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whats up with vegans and not shutting the fuck up about being vegan... yeah we get it you're trying to save animals(no factory farming kill method is worse than most of the deaths they'll face in the wild so really you're just causing more pain) dont force others to be vegan and definitely dont force obligate carnivores to be vegan since theyll fucking die
What's up with non-vegans getting so mad hearing about vegans?
Just don't murder animals, bro.
These animals we breed into existence to kill don't exist in the wild to begin with so idk what you're on about. We wouldn't release them into the wild either.
Just because someone would die in the wild doesn't give you the right to fucking violate their right to life.
Don't force animals into slaughterhouses and we'll shut up, how about that?
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A "quick, clean, painless death" is not possible for a slaughtered animal. The death is messy, extremely painful, and it drags on. If you've seen any slaughterhouse footage, then you'd know this.
But it isn't just the traumatizing death that concerns me. It's the loss of life. The stealing of another being's existence.
As a hypothetical, say I went to someone and shot them in the head while they were asleep. Some would say their death was "quick and painless".. maybe not the clean part. But the way the person died isn't the only thing people would be upset about. It is the loss of their life. Even if I said I was using that person's body for products or food for myself, it wouldn't be okay. We all understand that taking a life is horrible because it deprived that person from their right to live.
I apply this same idea to animals. It's not hard to understand
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if you think vegan food is just shit like quinoa and imported "exotic" foods you dont know jackshit about veganism outside of movie stereotypes and animal agriculture industry propaganda (which is a real thing, big surprise. capitalism is full of industry propaganda) and should inform yourself outside of that. read a fucking cookbook at this point.
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the cruelty of down
Down is a common filling material used in fashion and textiles worldwide.
More than 600 million geese and up to 3 billion ducks are raised and slaughtered globally on industrial farms each year.
While geese and ducks are raised for their meat, two of the most intense levels of suffering they are subjected to during their lives include the cruel practices of live feather plucking for their down and force-feeding for foie gras.
The term down refers to the soft layer of fine, small feathers closest to a bird’s body. Their lightness and heat trapping ability is what makes down a desirable material to use in products such as coats, bedding, pillows, and sleeping bags. Producers and suppliers of down say that it is a natural material sourced from geese and ducks after they are killed for meat production, therefore the down and feathers are simply valuable by-products of the duck and goose meat industry.
However, this is not always the case.
The aim of live-plucking is to gain the maximum amount of feathers and down from a live animal. Down from repeatedly plucked 'parent animals' in particular is very popular and typically used for premium products.
The term 'parent animals' refers to animals used solely for the production of offspring, which are then used in the meat industry. Parent animals are kept for 4 to 5 years and can be plucked up to 16 times during their lifetime.
Due to the painful plucking, the animals are often injured with open wounds occurring whilst broken wings are often a consequence of rough handling. Wounds are stitched without anaesthetic.
Live-plucking of ducks and geese is standard practice on factory farms in countries such as China, Poland and Hungary. Foie gras birds are subjected to live plucking and force feeding, in Hungary, in particular.
A single goose produces just 60 grams of micro-feathers and down. One farm admitted to producing 15 tonnes of live-plucked down every year - 250,000 live-pluckings per year.
Natural fibres such as hemp, cotton, bamboo and man-made fibres are kinder options to down.
- Four Paws, Beauty Without Cruelty (SA) and Passion for the Planet.
Image with kind permission from Jane Lewis.
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fish feel pain
It has long been contested that fish do not feel pain. But fish anatomy, neurochemistry and behaviour all indicate that fish experience sensations including pain - and fear.
Neurobiologists have recognized that fish have nervous systems that comprehend and respond to pain. Fish, like “higher vertebrates,” have neurotransmitters such as endorphins that relieve suffering—the only reason for their nervous systems to produce these painkillers is to alleviate pain.
It makes absolute sense that fish feel pain. Pain is a mechanism that is essential for survival. Without it, beings would not be able to react to situations where they could incur damage or death. They would therefore not remove themselves from dangerous - even life - threatening situations.
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Anonymous asked:
I don't understand when people say going vegan helps individual animals. Surely for the demand /supply to be affected, a certain number of people need to go vegan first?
It helps individuals in that all individuals are part of a collective, and any action that affects the collective of course affects individuals. If you’re asking how you going vegan would save individual animals, that isn’t really how collective boycott works.
If you were buying your meat directly from a farmer, who slaughters that animal specifically to meet your demand, it would be different. That’s not how supply and demand operates anymore, not under capitalism at least. As a collective though, we aim to economically sabotage the animal agriculture industry through boycott, therefore withdrawing our demand from the market, which does result in a lower supply (fewer animals killed) with enough people doing it.
The trouble is that this is hard to measure, because global consumption is still increasing. More nations are eating closer to the way the US does, despite us not having enough land or resources to support that. We don’t have enough to support the number of meat eaters we have now. The rise of veganism still means that this increase is lower than it otherwise would have been, but what we need is more people to commit to boycott.
People often argue that going vegan ‘won’t make any difference’ to animals, but that is just demonstrably untrue. That ribcage on your plate belonged to someone, that fish is not some abstract number in a profit chart, it is a life. You are choosing to buy the corpse of that animal, and therefore funding more slaughter, more pollution, more deforestation. The old idiom is true, that no snowflake on an avalanche ever feels responsible. But you are responsible for your actions and you are making a difference, the only question is whether or not you care to make that difference a positive one.
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an animal dying for your food isn't a "sacrifice" the animal chose to make. they are not giving their life to you willingly. its being taken from them forcefully. i dont like the wording people use around animal death, especially when its used in an attempt to "respect" the slaughtered animal.
Read this. Over and over. I'm so tired of hearing "I respect the animal's sacrifice" as an excuse to keep contributing to harm. If you don't care enough about animals to do your best to live in a way that doesn't kill them then just say that. No one is impressed by your "respect."