Mashups and Exports

if-i-am-not-for-me:

merm-ish:

slytherinica:

theleastlunatic:

morthils:

cephalopodvictorious:

spacemomalex:

next-venoms:

tr1angl3:

fadingthebiscuit:

acti-veg:

Just a head’s up, when meat eaters say things like “I’m glad you’re not like most vegans you’re cool about it” what they really mean is “I’m glad you’re silent about animal cruelty so I can eat animals without having to think about it.”

No actually what they likely mean is “I’m glad you’re not like PETA and compare women’s bodies to beef and pork” or “I’m glad you’re not the type of asshole who blames poor people for not being able to afford healthy vegan foods instead of getting upset at the grocery chains who throw out tons and tons of perfectly good produce”

see also: “im glad youre not one of those vegans who compares the meat industry to the holocaust”. anti-semetic, sexist, racist, and classist rhetoric is unfortunately quite common among vegans and it’s disingenuous as hell to act like having an issue with that is silencing vegans.

Also “I’m glad you aren’t one of those vegans who thinks I should put my health on the line”

“I’m glad you don’t harass me over my life choices because you’re a decent fucking human being who realizes that throwing humans under the bus so you can have an ego trip is a shitty thing to do”

Also: I’m glad you’re not one of those vegans who lies about what’s in food they’re feeding me when I ask about my allergens so that I don’t have to risk literally dying

“i’m glad you’re not literally blaming global climate change on me, personally, for liking cheese while corporations dump pollution directly into the ozone by the ton because it saves them a few dollars”

“i’m glad you’re not getting on a moral high horse about animal cruelty while ignoring the human rights abuses that go into farming your vegan faves like quinoa”

THAT LAST ONE

@guruthosdagnir

Mhmmmmmmmm

Do you know how UNsustainable agave is vs honey? It takes a plant 8-12 YEARS to mature to the point where it can be harvested and the ENTIRE plant must be harvested to reach the piña from which the nectar precursor is extracted. This is then heavily processed to make the syrup or “nectar” you can buy at the store.

Because of the skyrocketing popularity of agave and the long maturation period of the plants agave farms have to be enormous, this requires cultivating and irrigating huge swathes of the Mexican desert, a completely unsustainable practice in a world rapidly running out of potable water.

Agave cultivation also threatens two endangered species: the Mexican long-nose bat and the jaguarundi who both rely on agave as part of their diet but are killed as pest species by farmers.

But vegans just LOVE agave because they use it to replace honey, which is technically an animal product.

But apiculture (beekeeping) not only helps bolster declining bee populations, it also provides critical pollination for food crops. You know, those fruits and veggies vegans live off. And harvesting honey from domestic hives is actually quite low stress for the bees and does not affect their food supply as beekeepers provide nectar year round and the honey harvested is excess production anyway.