CARNISM IS REACTIONARY AND ANIMAL ABUSE

True liberation involves our non-human comrades too. Animal liberation is essential to any leftist movement and should be something everyone works towards.

I'm sure it's very annoying to be reminded of the harm you cause, but we're happy to do that whenever needed.

:vegan-liberation-rad: :vegan-seitan: :vegan-v: :tofu-cool:

  • 36 million cows have been killed in the US already this year

  • Statistically, 217 land animals have died for each second you took to read this

  • edwardligma [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    ill be the annoying one who posts links to dominion over and over, cos i think a lot of people dont really get it from statistics alone (i know i didnt). its easy to cling to the shield of "a good life and a humane painless death", "no ethical consumption" etc when you dont have to actually see it. why are the vegans so upset about this? why are they overreacting? yeah its a bit sad but its just animals!

    if you dont think you need to be vegan, you at least owe it to the animals you consume to witness their suffering on your behalf. watch dominion (cw: unbelievably graphic violence) to really see just how bad animal agriculture is. you might not be able to watch the whole thing all in one go, but you should watch all of it. and if you cant even bear to watch it, how do you think the animals feel?

    if you dont want to sign in to youtube for it, the download or the archive.org link dont require any sign-ins

    • Nephron [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I became vegan when I refused to watch dominion or earthlings. I saw someone post them and I knew I couldn't watch them and didn't want to. So i just became a vegan instead, and now I don't have to watch them

      • edwardligma [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        :think-about-it: work smarter not harder

        yeah i also refused to watch them for ages, and i know in hindsight that it was 100% because i knew that if i watched them then all the excuses id kept telling myself wouldnt work any more and id have to make changes that seemed really scary and hard. and then i made myself watch one of them and i was proven right, because holy fuck

        and the changes turned out not to actually be very scary or hard after all lol

          • edwardligma [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            i only watched dominion, then i went vegan so i wouldnt have to watch earthlings as well

            i hear theyre quite similar, though im told dominion is a bit better than earthlings (and its more recent), and i hear land of hope and glory is also similarly good for showing the terf island industry

            • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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              2 years ago

              I like earthlings better, but dominion has newer footage so people can't claim "that was then, things are better now"

              Same people who made dominion also made Lucent which is just pigs in Australia, but honestly even more soul crushing than dominion imo

              • Kanna [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                I can't even imagine more soul crushing than dominion. I can't get through it :sadness-abysmal:

                • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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                  2 years ago

                  It's very long and it literally just documents the life cycle of pigs in Australia. Iirc there's no narration or anything. So it's just long shots of pigs living in hell. It's incredibly monotonous, but in a way that crushes the soul, because we're watching just a tiny fragment of what these pigs have to go through every day of their life until their slaughter. Banality of evil, but you can feel it seep into your skin

                  Edit: here is it for those who want to try watching it https://youtu.be/KArL5YjaL5U

          • Kanna [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I only watched a bit of Dominion (was already vegan) and it was absolutely terrible to watch, so that has my :vote:

          • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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            2 years ago

            This is not a recommendation, just mentioning that the old factory farming expose vid that did it for me was Meet Your Meat (I believe produced by PETA) back around 1999.

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's a good point and thank you for posting it all over. It needs to be mandatory viewing for carnists