#vegan experience

[adhd-hippie]

Some non vegan told me I was "sheltered" because I didn't understand that plants are "just as alive as animals" and like if you can't see the difference between eating a 9 month old calf (veal a byproduct of dairy) and eating an apple then I you're beyond help.

#vegan #vegan experience

[fearsomeandwretched]

I do fr think the white leftists who hardcore hate vegans mostly are trying to absolve their own guilt or unresolved feelings about eating meat and animal products

#there are some asshole vegans for sure who are racist and ableist but from my own experience that is not most vegans

[imnotsetsuna]

"being vegan / vegetarian is fucking expensive from what i've read"

okay and have you tried walking into a supermarket and checking the prices? lol

#ive never seen something so easily disproven by real life experience #setting aside actual research that shows it's a cheap fucking diet #veganism #vegan

[vegance]

non-vegans frequently justify their indifference towards non-human animals by portraying vegans and vegetarians as inherently predisposed to love animals, as if compassion for animals is just an innate trait that people either possess or lack. but one thing that 6 years of veganism have taught me is that compassion (for animals) is a skill that can be cultivated and nurtured.

by actively trying to emphasize with the experiences, desires and fears of non-human animals, you can develop compassion for them. you can learn to value their lives and wellbeing more.

this can of course be greatly helped by trying not to exploit them anymore, as this will decrease your cognitive dissonance and allow you to explore this area more honestly and authentically

#vegan #veganism #compassion and empathy and sympathy all overlap #and people experience all of these in different ways #so #no hate for vegans with low empathy #I love you guys so much #you are really inspiring and absolutely belong in this lovely community #and no hate for people who struggle with empathy #there are may different ways to have compassion

[lesamis]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you to get to know your mutuals and followers

(hello dear friend, tell me of your latest little joys please 🧡)

thank youuu for sending this along 🌱 i had an excellent time thinking of these!

swimming 😌 being by nature an anxious little beast i love anything that will cushion Bad Sensory Things (loud, warm) in cool, smooth nothingness. huge fan. submerge me in cool water at any given moment i'm going to love it

the neighbourhood cats

sending & receiving mail! i love stationery and i love handwriting things, and it always feels wonderful to be reminded someone's thinking of you

against my better judgement, peanut butter?

the spot on top of the hill where i go to read :') it's a different kind of stunning in each season.

#explanatory lore: i've never liked peanut butter & didn't get the appeal even a little bit. texture bad. flavour ok at most. you get it #then a couple of weeks into the catholic veganism experiment i got peanut butter cravings out of nowhere and started cooking w it a lot #peanut noodles. groundnut stew. just spoonfuls up peanut butter as a meal #a whole new world opened up tbh. i'm glad whoever regulates what i do or don't enjoy made that call out of nowhere #thank you cat this has been delightful 🧡 #asks #starkey

[ukulelegodparent]

Girls love to go to the grocery store in a foreign country and look at all the many new foods they have there and maybe try a few

#something something gatherer instinct #sitting here with a tofu spread which I thought was dubious in the supermarket but it's actually very nice 10/10 #continuing my extremely hit or miss Billa experiences in the Czech Republic #also whilst on the topic of Billa I should totally go to austria again some time soon bc they have vegan mango lassi #and truly what more could you want #like finding that out did make me consider moving to Austria

[moregraceful]

post-vacation hangover except I didn't go anywhere I just spent 4 straight days with Sierra so post-Sierra's vacation hangover...has anyone ever had a guest visit them and you're showing off your boring cringefail city with great weariness and they notice five thousand beautiful and deeply stupid things you never noticed before and then they leave and you have a renewed appreciation for your city 😭

#they sell ESPRESSO MARTINIS AT THE TANK #downtown is DEAD #there are amazing vegan nachos downtown!! #there is a nirvana soul kinda close to the tank!! #veteran's day is on a FRIDAY #and if you're a 10 on the east coast you're 50 in san jose and a 1000 for the barracuda!! #i can't believe i got them to haberdasher i forgot that place existed until this week and then we were there until 12am talking abt keebler #god truly fuck san jose conceptually this place sucks but living in north county was so so so much worse and i'm glad i'm down here again #and i get to show my beautiful friends this town #and i get to experience with them how deeply stupid this cringe ass boring city with bad highways is but with a kind of appreciation #asking sierra 20 times yesterday when they are coming back. you wanna come back for the all-star and season finale sooo bad :(((((( #now i have to write a sermon instead of being put in a medically induced coma or writing weird keebler/ekky all afternoon #which is a hell i think only methodists could design #fresno oilers.txt

[ambiguousdisorderken]

something tumblr loves to do is recreating the big bad straw man vegan because it's easier than reevaluating your beliefs and god forbid changing your habits, again and again and again and ag

#oh yes this is about the vegan to ecofasc post #so we are ecofascists because we do not support animal abuse??? #get this. veganism is For the animals. first and foremost. #they are not objects. we do not own them. they do not exist to benefit us humans. we are not entitled to their bodies. #yes! i too used to say oh i could never go vegan. but it's not about me. it's about them. i dont want baby chickens to be ground to death #i dont want cows to be raped again and again just so i can drink milk from their udders wtf #i dont want whales and dolphins to be sentenced to a lifetime inside a tank with no contact with their kin #i dont want another ryder lying on the streets of new york because he was exploited so tourists could prance around #i dont want beagles or rats or monkeys suffering inside laboratories getting experiments done on them #animals do not exist so we can abuse them #i loved fried chicken too much and my favorite food was sushi and i didnt see animals as beings #and all i see now is the mass suffering that we cause and im ashamed and i wish people on this goddamn website understood #because when i was at the supermarket someone made a joke pointing to the dead bodies of baby turkeys frozen and wrapped up in plastic #and they thought it was funny and i would've thought so too before. and now it's just . a fridge with corpses. and we had no right. #and it's victims you're making fun of. it's not vegans. #now go post in support of all other social movements. as long as they're human-centered of course #vegan #boohoo to anyone and everyone getting mad at this or saying i missed the point . i did not . #the only time carnists reblog vegan posts is when said post puts veganism in a bad light. pleather or quinoa or almond milk or ??? #oh but dont you dare compare humans to animals!! why the fuck not . antivegs will be the first ones to say animals eat other animals. #im so tired so fucking tired and it's this tumblr toxic troll behavior whenever veganism is mentioned

[deathbars]

~Adobo Tofu~

Ingredients:

1 block of extra firm tofu, pressed

• For marinade:

2 Tbs or 1 oz of adobo marinade base. I used Chef merito's "Adobo Carne al pastor" (there's recipes on how to make this at home online if you're up for a challenge just look up adobo chorzo sauce)

1/2 tsp of better than bouillon vegetable base

1 3/4 cups (i used my empty bouillon jar but its about a cup) of water

• For cooking:

~1 Tbs Corn starch for dusting, if you want

1 Tbs garlic olive oil (if you dont have this you could add a dash of garlic powder to your pan with regular oil, or omit it)

1 Tbs coconut oil (or canola / olive oil doesn't matter that much

Add a little more olive oil if this isn't enough I didn't actually measure anything lol

Instructions:

Press the tofu with your method of choice for at least 20 mins, this isn't strictly necessary but I find it makes the tofu much easter to cut into neat cubes later. It also soaks up more flavor from the marinade.

Chop tofu into 7 ~1/2 inch size slices across the block and place slightly separated into an airtight tupperware container or a small bowl that can be covered.

Add adobo paste to the bowl, or combine with the water and bouillon then pour over the tofu and add enough water so it's mostly covered.

Let sit in the fridge overnight or at least a couple hours.

Once it's done marinating, pour the marinade off or set it aside for cooking into rice (it's a great side for this!) and chop your slices into 8ths (makes about 56 little cubes, varies on how big your tofu block is)

Dust your chopped tofu with cornstarch, this helps them crisp up around the edges better.

Once your tofu is starched up to your liking, add the oil to your pan or Wok and put it on medium heat. Add tofu once the oil is hot and cook for 15 minutes turning every 1-3 minutes to get an even fry.

↓Pictures!↓

(plated up with rice cooked with a bit of the leftover marinade and a dollop of vegan sour cream)

#deathbars cooks #recipes #food #vegan food #tofu recipes #adobo tofu #this was an experiment 👌👌 turned out really good tho so I'll probably be making it again #i loved the color it turned out but that was probably due to the adobo base having red and yellow dyes in it #so home made adobo (chorzo sauce) probably wont be as red

[fracturediron]

The Mistholme Museum is actually a comedy

#vegan beluga whales experimented on to be CIA spies #and a toaster that rick rolls you #love it #the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #mistholme spoilers #mistholme museum

[vegance]

anti vegans: veganism is a rich white privilege movement. They are the only vegans 😡😤

poor vegan: I exist 🙋🏻‍♀️

poc vegan: I exist 🙋🏿

disabled vegan: I exist 🙋🏽‍♂️

anti vegans: actually, i don’t care about you 🤷🏻

#like the amount of times I’ve seen this here on tumblr #a person talks about their experience being a vegan of colour or living in poverty or with a chronic illness #and the anti vegan will straight up dismiss them or insult them for it lol #very progressive of you I’m sure #vegan #veganism #shit carnists say #to be clear veganism is of course not exempt from racism #classism #sexism #etc

[bloodfreakcastiel]

why do they make protein bars Like That

#god forbid it be a pleasurable experience #god forbid it not feel like wet chalk #ESPECIALLY the vegan ones #which i HAVE to eat because i am ALLERGIC to milk proteins #life is so cruel to women #personal #mine #*txt

[truegoist]

tbh only rich ppl become vegan

#I mean at least from my experience #Never saw an lower class(is this what y’all Americans class system call it) vegan

[greelin]

the wildest thing about that sautéing vegetables & the horrors that be post blowing up (over 100k notes? somehow? now?) is seeing people just randomly take it away with #vegan in the tags… like. well. i guess so

#seeing a post abt vegetables and horrors: Well this certainly is the vegan experience. reblog

[acti-veg]

I don't think the desert island argument is a valid criticism of veganism, but I think it could potentially be used as a valid criticism of the idea that all lives are equal. If you were on a desert island with a child and you had to kill animals to feed the child, many people, including vegans, would say this is morally necessary and the 'right' thing to do. So this would mean that all lives are not equal. You could say the child is only more valuable to you subjectively, and is not objectively

worth any more than the animals you kill to feed them. But in that case, does valuing the child’s life more than the animals’ really give you the right to kill them? Who says that your values are any more important than the animals’ values, who probably value their lives more than they value the child’s? The child’s life must objectively be more important, otherwise I’m not sure killing the animals to save the child can be justified?

The first thing to recognise is that value judgements, in the ethical sense, are always subjective. Such a thing cannot be measured or argued objectively. That said, there are really two different questions at play here:

1) Are human and non-human animal lives of equal value?

2) Do you value human and non-human lives equally?

These answers can both be different. You can believe that humans are superior to non-human animals, but value the life of your beloved pet over that of a fascist. You can believe that human and non-human lives are equally valuable, yet still value your own life more than theirs, to the point where you may kill them in a survival situation. There is nothing logically inconsistent about either position.

For your thought experiment, I don’t agree that killing the deer to feed the child means those lives are not equal, it means you value the life of the child over the deer, in the way we all tend to value our kin or members of our own group over complete strangers. This does not necessarily reflect our value judgments about those lives, or whether they are more or less valuable - all it means is that I valued that child’s life enough to kill for them. Had they been humans I’d killed, would make those other human lives less valuable? I’d argue not.

Value judgements will always be arbitrary, any attempt at reasoning them out will always end in circular logic, because it’s not a relational judgement. It’s justified only to the extent you can justify it to yourself and to others, but even had you chosen to let that child die to save the deer, your decision and your justification would be subject to the exact same criticism.

Under that outcome the question becomes: If their lives are equal, why did you let the child die? The justification for that decision would be just as arbitrary as the justification for its opposite. The only truly equal response would be to let both parties die equally, which would be even less justifiable than choosing one over the other on the basis of something arbitrary like kinship, personal sentiment or the desire to appear objective. Decisions between two equals will always be based on emotion and personal values more than logic, and so attempts to draw our logical conclusions from those decisions will always be fraught with problems.

#vegan #ask #thought experiments

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I am so fucking tired of people being like “you just have to tell everyone you’re vegan, don’t you” when I’m like “I had vegan ice cream” because it’s like “yeah, apparently I do! Because last time I said ‘I ate ice cream’ you were like ‘oh so you’re not vegan now’ and were all smug about it. make up your mind! Which answer do you want?!”

#emma posts #just venting #also tied of my mom just going like ‘she’s vegan’ in restaurants when I ask if a dish has a certain ingredient #thanks mom. now they know. which is a thing I have had bad experiences with in the past