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I’ll say it again.
One day of animal enterprise is worse than the Holocaust.
One day of animal enterprise is worse than the entirety of World War II.
One year of animal enterprise is worse than every war ever fought.If you are measuring inhumanity by body count, animal enterprise is worse.
If you are measuring inhumanity by living conditions, animal enterprise is worse.
If you are measuring inhumanity by longevity, animal enterprise is worse.
If you are measuring inhumanity by permeation, animal enterprise is worse.
If you are measuring inhumanity by auxiliary effects, animal enterprise is worse.Every tragedy humankind has ever experienced has been passed down from us onto non-human animals, amplified indefinitely. In the same way it was tragic and despicable for those instances of suffering visited upon innocent, aware and feeling individuals, it is tragic and despicable for those instances of suffering visited upon innocent, aware and feeling individuals. When you make a case for why humans shouldn’t be subjected to such horrendous treatment, you are making that argument for all those who have the same relevant qualities and that extends to those individuals that do not look like you or speak your language. You hold yourself so much higher than everything else and your sense of importance is based on absolutely nothing. Your worldview is so warped by ego that you live as if you carried the earth when it has and always will be carrying you. This is a culture of rampant megalomania and it’s disgusting. You, as a human being, are not the center of anything. You are a cohabitant, a cog in a machine that relies on the cooperation of all of its parts and that machine is breaking because you, the cog turned wrench, refuse to acknowledge that you are not the machine itself.
Your psychosis is going to be the death of us all.
I fucking despise the people in this world. I do what I can to change people, I try to help them understand that simply choosing to do something doesn’t make it a personal choice, I try to make them look at the world for a split fucking second as if it and all of its inhabitants didn’t belong to them, that just because you can take something doesn’t mean you should and it doesn’t make it okay. I try, but it’s like they’ve reached their conclusion before I even start and they cling to it no matter what is said, regardless of the evidence I submit. It’s infuriating to the point where reading some of their bullshit literally makes my eyes roll to the back of my head. I do my absolute best and so many walk away just as bad as they were when I started. And even when I am successful, it’s like every person I can get to see reason a hundred more take their place.
I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m reduced to begging a god I don’t believe in to send another flood just so maybe the world would be less fucking awful for a while.
So as an experiment I watched 2 hours of tv, and went on a walk.
I saw 0 commercials for vegan food.
1 Billboard for vegan food.
45 commercials for meat.
17 billboards for meat.
Yeah, we’re sure shoving our views down your throat.
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Hold the mother-loving phone, what amazingness is this?! It’s a pear, raspberry, and vegan bacon grilled cheese sandwich from That Was Vegan? Dang, that sounds awesome times eleven! I want one of these in my mouth, stat!
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Study: Meat Consumption on a Steady Decline in United States
By Nathan Runkle
As Americans are becoming more aware of farmed animal cruelty - and stomach-churning meat industry practices like using “pink slime” and “meat glue,” it’s no wonder the demand for meat is slowly sinking. According to a new study compiling data by the USDA, National Center for Health Statistics, United Nations, and the U.S. Census Bureau, the average meat eater consumed fewer land animals in 2011 than any year going back to 2000.
On the whole, Americans consumed about 56 million fewer land animals last year than in 2000. That’s 4 million fewer cows, 7.6 million pigs, 26.2 million chickens, 15.3 million turkeys, and 3.2 million ducks. Just from 2010, the average meat eater ate one fewer animal—a 4% decrease in one year. Meat consumption peaked in 2004, but has been on a decline ever since. Overall, the nationwide consumption of land animals dropped from 8.9 billion animals in 2005 to 8.2 billion in 2011.
While this drop in meat consumption is good news, the sad truth remains that billions of animals slaughtered for food continue to suffer intensive confinement, painful mutilations, brutal handling, and violent deaths. Visit ChooseVeg.com to find out how you can make a difference by switching to a cruelty-free, plant-based diet.
For your free Vegetarian Starter Kit, please click here.
(via hanesty)
On medical animal testing:
People used to do gruesome experiments using other people. Just because you can do something and get ‘beneficial’ results, doesn’t mean you should do it. There are always other ways, humane ways, to do things.
Besides, quite a lot of our current human ailments are caused by diet, nutrition and lack of exercise. Or poisoning from all the nasty chemicals in everything (seriously this bothers me so much, stupid industrial revolution or whatever).
So I certainly don’t think animals should be tortured just because the system is geared towards treatment instead of prevention and completely fails to efficiently and accurately educate people on how not to give themselves cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc, and instead actively works TO give them patterns of behavior that lead to these health problems.
(via includingmybones)
