a photo of the earth taken from the Artemis mission in space. you can see the traceries of clouds along with the auroras on both poles. the continent of Africa is visible along with the atlantic ocean

look at that you son of a bitch

thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

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Meme Black background w red dripping down Caption: It turns out animal agriculture is not a necessary evil, it's just evil

I grew up believing animal sustenance was a necessary evil

I lived the majority of my life w this long held belief

I am so grateful I finally learned better and learned to live vegan

The environmental benefits of regional, seasonal,and organic food production are not as clear as those of meat-free diets.

From Cowbells on the Kill Floor

#vegamism #locavorism

We mammals have zero need to steal the milk of others. No other mammal does it.

Animal milk is not healthy for humans, and it’s extremely cruel.

#GetWeaned #milk #dairy #DitchDairy #DairyFree #MilkHurts #IoScelgoVeg #GoVegan #NonViolence #NotYourMomNotYourMilk

Our treatment of animals is justified if concern for them is framed as weak-minded sentimentality. Veganism is easier to dismiss when it’s reduced to an eccentric pet obsession.

From Cowbells on the Kill Floor
#animalrights #vegan #veganism

Seed food can grow the food we eat: 🫘 🌾 🍎 🍒 🍉 🥒

Primates evolved as #seed eaters & dispersers. Like birds & fruit bats - no own vit C production but color vision. First we ate fruits (seeds with bait), then grain berries. We have evidence for 600,000y old cooked #rye. Dairy started only 6,000y ago.

Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts - Nature Food Modelled estimates of the environmental impact of dietary choices often fail to reflect true dietary practice. This study links a dietary dataset from 55,000 UK consumers with food-level data on GHG e...

A review analysing 570 life-cycle assessments of more than 38,000 farms in 119 countries found that methane emissions from vegan diets were 93% lower than from high-meat diets.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#vegan #sustainability

Pathetic behaviour. The tradition of inadequacy.

Why Buy Local? This article critically assesses the moral arguments that speak in favour of three consumer options: buying local food, buying global (non-local) food, and buying global food while also purchasing ca...

The purported moral benefits
of locavorism are generally unrelated to the actual locality of food production, and the belief that it is ethical can produce real moral harms when locavorism comes at the expense of the worldʼs most vulnerable food producers.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why should we care about animals? The answer is simple: if we are serious about confronting our personal and planetary impact, we cannot hit a wall when it comes to the largest population burdened by that impact, nor can we exclude the avoidable and mercenary exploitation that drives it.

#vegan

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local “Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?

The carbon footprint of dairy cows “is five times higher than tofu; ten times higher than beans; and more than twenty times higher than peas for the same amount of protein”.

From Cowbells on the Kill Floor

#vegan #sustainability
ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...

We humans have all the tools to know exactly what they are going through. Most of us pretend they're not there.

A sepia toned photograph of 3 cow faces close up, as though vying for attention from the camera

Do we not have a moral obligation to make kinder choices when modern society allows us the privilege of doing just that? #FriendsNotFood

How other humans see us only matters so far. The lynchpin of our humanity is how we regard non-human animals and the natural world. That may sound outrageous because we’re used to defining humanity by how we treat each other, assuming “each other” means only other humans.

From Cowbells.

Like so many supporting this terrible industry, he is completely switched off. And, he finds entertainment in it.

Fruits, including avocado, have an environmental impact up to 100 times lower compared to cows, sheep, milk, eggs, pork, chicken, and fish.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35742005/

#vegan #sustainability

Competition for already scarce land between food and fodder threatens global nutrition. In Europe, for instance, two-thirds of cropland is allocated for animal feed. Redirecting these resources could make 70% more calories available for direct human consumption.

#vegan #foodsecurity

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Veganism is dismissed as naïve idealism, yet any remaining non-vegan calls to abolish factory farms are still taken seriously. The reason should be obvious: the regenerative omnivore’s wish for factory farms to disappear is not genuine. Meat, in any form, is expected to be available indefinitely.

Exactly this!

That's it. Even those who want to play the we-don't-all-have-the-same-ethical-framework game should be outraged at this.

The 14.5% figure of animal agriculture’s share of global GHG emissions stemmed from an IPCC AR4 overestimate which was later revised down by the IPCC AR5.
It has never been mentioned by the FAO authors. More credible sources conclude that even the lowest revised estimate would have been 16.5%.

The reasoning that some dairy cows make "bad mothers" so calf separation is okay is completely unacceptable. It would condone kidnapping during postpartum depression.

80% of agricultural methane arises from animal farms, of which almost 90% comes from enteric fermentation by cows and sheep, and about 10% from animal manure. Methane from rice is 92% lower.

It’s not the rice.
It’s the cows.

#vegan #methane #sustainability #agriculture

“This is how men behave.“ It's said as if not being creepy is a pretence. Vile.

Wow. I had to watch that straight away, again. He is utterly compelling.

In the 19th century, people who refrained from meat were ridiculed and ostracised from mainstream culture for being “odd,” “eccentric,“ and “half-crazed.“

Cut to today, and we can only marvel at the breathtaking progress of anti-veganism.

#vegan #plant-based #culture

If we must exercise imagination to acknowledge what is already
present within animals, it shows how dependent our moral ideas are on superficiality.

From Cowbells on the Kill Floor
#vegan #sentience

REAL ANIMAL RIGHTS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!