Pigs have the comprehension and intelligence of a 4 year old human… they are placed as the 4th most intelligent creatures on Earth (way more intelligent that a cat or a dog).
Owing to this intelligence. pigs are fully aware of their plight… this pig comprehends the horrors it is being forced to endure… the living hell it is being forced to witness…
but like a small child, it can’t understand why…
But, if you could explain it to them, how would you possibly be able to justify it?
What nightmares must be going on in that mind… What sadness lies in those eyes?
It beggars belief.
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Militant Vegans vs Militant Pro-Lifers
Anyone else notice how similar Anti-Choice and militant Vegan tumblr posters are? Let’s look at some of the similarities.
“Militant vegans and Anti-Choicers both base their campaigning and arguments around emotional blackmail and anecdotes.”
Actually, unlike anti-choicers, the vegan community tends to use statistics to back up the facts. Such as…
Percentage of corn in the US eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the US eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the US eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2 point 3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of US farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16
Or that over 12 billion animals were killed in the us alone in 2011.
“While a Vegan will post pictures of cute farmyard animals and tell horror stories about animals being treated badly by people, an Anti-Choicer will post pictures of cute babies and tell horror stories about forced abortions and the like.”
But the so called “horror stories” of animal cruelty are real, documented by video and photo every day, and continue as we speak. Unlike an anti-choicer, who uses a BABY (and we all know that babies aren’t even involved in abortion, fetuses and embryos are), vegans are not afraid to show you the real victims of this cruelty. An anti-choicer can’t show you the “real victim”, because all they would have is a small primordial-esque blob, or even a small dot in a petri dish.
Comparing an embryo or fetus to a living, sentient animal is an insult to the animal. Embryos cannot think or feel - I should think that someone who is adamantly against anti-choicers would know that already.
“A Vegan will insist you can’t love animals if you eat any of them, and an Anti-Choicer will say you aren’t fit to be a parent if you support the right to an abortion.”
But an “animal lover” claims to love ANIMALS while paying for their death. A good parent doesn’t claim to love embryos. Meanwhile, someone who supports abortion (or the right to it) merely supports the right to choice - do do with one’s own body as need be. You don’t parent a fetus. But you do eat animals.
“To be blunt, the general claims of both groups are completely untrue. A Vegan will have you believe that humans are purely herbivores, and that animal products are pure carcinogens mixed with gristle and fat”
No, but we will not be sugar-coating it when we show you the obvious links between animal consumption and cancer, heart disease and stroke, among a myriad of other health issues that can be remedied through healthy eating.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032659_arsenic_chicken.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-blood-cancer-diet-risk
http://library.thinkquest.org/20922/who_become.htm
Despite there being many studies to show the harms of animal consumption and absolutely NO studies which can show that a fetus can feel pain before roughly 20 weeks, it seems unprecidented that you should make the comparison.
“Vegans, too, are generally well-off, middle class young women who watched a documentary about abattoirs, which taught them everything they knew and instantly elevated them to being the apex of morality.”
I won’t over-refer to my own lack of wealth to prove you wrong in this regard, so let’s look at some other examples. Although there are many middle class vegans, the majority of vegans I have met along the way have been those who participate in dumpster diving, cut corners in their everyday life just to afford their rent, and always are looking for the cheapest way to be healthy. Many middle class, 20-something white women who are in the image of “veganism” are actually just practicing a plant-based diet for their health. But no, dumpster diving is just something rich people do in their spare time, right?
http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/indigenous-veganism-feminist-natives-do-eat-tofu-237794-504.html
http://www.veganmainstream.com/eating-vegan-on-21-00-a-week-the-food-stamp-budget
(To note, the 21$ a week food stamp budget is more than I spend on food in half a month)
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=4438&catId=5
http://grist.org/food/new-agtivist-bryant-terry-is-inspiring-the-black-community-to-eat-better/
And no, we don’t think we’re the apex of morality - we just think that killing for pleasure is fucked up. If someone were to kill a woman about to get an abortion to feel the pleasure of stopping “baby murder”, you’d probably think they were fucked up too.
“Both of them seem to think that calling Carnist scum/Pro-choice (A carnist or omni is a slur which means a person with a normal diet, for the uninformed)”
Carnist isn’t actually a slur, it’s an identified term coined by social psychologist Melanie Joy in her book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. Despite it not being a slur, I know that many meat-eaters take it as such and it causes them to create a barrier between what I’m saying and what they want to hear because their feelings may be hurt. I stick to omnivore simply because carnist isn’t a widely noted term yet and it doesn’t help my argument. I don’t see how someone can find “omni”, the short word for omnivore, a slur, if the meat eater believes that they are an omnivore.
Nor have I ever used the word scum (it needs to disappear from tumblr if you ask me) nor have I seen any vegan use the word scum.
Also, “omni is a slur which means a person with a normal diet”. That’s as uncalled for as saying “cis is a slur which means a normal woman or man”.
“people murderers, assholes, idiots or any other insult is going to suddenly make them wake up and think ‘Wow, they’re right! Supporting womens rights/Eating most food DOES make me a massive asshole! I’d better change my thinking patterns to match theirs exactly right away!’ That, and the way they seem to crave validation and buttpats from others within their group. I guess if I was some kook who threw buckets of blood on old ladies fur coats or torched doctors surgeries, I’d want to be backed up by my fellow kooks as well.”
Well, killing animals for pleasure does make someone a murderer, and killing for pleasure does seem like something an asshole would do, but that doesn’t need to be brought up in a clean discussion and rarely is. However, it is frustrating when someone continually compares a sentient being to a non-sentient fetus, and I have a few choice words for that.
Referencing the blood bucketed weirdos of the 90s doesn’t make you culturally relevant, nor does it prove anything. Perhaps we should stick to referencing acts within this decade, or even the last decade for that matter.
“Last and best, the two groups are united by their twin persecution complexes.”
Last and most important, never unite me with an anti-choicer against my consent.
“Ironically enough, Militant Vegans generally think a human beings life is worth that of a flea”
Despite the fact that a large portion of the reason to be vegan is for humanitarian purpose? Right. Because you can’t care for non-human animals and humans at the same time, that’s just like, totally way too hard, right?
All this. She knows what she’s talking about; y’all chumps better listen up.
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Things I Like to do
After reading my previous proper entry, “Things I Cannot Do”, a friend asked me to list things I like to do. This is much more positive.
- Hear and tell awful jokes (What’s red and invisible? No tomatoes.)
- Cook, only not often enough. I mean, I cook all the time (I have to eat), but I mean, cook cook. I’m not bad when I get going but all too frequently resort to easy short cuts when something more accomplished is much more satisfying.
- Cycle. There’re few things I find more liberating than riding my bike out on the open road. Unfortunately London’s roads are pretty stressful so it’s less of a pleasure than it was when I lived back home in Essex, where quiet country roads were a short ride away. Still rules though.
- Run. I’m out of the routine at the moment, but I genuinely enjoy the rush it gives. I’ve had, let’s say, “body image self-confidence issues” for a long time and as I get more and more into shape I feel much better about myself.
- Yoga. It gives me a bendy and stretchy sense of inner peace, and it’s tied directly into the whole getting-in-shape thing too.
- Play guitar. I have a very short attention span (“lame gnat syndrome” as my old french teacher called it) when it comes to learning actual songs so I just jam and make stuff up as I go along. It’s fun. Along with my bike, my guitar is one of the few possessions I would be genuinely upset to lose.
- Read. I often get into the habit of staying on the computer too late and just go straight to bed, but to relax with a good book at night is a pleasure. The only thing I miss about the hour-and-a-half commute I used to have was all the time to read.
- Write. I’m not a good writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I do it a lot. I start lots of short stories and rarely finish any, but I love the creative outlet. Last year I wrote a novel (with NaNoWriMo) and that was great fun. It still needs a lot of editing (see “short attention span”) but I hope to self-publish it one day. Maybe.
- Be a nerd about computers and music. Whilst I’m not a programmer, I love tinkering with them and learning as I go along. Some might consider my music tastes restrictive, and that’s fine, but the music about which I am passionate (modern american punk and its derivatives mostly) I am deeply passionate.
- Laugh. Being dour is for suckers.
What do you like to do?
Spaced forever.
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“For Health Reasons”
The number of people today in the vegan tag who say they’re switching to vegan “for health reasons” probably don’t mean “I’m going to be vegan” but “I’m going to eat like a vegan”.
How do we get people to realize that it’s certainly not just what you eat?
For instance, they’ll probably continue using the same toothpaste, shampoo, laundry detergent, and soap; they might still buy leather/suede, fur, wool; they’ll probably still eat honey and maybe even gelatin; buy from McDonald’s and products owned by Unilever; go to zoos, circuses, pet stores, rodeos… but what’s worse is that by doing so, they’ll convince their friends that these are all things a “vegan” does.
Listen, I know that the health benefits of eating like a vegan are pretty great, but please don’t think all we’re concerned about is what we eat. If you’re making a switch to veganism, it requires more than just throwing out the “free range” eggs you bought before you knew they were still bad for you and running out to get some kale.
We are vegans and we are not on a diet.
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