Vegans are a diverse range of people - different sizes, races, incomes, political parties, ages, cultures, religions, etc. Assuming vegans are all financially privileged just because they don't abuse animals is quite peculiar.
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Welfarism tries to sell a story that what matters is how we use animals. Not that we use them. It’s a distraction. A golden cage. The bird is still inside.
Reported in the Metro and Wales Online. Kindly promoted by the Animal Save Movement, Lawyers for Animals, and Viva! Our petition against guinea pigs being bred for food in Wales now has over 15k signatures. Let’s keep it going, please sign & share ✍️
Do documentaries really work the way we like to think they do? Or are we telling ourselves a story about stories?
The Butterfly Effect: £1/month. Tiny action, big ripple. Simple 🦋
Smiling pigs, cows and chickens are meant to sell their flesh. New research suggests the tactic can backfire by making people feel closer to the animals and less willing to buy or eat them.
When a killing method is familiar, legal and performed inside a laboratory, the label often becomes more important than what happens to the animal.
You can’t buy integrity. But you can back it 👇
Aspartic acid is one of the 20 amino acids used to build protein. It’s non-essential for humans, which means we make it ourselves, no need to consume it, but we do anyway because it’s everywhere in food.
The Golden Rule tells you to use yourself as the benchmark. That’s the problem. It’s built on projection. You impose your standards, your worldview, your comfort zone onto someone else.
Japan plans to invest $6.2 billion in plant-based proteins and other non-animal foods.
South Korea is turning discarded melon peel into wallets, bags and potentially car interiors.
There’s something strange about humans, not our intelligence, not our thumbs, not our cities or smartphones. It’s this: We can’t make our own vitamin C. Unlike most other animals, we have to get it from food.
Investigators do not need more praise. They need contracts, living wages, and mental health support. We cannot rely on their footage while leaving the person behind the camera in poverty.