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"Clutching a batch of leaves over her head as a makeshift umbrella, she cleverly provides some dry relief for the baby nestled against her chest. Like other orangutan mother-offspring pairs, this duo will spend nearly a decade together – the longest parental investment of any non-human animal on Earth. During this time, the mother will teach the baby how to climb, eat, sleep and travel through the canopy at great heights."

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small and local farms can and do abuse animals as well btw

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Butch Women Talk About What It Means to Be Butch. Originally posted by them on Youtube. Excerpts featuring Cade Russo Young, a 37 year-old butch dyke.

TRANSCRIPT:

What isn’t sexy about other butches, are you kidding! Oh, my god! To me, butch means someone who I was brought up by, and admire. Butch is nuanced. Butch is more than we’ve been talking about. Just because I identify as a butch dyke and a cis woman right now, it doesn’t mean I always will. Who you are, right now in this moment, is perfect. And if that changes, you’ll be perfect in that moment too.

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Speaking as a disabled person, it really rubs me the wrong way when people focus on an animal's "purpose," whether that's domesticated animals such as dogs and cows, or wild animals such as mosquitoes and wasps. Nothing needs a reason to exist. You don't have to be useful for your life to matter.

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‘preachy vegans’? nah i see a lot more preachy anti-vegans 

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Piraputanga jumps out of water to pick fruit off a overhanging tree in the jungle rivers of Brazil

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Animal rights, to me, is quite simply respecting animals as the sentient beings that they are. This means that they are on this Earth for their own reasons, not ours. That they have their own self interests just as humans do and in so much as they do they should be respected for that and left alone.

- Harold Brown, former beef and dairy farmer, now a vegan, an animal rights activist, and the founder of Farm Kind

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"In a statement, the family said: “Brianna was a much loved daughter, granddaughter, and baby sister. She was a larger-than-life character who would leave a lasting impression on all that met her. Brianna was beautiful, witty and hilarious. Brianna was strong, fearless and one of a kind. “The loss of her young life has left a massive hole in our family, and we know that the teachers and her friends who were involved in her life will feel the same.""

Brianna, like all of our trans siblings who have tragically passed, will be remembered by many. A fundraiser has been set up for her family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/brianna-ghey Trans UK/EU Charities: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/ https://www.stonewall.org.uk/ https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ https://transgenderni.org.uk/ Take care & stay safe 💕

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when i say that other beings are just as worthy as we are, it doesn't mean that my love for humans is as small as your love for animals, it means that my love for animals is as big as your love for humans

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the word “livestock” is so sickening, like you all literally acknowledge you view live bodies that are thinking and can feel pain as a commodity to get rich off of

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Please reblog for a bigger sample size 🤗

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Credit: vegan_sarcasm on Instagram

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A recommendation to all fellow vegans to make their blogs more animal rights friendly (I've been doing this for a long time).

Strictly avoid sharing posts that normalize animal cruelty/oppression in anyway.

It could be a recipe using 'eggs' or 'milk', treating animals as service machines; or it could be a painting showing someone 'riding' objectifying a horse as a vehicle; or it could be someone wearing a jacket made from a dead animal.

Again, I'm talking about posts that normalize these things, not posts that may be using the images to highlight the cruelty. These are little things I always follow as they help me keep my own mind on track and make my own blog friendly, not just regarding animal rights, but also for fellow vegans.

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Two animal rights activists, Amy and Nick (meat the victims) have been sentenced to 30 days in jail for revealing the truth of animal cruelty at a pig farm in Canada. This is part of Amy’s statement that the judge refused to let her speak in front of the jury. Please follow this link to read her full statement:

“Walking into Excelsior felt like walking into a dungeon.”

[Amy was stopped around here.]

“It was pitch black, damp and disgusting. The air was filled with visible particles that made us cough and cobwebs hung from every corner. As our eyes were adjusting to the darkness, the sounds of distressed pigs and smells of ammonia was an assault to the system. Then suddenly, we saw the countless glossy eyes of pigs, peering at us with desperation and curiosity.”

“What it’s like to be there, in-person, is not something that can be sufficiently translated through video footage or even adequately articulated.”

“As humans, we can pick up on the emotions that others are feeling. You may be sensing what I’m feeling right now. And I feel that is the same with animals–I can certainly sense when my dogs are upset. When entering Excelsior Hog Farm, the immediate feeling of desperation and pain coming from those pigs was palpable and heartbreaking.”

“As we saw in my livestream during trial, pregnant or soon-to-be pregnant female pigs at Excelsior Hog Farm are crammed inside metal crates where they can’t take more than one step forward or backwards. These pigs can’t even turn around or move. They can’t so much as turn their heads to look around, all they can do is stare at whatever happens to be in front of them—and for some, that means a cement wall.”

“I can’t possibly imagine the physical and psychological torment of living that life. It’s not a life at all, there is nothing in there that makes life worth living, but they have no choice.”

“I would like to add that we saw many pigs exhibiting severe signs of mental distress, like repeatedly bashing their heads back and forth, over and over again.”

“The offspring of these mothers are kept in crowded pens, full of thousands of adolescent pigs. We saw many who were suffering from volleyball-sized hernias, bloody lacerations, and golf-ball sized growths. Some couldn’t even walk, so they languished and slowly died. Dead pigs were found rotting in pens with other live pigs eating their dead bodies. We saw piglets convulsing on the ground, with their eyes glazed over. Other piglets, who had already died, were stacked in piles.”

“I would like to apologize to a specific female pig at Excelsior Hog Farm, who we have come to call “Her” rather than the abstract number tagged to her ear. She was found crammed in a metal cage, like the countless others next to her. But what stood out as different, was the dark blue and purple complexion of her skin. Upon closer examination, we realized she was covered in bruises, cuts and blood. In fact, she was laying in a pool of her own blood. Not a few splatters of blood, a pool.”

“She desperately and longingly made eye contact, with her bright golden-brown eyes, but she didn’t move. Something I find hauntingly compelling about pigs, are their human-like eyes and profound eye contact. Aside from the visible blood and bruises, she was clearly communicating desperation as she laid there, shivering, for hours. She needed help.”

“I wish more than anything that we could have rushed her to the vet and helped her, but we had no choice. Leaving the barn with her was simply not possible.”

“Imagine seeing a dog laying in a pool of their blood, beaten and bruised… Then imagine walking away.”

“To me, walking away is what felt criminal.”

Please read her full statement, for the animal victims and for our earth here.

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if you have ever been mocked or made to feel guilty simply for advocating for animal rights and/or veganism, just know that you didn't deserve that. i really appreciate you for speaking up despite it all and the animals you are trying to help would appreciate that even more. you are doing a good thing