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21st February 2012

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rabbitfeminist:

skankassqueer:

ellierantsforever:

siddharthasmama:

strangeasanjles:

Bullshit of the highest order. To say it is easy to be vegan is some of the most ignorant, classist bullshit I’ve ever been privy to.

I am so tired of this pretentious vegan bullshit. If you are/can afford to be vegetarian or vegan, that’s great. However, that fact doesn’t make you any better, more enlightened or necessarily more healthy or superior to anyone else in any fucking way.

I especially don’t want to hear it from hypocrites.

Don’t fucking preach veganism at me if you do/have any of the following:

smoke cigarettes

At least one cigarette brand has been known to use pig’s blood in the filters of it’s cigarettes and many, many animals are used to test the effects of cigarettes.

have tattoos [not just bone black ink, either]

We all know bone black ink contains charred animal bone, but what you may not know is that almost every color also contains glycerin as the carrier. Glycerin can be vegetable or animal based and both types are used in tattoo inks.

wear metal or acrylic jewelry in your piercings

Buffing compound, used in polishing metal jewelry, is an abrasive suspended in an animal fat (generally cattle tallow). It is used in the manufacture of almost all metal body jewelry on the market. Buffing compound is usually used in the polishing of plastic jewelry as well.

wear wooden jewelry in your piercings

Many manufacturers use beeswax to buff their jewelry.

have ever used a&d, satin soap or H2Ocean as aftercare for your tattoos/piercings

These products all contain lanolin, which is a yellow waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing animals.

Also, if you aren’t growing your own goddamn kale in your backyard or getting it from local farms, you really have no clue where it comes from, do you? Time to consider the actual humans who are likely being horribly exploited to get at least some of those fruits and veggies to your table.

I eat meat alongside my fruits and vegetables because it is delicious and because I want to. I am also concerned with the ethical treatment of said animals before they get to me for consumption. I will not be made to feel guilty about what I choose to/can afford to/love to eat.

The point is that any way you choose to eat is wonderful for you. I know several vegetarian/vegan people who you would never know were veg because they have more interesting things to talk about than what foods they eat. However, once people start shoving it down other peoples’ throats, usually in an immature and condescending manner, I take issue. Don’t be a fucking hypocrite.

in addition, time you spend educating yourself and others about how to be a good vegan is all well and good, but that pretty much means if you pull some ignorant racist, misogynist, cissexist etc. bullshit you lose the right to use that fucking “sorry i didn’t know i dunt have time to educate myself” excuse because you prioritised animal liberation above human liberation. yes you did. fucking priorities kids. they start with human beings.

and if that makes me a speciesist then so be it. i don’t see you equating your own damn life with that of an animal so don’t do it to other human beings.

thank you commentary

commentary forever

There, there OP. COMMENTARY FOREVER.

Bullshit of the highest order. You’re just using these “-ist” terms to excuse you eating meat and being a lazy fuck. Congratulations on having the “if you can’t save everything there’s not point in trying to save anything.” You’re all fucks. Have fun with heart disease.

Source: animalsandtrees

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