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@Spiggitzfan Please don't stigmatize mental illness and orangutans

#Ableism #Speciesism

@rotnroll666

Humans are animals a species of great ape. Please refer to non-human animals as such or equivalent and not simply "animals" as this framing places humans as separate from and above other animals, reinforcing speciesism and human-supremacy

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #English #Language #EnglishLanguage #Animals

Dear #bbc , #Nikumaroro island is not "crab-infested", my God. It is their home, they are doing what they evolved there to do. Coconut Crabs are quite a spectacular species and this news article about some members of our species should have been seen as an opportunity to celebrate us both.

I call for a correction as any proper journalists are ethically required to issue. #journalisticethics #journalism #speciesism

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pvgryp8yv0o

Humans are animals a species of great ape. Please refer to non-human animals as such or equivalent and not simply "animals" as this framing places humans as separate from and above other animals, reinforcing speciesism and human-supremacy

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #Language #EnglishLanguage

Political gambling is bad because it ties economic incentives to "realistic" politics which is inescapably reformist anti-revolutionary and invested in the hegemonic status quo.

Unless you're willing to bet on the abolition of state and capital and human supremacy and white supremacy and ableism and cisheteromononormativity and patriarchy next month in which case lets lock in.

#Anarchism #Revolution #Reformism #Liberalism #Gambling #PoliticalGambling #Kyriarchy #Patriarchy #Ableism #HumanSupremacy #Speciesism #Racism #Sexism #Cishetermononormativity #TotalLiberation #Vegan #Veganism #Intersectionalism #IntersectionalAnarchism

@angryanimalactivist The police protect animal ag. If someone goes to rescue non-humans from slaughter the police will use that apparatus to prevent and or punish it.

The police uphold a white supremacist patriarchal ableist system of global colonialist capitalism, biosphere destruction and non-human genocide.

And they don't protect people like you think they do, the money is spent on protecting capitalist interests first and foremost: steal £100 of groceries? The police will be on you as fast as possible, but if someone breaks into your home, or commits domestic abuse or assault, or mugs you then there is suddenly not enough evidence to pursue it.

You need to understand that the primary function of the state is to prevent workers from seizing the means of production, any positive effect the police might have is a side effect.

More often than not its the police committing the abuse, especially racist sexist and queermisic abuse this is of course well documented.

Look into how the police in many countries treat racist brownshirts compared to like antiracist or antigenocide protests

But yeah the idea of a vegan being pro police is wild you have a lot of learning to do. I know I said a lot of unsubstantiated shit here but like I feel like you need to at least be exposed to the opposite view here. If you're interested in more details about any of these points hmu

#Police #Vegan #Anarchism #Capitalism #Socialism #HumanSupremacy #Patriarchy #Ableism #Colonialism #Speciesism #Racism #White Supremacy #TotalLiberation #Kyriarchy

@Siucraym Milk Eggs and Honey kill. All use is abuse. There is no extraction of resources from a species dependant on us for survival that isn't exploitative

#Vegan #Vegetarian #Veganism #Vegetarianism #HumanSupremacy #Speciesism #Dairy #Eggs #Honey #Bees #Chickens #Cow #Cows #Chicken

@Brian Yes I think that being against killing for sensory taste pleasure is better. It preempts humane slaughter arguments

#Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Kyriarchy

@Brian Its good to see more exposes so no one can claim that slaughterhouse footage isn't local or recent. I see these sort of announcements from time to time and I've unfortunately forgotten most of them. I just got this archive idea and I wonder if you know if it exists already: a world map showing the locations of different slaughterhouse footage and a time frame slider so you could filter only videos from the past 5y for example

#Vegan #Veganism #Slaughterhouse #Speciesism

Soooo, one of the biggest investigations into pig slaughter for human consumption happened in Greece, it seems! If not the biggest one there (I'm starting to think if it's one of the biggest worldwide actually with how many places were investigated…). Didn't know this had happened! Absolutely incredible work by the investigators. The images and video (Haven't seen them all.) are truly devastating. Just goes to show no country is different in how they treat these innocent beings. They are seen as products and are treated as such. If you've seen how pigs are usually treated, this is no different. Yet there are still people claiming their country is different for some reason…
The investigation were done by REthink ANIMALS ( https://rethinkanimals.gr You can translate that.) from March to May this year and they have an ongoing campaign which is called #thisisgyros (There's even a website for it! https://thisisgyros.gr Of course you can translate that, too.) and it has to do with the traditional Greek “food” gyros that usually has either pig or chicken flesh wrapped in a pita with potatoes, tomatoes and a sauce made with cow's milk, cucumber and garlic called “tzatziki.” The campaign seems to have launched this sort of picture sub-campaign, of activists posing with a slogan relating to gyros. These are my 2 favourite images so far from the campaign! (I obviously got permission from both to post them here.)❤️:vegan:
#thisisgyros #Gyros #REthinkANIMALS #Greek #Activism #Activist #Activists #Vegan #Veganism #Campaign #Pigs #Slaughter #Blood #Violence #Abuse #Rights #AnimalRights #Pig #Pigs #Greece #Photograph #Photographs #Photography #Creative #Creativity #Speciesism #Speciesist #Investigation #Undercover #UndercoverInvestigation #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #Truth #Βίγκαν #Ελλάδα #Ελληνικά #Ακτιβισμός #Έρευνα #Βιγκανισμός #Σπισισμός #Ειδισμός #Γύρος #Ακτιβιστές #Καμπάνια #Σφαγή #Αίμα #Βία #Δικαιώματα #ΔικαιώματαΤωνΖώων #Ζώα #Χοιρινό #Γουρούνι #Γουρούνια #Αποκάλυψη #Αντισπισισμός #Αντιειδισμός #Αλήθεια

RE: https://todon.nl/@Persona/117354167382841382

Correct me if I'm wrong but this cartoon is a good example of being colorfully offensive to bigots without invoking speciesism racism sexism or ableism/sanism

#Intersectionalism #TotalLiberation #Speciesism #Racism #Sexism #Ableism #Sanism #Insult #Bigotry

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Successful abusers are good at networking, have high charisma, usually have pretty privilege and wealth. They have good rhetorical and especially emotive rhetorical skills. And they know how to play their image to the room to gain favor and influence.

These are all traits that go a long way to becoming a popular commentator.

Having consistent politics requires a courage to be disliked and as such I have an inherent distrust of any popular political commentator, more so if they are widely regarded to be "effective" whatever that means in this context

Because misogyny is popular under patriarchy

Speciesism is popular under human supremacy

Racism is popular under colonialism

Ableism is popular under an ableist capitalist system

Queermisia is popular under cisheteromononormativity

Ageism, Sanism and Sex-Negativity are popular too and apologies for anything else I've forgotten

Extra points if the commentator opposes one or more of these systems (genuinely or not) because then there's plausible deniability that they engage in other systems of oppression and the dreaded "perfectionism" argument can come out.

#TheRevolutionWillNotBeStreamed #Misogyny #Patriarchy #Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #Racism #Colonialism #Ableism #Queermisia #Cisheteromononormativty #Ageism #Sanism #TotalLiberation #Intersectionalism #Anarchism #Celebrity

There many reasons not to "practice" all of the aspects of veganism. Sometimes, some of us are forced to rely on animal exploitation.

However, I have never heard a satisfying and/or ethical reason not to *be* vegan, especially now. I will be honest, anti-vegans creep me out more than ever.

#veganism #speciesism

Unsere "Haus"tiere? Kommen auf einen Haustierfriedhof.

Unsere "Nutz"tiere? Kommen in ein Schlachthaus.

Hunde und Katzen sind unsere "Haus"tiere, also werden sie würdevoll beerdigt.

Kaninchen müssen beten, dass sie nicht als das Zweite betrachtet werden.

Und Hühner, Schweine und Kühe haben immer die Arschkarte...

#govegan #speciesism #speziesismus #carnism

Schon bizarre, wenn man zu einem Bauernhof fährt, um dort den toten Körper eines Lebewesens (Huhn) käuflich zu erwerben... Und gleichzeitig die anderen Lebewesen (Hunde) vor Ort total süß zu finden und zu streicheln.

Wären wir in einem anderen Land, hätte man die Hunde gleich mit erwerben können, im zerhackten Zustand natürlich...

Eine Katze war auch vor Ort... Aber die ist ja Familie. Genauso wie die Hunde. Die würde man ja nie häuten und verkaufen...

#govegan #speziesismus #speciesism

Make the connection. Go vegan. 🌱

Clip: association_l214 (IG) 

#vegan #speciesism #animalrights

Make the connection. Go vegan. 🌱

Clip: association_l214 (IG) 

#vegan #speciesism #animalrights

Suddenly, all the labels just seem arbitrary. 🐮🐶

Clip thanks to the amazing lapetitefermedebelvie on IG 🫶

#veganfortheanimals #speciesism #animallover

@HeavenlyPossum Before humans learned to oppress and exploit one another they learned to oppress and exploit non-human animals - the nazi death chambers were inspired by animal ags industrialised slaughterhouses

#Speciesism #Nazi #AnimalAg #Slaughterhouse

@khaleer @lumi

Please do not compare capitalists to pigs
Pig shouldn't be an insult, it just shows how little humans respect pigs that their species is equated with capitalism and fascism and racism and misogyny
I believe this is because humans hurt innocent pigs so much that they have come to hate all pigs because in pigs they see their own violence reflected back at them.
Its easier to hate pigs than to empathize

#Speciesism #Pigs #Capitalism #Fascism #Racism #Misogyny

It’s what’s for dinner

Rojie asks:

Do you prefer chicken, beef, or seafood? Or are you vegan or vegetarian?

A question and a bonus question!

I prefer chicken, beef, and seafood, but only in their living form, not on a dinner plate.

And at this point I’m neither a vegetarian nor a vegan.

Vegetarianism stopped making sense to me a long time ago when I learned about lacto-vegetarians, ovo-vegetarians, and lacto-ovo vegetarians. To me, in my dull black and white world, you either ate animals or you didn’t. And not eating animals meant no milk, no cheese, no eggs.  But that’s just me.

Veganism was good, the rules were pretty clear cut, but it was just a label for me that meant I didn’t eat any animals, including milk, eggs, cheese. Or fish (sorry pescatarians). But I became put off by people who made it a political statement and who shamed other people for their personal diet choices. Shaming – without giving exact examples so I don’t inadvertently shame anyone – by using certain words, or body language, or images. Maybe it’s my dull black and white world again, but I don’t buy into the moral superiority of one way being the only way, and I don’t see any good coming from any form of shaming others, even if one thinks their cause is just.

Having said all that, I still won’t buy products tested on animals and I still don’t think humans are superior to animals, or any other creature sharing the planet, and I still think it would be a good idea for grocery stores to put small 10-inch color monitors above their meat cases, spaced maybe every five feet or so, and run loops of animals at the slaughterhouse. Meet your meat, you know? There’s nothing wrong with being a wise consumer.

So what’s my answer to the second question?

I don’t really have a label. If my diet is anything, it’s Whole Food Plant Based. That’s a broad term and it pretty much explains everything. And I’m not focused on 100% compliance or perfection as much as I used to be. I’m more interested in the nutrition and nutritional science in food so maybe I’m a nutritionarian?

I like to try and follow as best I can this advice:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants – Michael Pollan

@BetaCuck4Lyfe What is true of a shrimp that not true of a human that makes it ok to kill and eat one but not the other?

"
It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that, in adults, appropriately planned vegetarian and vegan dietary patterns can be nutritionally adequate and can offer long-term health benefits such as improving several health outcomes associated with cardiometabolic diseases.
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Sudha Raj;Nanci S Guest;Matthew J Landry;A Reed Mangels;Roman Pawlak;Mary Rozga 6
2026.06.XX XX:XX:XX XXX
Vegetarian Dietary Patterns for Adults: A Position Paper of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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2026.09.15 07:XX:XX BST
#created

#Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #VeganDebate

@Herbivore

Humans are animals a species of great ape. Please refer to non-human animals as such or equivalent and not simply "animals" as this framing places humans as separate from and above other animals, reinforcing speciesism and human-supremacy

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy
#Language #English

@mattwebbdev well I think we can agree US liberalism is built on colonialism and if I may expand upon the connection neocolonialism is a means of obscuring the master-slave dynamic and likewise (human-centric plant based diet activism)(a bit verbose)? obscures the abuse of non-humans by removing them from the conversations around their own liberation that they can't participate in themselves and sidelining important aspects of their exploitation (such as in entertainment, vivisection, fashion, manufacturing):

• A "health" vegan might revert to eating fish (the largest category of non-human kills) the moment they are convinced it isn't unhealthy

• An "environmental" vegan might still use leather products and such because its durable compostable and to not use byproducts of slaughter would just be a waste of resources and emissions

And just like liberals will excuse colonialism in return for liberal domestic policy they will excuse non-human animal abuse that doesn't affect them (unless of course its one of the pre-approved causes for species favoured by a speciesist society)

#Liberalism #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Colonialism #Speciesism #Environmentalism #Fish #Vivisection #Fashion #Manufacturing #PlantBased #NeoColonialism

@mattwebbdev

1) a.
I have also helped several people start and settle into veganism and I never shy away from pointing directly at the harm and calling out hypocrisy, self-serving rationalizations, logical fallacies etc. Am I being shitty by being direct? By calling people non-human animal abusers and murderers when those same conversations have led to them becoming committed vegans themselves?

1) b.
I believe that you have had more "success" with convincing people to eat a plant based diet for their own sake, but then why would they stop buying honey or "animal-tested" products or supporting non-human racing or zoos/aquariums or just leather and fur products like just off the top of my head a badger hair shaving brush what is the benefit to the individual to avoid these things

1) c.
You can't combat a poisoned well by toning down your advocacy that's exactly what the flesh propagandists want they want you to quiet down and stop taking extreme actions that might hurt their profits. "Injustice is never abolished by appealing to the sensibilities of the oppressor" At this moment we need more extremists not more liberal vegans and plant based dieters, the movement will continue to grow with or without you based on outreach strategy you have briefly outlined, but the radical flank of veganism is extremely small and can use all the help it can get.

1) d.
Fundamentally veganism is a rights issue the focus should never ever be on how veganism can benefit humans, its ok to talk about it but to center vegan activism entirely around humans is literally de-centering the victim and plays right into speciesist narratives about how humans are the first priority and other animals exist for our benefit, except in this veganified version those animals exist to support the biosphere we live in rather than as a source of materials

2)
see 1) d. , by not presenting the abuse of non-human animals in the foreground it gives implicit license to the abuse by implying that veganism is something that is for humans or even for the benefit of the individual framing veganism as an amoral position or a lifestyle choice. In much the same way that you don't get someone to stop physical abuse to humans by trying to convince them that it would be good for their mental health to be less violent. The problem in both human and non-human cases is either outright supremacism or disinterestedly profiting from others suffering while actively ignoring the harm so they can sleep at night

#Veganism #Vegan #Speciesism #Veganarchism #Radicalism #Honey #Zoo #Aquarium #Leather #Fur #Supremacism

Speciesism is so embedded within human culture and here are some english language phrases as evidence

Pig Ignorant
Gone/Left to the dogs
Cash Cow
Headless Chicken
Sheeple
Horse-power

These phrases all show contempt or disregard to the individuality and/or suffering of members of non-human species: think about how you would treat such aphorisms playing off of cultural or racialized stereotypes

And then there's the dozens of species names that are just straight up insults to call someone.

#Speciesism #English #Language #Aphorism #Pigs #Dogs #Cows #Chickens #Sheep #Horses #Racism

Let's assume all billionaires disappear right now.
What do you think would get better?
I'll tell you. Nothing would.
Billions of humans on this planet abuse trillions if not quadrillions (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of non-human animals yearly needlessly. You think the problem are billionaires? Zoom out. Humans are the problem. Humans are the vermin.
Humans love to blame others to avoid responsibility. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #BeVegan #GoVegan #Billionaire #Billionaires #Profit #Money #Wealth #Violence #Abuse #Excuse #Excuses :vegan:

@sundogplanets "livestock" is obectification they are someone with preferences and a subjective experience not stock to be counted and priced

#Speciesism

@Herbivore

Humans are animals a species of great ape. Please refer to non-human animals as such or equivalent and not simply "animals" as this framing places humans as separate from and above other animals, reinforcing speciesism and human-supremacy

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy

The more you look, the more you realise they’re the same in every way that matters. 🐶🐷

Video thanks to the amazing lapetitefermedebelvie on IG

#piglet #puppy #speciesism