Ethical vegan. Environmentalist. Feminist. In 20s. Studying Sociology and fascinated by Psychology. Love baking, thunderstorms, coffee, yoga, shoes, horror films, writing and cows. Still believe in the crazy concepts of peace and love.
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Quote reblogged from BEANS & RICE with 115 notes
Meat-eating societies are also the main cause of world hunger. In America, we continually feed around 70 percent of our corn, wheat, oats and soy to billions of farmed animals instead of starving people! Every two seconds, someone on this planet dies from malnutrition while pigs and cows get fat. Consequently, meat-eaters are anti-human because feeding billions of animals instead of millions of hungry children is an indirect form of genocide.
-Gary Yourofsky
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Video reblogged from radically vegan with 285 notes
The Superior Human?
“The Superior Human?” is the first documentary to systematically challenge the common human belief that humans are superior to other life forms. The documentary reveals the absurdity of this belief while exploding human bias.
This is amazing.
Source: supervegan
Post reblogged from Oh, What's in Here? with 56 notes
Food security not an issue for “Aboriginal people” because “they hunt every day,” says Aglukkaq
Indigenous people in Canada don’t face food security issues because “they hunt every day,” said Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in the House of Commons Wednesday as she fended off opposition attacks fueled by the findings of the UN special rapporteur on food issues.
Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said in a press conference earlier in the day that he was “struck” by the “desperate situation” Indigenous people faced in the country.
De Schutter was in Canada for nearly two weeks to investigate food issues in the country. While he visited some First Nations communities, he did not make it up to Canada’s more remote communities where the cost of healthy foods remains a constant concern.
Aglukkaq, however, dismissed the rapporteur’s findings, saying he was nothing more than an “ill-informed academic.” Aglukkaq said she tried to “educate” De Schutter during a face-to-face meeting about the real situation of Indigenous people in Canada.
“I took the opportunity to educate him about Canada’s North and Aboriginal people that depend on the wildlife that they hunt every day for food security,” said Aglukkaq, in the House of Commons, responding to a question from the NDP.
The traditional food supply in Nunavut, however, is under extreme pressure. Suppliers at Iqaluit’s monthly country-food outdoor market say they can’t keep up with demand. Snowmobiles full of caribou are picked clean before vendors can get them off the sleds.
Food prices are also expected to rise in October when the Conservative’s Nutrition North programfor remote northern communities comes into force, ending subsidies for many products.
Aglukkaq fielded NDP questions on the issue which were directed at Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan who did not meet with De Schutter.
“The UN food rapporteur says he’s seen very desperate conditions and people who are in extremely dire straits, yet the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs refused to meet with him when he came to Ottawa. How can the minister continue to deny there is a problem?” said NDP Aboriginal affairs critic Jean Crowder.
Manicouagan NDP MP Jonathan Genest-Jourdain also took aim at Duncan, drawing in the issue of the need for clean drinking water on many First Nations reserves.
“Will the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs keep sticking his head in the sand or take the work of the rapporteur seriously and take action on his recommendations?” said Genest-Jourdain, who is Innu.
Aglukkaq said most of the world’s hungry live outside of Canada.
“Sixty-five per cent of the world’s hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan,” said Aglukkaq. “(And) 239 million people in sub-Sahara Africa are going hungry….”
Liberal Aboriginal affairs critic Carolyn Bennett also took up the issue saying the UN rapporteur’s findings added to the list of Aglukkaq’s government failures to deal with problems plaguing Indigenous communities in the country.
“We know that the minister of health has no strategy on Aboriginal suicide, OxyContin abuse, add today food insecurity,” said Bennett.
Aglukkaq stuck to her lines, however, repeating that De Schutter was an “ill-informed and patronizing” academic.
“It is an academic study of Aboriginal people in Canada’s Arctic, without ever setting foot on the ground and walking in our kamiks for a day to get a good understanding of the limitations andopportunities we have as Aboriginal people in this country,” said Aglukkaq.
Mary Simon, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an organization that speaks for Canada’s Inuit, said the rapporteur’s findings were welcome and needed.
“Whether the government accepts this report or not to me isn’t important,” said Simon, who met with De Schutter. “The fact we are able to talk to someone that will provide an assessment of the situation in Canada is extremely important for us, especially us Inuit living in the Arctic.”
WHY AM I ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO REBLOGGED THIS? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
Also this really needs more notes, like, fuck.
Source: thesising
Quote reblogged from BEANS & RICE with 267 notes
When meat-eaters run out of excuses to eat dead animals, they usually spew one of two inanities. First, they promulgate respect for the vegan lifestyle, and ask for some respect in return. Of course flesh-eaters respect the vegan way. What’s not to respect? Are we too compassionate, too merciful and too altruistic? Meat-eaters begging for vegan respect is akin to NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) pedophiles asking people who don’t rape little boys for respect. I don’t respect people who choose cruelty. I don’t respect a pedophile’s choice to molest kids. I don’t respect a rapist’s desire to violate a woman’s body. I don’t respect a thief’s desire to rob banks. I don’t respect a Nazi’s belief that Jews, blacks, gays, etc. are inferior and should be exterminated. I don’t respect lifestyles based on hatred and discrimination.
Source: dontbreakveg
Photo reblogged from Randomness from a queer, nerdy vegan... with 65 notes
Over 90% of leather tannery workers in Bangladesh suffer from disease related to leather chemical exposure.
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Source: theinformedvegan
Photo reblogged from Slut-Bitch Sisterhood with 1,371 notes
rtnt:
The Human Cost of the iPad
In the second of a New York Times series about the global tech industry, Charless Duhigg and David Barboza explore the often brutal working conditions at the factories where some of America’s most iconic high-tech devices are made.
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.
However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.
Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.
More troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers’ disregard for workers’ health. Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. Within seven months last year, two explosions at iPad factories, including in Chengdu, killed four people and injured 77. Before those blasts, Apple had been alerted to hazardous conditions inside the Chengdu plant, according to a Chinese group that published that warning.
Not. Okay.
Source: rtnt
Photo reblogged from The Womanifesto with 1,378 notes
Half of that would be a vast improvement over now.
Gimme my money!
WOW what the fuck.
Source: sarahlee310
Post reblogged from Randomness from a queer, nerdy vegan... with 72 notes
BAD, vegans, BAD.
Passionate about animal rights? BAD. You’re being single-issue!
Passionate about both human and nonhuman rights and apply an intersectional approach to your vegan advocacy? BAD. You’re placing human and nonhuman justice on equal footing, ick!
Seriously. How the fuck did you manage to forget that humans reign at the very top of the hierarchy? Didn’t you know that by dismantling that hierarchy, you’re depriving the human species of their rightful pedestal? Every second spent on improving the lives of other animals is a second WASTED, and you shit on the face of humanity with your sacrilege.
BAD.
Go eat a cheeseburger. And sit in the corner until you remember that you can never win.
Source: veganmudblood
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