lightningnymph:

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• Give free food to the hungry.
• Help get a woman in need get a free mammogram.
• Give free food to shelter animals.
• Give a free meal to a homeless and hungry veteran.
• Help a family receive therapy for an autistic family member.
• Help provide a child with life-saving health care.
• Help give a child a free book to read.
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halloweenaisha:

licoriceplease:

• Getting rid of food deserts and making veganism more affordable for poor people
• Advocating for better working conditions for migrant workers and making their fruits and vegetables “cruelty free”
• Protesting and reforming the meat industry to keep it from harming workers and being less dangerous for consumtion
• Making organic food more affordable
• Giving grants to start vegan restaurants, soup kitchens, etc.
• Educating people on the nutrition of plants so people understand how to go vegan with their individual nutritional needs
• Funding community gardens
• Funding no-kill shelters (in fact, PETA is against no-kill shelters)

Things PETA is doing:

• degrading women and people of color
• renaming fish “sea kittens”
• throwing a hissy fit over Pokemon

• giving $70,000 worth of grants to a domestic terrorist and confessed arsonist
• killing a whopping 95 percent of animals that entered its care in 2011

(Source: dftbrhi)

lavenderlabia:

cosmicrubric:

youknowyouareaveganwhen:

You just don’t understand why people hate on vegans so much.

Is it really a bad thing that we care about animals, humans, and the planet all at the same time?

I can think of several reasons why people hate vegans off the top of my head:

• Their ignorance of the fact that vegan food is picked by dirt-poor people in horrible working conditions - many of which are people of color and/or children - and thus is not cruelty-free at all. Way to care more about animals than people and nice implicit racism, there.
• Their ignorance of the fact that not everyone can afford vegan food because that shit is expensive - my mother makes and sends up Morningstar meat for me from Georgia, and she has to buy it in bulk weeks in advance when it’s on sale and freeze it because it’s too pricey normally. Food deserts exist. It’s a privilege to be able to afford these things. There’s several posts on this vegan blog about how hard vegan products are to find, ironically - but what poor person has the transportation to bypass multiple grocery stores in search of these things? Or who has the energy to after working all day at a minimum wage job to do more than boil a couple hodogs or buy some KFC and call it a damn day? Have some classism.
• Ignoring that some people simply cannot maintain a vegan diet for whatever health or dietary reasons. There are medical conditions that make being vegan highly difficult if not impossible depending on what the body needs. So we can tally up a serving of body-shaming, concern trolling, and ableism with your assumptions that you know better than people what their bodies need.
• The raging racism in constant comparisons of eating meat to either the Holocaust or slavery. I shouldn’t even need to explain why it’s dehumanizing to compare people to animals period let alone mass genocide and centuries of oppression, violence, murder, kidnapping, lynching, rape, and abuse - the repercussions of which we’re still dealing with today - to having a cheeseburger. Stop.
• Just plain not being able to shut the fuck up about it. We have sexism/racism/heterosexism/cissexism/ableism other shit to deal with - stuff that affects, you know, people - to give a shit about your damn diet. The sad thing is that you could actually be doing something useful with your food beliefs -  like focusing your attention on the industries themselves that perpetuate animal cruelty or at the people who market their vegan food at such high and inaccessible prices. 

Instead of combating either institutional issues with food production or changing the shitty ways you discuss/advocate for veganism, you act like you’re morally superior and judge the fuck out of people.

And that’s why everyone hates you.

*drops mic*

Amen.

life-tbd:

yellow-dress:

Here is a compilation of websites where you can sign petitions for various causes: human rights, animal rights, environmental rights, you name it. It can often be disheartening only doing social justice work online, and aside from donating money (which not everyone has the means to do) it is easy to feel like we aren’t making a difference.I encourage everyone to bookmark/subscribe to these sites, because they all involve taking action with tangible results and at zero cost. I promise you, receiving the “Victory!” email letting you know that the petition you signed has worked is a very good feeling. You can shove those emails in the faces of those cynics who say that online activism achieves nothing.

Please add to the list if you know of more, or message me and let me know!

(NB: From the Amesty.org homepage you can select your country, however I still subscribe to other countries’ websites so I can sign petitions for causes all around the world.) 

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/get-involved/take-action-online

http://www.amnesty.ca/

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/

http://www.change.org/

http://www.care2.com/take-action/

http://www.avaaz.org/

http://www.walkfree.org/

http://www.greenpeace.org/

http://www.hsi.org/

http://www.dailykos.com/

https://www.accessnow.org/

http://www.gopetition.com/

http://www.barackobama.com/women/take-action

http://kfc-secretrecipe.com/en_nz/nogood

http://www.ipetitions.com/

http://www.petitiononline.com/

http://act.ly/

http://www.causes.com/

www.savethearctic.org 

http://www.ifaw.org/international/get-involved

http://thepetitionsite.com

Idk.. more than half of these organizations are ran by and used by white people. And lots of them don’t think of how something, like, getting everyone to boycott one industry may only affect PoC. I’ve seen lots of racist, heterosexist and classist petitions on change.org…

These are great resources, but some site don’t monitor what’s actually going on. 

I am genuinely sorry for only posting white people websites. Please let me know of any others run by PoC: I would really love to have them on my list.

I definitely agree with your point about some of them not being monitored: basically change.org, thepetitionsite, ipetitions… any site where anyone can set up a petition for any cause. I reported a petition on change.org which was a call for all girls to have long hair coz otherwise they looked like lesbians -___- It’s still up as far as I know (but with only like 9 signatures). And although there are plenty of pro-choice petitions, there is no one stopping pro-lifers starting petitions on there, and ironically putting them under the category “Women’s Rights”.

But yeah, like I said, I am very keen for more suggestions! This is just a compilation of ones I have come across during my time on teh internetz :)

yellow-dress:

Here is a compilation of websites where you can sign petitions for various causes: human rights, animal rights, environmental rights, you name it. It can often be disheartening only doing social justice work online, and aside from donating money (which not everyone has the means to do) it is easy to feel like we aren’t making a difference.I encourage everyone to bookmark/subscribe to these sites, because they all involve taking action with tangible results and at zero cost. I promise you, receiving the “Victory!” email letting you know that the petition you signed has worked is a very good feeling. You can shove those emails in the faces of those cynics who say that online activism achieves nothing.

Please add to the list if you know of more, or message me and let me know!

(NB: From the Amesty.org homepage you can select your country, however I still subscribe to other countries’ websites so I can sign petitions for causes all around the world.) 

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/get-involved/take-action-online

http://www.amnesty.ca/

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/

http://www.change.org/

http://www.care2.com/take-action/

http://www.avaaz.org/

http://www.walkfree.org/

http://www.greenpeace.org/

http://www.hsi.org/

http://www.dailykos.com/

https://www.accessnow.org/

http://www.gopetition.com/

http://www.barackobama.com/women/take-action

http://kfc-secretrecipe.com/en_nz/nogood

http://www.ipetitions.com/

http://www.petitiononline.com/

http://act.ly/

http://www.causes.com/

www.savethearctic.org 

http://www.ifaw.org/international/get-involved

http://thepetitionsite.com

Here is a compilation of websites where you can sign petitions for various causes: human rights, animal rights, environmental rights, you name it. It can often be disheartening only doing social justice work online, and aside from donating money (which not everyone has the means to do) it is easy to feel like we aren’t making a difference.I encourage everyone to bookmark/subscribe to these sites, because they all involve taking action with tangible results and at zero cost. I promise you, receiving the “Victory!” email letting you know that the petition you signed has worked is a very good feeling. You can shove those emails in the faces of those cynics who say that online activism achieves nothing.

Please add to the list if you know of more, or message me and let me know!

(NB: From the Amesty.org homepage you can select your country, however I still subscribe to other countries’ websites so I can sign petitions for causes all around the world.) 

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/get-involved/take-action-online

http://www.amnesty.ca/

http://www.amnesty.org.nz/

http://www.change.org/

http://www.care2.com/take-action/

http://www.avaaz.org/

http://www.walkfree.org/

http://www.greenpeace.org/

http://www.hsi.org/

http://www.dailykos.com/

https://www.accessnow.org/

http://www.gopetition.com/

http://www.barackobama.com/women/take-action

http://kfc-secretrecipe.com/en_nz/nogood

http://www.ipetitions.com/

http://www.petitiononline.com/

http://act.ly/

http://www.causes.com/

www.savethearctic.org 

http://www.ifaw.org/international/get-involved

http://thepetitionsite.com

rubyvroom:

I hope everybody knows by now that PETA is an awful bunch of people, but I thought I’d collect some of the reasons together for anyone who doesn’t.

• PETA has a long history of horribly, disturbingly sexist advertisements (warning: that link is disturbing, seriously).
• PETA also has a history of racist jackassery like wearing klan hoods to the Westminster Dog Show and comparing it to the Holocaust. They also put up billboards in Washington D.C. comparing animal cruelty to human slavery and specifically the American enslavement of Africans. 
• This one deserves its own bullet point - they actually sued Sea World under the 13th Amendment. The one that outlawed slavery in the U.S. Yeah. They did that.
• And let’s not forget the whole “Holocaust On Your Plate” ad campaign.
• PETA also loooooooooooves fat-shaming. Example - this recent billboard featuring a…meat pie coffin? I think? Suggesting that eating animals makes you (horrors!) fat and also kills you? So go vegan? Bonus offensiveness: they put this up next to a mortuary. See also this whole ad campaign centered on fat-shaming.
• Another recent advertisement claimed that going vegan will send your sex drive into overdrive and you’ll be so potent you’ll actually injure your girlfriend and leave her limping and wearing a neck brace which is awesome and hilarious. I wish I was exaggerating but I’m totally not.
• When a grisly killing spree in Vancouver left 15 women dead, PETA tried to purchase full-page ads in local papers suggesting that this carnage was no worse than the killing of animals for food.
• PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk opposes the use of Seeing Eye dogs and has had at least one dog taken away from its blind owner. 
• PETA protests public shelters that euthanize animals, but their own shelter euthanizes most of the animals they take in. Not some. Most. 
• PETA is actually right now trying to fight No-Kill legislation in Virginia, because it would prevent their shelter from euthanizing animals. 
• PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. PETA paid $70,200 to Rodney Coronado, an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) serial arsonist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory.
• During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals.
• Right here, from the actual PETA website, is their stance on extremist animal liberation groups that commit arson and violently harass medical researchers: Throughout history, some people have felt the need to break the law in order to fight injustice. The Underground Railroad and the French Resistance are both examples of people breaking the law in order to combat injustice…Anyone can be an activist. It does not take any special skills or superhuman abilities. You just need to care enough about animals to want to help them.”

thisgingersnapsback:

missatralissa:

theseasonofthewitch:

lilytangerine:

Sometimes its really hard to be a vegan.

Like, for example, when other vegans flaunt their privilege all over the place and refuse to recognize it. Or when they assert their own unquestionable moral superiority and try to shame non-vegans. Or when they compare the conditions of factory farms to the rape and murder of human women.

That stuff makes it really hard for me to want to call myself a vegan, or defend veganism.

Because, you see, the thing is veganism can be a big commitment. You really should understand this. It takes a lot of time and effort and often a lot of money. Some people cannot feasibly adhere to a vegan diet for any number of reasons. Other people simply choose to send their energies fighting other battles. Both of these things are perfectly okay. There are many good people who are not vegan, and there are many vegans who are not good people. You do not have the right to tell other people what they should/should not eat, it is none of your business. Yes, factory farms are bad and they do bad things. They are not, however, responsible for the very real rape and murder of human women and girls that occurs everyday. So let’s never compare these two things again and while we’re at it why don’t we also stop exploiting the suffering of women to give arguments emotional impact?

Yes, wonderful, good. I’m glad we had this talk.

All of these things.

OP, I love you.

THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED TO READ EVER.

(Source: with-armsoutstretched)

chelseacheshirecat:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

hate-wizard:

I’m an organ donor. I also am somewhere in between vegan and vegetarian. I see a contradiction in this.

This means that if I die, any of my usable organs will be harvested and transplanted into another human being, if possible. However, the odds of any of the recipients being vegan or vegetarian is very small.  Somewhere around 2% of the Western world’s population is vegan with up to a possible 10% being vegetarian.

Here comes my worry. Something in the region of 300 animals are killed over the life of a single meat-eater (according to this on American meat-eaters, but it may be much higher). So, almost all of my organs are going to extend the life of meat-eaters, which means that even if they live for one year, each of my organs is responsible for the death of multiple animals.

On that basis, both vegans and vegetarians should not be organ donors.

my mind literally exploded from stupid

What is wrong with the world