via tofujesus)