#why go vegan

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

#mine #original #i cannot even begin to explain the anguish. the torment. this drawing has brought me #and i STILL dont like it. i simply cant work on it any longer i cant i cant. i must be rid of it #eating drywall as we speak #you want to know how many weeks ive worked on this. THREE. ALMOST. #you want to know how long my other cat drawings take me ?? 3 days absolute MAX #anyway. begon foul creature etc #i havent left extremely long tags for a long while hello everyone good lord there are many of you #we are going stratford this weekend very exciting #its going to be a little chilly and i want to take my new coat with me but issue its not chilly right now so i cant wear it onto the train #i do not think. i can. stuff it into my suitcase i dont think that will happen #i am sure i will figure it out #also. no longer vegan . eggs have won me over. egg egg egg. #im having to restrain myself SO hard from buying more wool i want a shawl i want a shawl #i want more cute DRESSES why are nice comfy dresses 10000£ #i look on vinted and its like dresses for popping your pussy in like not. the vibe im going for thank u #anyway. im going to eat crackers now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why is lettuce so fucking Good

#currently eating half a head right outta the bag #my body... it craves Fresh Vegetable... #i have not had Fresh Vegetable in so long... #monch cronch eating each leaf like a fuckin shredder #personal (me) home (in my house) shredder (teeth) #its so crisp and watery and cool from the fridge #my ideal meal is raw ground beef & entire head of iceberg lettuce #literally eating this shit like a mf Rabbit #absolutely unprompted #do you ever think about how similar leaf is to meat #looking closely at one rn and its like... a thin slice of steak but Green.... #why do vegans and carnivores fight we're literally the same. we should all make out or somethin idk #OHHHH WE'RE GETTING TO THE INNER LAYERS NOW ITS GOING DOWN!!!! HELL YEEEAAAHHHHH #SHIT JUST GOT CRISPER #if you're reading this its your sign to chug water and eat a fresh cool vegetable right from the fridge #give in to your primal desire to cronch with your bare hands and teeth #life is long but this moment is so so sweet

[hearthoof]

"climate change is getting worse! we have to do something!" yes i agree!! you could definitely try going vegan! i know it's not a possibility for EVERYONE, but going vegan would really help in our fight against climate ch- "oh im not gonna go vegan. individual action doesn't do anything, silly! however, if someone that WASNT me decided to blow up a pipeline or kill a ceo, then suddenly climate change would stop" oh. okay. so do you actually care about the cause? or.. (do not interact with this post if you don't support trans rights)

#vegan #veganism #not doing a banner anymore i think just stating it at the bottom of my post is good #banners need IDs and its just easier to type it out #its always SOMEONE blow up a pipeline already!! #buddy why cant you do it? #you cant even go vegan i guess im not surprised that you cant blow up a pipeline

[b0tster]

Yo where do you buy your accesory belts/harnesses/whatever else there is? I'm vegan and want to get into more gothy clothing, but it feels like there's leather fucking EVERYWHERE

killstar stuff and demonias afaik are both 100% pleather, or at least have an extensive list of non leather options, those are good places to start!

#lilith answers #goth #i know pleather isnt like #good for the environment or anything #thats why i dont call it “vegan leather” #but im vegan because of animal commodification #not because i think everyone going vegan will save the world or anything #we gotta topple the corporations for that

[elftwink]

one thing thats so interesting about being a vegetarian is you get to hear all about everyones hypothetical activism that they care about very deeply when talking specifically about your diet and why it's stupid, but literally will never bring up ever again in any other context

#good idea generator #ppl will honest to god hit me with a 'well what about the dmg caused by plant agriculture' when i say im vegetarian for the environment #oh please tell me more about all the things youre doing to try to minimize your impact on the environment #and all the things you know about agriculture. in your infinite wisdom of [checks notes] doing the exact same thing you always have #or is the argument that because individual choices make little difference that we shouldnt even try or talk about it in case its annoying? #its not necessarily that these people arent making good points also #its just that when you have these same conversations 75 times over and over and over and OVER and get nowhere #it starts to become obvious most people learn these arguments in order to avoid genuinely interrogating their eating practices #either on an individual or communal level. am not asking you to cut out meat or go vegan (not a realistic demand of everyone on earth) #but i AM asking that you please do some self reflection on why the idea makes you so defensive #and about what exactly is so terrible of the idea that we may need to produce and consume less meat #i thought about 75 disclaimers i could put on this post but honestly if they become necessary it would prove my point

[creekfiend]

I fucking hate the veganism fights like all fights online have no nuance and are in super bad faith but man the veganism one is just... something else

I've never heard any vegans be like 'yeah I don't care about agricultural workers lol' and I've never heard anyone who thinks that animal products can be consumed ethically be like 'ha ha factory farm/slaughterhouse/meat packing plant employees can go die actually!'

I think. People who feel strongly about what we are eating in general do care about Pretty Much Everything

I'm friends with some vegans vegetarians and they're friends with me and like... it's. Fine. And not in a 'we Don't Talk About It' way at all!!!! In a like 'we can talk about food systems and what we would ideally like to be able to do within them'

I'm someone who tried to be vegetarian once and had to stop for health reasons. I'd love to be able to only eat animal products from small local farms who i trust to treat all their animals ethically but for health and money reasons can't rn. None of my friends who eat differently than me are mean about that? I don't know comma man it's just. I think we all care a lot about everything actually. Which is why everyone's so fucking mad lmao

This is a pointless post which is why no one can reblog it 🥲 I just feel like omfg the veganism fight has the BIGGEST STRAWMEN IN THE WORLD its like ... straw mechas

Actually that's a really good mental image. Strawmechas. Bad ass

#the point here is not that there are no out of touch mean vegans or out of touch mean meat eating people btw those are #both self evidently true facts. #🥲🥲🥲 #i think something that gets lost is that like... #if you do see someone being fucking bonkers you can just block them? #like yeah i do see comments from super mean vegans about how all pet ownership is abuse #and 'theres no reason why ANYONE cant be vegan' #so i go wow those guys are weird and i dont wish to see them. and i simply block them. and its fine. #you too can interact only with reasonable vegan/vegetarians with this one hot tip! #ONLY SPEAK TO THE ONES WHO ARENT MEAN !

[svnflowermoon]

planning christmas meals will be the death of me

#luc posts #my mum is going insane #theres two vegans one vegetarian two gluten free people two dairy free people and about four generally fussy people and im going to cry #and this is just one side of the family too #bro why do we have to host it at my house ugh #also why cant both sides of my family just get along omggg

[bishopony]

So um. The reminder replies were really helpful and I greatly appreciated them!! However I ended up having to go to a separate doctor entirely cause i ran out of a prescription that I have to go in person to get refilled. So I didn’t get to schedule a gastro appointment. Aaaaaand guess what I’m struggling with now 🥴🥴

#acid reflux is so annoying y’all like I just want to go to bed?? why now. at 10 pm #I’m guessing it was the vegan meal I had earlier?? for whatever reason my body has NOT been liking vegan food </3 #I can’t eat red meat either so it’s like. what do you want me to do lmaoooo

[faithfromanewperspective]

(re: tags on rb'ed post) It's genuinely so wild to me that people don't know how to cook??? Obviously I don't fault anyone for it, you've got to learn and there's no shame to it, I just really thought everyone had some degree of culinary knowledge until I was like twelve.

Anyway, what are your favorite vegetables to cook with? Favorite summer recipes? Favorite pasta recipes if you've got them? I need new recipes to try :)

exactly, I don't want to fault anyone on it either!! we have to acknowledge the diverse backgrounds we have, levels of privilege etc--and i do also think with that comes, what do we assume as normal just bc it's our experience? and so it's so important to hear from other people. i find a lot of asians and women such as myself learn how to cook from a very young age just like you did, and then assume everyone else does too (i didn't realise most of my friends didn't do their own laundry either all through high school).

anyway in response to your question: I love cooking with eggplant, capsicum, sweet potato, potatoes in general, sweet potato leaves, basically every kind of legume and all the products people make from them, tomatoes, all kinds of herbs (but the italian mix is my favourite) as well as an assortment of asian vegetables and melons that someone in my family always procures and has too much of!! i also love to add ginger to any recipe i feel like is missing its meatiness, green/spring onions go really well with a lot of things and so do raw red onions or cooked brown onions!!

pasta wise i love everything pasta. a pasta bake is a go to one for me as i make a good white sauce and my sisters and i all love it!! lasagna is cool but a bit more time consuming so it's been ages. otherwise anything spaghetti bog/with meatballs (specifically the ones i make from Beyond Meat, water crackers, carrot, onion and spices) is good and i eat it with green beans! it's also super quick bc pasta sauce is like $1 for a big bottle where i live and you just pour it on your spaghetti or pasta. i also love all things ramen (both the curly type and the more expensive straight organic japanese one, they also have other noodles called udon and soba that you literally just boil for 5mins and have with sprouts or smth and olive oil and it's delicious). i do love mac and cheese when i get a good vegan cheese but it's pretty hit and miss on that.

and as for summer recipes i'm a big smoothie gal!! pack it with protein powder and chia seeds and coconut water for electrolytes and ice cream for fun but i love mango/banana, pineapple/papaya, mint/spinach/coconut, mixed berry, sometimes i'll shake it up and do orange/papaya or smth!! i love all the bright colours and how creamy they are if you have a good banana or mango or papaya or just really creamy soy milk. also love anything with watermelon+mint (my sister makes a really good salad with it and cos lettuce, olives, cucumber and baby tomatoes i believe). also my beyond meat meatballs go well on a skewer dipped in guacamole for the summer nights where it's light right up til bedtime!

#vegan things #recipes #i do have to say sometimes finding the executive function is hard #but that's why i cook in bulk and also. rice salads are good for that too and so are stews and curries and they all go with celery

[loki-zen]

tell you what u guys need to get bombay mix in america

#i’m not a huge fan of nuts and i still enjoy it #some of you guys would go crazy for this shit #there’s all different types too with different stuff in it and different spices and spice levels #hmm and logically it might often be vegan idk i don’t check for that #but i don’t see why not

[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

[deva-arts]

Strohller man is cool 🥸🥸🥸

Why is he yellow? was he born like that? imagine the jokes he heard as a kid

-Your friend who, is asking for a spoiler 🥸

#Doctor Strohl #“Strohller Man” is going in the books #Why do you keep using that emote XD #i love that one vegan chicken meme #IT'S GOLD BABEY! #ARK_SYSTEMA

[xxlovelynovaxx]

Ah. "Animals rights" bullshit okay. Being animals that are not obligate herbivores and eating the flesh of other animals because of it is "oppressing" non-human animals. And they called out my comparing it to anti-choicers because "murder is different than death" okay well anti-choicers think abortion is murder. I don't happen to consider a human killing an animal for food murder any more than I consider an animal killing another animal for food murder, especially when as you pointed out yourself some people can't survive without meat.

Or is it a contract killing/hit on every animal You've ever eaten to survive? Are you just not a murderer because you paid not to get your hands dirty?

Like yeah it's fucking NATURAL. Humans aren't some wondrous ascended beings that don't crawl through the dirt. We fuck and fight and survive and yes, part of that survival for many is KILLING.

And it's good that you don't think people should be forced onto veganism because that would be as bad as the people who want to force all animals to eat synthetic meat and hunt via robots or whatever but my gods can you imagine telling someone who has been a vegetarian by choice for years for animal WELFARE purposes (not rights) who is vegan for disability reasons that they are "justifying the oppression of animals" and "killing animals for food is murder" when you literally can't go vegan for health reasons yourself? Okay murderer. Guess your life matters more than those oppressed animals.

Like sorry I'm going full "you're an asshole and I despise you and I'm genuinely sorry for myself that I thought we could be friends".

Like yeah the anti-choicer metaphor wasn't perfect. But it also got you to cut right to the heart of the matter. You are so divorced from humans as part of the ecosystem and food chain you genuinely believe we have some moral duty to not kill animals (but only animals, not plants or fungi, which are also living and have some measure of sentience) and to hold ourselves separate from the biosphere to the greatest extent possible.

That's just ecofascism 101. Are we gonna do the "any form of hunting or land management, even responsibly by indigenous stewards using traditional practices is bad" next? Or are we gonna avoid that one because you hopefully know better than THAT and simply think that removing humans from ONLY one part of the consumptive chain is ✨different✨?

For reference:

Also where does "choosing to die" come in to this? I wasn't talking about euthanasia, I was talking about withdrawing the life support provided by a human body if the owner of that body stops consenting to providing it, therefore depriving a fetus dependent on that life support for survival of said survival. I'm pretty sure the fetus doesn't have a choice in the matter. (Whether or not it's "alive" doesn't have much to do with anything since it's been made pretty clear that medical autonomy in terms of mandated use of your body's parts or resources is unethical at ANY point. Even if you ARE killing it, we've determined that's the most ethical option.)

Also if we're going to make bullshit oppression claims why don't we talk about transspecies people who are obligate carnivores?

#literally I'm not a fucking legalist but no I don't believe murder in the sense of nonconsensual killing is always wrong #like self defense. hello. #like maybe my moral system is just built different but to call it oppression and make me out to be some kind of bigot? #come on. that's bullshit and you know it. #we're literally not talking about rights being taken away. also this is why animal welfare is such a better concept than animal rights #stop anthropomorphizing animals!! stop treating them like furry humans that can't speak!! #literally somehow both a veganism centrist and an 'animal rights' person at once #go yell at people for literally having a moral-spiritual belief system that encompasses eating animals as neutral somewhere else #oh and btw don't EVER fucking moralize any kind of food related consumption around me again that goes for everyone #meat is neutral. sugar is neutral. artificial sweeteners are neutral. preservatives are neutral. plants are neutral. fish are neutral. etc #some of these may be unhealthy for a given individual and their production under capitalism may be fucking harmful #but conceptually they are neutral and there are ways of making them physically so by changing the harmful systems #you can keep feeling bad about your oppression of poor animals or w/e. or maybe you don't feel bad idk #I happen to find that far more harmful than humans who want or need to eat meat - doing so - will ever be #thanks for the mask off moment where you decided it was actually okay to moralize food and survival #I'm so happy to say goodbye forever #(note: if you know who this is don't fucking harass them. I have them blocked and am being a bit nasty *bc* they can't see it) #(I don't want them to suffer. I just think they're a monumental asshole. gods know I'm one too.) #(let people be assholes 2k23 lol)

[some-greatreward]

i don’t understand how people will hate on morrissey by taking digs at veganism like okay you want to slap him with a steak does that make you feel morally superior or ???

#like okay. lets not focus on the racism or victim blaming it’s his…animal rights activism you’re going to make fun of???? #‘​im gonna kill 100 pigs to piss off morrissey’ ok you do that. because that makes you suuuch a good person. #ive never understood why vegans were made fun of in the first place. i am not one but i have huge respect for them