JAUNTIEST AND DAMN TRAITORS

clitorisesandsnorlaxes:

I’m going on seven years vegan and it was without the doubt the best choice I made in my life. So DO IT! Keep at it! <3 

Hear hear! I’ll add, as a three-years vegan, eight years stumbly, staggery, ill-chosen survivalist wanna-vegan, don’t beat yourself up if you slip up, make a mistake, or need to take certain food-transitions slower. You’ll get there, put the resolve back in resolution. Obviously, we all know that eating a hamburger every day can’t be called “vegan”, but don’t feel like “oh no it’s over” because you found out their was egg in your veggie burger, bug-red in you juice, and they totally didn’t use a knife without mayo-residue to cut your salad-sandwich. You pick up and move on, now knowing how to ask if there is cholecalciferol in this multi-vitamin, and 20 different ways they know how to list each animal-based ingredient.
Also, on food transitions…there’s many a veggie who’s gone veg, and we all know there’s some hold out as you change your cooking, shopping, and food-accepting habits…don’t let it be a crutch you lean on loong after the cast came off, keep in mind your reasons you are vegan, but learn to forgive yourself for fucking up until you’ve re-learned the things you do and don’t eat. I mean, I have a pretty severe allergic reaction to some slurpee flavours/colours, but I still have ended up topping off my cup with “cherry” flavour, when last time I had a “cherry”, my throat swelled up and I broke out in hives :/….

TEEL DEER, yes it’s hard, yes you will fuck it up for a while, but you’ll learn the ropes if you don’t call it quits the first time you realize gummi bears have rendered animal remnants in them.

mrs-disick:

Riddle me this. It’s not like they skin the damn creature. 

1. It’s an animal product. Veganism is the radical notion that other animals are not here to serve our needs, but independent creatures; not products and commodities.
2. Much like anything, even “the nice way” is a fiction in our post-industrial society. Bees are killed to loot the hive’s honey, wax, and pollen; sheep are maimed and killed in the production of wool, due to exposure from the cold in early shearing, infection from wounds, fleece and foot rot, flystrike, and it’s “solution” - the practice of mulesing where the sheep’s tail area is mutilated to eliminate folds…without any anaesthetics.
3. Common practices of animal agribusiness such as castration, tagging, dehorning and tail docking which are also done without anaesthetic or pain relief.
4. Selective breeding which increases wool and or meat production often does not benefit the animal’s well-being in any way.
5. Wool sheep are an invasive species to Australia, which is a large sector of the wool market; and keeping large herds have huge ecological impacts.
6. Even wool sheep are eventually sold as meat, once they stop producing enough wool; again common slaughter house shipping cruelties such as trampling, no food or water for several days, long travel distances, and hasty slaughter leading to the dismemberment of still-living animals.

So you see, it’s not just like someone gives a sheep a haircut every year—this is a systemic exploitation that cares only about the bottom line. If being nice to the sheep isn’t cost-effective, it’s not done. Cruelty is an inherent condition to the factory model, with it’s demands for high-volume production at a lower base cost; you see this from the workers, to the means of production, to the products, and the end users on a system-wide scale where-ever the factory model is present.

And even if a sheep was raised humanely and wool gathered in an ethical way, most/many vegans wouldn’t wear or use it on the grounds that treating other living creatures as products and objects is a poor ethical basis.

TW: Actual bad shit happening thousands of times a day that you will refuse to acknowledge because facing it causes your life to be mildly uncomfortable.

In pictures. Because vegans are uppity and privileged.

treekisser:

Step 1: Mother gives birth to baby.

Step 2: Baby takes his first steps. Mother nervously stares at human observers. She knows what’s coming. She’s seen it before.

Step 3: Less than 15 minutes after birth, the still-wet baby is taken from his mother.

Step 4: Mother is hooked onto mechanical milk suckers, so her baby’s nutrients can be fed to humans (thus significantly increasing humanity’s cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes rates…but I digress…)

Step 5: Newborn baby is sent to live the rest of his short life on a veal farm.

(most of the photos above were taken by my hero Jo-Anne McArthur)

Dairy = Veal = Cruelty.

Break your cheese addiction. I know it’s tough (trust me, I KNOW it’s tough- at first), but I promise it goes away.

It’s worth it.

(via theveganarchist)