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.

christiantheatheist:

is that there are countless immoral industries

• Petroleum
• Precious metals
• Gems
• Cheap labour making pretty much all goods
• etc

and yet they behave as though the only way to be moral is to remove all animal products from your diet. We do what we can where we can, by shopping responsibly, but it’s impossible to completely rid your life of products that did not cause someone or something harm somewhere down the line. The computers, gas, clothing you use and buy every day contribute to these inhumane and immoral industries and if you want to pretend that the animal industry is the only one that does any harm and therefore you are somehow morally superior then be my guest. Meanwhile the rest of us will look at humanity and society as a whole and try to fix the bigger picture. Not just our diets.

(Source: christiantheatheist)

im-fucking-vegan:

We’ve all heard them. And despite explaining why they are fallacious more times than I can count, they keep being used. Well, instead of explaining why yet again, let’s take a look at some of the implications behind some common “reasons” why someone cannot go vegan.

“I can’t afford to go vegan.”

• I can’t afford to stop taking food off a starving person’s plate
• I can’t afford to keep buying most of the same things I already buy like frozen veggies, pasta, beans, and tomato sauce
• I can’t afford to improve my health and take less medicine and make fewer doctor’s visits

“My health problems keep me from being vegan.”

• My health problems keep me from adopting the diet nature intended me to have
• My health problems keep me from cutting out something that is detrimental to my overall well-being.
• I’m too lazy to do some research into constructing a vegan diet that would cater to my health rather than harm it.

“Humans are natural omnivores.”

• The fact that we CAN do something, like eat meat, clearly means we should.
• I prefer to ignore years of scientific research, as well as obvious differences between humans and natural omnivores, so I can go on with my life blissfully living a lie.

“A vegan diet is a first-world privilege.”

• Cutting out something that requires more time, money, and effort to produce than basic plant food and also takes food away from other people is a first world privilege.
• Living off only what your body needs is a first world privilege.
• Doing what people in third world countries have been doing for years because they don’t have the money or means to eat animal products is a first world privilege.

“Every vegan I’ve ever met has been (unhealthy, sick, mean, militant, etc.).”

• All vegans are exactly alike.
• I’m ignoring the fact that I have control of my own health and the ability to be my own person so I won’t have to change what I’m used to doing.

“Meat/milk/eggs/etc. taste too good.”

• My taste buds take priority over someone else’s life.

johnvriska:

aang was a vegetarian, but did u see him judging his friends on what they ate?? no

be more like the avatar

stfunithingas:

Feeding a cat a proper meat diet is animal cruelty to the animals that died to make that meat exist

but feeding a cat a vegan diet is also animal cruelty because cats are inherently carnivorous animals and cannot be healthy without meat

(Source: theslavbarbarian)

hyrulian-feminist:

• having an eating disorder is a completely legitimate reason for not being vegetarian/vegan
• wanting to eat meat is a completely legitimate reason for not being vegetarian/vegan
• eating meat does not make you a bad person
• human ancestors evolved large brains by adding meat to their diets
• we humans today would not be nearly as intelligent had our ancestors suck with a plant-based diet

• if you’re trying to tell other people how to eat, or what they should or should not be eating:
• 

(Source: asgardian-feminist)

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