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Hope it’s alright then if I share my channel as a certified woman vegan Youtuber lol. My videos cover a multitude of things relevant to veganism like ethics, epidemiology, logic, and debates:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsiv9H4A3mFKwMiuLXmjM-A

They also tend to have a pretty big emphasis on making things like philosophy and science accessible to people since I feel like many vegans would benefit a lot from that. 

why is it that ive seen comparatively few (popular) female vegan youtubers. people i know irl have only recommended me guys to watch and i think the reason that theyre so popular is because women aren’t taken seriously…

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Person who’s on the same side of the argument as you, but also has the worst takes about it you’ve ever seen in your life

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Remember when the antivegans used to just admit they were lazy instead of doing all those mental gymnastics to pretend they're somehow promoting social justice

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like 99% of "men and women are soooo different!!!" comedy is literally just describing the experience of not understanding other people. like it's not that women never say what they mean talking to other people is just like that. it can be hard to understand what other people are thinking. bioessentialism really rots the brain

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Someone: but wool is warm so the only option is to exploit sheep

Tumblr: thank you!!! Really important point, read this info before considering v*ganism, my grandpa switched from wool jumpers to acrylic and he DIED (in a car accident)

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“The fact we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are bred is a sign of the dangers of capitalism. How capitalism has colonized our minds.”

— Angela Davis

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I wonder if the anti vegans who bring up almond milk in their arguments also direct that anger at people who eat Bakewell tarts.

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Just uploaded a new video:  Responding to a Carnivore PhD: Mike Archer/Crop Deaths, White & Hall study, Diana Rodgers/Sacred Cow

In this, I go over the Mike Archer paper (which is widely cited in favor of the idea that vegans kill more animals via crop deaths), the White and Hall study (which many people use to claim beef isn’t bad for the environment and that veganism results in nutrient deficiencies; it’s also the study that the “veganism only results in a 2.6% reduction in GHG emissions” comes from), and claims made by the creator of the Sacred Cow documentary, Diana Rodgers.

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I relate to all of this, and personally veganism is the main thing that got me into research. And I don’t just mean reading articles from The Guardian. I mean deep-diving into epidemiology and other fields of research, and verifying any empirical claim that comes out of my mouth before I actually say it whilst also acknowledging that even then I can still be wrong (I mean hey, sometimes it’s impossible to identify methodology errors without pretty comprehensive domain knowledge of whatever study you’re reading). Like you pointed out, watching people speak out against veganism has taught me so much about how easily misinformation spreads, how easily people fall for it, and how even researchers/scientists - who we would assume know what they’re talking about - will take advantage of people’s scientific illiteracy to conduct bad studies in order to push an agenda. And to be clear, I don’t mean that in a Q-Anon “COVID is fake” kinda way. 

I’m referring to instances like the White and Hall study which people widely cite as “evidence” animal agriculture isn’t that bad for the environment because veganism only results in a 2.6% reduction in GHG emissions. But when you actually read the study and pay attention to the model they’re proposing, they got this number by assuming we would continue growing animal feed AND additional crops on the space freed up by the absence of animals, resulting in us eating about 5,000 calories of almost exclusively corn and grain, lol. I’m working on a video about this now, but Gil Carvalho has a great one on it here for anyone interested. Like, that kinda shit is so disgusting. They KNOW that 99% of the population won’t look beyond the headlines or MAYBE the abstract if they even bother to click on the study at all.

And I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the first author - Robin White - works for the department of animal and poultry sciences at Virginia Tech which, according to their website, “strives to improve the performance, efficiency, and profitability of animal production.” And I’m sure it’s just another silly coincidence that the second author - Mary Hall - works for the US Dairy Forage Research Center.

Anyway, OP: I am very sorry this turned into another one of my rants about this study, but yeah you’re awesome and what you’re saying is totally true. 

you know, being vegan on tumblr truly made me realize one thing like no other life experience or web space could have

any of those 50-100k notes posts i come across, leftist or otherwise aligning with what i believe in, can still be full of misinformation, poorly researched or downright deceptive. you'll follow someone who seems so much more socially aware and knowledgable than yourself, and in the spirit of awe, you'll just take their word for it without question or skepticism. you'll hear about injustice, prejudice, bigotry, feminism, equal rights and how to be a better person overall and just. take it as is. however, especially with veganism, you'll have all the Big Names suddenly toss their two cents in and getting everyone to yesman them with information, ethical propositions, tired strawmen and misrepresentations that are so easily rebuttable and falsified that it's PAINFULLY clear to me how little to zero prior research has been done on the topic to voice your opinion on it

the spirit of research has become truly lost on me at one point as well, and to an extent, it still is. i still have an overall blind trust in those i follow. that's how people work. but i believe in the long run, if i genuinely wish to view myself knowledgable and educated enough on a topic to have it align with my core values and engage into serious discussions even, i can't have all the info i need solely from a single post alone, or the circlejerk that can be this website. we're all still just a bunch of people trying to do, say and believe in the right things, but we have to do more than read headlines and pay lip service to things that sound about right to us

truly, none of us are immune to Dunning-Kruger

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I typed out a response to one of the posts by the vegan-recently-turned-Radfem on here and I’ve been sitting on it for ~3 weeks but haven’t posted it because I don’t feel like potentially having 30 TERFs in my notifications every day with uterus profile pictures yelling about it’s vaginas that make you a woman and accusing me of having internalized misogyny or whatever for allying myself with my trans sisters. 

I hate feeling like I have something productive to add to the discourse but not having the energy to actually deal with the discourse.

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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If every animal started speaking our languages, the world would probably collectively go vegetarian.

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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.

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it's jeff! infinity comic #8