middle-class american who subsists primarily on factory farmed beef fed slaughtered by semi-slave immigrant workers on sub-minimum wage and which were raised on soy produced in clear-cut areas of the amazon rainforest which until last year belonged to an uncontacted tribe who have all been murdered by the enforcers of the logging company: well what about inuit people who eat whales huh? checkmate vegans
I just started a new job and my desk mate is literally also an ethical vegan!!! I’m so happy 💚
I’m so used to everyone across the leftist political spectrum online shitting on veganism constantly that I keep being genuinely shocked when I go to irl leftist gatherings and I am far from the only vegan person there. People incorporating veganism into their anarchist theory, their abolitionist theory, their feminist theory.. It’s like oh yeah, the weird internet poison is not everywhere.
I am continuously baffled and disgusted with the disconnect displayed by people who fawn over how precious an animal is, then sit down to eat the dead flesh of that animal within 24 hours
Going on vacation as a vegan with a bunch of non-vegans can be so frustrating bc they all pick the restaurants and I have to make whatever half cooked veggies they have work and then they’re all like man I’m so full and I go back to the hotel room and eat the snacks I brought
i am also vegan because cattle farming is the main cause of amazon deforestation and illegal land seizures fom indeginous brazilians
i am also vegan because the shrimp industry enslaves and abuses migrant fishermen from south-east asia
i am also vegan because animal agriculture is one of the main drivers of climate change, which most affects the poorest on earth
i am also vegan because european fishing vessels are systematically stealing fish from somalian waters
i am also vegan because we could directly feed an additional 1 billion people with some of the food we feed to livestock animals
i am also vegan because animal agriculture is a main driver of antibiotic resistance, which killed 1,27 million people in 2019
i am also vegan because i believe it is wrong to exploit the planet and the most vulnerable populations for the sake of sensory pleasure
‘When fishing stops, the results are remarkable. On average, in 124 marine reserves studied around the world, some of which have been in existence only a few years, the total weight of animals and plants has quadrupled since they were established. The size of the animals inhabiting them has also increased, and so has their diversity.
In most cases the shift is visible within two to five years. As the slower-growing species also begin to recover, as sedentary life forms grow back and as reefs of coral and shellfish re-establish themselves - restoring the structural diversity of the seabed - the mass and wealth of the ecosystem is likely to keep rising for a long time.
Five years after Georges Bank, off the coast of New England, was closed for commercial fishing, the number of scallops had risen fourteenfold. Around Lundy Island, mature lobsters trebled in number within eighteen months of the creation of the reserve. After four years they were five times as abundant as those outside, after five years, six times.
Eighteen years after they were first protected, the combined weight of large predatory fish in the Alp Island reserve in the Philippines had risen by a factor of seventeen. Bigger fish produce more eggs, and the quality of eggs improves as the parents mature, so more of the offspring are likely to survive.
Like the Kraken in Tennyson’s poem, the suppressed life of the sea awaits only for its chance to re-emerge.’
George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding The Land, Sea and Human Life
I think it's very funny how many people on tumblr can't recognise how much they abuse thought-terminating cliches when discussing veganism
Non-vegans who think vegans are annoying have obviously never been vegan because there is nothing more annoying than a non-vegan when they find out you are vegan
i love being in “all vegan” spaces. going to a vegan restaurant and not even having to think about what you can order because you can order everything!! going into a vegan supermarket and knowing that you don’t have to read every lable to look for some hidden animal derived ingredients.
and i love so much living on my own now and having everything in my flat be vegan. all the food in my kitchen, all the cosmetics i have. just having one space in my life where i can create my little world as i would like it to be and according to my ethical beliefs is so freeing