It’s impossible to overestimate just how evil this country is

yah okay why is the media focusing on the people who want to protest their right to dine in at cracker barrel holding up auschwitz forced labor slogans instead of the people who are protesting for rent cancellation yknow something that actually helps people who cannot safely work 😴

i wonder if people will finally begin to care about animal & environmental welfare in the aftermath of this virus. the rightful political issues raised by vegans are mostly seen as a joke by all shades of the political spectrum. zoonotic plagues are largely the fault of how food industries have encroached on animal habitats. that includes the abusive conditions of corporate factory farming, the conditions of importing live animals, and also forcing animals into unsafe conditions via markets that put humans in close contact to multiple kinds of wildlife that are confined close together. food insecurity is one of the underlying drivers of wildlife markets, but the west simply reduces the issue to racist mudslinging about what people choose to eat. i’m concerned that reevaluating our relationship to the rest of the animal kingdom isn’t a bigger issue to a lot of people, especially the press.