You know, the red trail on the floor is really giving me a lot of positive vibes. This gives me an idea for decorating a children's hospital...
I can already feel myself slipping away. If only I'd eaten bacon tho...
- cough * Tell my family I love them. * cough cough *
Yes I know people take their neighbors to court over backyard rituals all the time because of the loud sounds and weird smells, and it's not OK to harass them. But when it's vegans it's totally different guys, trust me.
Thank you for doing the ethical thing and using the fur instead of buying a vegan coat, which can only ever be made of plastic.
So Isaac Newton had only 1/700th the bite force of a normal human? Pathetic.
mu mu (toki pona).
All animals say "mu" in Toki Pona btw.
I'm quitting veganism because there are just no good vegan memes anymore. Animal rights? No, haha, I was only in it for the memes. :) All the jokes have been beat into the ground and it seems vegans and their B12-starved brains are incapable of inventing new material. Hoping the carnivore diet has better memes (and that they're worth the diarrhea).
(I'm vegan btw.)
I wouldn't say that nothing bad happened. America -- particularly urban areas where anti-mosquito measures have been implemented -- has been dealing with declines of important populations of birds and insects, and we don't fully understand the exact causes. Which is to say, we don't know what role mosquito population reduction has played in this. We have vaccines against mosquito-borne illnesseses, which I believe are preferable to eradicating a species and the potentially devastating consequences we could encounter.
Though it didn't "crash" any ecosystems, DDT still accumulates in the environment, where it remains for a long time and causes ongoing harm to insects and the animals that prey on them. Though the most problematic use of DDT by far is in agriculture, its use against mosquitoes isn’t exactly without issue. Not to mention, mosquito populations can become resistant to DDT, requiring more of it to achieve the same effect.
It's nuanced because it could reduce suffering overall, but it could also disrupt ecosystems in ways we can't predict and cause even more suffering. I think the latter is more likely. People have a tendency to paint animals they don't like as insignificant to the ecosystem, but they're nearly always incorrect. Wasps, for instance, are important pollinators, even if they do sting, and mosquitoes are an important food source, even if they are deadly. Anyone who advocates for eradicating species like these is doing so through a biased lens. We are nowhere near the point, technologically or scientifically, that we'd be safe playing god with the natural world like this -- especially not with the massive damage we've already caused to the environment. Someday? Maybe. But not right now.
I do also find it horrific to forcibly alter a mosquito's body so she can't express her natural behaviors. After all -- mosquitoes may cause harm, but they lack the capacity for moral reasoning, and thus cannot be evil. Thus, they don't "deserve" any kind of torment. But my personal discomfort with this isn't a moral argument.
So, uh, that's my take on it as a vegan.
Speed cameras aren't enough. Schools need all the traffic calming they can get.
Sweaty, you don't have to justify anything. 😊 The idea that actions need justification is toxic! It's probably because of your zodiac sign or something. <3
Wasps aren't evil. They are important pollinators and they are literally just hanging out. I am sick and tired of the wasp hate.
I'm trying really hard to be reducitarian so I'll have something interesting to put in my Tinder bio but I can't find any reducitarian recipes. :'( I'm trying to eat 99.9% of the animal products I would normally eat (I have calculated that I won't be able to get enough protein otherwise) but I can't find any recipes for this. So I'm thinking that for now I'll only eat reducitarian when I go out to restaurants that have reducitarian options labeled on the menu. After I'm comfortable with that, I may try ordering extra cheese instead of bacon when I go to McDonald's. I'm so proud to be going on this journey. 💚🌱
Edit: I noticed someone downvoted this post so I have made the difficult decision to stop being reducitarian. It's just too difficult & extreme to keep up this fringe lifestyle and I have noticed that I have a slight tummy ache so I think it's just not right for my body. 💔 But I'm still reducitarian in spirit! Keep living your truth, everyone!