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“Where does moving away from a limited definition of personhood take us? I am unwilling to return to the framework of human exceptionalism that says all human life has value while the lives of nonhuman animals do not. Does this mean instead that the lives of all sentient beings are equal? Are we to say that the killing of a human and a chicken are equally wrong? I would rather leave these uncomfortable questions unanswered than embrace theories of personhood that demean the value of intellectually disabled people and nonhuman animals. It is better to acknowledge such uncomfortable spaces— ones that may remain open indefinitely— than to limit our moral understanding simply in order to satisfy some need for hierarchies of values.”

-from Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor

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Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Butter Beans Recipe

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One of my favorite realizations from biology is that like... every creature is your relative. You look at your sister or brother or your parents and you think "that's my family" and you look at uncles and second cousins and distant relations you've never met and think "well I don't know them as well, but we're all part of the same... clan, you know. They're my family too". Surely not everyone thinks this, but some people do. Well anyway, that same thing is true of your dog. The ants crawling on the ground. The birds in the sky. They are, literally, members of your extended family. Not merely as species but as individuals, the way each brother or cousin is an individual member of your family. There is no line between these things. My distant relation, this guy, this bug crawling around. I'm related to him. We're very different, we've lived different lives and are good at different things. But he's my family.

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Fluffy, golden, crisp, and packed with flavor, this recipe puts a new spin on vegan French toast! Cooks up in minutes and perfect with your favorite savory toppings. 

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Researchers say the study, which is published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, adds to a growing body of evidence that primates, including chimps, orangutans and gorillas, use natural medicines in a number of ways to stay healthy in the wild.

Lead researcher Elodie Freymann explained there was "a whole behavioural repertoire that chimpanzees use when they're sick or injured in the wild - to treat themselves and to maintain hygiene".

"Some of these include the use of plants that can be found here," she explained. "The chimpanzees dab them on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the open injury."

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100 people (genuinely) doing what they can is going to do more in the long run than 3 people being "perfect". We all start somewhere. If you can't give it 100%, it's infinitely better to do what you can rather than throw up your hands and walk away entirely

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From Seize the Mean, Internet Archive, 2023.

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>Me, a humble vegan

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When I first tried to cut down on meat for the environment was back in 2014 or something. I wanted salmon so I looked up a recipe. It said to use carrots and spices that's used for salmon. But I was disappointed because it just wasn't the same. Take that as your introduction and it's easy to be discouraged for sure.

Yeah, that’s a rough introduction. If your first attempt at cutting down on meat is *“Here, have this carrot pretending to be salmon”*, it’s no wonder people get discouraged. It’s like telling someone they can replace cake with plain rice cakes and expecting them to be thrilled.

Early on, a lot of vegan alternatives were… questionable. If you’re expecting an exact 1:1 replacement, especially when you’re still attached to the original, it’s easy to feel like you’re being tricked into settling for something worse. That disappointment can make people think, *"If this is what plant-based eating is, forget it."*

It’s also why so many people who try and fail say, *“I could never be vegan,”* when really, they just had a bad first experience. The good stuff exists—you just have to find it. But most people don’t want to put in that effort if their first impression sucks.

It’s honestly impressive you kept going after that kind of letdown.

Well, I was curious still. I kept thinking "there's gotta be more out there that I just haven't tried yet!" So I tried plantbased burgers too. They were pretty lame back then xd

The plant based alternatives have been really upgraded since 2014.

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Lemony Chickpea Soup

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“veganism is bad bc uhhhhh Native American traditions” 40% of US land is used for meat production. Native American traditions do not include continent-scale livestock breeding and factory farming. there is no Land Back or indigenous reparations without a severe culling of the (US) meat industry and there is no culling of the meat industry without a mass sustained boycott of animal products which is. yknow. what veganism is

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bought a new kind of bean today

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Drawing bulls is kinda fun ngl

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Kind of sad to see people say “we’re getting back to normal!” and holding up chicken eggs. Like. Kind of wish shoving 10,000 animals into a single shed and exploiting them until they die wasn’t normal

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I am forever arguing that people should abandon the idea of "going pescatarian/vegetarian/vegan," or of distinct "diet-labels" in general. We should instead be saying, "I am limiting my red-meat consumption, to limit the suffering of others."

When we view ourselves as "vegan/going vegan," we put ourselves into a limiting box. We can fail at being "vegan," but we can't fail at "limiting suffering." Having more open, flexible labels welcomes more people through the door.

Identifying with strict dietary-labels can inspires a feeling of "not being good enough," if one has trouble following the diet-labels restrictions, for whatever reason.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to be a "vegetarian," and how "it's so hard," I always tell people: "Just try and limit how much meat you eat. You don't have to 'go vegan,' maybe next time you eat out with friends just refuse that burger. You can eat the next one, but you still limited how much you participate in abuse. It's really that simple."

And that is so much more accessible. It helps people realize that you don't have to be a perfect, flawless, meat-abstainer. You can just choose to not put that bacon on your fries. You can just order a salad. You can eat fish and eggs and do whatever you want forever, but as long as you value limiting suffering, whatever that means, and however much you can, that's what matters.