Anonymous asked: do vegans need to take supplements? It turns me off to it a bit, having to take vitamins everyday?
No, because everything your body requires is available from vegan sources. I don’t, nor do I know any vegan that does, take supplements regularly (and even when supplements are taken, it is usually for reasons that can afflict anyone like poor diet maintenance, illness, eating disorders, etc…).
I would be more concerned about the nutrient intake of most carnists, since animal-products are not the best sources of much of anything and contain a whole bunch of shit your body doesn’t want.
Why would it turn you off? Because the idea of taking a cruelty-free pill of condensed nutrients is somehow less desireable than consuming the violent death of a sentient being (presumably using ‘doing what’s ‘natural” for reasoning)?
“Religion demands respect for nothing, nature deserves respect because without it humanity wouldn’t exist.” — Alex CF, Fall of Efrafa
(Source: what-vegans-look-like, via veganchickadee)
Anonymous asked: How do you feel about the 'White people shouldn't have dreads' issue?
“…how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel. Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction, too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys. The changes in the warmth and dampness of the soil, the falling of the sunlight patches, the altering movement of the beans in the light wind, the direction and strength of the air currents along the ground—all these were perceived by the rabbit awake.” — Excerpt from Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Tired of only seeing non-humans suffering at the hands of humans on your dash? Well, here’s an image* of a guy who got his face stomped on by a bull during the Running of The Bulls in Madrid.
Enjoy.
*WARNING: GRAPHIC!!
Anonymous asked: Thoughts on a vegan turning vegetarian but remaining vegan when convenient? (E.g. the person is extremely stressed, no vegan friends, lacking in nutrients etc.)
I wasn’t aware that vegetarianism helped with any of those things?
There is plenty of support, information and advice in vegan communities both online and in real life, it’s not hard to seek it out.
Anonymous asked: Get off your fucking high horse-oh sorry, I used a term about an animal I'm terrible. If you think your little attention fiasco is going to save the world COOL STORY but don't knock on the fellow who doesn't give a fuck and isn't hurting you.
Does it make you feel silly to think that, if an ‘attention fiasco’ is what I’m really after, you’re contributing to it?
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I’m fucking sick of militant carnist enforcers shoving their beliefs and propaganda down my throat…
(Source: houseofangryhippies)
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.
For a vast majority of the people you argue with it is a foregone conclusion, and that fucking sucks. But, think of how many people see your blog every day; how many people watch everything you post and don’t reblog, like or message you; how many of those people are fence-sitters and are open to the information instead of the yahooing dickbags you argue with with brick wall faces?
How many of those people have taken what you say onboard and changed accordingly? How many people have even messaged you for the first time telling you that they have been watching your blog and have gone vegan? How well respected are you in the vegan community, and how much do you think you shape the progression of existing vegans?
If you think about it, those aforementioned dickbags are doing veganism a great service: they are exposing shitty points in favour of carnism for people like you to shut down with more logic and evidence than they could ever muster.
Those lurkers and fence-sitters are paying attention and you are making a difference. Don’t ever fucking forget that.
Those who advocate veganism as a moral mandate rather than a lifestyle choice argue that it is unethical for humans to eat meat or otherwise use animal products in any way because doing so causes pain and suffering to animals. A substantial number of mandatory vegans further extend this reasoning with the premise that distinguishing in any way between animals and humans is “speciesist” bigotry.
Moral veganism may sound compelling on first examination, but it is in fact an inherently oppressive and bigoted philosophy. It explicitly assigns the same moral value to animals as to vegan consumers, but implicitly assigns a much lower moral value to working-class agricultural laborers. Vegans declare that the suffering of animals is a social evil which must be stopped, but the suffering of human laborers is below their contempt. Furthermore, the working poor are told that they deserve to starve to death if they cannot afford a pricey vegan diet.
These hypocrisies are primarily functions of racism: virtually all vegans are middle-to-upper class whites, whereas both agricultural laborers and the working poor are primarily people of color. It is all too typical of whites to assume that “of course” everyone else has the same set of privileges that they do, so any option they prefer is something that can be strictly mandated for all. This is something that is also strongly seen with some organic food advocates, but moral mandate vegans take it to the greatest possible extreme.
Frankly, twisting social justice arguments and terminology to place animals over people of color the way moral mandate vegans do is disgusting.
I guess it is much more comfortable to scapegoat vegans though, right? That way you don’t have to worry about the moral/ethical/environmental/social implications of the way you live…
sillygoose8 asked: In response to the Chia seeds question you were posed... I use Chia seeds everyday in my oatmeal and often for baking things such as muffins, pancakes, etc. They are filled with happy Omega-3's and really don't taste like anything at all. =]
Thanks for the input :).