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Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely

I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both. Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life.

Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Close-up photo of a group of chickens densely packed together inside a farm. One of them in the foreground clearly exhibits health issues, such as feather loss, exposed, irritated skin and visible wounds on their body.

When people say "don't force your beliefs on me" what they really mean is "stop making me uncomfortable by reminding me that my entire lifestyle is based on depriving living beings of their personhood and can only be maintained through the systematic abuse and torture of the weak and vulnerable".

The indie web is here to make the internet weird again Welcome to the new old internet.

The indie web is here to make the internet weird again

A photo of a large black bear laying on the cement patio. He was scooping up the raccoon's food and slowly, very slowly eating it.

The other night we had a bear visit us, looking for food and the encounter left me feeling very sad.
I watched him through the window & saw this beautiful being who had no idea that his life would probably end soon.
The bear hunt starts in December.😞

There is no place for wildlife anymore 💔

Rape threats and racist nonsense in my inbox

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

People saying how gruesome they find the Charlie Kirk video are inadvertently confessing that they haven't been watching the footage coming out of Gaza for the last two years. I've seen worse shit TODAY and I haven't finished my morning coffee.

Vasco

All too often “nature” and “life” are used as bypassing distractions to avoid thinking about “sentient beings”.

Screenshot of a Post by: [@TheProteinPACT] on X (formerly Twitter) "Did you know 1.5 million jobs in the U.S. depend on the beef supply chain? #EatBeef to support livelihoods and the economy -- it's that simple! #SustainableBeef #USRSB" Image description: A graphic with a dark green background featuring a red steak illustration near the top. Below the steak, white text reads: “1.5 million jobs in the U.S. depend on the beef supply chain. Eating beef supports livelihoods and the economy.” The phrases “1.5 million” and “Eating beef” are highlighted with yellow circles and underlines respectively. In the top left corner, there is a “Protein PACT” logo enclosed in a green box.

Human slavery also "supported livelihoods and the economy."

Perpetual exploitation is not the solution when plant agriculture creates more jobs per acre than beef.

'The Protein PACT' is just an ag industry front group lobbying to keep their violent and unnecessary industry alive.
#GoVegan

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The life of a dairy cow The surprising truth about milk is hiding in plain sight.

My comic on the life of a dairy cow is out from behind the hard paywall!

I wrote this as a hopefully definitive answer to a question I've gotten for many years: "What's wrong with dairy?"

Once you really see what dairy is, it's like the scales falling from your eyes
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The world’s biggest animal cruelty problem, explained in one chart It’s the most invisible — and the hardest to solve.

Most people have an inkling that animals have it bad on factory farms and slaughterhouses, but most have no idea that arguably the biggest welfare problem is invisible -- it's the animals' genes: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

hulu?????

Veganism has deep roots in Japan’s history. It’s beginning to resurface.

grist.org/looking-forw...

#Japan #Vegan #Veganism #Food #Culture

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Grieving orca mother who carried dead calf for weeks in 2018 spotted doing same after newest calf dies The Center for Whale Research received a report that the orca, known colloquially as "Tahlequah" was seen carrying her calf that recently died in northern Washington waters, much like what occurred in 2018 when her calf died shortly after birth. By Chris Oberholtz, Scott Sistek Source FOX Weather

Baby orcas get the same media treatment as Palestinian children and police victims.

Their deaths are described passively and headlines are written to obscure the fact that we are starving this population to extinction by damming the rivers and extracting the salmon.

como que alguém muda hábitos num frio desses

This mink struggles desperately to survive as a worker shoves him into a gas chamber. For mink coats, for mink eyelashes 🤬

are you against rape because it “harms a species chance for survival”? are you so fucking blind you cant see the direct victim of rape? can you not understand how “species” is an abstrate concept but an individual is someone who is actually capable of being harmed and experiencing suffering?

you can care about both.
“i’m not priviledged enough to care more about black people than white people”
“i’m not priviledged enough to care more about women than men”
“i’m not priviledged enough to care more about indigenous than portuguese”
basic respect doesnt come from a position of priviledge

my tone doesnt matter as long as you keep digging for excuses. i say we should respect animals and you come with a different excuse not to everytime. i know when i’m wasting my time. i cant teach you to care.

i’m gonna stop here because you are clearly dumb as hell and whatever excuse you come up with has already been addressed millions of times

murder and rape directly harm someone who was murdered and rape. individuals who are victims of actions.

i’m not arguing if it is healthier or not. i’m saying exploiting someone is immoral. it is very healthy for an ethnical group to enslave another group to do manual labor, but thats not a moral justification.

ok, now i seesee that you started getting into the excuses and fallacies realm: this is an appeal to nature fallacy. just becaue other animals do so, doesn’t mean we should do so. other animals also kill within their own species, rape and commit infanticide, should we do that because they do?

and that goes beyond any impact on the market. being vegan when animal exploitation is normalized is no different than being anti-racist when human slavery is normalized. you dont have to expect societal change to stand up for the right thing and reject commodifying others

you clearly dont understand what veganism is, thats why you conflate it with consumer activity and climate change. plot twist: it’s not. it’s an ethical stance against animal exploitation. your confusion is also why you are talking about meat when we are talking about animal exploitation

ok, next time a farm is raided or a lab is burned to the ground lets make sure we leave some brochures behind

ALF actions have closed mink farms for good. you cant say direct actions arent achieving anything. they liberate victims and they show resisance to oppression by all means necessary. you could argue thar vegan education hasnt achieved much other than plant based options