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how TO interact with a horse:

How NOT to interact with a interact with a horse:

We’re not saying that you can’t horse back ride, we’re just saying that there are more humane and gentle ways to do it other than race them, beat them, and push their bodies far past what they are capable of. Don’t ride all the time, and don’t force the horse to do anything outside of it’s abilities. Don’t hold their necks in a constraint and don’t think of them as an item that you can use. Don’t strap them to in city carriages where they are stressed and placed in very dangerous positions for profit. 

Horses are a very bad evolutionary design. Their hooves basically function as  elongated fingertips (it’s like standing on your toes like a ballerina for your whole life), they can’t breathe through their mouths, and their lungs bleed when they run for too long or too fast. You’d think that an animal that evolved to outrun predators wouldn’t also be it’s downfall, but hey, homosapiens are a poor evolutionary design too. 

Race horses in huge competitions are also drugged to be able to run that long, ignore being whipped/tasered, and continue running even on fatal injuries. So that’s the kind of stuff we want banned. Not your small farm with your pet horse who is fed, has heated shelter, and given free roam. Horses are masters at hiding their pain, because they are prey animals. The law of nature is “to survive” and non-self aware animals don’t know the difference. 

Just please, treat your horses with respect, they were here long before us and never needed us on their backs. Any animal that has to be “broken” in order to be used, shouldn’t have been interfered with in the first place. When we say “horses don’t need you on their backs” it’s because we’ve seen so much abuse and horror involving horses, because people have a sense of power when they can fully control the animal. It means we have seen so much stuff, that at this point it would just be best to ban it all together. 

My friend, who was a horse wrangler at a rodeo used to argue that his horses were loved and cared for after the show, but when he invited me to my first (and last) show, I witnessed him and some others whip, taser, and kick the horse in stall to rile it up before jumping on it’s back. People actually cheered that on. The rougher you were with the horses, the more people cheered. The noise and people surrounding at every angle scares them. If people truly “loved” their horses, why would they put them in these stressful positions in the first place? The only answer is for profit. Doesn’t matter if it’s tradition, because if your tradition is causing harm, you’re blinded by your own greed. 

Don’t get offended. We’re trying to do what is best, and when you get offended it means you are unwilling to even acknowledge what we have to say because you are complacent where you are, and you’re afraid of change. Change is a scary thing, but if it leads to a more compassionate future where no one can abuse their power over others, human or animal, it must be done. At least we are trying. 

What horses need to be healthy: Space to move as they please, prairie-type pasture to graze continuously or the right feed if they have special requirements, a social group, daily enrichment and additional exercise if necessary, foot care, protection from extreme weather and predators, and veterinary care/preventative medicine when required.

What horses don’t need to be healthy: A person on their back.

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The questions so often put to vegans essentially amount to: “Why aren’t you doing more?” Why aren’t you eating organic if you care about the planet? Are you only buying local? Do you volunteer at animal shelters? What about fertiliser, animal glues, plastics? Don’t you care about the workers picking your crops? Besides the fact that most vegans I know are extremely socially aware, it is infuriating being asked to do more by those who are doing nothing.

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I’m poor, of Mi’qmak first nations descent, trans and I still eat vegan lmao. My native family is fully aware and supports me. They don’t even hunt anymore because the deer populations have dropped so low due to the cattle farming in the area (wolves are also killed off by the farmers to keep livestock alive in my area, and we haven’t even seen a moose in years), and they are very willing to eat whatever I cook. If my native family can stop their “traditional” hunting because they fully acknowledge that animal agriculture is killing the environment, anti-vegans can eat less meat. 

It’s not a “but I’m poor!” thing, it’s an “I’m afraid of change because I’m comfortable where I am!” 

Also, when you try to discredit veganism by calling it a white thing, you are ignoring the passion and activism of hundreds of thousands of PoC who are trying to create a better and more compassionate future. 

I totally get the “well, not everyone can be vegan, there’s poor or disabled people in food deserts”-argument - yes, absolutely. There’s also people who have dietary requirements that mean they cannot be vegan. And of course, when I say ‘I think more people should be vegan‘, I acknowledge this and it’s not adressed at these people.

But why, just wondering, is it that these kinds of “put-down” responses always seem to crop up exclusively with veganism? When I say “More people should go vote in elections!”, nobody answers with “Well, not everyone can manage to go to elections, it’s a lot of effort for some people”, etc. When I say “People should donate money to hurricane victims”, it is understand that I don’t mean people about to starve themselves, so of course nobody replies “Well, some of us are poor you asshole!”.

So please, can we stop this convenient “remembering poor people in food deserts whenever they are a good prop for me refusing to even consider a vegan diet”?

If you don’t want to be vegan, that’s your choice, just as donating to charity or going to vote is your choice. Just don’t try to make advocating for veganism seem unethical by abusing poor people as props, please. Are there shitty campaigns for veganism? Sure *cough* PETA *cough*. But not everyone trying to get people’s attention and making them reconsider their consumption of animal products is a “white imperialist” or in some other way an inconsiderate asshole.

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Working dogs right? I know it's a no-no in the vegan community to make a profit off animals, but what if the money earned from their work just went directly back to them. Like, they work, they earn the wages and the money goes into all their care and whatnot. Same with sheep, like I'd be fine with shearing (like at sanctuaries, not farms) and selling wool if all the money went back to them, for vet bills, food, enrichment and shelter structures. Let them get that bread, it's in their blood.

A discussion similar to the sheep point was posed a while ago and I actually agree with you. If the money is funneled completely back into the animal’s care and well-being then it’s not done for personal gain and isn’t exploitative in my eyes.

It’s when the person starts using the animal for their own gain that it gets pretty iffy.

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Imagine being a dairy farmer who is financially bound to trying to make dairy farming look good, instead of acknowledging that it is inherently cruel to farm them and that we should be looking for better and more humane ways to raise them if you must do it at all. Dairy farmers will always try to defend this stuff no matter what they’re given. When someone who isn’t financially dependent on, or benefits from the dairy industry can provide facts and sources, then we’ll talk. Ya’ll would rather benefit from the animal and repeatedly breed it cycle after cycle instead of letting it live it’s life out in peace. You fucking dairy farmers bred these cows to be like this and brought them over to America to destroy the environment, why are you shitting on people for trying to save them? 

This cow is severely underconditioned.

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This guy was talking about how he was going to kill a calf with a sledgehammer so the mother’s adrenaline will produce better milk? Farmers are shit. 

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What’s the difference between dog breeding and bestiality?  Nothing. You’re still handling the dog’s genitals and either raping them or watching them have sex. 

On the massive scale dog breeding is being done now, 70,000+ born every day, no breeding is ethical anymore. Even if it’s “responsible” and licensed. 

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Having known and seen a lot of things, I can’t help but be skeptical of this and think most of it is staged. It’s pretty easy to plop the duck down next to the kid and take a picture. Also, if this were the case, babies are really grabby and he would have most likely pulled feathers out, thrown toys at it, or grabbed the duck roughly plenty of times. If this isn’t the case, I hope Tyler and Beaker are best friends forever. 

Tyler and Beaker, best friends forever

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I hardly think it’s unconditional love when there are millions born every year and either left to die or given to abusive homes only for the profit or repercussions of backyard breeding. Or when the millions of people get dogs that are not compatible with them because they are “cute”, then give up on them when they develop a behavioral issue or aren’t a cute puppy any more. 

Also, this arises another concern how those collars look much too tight to eat or drink normally, and how starving wildlife are denied food because “we need to keep livestock alive in order to profit from them”. The dogs cant even lay down without straining their necks. These types of dogs, especially the Kangal dog (last image) who was first depicted wearing spiked collars, was not domesticated out of love, but out of abuse and only to work for us originally. If it was unconditional love, they wouldn’t have put them in harms way to fight in the first place. 

what the fuck is the world anymore. 

Anti wolf heck collar

“The purpose of the collar is to protect the dog wearing it when it has to fight the wolves. The collar base protects the dog’s throat and carotid arteries, while the spikes are intended to deter bites to the neck or even injure wolves trying to do so.”

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Yet again for the 374325th time, bud.  

Doesn’t make what I said any less true. Discredit vegans all you want. 

Credits @happyhensandhighlands @riuttahighland@ratiaranch @greenlanefarm@highlandcattleofsaarela

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Classic carnist move #1

Reblogging a vegan post with a shitty argument and baiting the OP into replying, only to ignore their reply and make anti-vegan vent posts on their blog instead.

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You don’t have the right to think they’re cute “cow puppies” if you pay to have a bolt shoved through their head

It’s just makes me sad to see how disconnected people are. 

Credits @happyhensandhighlands @riuttahighland@ratiaranch @greenlanefarm@highlandcattleofsaarela

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This shit was disproved long ago by @acti-veg stop reblogging the original just to make it seem like it wasn’t. 

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my pet peeve is inhumane fishing practices being widely accepted as the norm because “fish don’t have feelings” (fish being left to bleed out or suffocate while conscious, as opposed to instantly killing)