Repeat after me:
– Veganism is not affordable
– Veganism is not cruelty free
– Veganism is not the best choice for everyoneRepeat after me
-I’m an idiot and wrong.
-Veganism can be made affordable.
–Veganism is fucking cruelty free. That’s what it’s all about.
– Veganism is the best choice for everyone, if everyone did it.
-I’m a fucking asshole for making this completely wrong text post and should shut the hell up now.Exploiting undocumented immigrants, and other workers is cruelty free?
Nearly 500,000 children as young as six harvest 25 percent of US crops.But I guess brown people don’t fucking matter.
People are literally starving in South America because all the Quinoa crop is being exported mainly for white vegans who want to live “cruelty-free” but don’t care about brown people as much as they do about animals.
plus, 4 of the 8 most common food allergies (soy, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts) are common vegan substitutes.
o shit
i would literally starve to death if i couldn’t eat cheese or meats because my body cannot process nuts as they are too rough on my intestines and cause inflammation
Plus there are vegan articles floating around decrying the use of honey, even though the production and harvest of honey by responsible beekeepers doesn’t hurt the bees at all and is not exploitative, and that misinformation hurts the honey industry, which is TRYING TO SAVE BEES FROM EXTINCTION.
YO LETS ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW VEGAN/CONSERVATION/ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS HAVE NOT ONLY HARMED INDIGENOUS CULTURE BUT HAVE BROKEN TREATIES
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/animal-rights-oppressive/
“There was a video released recently of a kanaka maoli man approaching an ilio holo i ka uaua (Hawaiian monk seal) in order to do a healing ceremony nearby.A few bystanders called the police because they felt he was bothering the seal, and after the police arrived the man stood to leave. As he was attempting to leave the police officer pepper sprayed him and then beat him with his baton, breaking several bones in the process. Throughout all of this, the people who called the cops are still recording what’s going on, and you can hear a woman crying. She says, “I was so scared he was going to hurt her [the seal],” and the man filming says, “Don’t cry, I know that, I got him on film.” A Native man has just been beaten for practicing his traditional spirituality, and the two people are crying and comforting each other over how the seal is okay, and the Native man can’t hurt it any more.”
https://qz.com/417805/greenpeace-crashed-the-seal-product-market-and-inuit-livelihood-along-with-it/
“Inuit leader John Amagoalik, told Dale, “We were having a large meeting in one of our communities, and we invited a spokesman from the Greenpeace organization. One particular Inuk asked the Greenpeacer, ‘If we can’t hunt seals, what are we going to do? How are we going to feed our families?’ And the guy from Greenpeace suggested we should all build greenhouses and grow vegetables. I mean, this was a real insult to our people.””
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90125
“For the Makah, whaling is a tradition dating back centuries, but one animal protection group says that in the modern world, there is no place for such “recreation.“The Fund for Animals, the Humane Society of the United States and other groups have been waging a legal battle to keep the Makah, an American Indian tribe who live along the coasts of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, from rowing out from the shore in traditional dugout canoes and hunting whales in a manner very much the way their ancestors did.”
“In conclusion, the animal rights movement often carries along with it various ethnocentric assumptions concerning the environment, animals, indigenous peoples and technology which intend to legitimize their aims to forcibly stop indigenous hunting practices such as whaling and sealing. Taking this from an indigenous perspective, such an attack is not all that different from the various other imperialistic assaults perpetrated against their cultures. It makes sense, within their own worldview, that animals are completely sentient beings who live among them in an equal relationship of reciprocity. Hunting is essential in maintaining these relationships, and a cessation of such activities would mean that the animals would leave, social relationship would crumble, and their whole culture could be lost. It is not the purely violent act which the animal rights activists aim to portray. The notions of imperialism, colonialism, nature, death and subsistence could all have benefited from additional discussion, however word restrictions permit this. Ultimately it seems absolutely necessary that issues which affect indigenous cultures and practices, such as hunting, should be analyzed and understood from an indigenous perspective before southern policy makers make decisions on their practices. The rhetoric used in such debates and the stereotypes given to indigenous people by Europeans has threads which run all the way back to the Imperialistic era, and fighting these stereotypes is immensely difficult. Through the discussion of the various modes of knowledge, ideas of the ‘noble’ and ‘ignoble savage’ and technology in reference to cultural authenticity, it seems clear that ‘animal rights’ can be seen as a continuing form of imperialism towards indigenous peoples today.”
I asked my vegan friend about honey, and when she shit on beekeepers, I wanted to lose my shit. So uneducated.
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