Anonymous asked: Do you actually care about their struggles being co-opted or just being insulted?
Vegans get all sorts of insults and accusations spewed at us, this is nothing new. I’ve been a vegan for six years. I’ve heard every accusation and insult in the book; I don’t get an emotional reaction from most of them anymore.
The co-opting, and not to mention the ignoring of other human rights issues in the food industry, is why I’m so furious about this one. It’s always about vegans not caring exploited workers. It’s never about pretty much everyone turning a blind eye to a massively ignored issue. It’s never about people who harvest the grain for the “food” animals who eat much more than us. It’s never about people who work in slaughterhouses, one of the most physically and psychologically dangerous jobs that is often occupied by exploited POC.
It makes it glaringly obvious that it isn’t about overworked/underpaid people; it’s just a jab at vegans. If it wasn’t, posts about human exploitation in the food industry that doesn’t involve vegans would regularly reach the same 1,000+ note counts. But they don’t. It doesn’t even create people who care about the issue. It creates privileged people who sit on their computer and go, “Haha, vegans are so shitty. *clicks reblog*” and that’s the end.
It’s completely fair to criticize people and make them aware of human exploitation in the food industry. It’s gross and immature to take someone’s struggle and rarely do anything but use it as a weapon against people you don’t like.
tfw no gf is so much more powerful than that stupid fucking “forever alone” face. the forever alone face is a shitty awful exaggeration and bad meme. that feel when no gf is, comparatively, perfectly accurate. that feel when no gf is real and anybody can know it.
Either autistic people have a theory of mind, or theory of mind isn’t a fundamental part of being human. It can’t be a fundamental part of being human if some humans don’t have it.
I’m as human as you are. That isn’t questionable.
Yours sincerely,…
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Keeping Milk Fresh — With Frogs
Long before modern refrigeration, people in Russia and Finland reportedly placed living Russian brown frogs in milk to keep it fresh.
It turns out the curious practice has a basis in science: Recent research on the amphibians’ skin secretions led by Moscow State University organic chemist A.T. Lebedev shows they’re loaded with peptides, antimicrobial compounds as potent against Salmonella and Staphylococcus bacteria as prescription antibiotics.
this is legitimately the best headline i have ever read in my entire life
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- somebody: wow your lipstick is SUCH a nice color! what's it called?
- somebody else: it's my chunky dunk hydrating lippie
- somebody: what the fuck
