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did you know 46 million turkeys are eaten every thanksgiving? did you also know they love being pet and have unique personalities? please consider more compassionate choices this thanksgiving ❤️

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Not your mom, not your milk!

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Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.

Brené Brown

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every take on this website concerning veganism is just like.

*total misinterpretation of veganism as both personal ethics and political ideology* “check and mate, vegans!”

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every take on this website concerning veganism is just like.

*total misinterpretation of veganism as both personal ethics and political ideology* “check and mate, vegans!”

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if you blatantly misconstrue veganism in the vegan tags, you’re going to get responses from vegans who have addressed the same misconceptions time & time again. they’re not “picking fights” or preaching about a diet. they’re defending a social justice movement based on ethics. veganism is about doing your personal best to avoid animal exploitation & it’s a choice anyone can make in any circumstances.

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I don't care if an animal is treated like a God up until the moment of slaughter, you're still killing an animal at the end of it??? Humane slaughter doesn't exist, there's nothing humane about taking a life

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Most animals are slaughtered as babies, at a very small portion of their natural life span, regardless of whether they are raised conventionally or in operations that are labeled “humane”, “sustainable”, “natural”, “free-range”, “cage-free”, “heritage bred”, “grass-fed”, “local” or “organic”⁠⁠

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it confuses me how resistant people are to make the tiniest change for the good of someone/something else.

i'm not expecting perfection, heck, i've got a long ways to go in terms of doing better

but if you've been made aware of how unethical a company/product/action is and you can easily live without said company/product/action or swap it for something else, what justification exists to continue to support what causes more harm?

don't destroy yourself trying to be perfect, but liking something you can easily live without is no excuse to cause unnecessary harm

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people love talking about how fake a lot of the ingredients in vegan products are and then turn a blind eye when most/all of the same additives are in the products made with animals that they consume

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“We can’t change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use, to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.”

-Andrew Linzey

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Hmmmm yeah nobody deserves to die for a sandwich sorry if my opinion offends you to your core or something Idk I dont really care what you think that much its actions that count.

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Anti-vegans will literally use “facts” they made up in their own heads, assuming it’s true because “it just makes sense” and then when a vegan offers an argument telling them that no, cows don’t “make milk when they’re happy”, or “leather is a by-product of old cattle”, “sheep have always needed shearing”, “fish can’t feel” or just in general how animal agriculture works, and will demand sources - offering absolutely none of their own.

Bonus points if they refuse to see a vegan’s sources and claim “that’s vegan propaganda made by vegans” when it’s a series of articles from the UN, FDAO, or Scientific American (you know, the usual vegan organizations /s) and then “source” their claim with something from Beef Magazine written by John D. Beefarmer, paid for by the multi-billion-dollar company Tyson Foods.

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It's just so transparent that most - almost all? - anti vegan sentiment is based in the fact that people find vegans annoying and their personal choices an implicit condemnation of their own, so you get all these posts going "veganism is uhhhh (spins wheel) white supremacist" like don't hurt your shoulder with that reach beloved

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You know what annoys me the most, people talk so highly about morals and ethics but when it actually comes to implementing it people come up with the most absurd excuses they could possibly find.

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