the-vegan-in-blue:

So, with tumblr/yahoo deleting blogs showing animal gore/mutilation/cruelty, and I assume blogs that promote it, they obviously have to ban people from posting pictures of meat, right? It’s certainly showing and promoting animal mutilation (and cruelty), and worse than blogs that are simply trying to raise awareness and stop the cruelty.
If not there is an obvious bias and hypocrisy, and they shouldn’t be deleting any blogs.

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stayceerantsandraves:

maladjustedxvx:

annadraconida:

This is an animal dying on a fur farm in China. It grew up in a barren cage the size of a newspaper, living off meat processing waste deemed unfit even for pet food production. When it reached adult size, it was yanked out of the cage and received a couple of blows to the head, after which it was hung upside down & slowly skinned alive. After the fur was pulled off over its head, the agonizing body was thrown onto a pile of carcasses, where it expired in the most horrible way you can (or should I say, can’t) imagine.

Besides bludgeoning, the killing methods on fur farms include gassing, electrocution, poisoning with strychnine, or breaking the animals’ necks. Most of these methods don’t exclude the possibility of the animal regaining consciousness while its fur is being… removed.

This is the true cost of a “fabulous”, “glamorous” fur coat or collar, not the amount of money on the price tag.

Smash the face of every piece of shit fur industry supporter out there.

People think I am lying when I say animals survive the “killing” process frequently.  I’m guessing that the videographer didn’t have to wait a long time for this shot. 

Stop the world. I wanna get off.

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Because fucktard people still believe there is a difference.

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vegan-because-fuck-you:

“Walk around in a short skirt and you are asking to get raped, it’s instinct. It’s like throwing meat in a shark tank and telling them not to eat it” the apologists say. 

The activists breathe a collective sigh,

“YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING SHARK” they scream.

“Good luck with that” said the vegan “We’ve been trying to convince them they aren’t lions for years now.”

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seitanpancake:

drowningxlessons:

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

these fucking scenes

Burn everything. That’s the only solution to humanity. I would gladly and violently kill every man, woman and child on this planet to stop this madness. I’d save myself for last, so for a few moments I could listen to the peace and regret nothing. 

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January 2013: this shall be my year

May 2013: well, shit

Exactly.

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stfuconservatives:

pilosopogyno:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.   

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous. 

This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.

This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?

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That’s about right.

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bikinigirls-machineguns:

karloff-kouture:

Preach that shit, baby.

Yes.

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Stuart Wilde  (via commovente)

I don’t know about this “we” being quoted here, but animals with souls is pretty much “water is wet” territory for the folks in my family (my whole family, not just mom and dad and sis).

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An 98 percent of the population doesn’t get this. Now how fucking terrifying is that shit right there?

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unvanquished-xvx:

angryinthebones:

losers-count-sheep:

“Shocking footage of a sheep stunned as its baby suckled milk from her inside a British slaughterhouse. She and her baby then had their throats slashed.

The undercover Animal Aid investigation showed that 8 out of the 9 slaughterhouses in The UK they filmed in were breaking animal welfare laws.

There were many bad images including this and pigs being burned in the face with cigarettes, but the worse thing I found was the terror the animals went through. Many of them were acting just like we would if we were in a room watching our friends get killed off one by one knowing we were next. The poor animals can be seen desperately struggling in sheer terror and trying to escape for their lives (in vain of course).”

Source

Reminder: This is only “shocking” if you are completely unaware of the reality of animal agriculture.

This is normal, standard operation.

If this bothers you, stop participating in it.

This is animal industry.
This isn’t an isolated incident.
This is what you pay for every day.
Open. Your. Eyes.

They never will. Heaven forbid someone ask them to do the right thing. Now that’s the end of the fucking world every single time.

anogoodrabblerouser:

I think if I had the opportunity to travel in time I would go back and wipe out human beings before we fucked everything up.

I’d give anything for this opportunity.

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vegansmustbestopped:

noirworld:

noirworld:

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vegansmustbestopped:

legally-bitchtastic:

I do not understand your statement “Those that have no good reason for exploiting animals, like many of us in the West, should not be exploiting animals.”

Meat, leather, eggs, milk, and so forth are all good reasons, especially if you’re hungry and/or need those items to make a living. We have established it’s OK for humans to use/control animals. You are setting arbitrary limits on who can do it. If it’s ethical for humans in African then the ethical question has been answered. I do not understand your point. All animals are used for good reason.

Your statement “What you just said means is that vegans are financially driven to be vegan. This is not the case, as you well know……It is an ethical stance” is off the mark from my comments. I said veganism is a product of wealth. If you have enough money to buy a tractor and don’t need animals to survive, you can do without them. Most people are not in that situation. A large portion of the world’s population are so poor they would die without animals. I said this in my first post and you agreed.

You also said it was acceptable (only developed nations need worry about veganism). These are all financial arguments with no ties to ethics. The ability to avoid using animals is a result of money. If you were starving in Africa there would be no discussion of ethics. You’d be happy to eat whatever you could and so it is everywhere. We cannot begrudge human survival.

But we are not in that situation (thank goodness). We have the ability to eat whatever we please. You are saying if wealth gives you the option to avoid animals, we are ethically obligated to do it. You propose roll-your-own ethics where using/controlling animals is acceptable for some situations (like controlling vermin or poor people) but not others. Ethics are made-up according to the whims of the rule maker (in this case the vegans).

I think you can see the problem with that argument. Veganism hinges on the idea using animals is unacceptable when you’ve clearly pointed out it is not unacceptable. 

What’s left is a personal conviction residing only in the vegan. If there are ethics involved it is unique to the person at hand. There can be no universal ethics because there are no universal right or wrongs concerning the use of animals. 

Vegans use ethics to justify the condemnation of non-vegans when they are really talking about personal opinions. Opinions are not facts. One opinion is no more valid than the next. There is no high ground here to look down on others.

“Meat, leather, eggs, milk, and so forth are all good reasons, especially if you’re hungry and/or need those items to make a living”

Listen, I’ve always been a big believer in the logic of

- if somebody makes a buck doing something, then it automatically makes it ok.

- if there is a demand for a given product, then it automatically makes it ok

I’ll never get why people have such problems with dog fighting. Don’t they know how many people make a really nice living doing that. Everytime, the police stops a dogfighting ring, that’s a lot of people who go unemployed. But seriously, do these vegans (and maybe a couple of meat-eaters) care about these people going unemployed? Nope. Of course not.

Also, if somebody is hungry and lives in a world where people are starving to death, but can afford to grow crops to feed animals and then feed those animals to people instead of just feeding crops to people directly, then that’s exactly the way it should be.

I mean, who the hell would want to help hungry people by feeding less food to farm animals that wouldn’t exist in the first place if people didn’t demand them.  I think we all know that the goal to get rid of hungry people is to purposely add more animals to the equation.

“We have established it’s OK for humans to use/control animals”

I mean, seriously vegans……. people do it. It’s become a societal norm. What are you trying to do, here? Don’t you know when the majority of people believe in something, it’s your obligation to just accept it as moral? Can’t you look back at the long history of this species and see when the majority of people said it’s ok to do something, it was always the ethical thing to do. Some people may regard this logic as social conditioning, but I can assure you that these are people who just want to show off their vocabulary.

“I said veganism is a product of wealth”

Oh, I remember when I used to work in the meat and fish department in my local supermarket. The throves of homeless people who would come in to my department because they could only survive on live lobster, pork tenderloin, ribeye steaks, fresh caught shrimp. Just thinking about it breaks my heart to see that kind of poverty. Meanwhile, the upper class vegans spending their trust fund money on things like rice, beans, lentils, bread, canned fruits and vegetables. It’s such a sick world.

“A large portion of the world’s population are so poor they would die without animals.”

This is true. In fact, some people are so poor they don’t even have computers and an internet connection. Crazy, but true.

“If you were starving in Africa there would be no discussion of ethics. You’d be happy to eat whatever you could and so it is everywhere. We cannot begrudge human survival”

I hope you vegans can remember this the next time somebody tries to eat you, and you get all snippy about it. I’ll have you know that there are people in other contexts in the world who commit cannibalism on a daily basis, because they don’t have any other option for food. If it’s ok under their context, then it’s ok under any context. By the way…..if you vegans weren’t so uneducated, you’d know that people have barbecues here because there are starving people in Africa. They are completely correlated. Boy, could I tell you stories about the customers that I used to have, that would go on and on about the worries about starving people in Africa, as they bought a filet mignon.

“You propose roll-your-own ethics where using/controlling animals is acceptable for some situations (like controlling vermin or poor people) but not others. Ethics are made-up according to the whims of the rule maker (in this case the vegans)”

Boy, I’m with you on this one. I really can’t stand people who insist at looking at context. These are the kind of people who will tell you its not ok to hit a random person walking down the street in the face, because you’d be the one initiating the conflict, but they’ll say it’s perfectly ok to hit somebody back in self-defense or if somebody breaks into your house. What the hell kind of logic is that? It’s like they are picking and choosing which one is ok based on……I don’t know what. Punching somebody is ok or not…….irregardless of the context or intent of the situation. Pick a side. We don’t need more subtlety in this world.

“What’s left is a personal conviction residing only in the vegan. If there are ethics involved it is unique to the person at hand. There can be no universal ethics because there are no universal right or wrongs concerning the use of animals”

I’m glad you stressed the point again that when the majority do something, that’s your cue, vegans to shut up about it. None of this bullshit independent thought. That’s what gets this species into trouble. No looking at a concept and seeing if its cruel and unnecessary.

You see, I know that if we were living in the 1700s it would be ok to treat women like property because it was universally accepted. It wouldn’t have to be explained to me. Society has told me so, therefore that’s that. Come to think of it, I don’t get how this changed. It would mean that some time along the way, some preachy feminists who were in the minority and can’t stand freedom, decided to speak up about women’s rights to change the world, and not just accept the status quo. But that would mean…….oh forget it…..I’m over-thinking this.

“Vegans use ethics to justify the condemnation of non-vegans when they are really talking about personal opinions. Opinions are not facts. One opinion is no more valid than the next. There is no high ground here to look down on others.”

You know….I think that’s the reason why vegans become vegans. It’s just merely to piss people off. I’m sure there is no other reasoning behind it. They are so antagonistic.

Opinions are just opinions. Nobody is more right than anybody else. Like people who think that women should be third-class citizens. I mean are they right or are they wrong? Who knows? It’s an opinion and being that there are two sides to every stance, it automatically means both opinions are just inherently deserving of the same respect, because that’s just how opinions work.