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Yeah, no.

It’s interesting how often people will stop buying straws to, “Help the Environment!!!!” but who won’t stop eating bacon to not cause harm to animals.

It’s socially acceptable to fight climate change or to require shoppers to use cloth bags for groceries or be charged for using store plastic ones, but tell people that animal agriculture is destroying the planet and that not eating fish causes less harm than not using straws, and you’re a privileged, loud-mouthed, self-serving vegan.

You all know the “joke”: How do you know someone is vegan?

They’ll tell you!!!

LOLHAHAHALOLOLHAHA!!!

Is that like: How do you know someone is gluten/lactose intolerant or allergic to wool?

They’ll tell you!!!

LOLOLOLOLHAhalolololhahaha …………… ???

It’s really not funny, is it?

(You know what else isn’t funny? The fact that calves aren’t lactose intolerant because “dairy” is made for them except they have to either die or be forced into reproductive servitude so that a completely different species, beyond infancy and with teeth, can steal THEIR naturally-intended milk.)

Just like you care about dirt but not cows or else you’d understand the absolute irrationality of dead cows shitting better than alive cows. Right?

It’s really disgusting as well as deceptive how people frame animal suffering as just an unfortunate consequence of being “environmentally responsible”.

Like, how would Earth survive without all the blood, feces, bacteria, disease, bones, decomposition, disease, violence, and suffering?

Nah, you didn’t care about animals OR the planet before climate change was a social hot topic, so don’t try to square-peg them into your round hole to attempt to legitimatize their suffering.

It’s just your non/antivegan way to ignore your contribution to environmental destruction … while forgiving the violent suffering you effortlessly inflict on defenseless, vulnerable animals.

Don’t BS vegans or legitimate plant-based climate activists with your endless word-salad soliloquies and diatribes about how you actually can care about Earth while consuming animals.

Because you can’t.

And while I don’t need to make abolishing animal exploitation beneficial to humans to justify it, I will absolutely tell you that, as non/antivegans, you’re apocalyptic’ing Earth just so you can scream how much you enjoy eating torn, bloody flesh and breastfeeding from innocents.

For stats, please read How Much Does Animal Agriculture Contribute to Climate Change?

And before you claim bias, just remember who’s profiting from telling you that you can kill animals while protecting dirt because “regenerative farming” is just … farming, the same as it has been done by people for centuries, just now spun with a super-cool word to disingenuously frame animal suffering as necessary to maintain soil health.

Soil health.

Not animal health.

Just wait until they come for your dogs as being necessary to maintain “soil health”. Still cool with that? How many planets will it take for healthy soil/unhealthy animals to feed 8 billion people? Only one planet is necessary to feed the same amount of people, we currently SHARE with animals, feeding plant-based foods.

Oh, and reducing isn’t meaningful to the animals who are forced to die for your climate-change fighting virtue signaling: if you can reduce to “help” the environment, you can eliminate for the most beneficial impact and to help THE ANIMALS who have the capacity to feel pain and suffer just as human animals do.

It’s sad how much vegans have to tell people that NOT HARMING is better than harming, so few people actually think about the absolute devastation they cause by destroying others’ lives. SL

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People tend to rationalize
Self deceive
Euphemise
But the truth will not hide
From their denying eyes

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

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We made Milk so that we could show the reality of the dairy industry from the perspective of those trapped within it. We never stop to think about what these animals are being forced to endure, so by highlighting the story of an individual mother, we hope that people will recognise that there is always a victim when we buy dairy products.

What happens to the mother cow is what happens to all female dairy cows. We specifically chose to show the standard legal practices to illustrate how ingrained and normalised the suffering of dairy cows is within the dairy industry.

The location of the farm and slaughterhouse are based on real locations that are considered high welfare and humane. What we show in Milk is literally the best of the best when it comes to dairy farming, yet, as soon we view what happens from the perspective of the mother cow, it becomes clear that this is an industry that runs on the exploitation and suffering of animals.

By using animation, we are able to show a unique perspective and tell the story of the mother cow in a way that cannot be done from investigative footage alone. Milk centres the cow as the protagonist of her own story and allows us to view what is happening to her from an up close and personal perspective.

Organic, free-range, high-welfare, humanely raised. It doesn’t matter what label we put on dairy products, all dairy cows are victims of an industry that forcibly impregnates them, takes their babies from them, exploits their bodies and then sends them to a slaughterhouse to cut their throats.

It’s time to end the dairy industry.

Produced by Surge Media

Created by Smash Studios

Please share the film widely, thank you so much for your support.

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The human animal needs to cease the self delusional concept of their own superiority to other animal species and recognize their true place in the larger order of things…in order to save others, themselves and the world we all share

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

DxE (Direct Action Everywhere) investigators face years in prison for exposing abuse inside a Smithfield pig farm & rescuing two piglets, read the background HERE. Observations of the trial can be read HERE.

And then answer ‘why’ if so:

If you cannot support The Right To Rescue , to SAVE rather than to VIOLENTLY KILL the most innocent, vulnerable, tormented beings, then what are you? What makes you, a human animal, so inhuman? Greed, indifference, entitlement, privilege? Are you afraid that, as has been observed in other social justice movements by those who reject those movements, “providing” others rights will require some of yours? That your rights will be compromised? That you will lose the ability to feel superior? That you desperately NEED to feel superior because your actions are inferior to what humans can be capable of?

I’ve seen and heard comments that malign and caustically define vegans as “lawbreakers/insane/extreme/disruptive/ugly/privileged/blahblahblah”.

It’s so people who effortlessly cause animal suffering can continue doing so because “the vegans” are the BAD ones, not the ones violently confining, mutilating, controlling, and killing unwilling, fearful, suffering animals.

If you need to characterize vegans who save animals as any of the above or similar, the problem is YOU and the words you manipulate and exploit to forgive your violent actions inflicted on the most vulnerable and innocent of all beings: nonhuman animals.

YOU are the inhuman, denying what is human.

Morality does not equal legality, you just pretend it does to remain comfortably complicit abusing others.

So before you start demanding that vegans be imprisoned for “breaking the law” while rescuing violated and abused beings, you should ask yourself why you support and actually celebrate “laws” that require abject violation, suffering, and violent death of those beings in the first place.

THAT’S inhuman.

Are you not capable of being human, of being better?

SL

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Cruelty cannot run nor hide behind lies
It’s ugly face
Will always rise
And see it
You know
we will
Don’t act surprised

Karen Lyons Kalmenson

 A being as little as a bee

Means so much to humanity 

A world in rhythm 

And harmony 

Our earth our home

Exquisitely ❤️🌎🐝

I think it’s striking that these images factually demonstrating abject animal suffering in the “fur industry” look exactly like the reality of abject suffering of animals in the “animal agriculture food industry” while, in the USA, the fur industry council degenerates like to boast that their victims on fur farms are executed onsite …

(via anal electrocution, for example, where humans physically restrain terrified creatures and insert rods into their anuses to electrocute them – while, interestingly, when humans get colonoscopies, for example, requiring anal insertion of instruments to capture colon images by people who must be educated, trained and certified to do so, which, by the way, is to prevent death versus causing it, humans actually get sedation)

… and therefore don’t require the horrors inherent in slaughter transportation. Imagine bragging that your death industry is marginally “better” than another death industry while ignoring the entire violent D-E-A-T-H requirement of innocent victims in both. If horrific transport is bad, actual violent killing is WORSE.

I wouldn’t expect anything other than deception and manipulation and abuse from the FAM folks in either, though. SL

Source:

We Animals Media

All images courtesy of:

We Animals Media & Jo-Anne McArthur, Photojournalist

This week we’ve got big news on our progress with getting animal stories in the media. Jo-Anne McArthur has been awarded Highly Commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year for her image Life and Death in Fur Farming.

The image is one of 14 Highly Commended images announced on September 1 as a preview of this year’s competition, which attracted entries from photographers of all ages and experience levels from 93 countries. Jo-Anne is awarded in the category of Photojournalism.

Jo-Anne shares some words about the story behind this image and her hopes for its impact:

The first time I visited fur farms was in 2009. It was a shock to see the decrepit, putrid, mass incarceration of so many animals in so many sheds and tiny cages, offering me yet another of the many moments of disbelief that I experience in my career. I have since photographed fur farming extensively, especially in my home country of Canada, and it is with urgency that I wish for this unnecessary industry to end. I am so happy that we are seeing bans on fur farming in many countries, including those who have traditionally supported a large fur industry.

To say that I’m thrilled that WPY has awarded this mink farming image in their competition is an understatement, because the reason I do this investigative work is so that people can look, consider, discuss, critique, care, change. WPY offers this image of ten, now eight, mink kits and their mother in a cramped nesting box for the world to view. Many people do not know that animals are industrially farmed for their fur. They are unaware of the conditions. They are unaware that these animals are killed by gassing and anal electrocution, or that they are kept in tiny cages by the millions, globally, each year, so that we can wear fur trim, have fur pompoms on our hats, or a poof of fur on a child’s trinket.

I feel passionately about taking photos of fur farming so that the images can help campaigners and policy makers end this industry, and continue to raise awareness amongst the unknowing public. Images are a strong and crucial part of the puzzle when it comes to creating a kinder world for animals.

Jo-Anne McArthur, We Animals Media

All images courtesy of We Animals Media

Mink farming is an industry where, traditionally, the welfare of these semi‑aquatic, naturally solitary mammals has not been a priority unless it affects the fur. But in 2020, mink farming came under the spotlight when it became clear that not only could mink catch the Covid-19 virus, but that the virus could mutate in mink and be transmitted back to humans. In response, Denmark – then the largest mink-fur producer after China – shut down its industry, killing all 17 million animals, and in the Netherlands and Spain, hundreds of thousands were killed. But in Sweden, after a temporary ban on breeding, the government allowed its 20 or so farms to reopen in 2022.

Djurrattsalliansen, the non-profit organization Jo-Anne was working with when she took this photograph, has played a significant role in fur farm investigations in Sweden, which have helped to bring the number of farms down significantly. 

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