vegan Aradina • Now • 100%

[CW: animal cruelty] Dogs stacked in shipping containers overnight without water — what vet report reveals about now-shutdown breeder

www.abc.net.au

**In short:** Documents obtained by the ABC have revealed the conditions dogs and puppies were kept in at the now-closed dog breeder, Tasmanian Labradoodles. A vet's report says the dogs were severely underweight, had no bedding, were overbred, and their fur was so matted they couldn't see. **What's next?** The RSPCA says it tried to shut down the dog breeder for years and is now calling for stronger animal welfare legislation to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

vegan Angel • Now • 94%

Vegans are to leftists (1), vegetarians are to liberals (2), and omnivores are to conservatives (3).

1 and 2 get grouped together, but the truth is that 2 actually has more in common with 3 than it has with 1. However, 3 doesn't realize this, so 3 makes fun of both 1 and 2, and 1 is just utterly frustrated with the fact that both 2 and 3 don't understand the difference.

vegan AcidCommunist • Now • 100%

USDA cut back on listeria testing nationwide, ahead of deadly Boar's Head outbreak

www.cbsnews.com

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3559461 > > In the year leading up to a deadly listeria outbreak now traced back to recalled Boar's Head deli meats, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show that Biden administration officials quietly made significant cuts to planned testing for germs across America's food supply.

vegan mautamu • Now • 100%

Confessions of a Beaumont Vegan

www.texasobserver.org

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/17360079 > An interesting anecdote about how veganism is "becoming easier;" does anyone have any statistics to share about veganism that you find surprising / insightful?

vegan Well • Now • 100%

Josie's Guide to Vegan Friendly Instruments

docs.google.com

cross-posted from: https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/475246 > Well, here it is! > > A few days ago, I made a post appealing for information relating to animal product usage in the music instrument industry. Historically, musical instruments have used animal products. Typically, drumheads were made of animal skin, piano keys of ivory, and violin bows of horsehair. A lot of these processes have been phased out (most drums use Mylar for their skins now, and ivory was banned for pianos in the 80s.) > > Here are some patterns I've noticed while creating this sheet: > > 1. Drums and harmonicas are the "most vegan" instruments > 2. Acoustic pianos are much more likely to use wool than electric pianos > 3. The violin industry is the worst for animal products. Most violin manufacturers still use bows with horsehair. > 4. Manufacturers specialising in introductory/student products, such as Sigma and Franz Hoffmann, tend to use animal-derived materials rather than synthetic ones. > 5. Actual saxophones are vegan, but a lot of manufacturers use genuine leather straps. All companies that use leather for their straps have been labelled as orange. Trumpets, flugel horns, tubas, and trombones are seemingly okay regardless of manufacturer. Some flutes used to use ivory but again, this practice was banned in 1989. > 6. I discovered that clarinets tend to use goat skin for their pads. Unfortunately, I could not find any information on exactly which companies use animal skin for their clarinets. Sorry. > > Another thing I've noticed is that information relating to this topic is EXTREMELY muddy. I would often find a source claiming that a manufacturer did not use animal products only to double check their information pages and see that they use wool. I would find sources claiming a manufacturer isn't vegan only to check their information pages and see that they seemingly use no animal products. For this reason, I cannot guarantee that the information in the spreadsheet is 100% accurate, but this is the closest to accuracy I have been able to get to. > > This sheet compiles the top manufacturers in each category of instrument. If anyone has any other manufacturers they'd like me to investigate, please just say so in the comments.

vegan DisabledAceSocialist • Now • 100%

I can't afford to be vegan any more.

I was vegan for years until my disability benefits got stopped. Now I'm going through an appeal and have no money. My overdraft is maxxed out. The food banks takes so long to access, but when they do give me food I eat whatever they give as I'm so hungry, whether it's cheese, chicken soup or whatever. Beggars can't be choosers. I now realise what a huge luxury being able to choose your own food is. I've even tried begging for financial aid on hexbear and even in the street, no-one will help. So now I eat whatever i can get.

vegan sharkfucker420 • Now • 97%

anyone have a list of easy cheap food and recipes?

What are some staples? I'm new to this

vegan Angel • Now • 94%

"People like you are the reason why people don't like vegans!"

Veganism is a justice movement. We're not just a bunch of people with some oddball, "hippie" lifestyle wanting people to understand why they should eat more plants. Carnists abuse the shit out of these kinds of sentiments, in which they neglect the fact that vegan advocacy is not supposed to keep them complacent. The purpose of vegan advocacy is to instill discomfort so that people realize the urgency in learning to reject the exploitation that they endorse on a daily basis. If you apply this awful framing to any other justice movement, you'd hear people say shit like, "Malcolm X is the reason why people don't like anti-racists!" It just does not make any sense. If carnists are truly convinced that carnism is ethical and totally fine for them to endorse, then why do they get so defensive and grasp at straws whenever objective facts about the horrors that they support are pointed out?

vegan sharkfucker420 • Now • 95%

What's y'all's position on lab grown meat?

I'm also curious about y'all's take on imitation meat as well. My assumption is no harm to foul but I am not educated on the subject. Also I mostly mean conceptually, I am aware that lab grown meat is no where near efficient or viable for mass production

vegan hypercracker • Now • 100%

Saying that people from some countries eat cats or dogs, an objective fact, is not racist. Saying that it makes them barbaric or that they're coming after your pets is racist.

No really, please do come up with an argument for why eating chicken/goats/pigs/cows is totally fine but eating cats & dogs is not. It is a dreary day outside so I would like a laugh.

vegan ButtBidet • Now • 95%

Non Vegans critiquing PETA is just them concern trolling their frustration that they shouldn't be eating animals

Please disregard my mod status for this post. This isn't a comm wide opinion and fellow vegans are welcome to disagree. Every time a obviously decent PETA post is shared on social media, maybe about fur or pet breeding, people come out of the woodwork to comment "wow one good opinion of PETA" or "broken clock is right twice a day". A very easy way for content creators to get views is to make yet another [anti-PETA video](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illuminaughty+peta). I needed to unfollow one YouTuber I liked, Call Me Kevin, because he [played all the PETA video games](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PridLixFf4M), did the snarky thing, and had **nothing** to say about animals consumed for food. Sure PETA isn't perfect. They're an NGO and have most of the problems of the NGO-industrial-complex. They don't have anything to say about non animal issues. Arguably they're not intersectional. Their campaigns can be a be weird or cringe by Hexbear standards. The objectifying people's bodies thing is very debatable, although in PETA's defense, all the naked people in their campaigns are volunteers. It's questionable if someone who's eagerly signing up for a cause is being "objectified". I've had mates, better looking than me, passionately strip to their underwear for the cause of hurting less animals. But I'm not a woman nor an expert, and there may be some real space for critique, *if you're a vegan*. The number of times I've had to hear non-vegans, even left wing non-vegans, repeat [corporate talking points](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PETA_Kills_Animals) is embarrassing af for non vegans. On multiple occasions I've been banned from non-vegan pages for pushing back against this, politely and without insults. The amount of times I've been treated worse than racists get treated on social media and banned for gently pointing out animal abuse is at least a dozen. So some PETA Twitter post made some carnist sad/angry for ten seconds. Non-vegans feel stress from getting called out on their contribution to animals abuse. To this I say: good, I hope you feel stressed about what you do. I can't stress enough. PETA isn't perfect. But I have worked with them for animal-rights campaigns, and they're very helpful with resources and funding. In regards to the animal euthanasia thing, they could easily be liberals and give it up for marketing purposes. But their attitude is basically "we don't give a damn about what non-vegans think on the issue", which is kinda based. And I hope carnists continue to get cry about what PETA and other vegans are saying.

vegan Pili • Now • 100%

Ethical question about "EquiCoaching"

Hello everyone, I have an ethical question. My company is going to take us on a team outing, theoretically a secret, but it seems like it might be 'EquiCoaching'. I think the english term is "Equine assisted coaching" but it's difficult to actually find information on it. From what I’ve read, it's life coaching done by manipulating or establishing a relation with a horse (there is no riding involved I believe). It seems to me that this involves exploiting horses for financial gain, and I feel uneasy about being asked to participate in such activities, especially without being informed in advance (the theme of our seminars is always kept secret until the last moment). However, I am not at all familiar with this kind of practice, so I don’t know where the horses come from, how they are treated, what happens to them if they get injured, etc. So before I veto my participation, I’d like to hear from people who know more about it. Are there ethical issues in EquiCoaching that I should bring up to my management? Here are the pages of the two life coaches for EquiCoaching my management is in contact with if you want more info (be careful it's in french): https://www.jdlifecoach.fr/ https://equileads.fr/ I can't find any resources in english, there is a french Wikipedia page that isn't translated into any other language: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9veloppement_personnel_par_le_cheval There is an english page for Equine-assisted therapy but it seems to encompass a lot more that just life coaching.

vegan BeamBrain • Now • 94%

When a carnist tells you it's inappropriate to compare animal oppression to human oppression, they're demanding your capitulation.

A core tenant, perhaps *the* core tenant, of veganism is that animals have a moral worth comparable to that of humans and that we have similar moral responsibilities toward them that we do to other people. When a carnist tries to tell you that you're not allowed to compare animal oppression to human oppression, they are demanding that you implicitly accept the carnist view: that animals are inferior and lesser beings, and therefore we can brutalize and kill them without compunction. The comparison between animal oppression and human oppression is *only* degrading to humans if you start with this premise. It has nothing to do with being considerate to marginalized people (as they claim) and everything to do with creating a left-sounding justification to make your views verboten. If you are a minority discussing *your own experience* as a marginalized person in relation to animal oppression, carnists will try to dictate how you're allowed to talk about your oppression and use your solidarity with animals to get you into trouble. I have experienced this firsthand. They'll happily silence you in this manner because, for them, their concern was never with marginalized people - it was with their perceived right to not only enable the endless horrors of carnism, but to never be made the slightest bit uncomfortable about them.

vegan Yor • Now • 98%

I made spicy ramen!

[Recipe link](https://beextravegant.com/spicy-vegan-ramen/) 

vegan BeamBrain • Now • 100%

Sometimes I wonder if cultural fear of aliens is projection of carnism in addition to colonialism.

If someone concludes that it's fine for them to eat cows because cows never invented computers, then there's not really much of an argument against aliens turning us into meat slurry because they have the 4-chambered quantum brains needed to invent hyperdrive and we don't, is there?

vegan ButtBidet • Now • 98%

Lemmy world vegan community - hostile takeover

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550 [View the original post to see the images](https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/378315) > (posting to both communities) > > A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets". > > As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it. > > I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever. > > >  > > > 

vegan ButtBidet • Now • 100%

Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts

www.nature.com

>All environmental indicators showed a positive association with amounts of animal-based food consumed. Dietary impacts of vegans were 25.1% (95% uncertainty interval, 15.1–37.0%) of high meat-eaters (≥100 g total meat consumed per day) for greenhouse gas emissions, 25.1% (7.1–44.5%) for land use, 46.4% (21.0–81.0%) for water use, 27.0% (19.4–40.4%) for eutrophication and 34.3% (12.0–65.3%) for biodiversity. At least 30% differences were found between low and high meat-eaters for most indicators. Despite substantial variation due to where and how food is produced, the relationship between environmental impact and animal-based food consumption is clear and should prompt the reduction of the latter.