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And no, I'm not saying awful vegans don't exist shut up and put the keyboard down. Yes, it happens, and it sucks; yes, vegans are indeed calling it out, and yes, marginalized vegans exist. I don't need to hear about whatever shitty vegans are out there any more than I need to hear about some shitty 'man-hating feminist' who thinks men should all be put into camps or whatever. And no, you don't need to throw animals under the bus whenever you do encounter an actually shitty one.

But since people willingly choose to see veganism only as some fad diet and not, you know, an entire ethical framework, it's easy for them to dismiss us as some oversensitive snowflake who gets upset about milkshakes and tries to shove our 'diet' down everyone's throats.

Buddy, you know for a fact it's not about the fucking milkshake.

"Wah this vegan got mad bc I cooked bacon!" It's not about the bacon; it's about the fact that the entire house reeks of death, and the vegan now has to sit outside in the muggy summer heat, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes until the clinging, nauseating stink fades. It's about the fact you knew it would happen and did it anyway multiple times.

No, the feminist doesn't believe unqualified women should get jobs before men with affirmative action just because they're women; they believe that qualified women should have an equal opportunity to get hired as equally qualified men. They believe that businesses should not be allowed to profile people based on their marginalization status and hire based on unchecked biases.

And, as with any advocate for the rights of marginalized groups (both for people in those groups and people not in them who advocate for their liberation because that's the right thing to do), microaggressions pile up until we snap. Because there is so much bullshit we have to deal with.

No, the vegan didn't snap at you because you're talking about the steak you just had. They snapped because you've consistently not shut the fuck up about it every time you're around each other, on top of whatever billion-dollar industry bootlicking propaganda of the week you keep spewing.

Your girlfriend didn't snap at you because you left your dirty dishes on the table; she snapped because you've been an unhelpful and rude boyfriend since day one, and you came at her when her tolerance level for your bullshit was zero.

Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Would really like to not have an ethical dilemma every time I feed my cat when much healthier and more ethical options are just sitting right around the corner.

 Would really like my pet food options to be more than just:

Literal rotting corpse puree that’ll eventually kill my cat’s kidneys.

Pay out the ass for less-rotting corpse puree that only might kill my cat’s kidneys.

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Hey family, you might have seen this post where Chris and I both lost our accounts and the money in them for stupid reasons. We're managing to sort it out thanks largely to you but we're still in the mess 🫪 🫟

I've opened a new account but it'll take 21 days to get a cheque for the balance of the last one. The timing sucks because I have to pay

school fees for my pre apprenticeship program ($400)

another iron infusion ($160)

another four dentist appointments (there'll be more but that's what I know of, I'm guessing $400 after my health insurance)

A health insurance premium I missed last week bc of the bank issue ($45) + a late fee that I'll try to negotiate

a debt that I left way too long as it is ($600 or more precisely 400 USD so the exact number in AUD fluctuates)

Then my regular expenses

...And my savings don't cover that anyway

Then we found out we can't use the PayPal balance until the pay-in-4 arrangements are paid off now!! I guess since they were in arrears prior or because he changed banks - that's $267.

We have to clear the PayPal balance to make the account usable again, right now it's the only money Chris has plus I need it to repay the people who helped me when I was on the street last year

Ofc I'm not expecting to cover all of that but any help while I'm applying for fast food jobs would be huge. I'm finally starting to live instead of struggle to survive entirely thanks to how you've helped me and my kids ❤️

Any help is massively hugely appreciated ❤️

My Ko-fi is still /FakeJuly

The PayPal is still [email protected]

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Letter to a physio, govt covers a portion but I pay the bulk of it

A letter to a sports physiologist or something? I'm not completely clear on that but my GP thought it would help with how exercising causes pain in my legs and shoulders

Another x-ray on my gimpy hip/leg

[A kamayan feast using some of the recipes from veganfilipinofood.com! Kamayan (Tagalog for “by hand”) is a traditional Filipinx form of eating].

 Filipinx people have a long history of fighting for farm worker justice, such as the Delano Grape Strike started by Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz, and other Manongs. Most foods that we all eat are picked by farm workers who often suffer and are treated unfairly, so we must recognize just how important it is to support these workers whenever possible.

Before being colonized and named “the Philippines,” the archipelago was diverse in distinct cultures and languages. Prior to 300 years of Spanish colonization, Japanese occupation, and (ongoing) U.S. imperialism, the islands had already been trading with merchants from all over Asia, and over thousands of years, the Philippines was forever changed by foreign influence. Modern Filipinx identity, traditions, and diet have thus developed to be both fiercely resilient as well as open to adaptation. Filipinx culture places a high value on caring for our community and for the land that sustains us. By bringing a vegan spotlight to Filipinx cuisine, we hope to carry our traditions of growth, compassion, and respect for the environment into the 21st century.

Vegan foods do not contain animal ingredients, including “meat,” sea life, eggs, dairy, and honey, all of which are products of suffering and exploitation. Many Filipinx dishes are naturally vegan, like lugaw, taho, and turon, while others are easily made vegan, like lumpia, afritada, and pinakbet. For those dishes that may contain animal ingredients, we have included delicious vegan recipes so that you don’t have to miss out on any of your favorites.

Every time some non-vegan talks about everyone just buying “sustainable, ethical, locally-sourced, humane, free-range, grass-fed, whatever” animal products I think of this video.

Where are we going to get all the land and resources for these hypothetical “nice” farms while feeding people the same (or greater) amount of animal products? We gonna start bulldozing our national parks now to treat the cows a little nicer? We gonna give all our money to Elon so he can build a space colony on Mars and cover it in chickens? Might need to put some grain and soy farms on Jupiter’s moons to feed them all too.

We can’t have both sustainable and ““ethical”“ farms. In the end, the animals are still bred into existence only to be exploited and slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan.

[Image: A screenshot of a chat thread.

John: “Did you see the video of Fairlife staff beating baby cows?”

Carnie: “No I did not. My friend a local farmer supplies milk. And dont care to. If ita true thats sad. Try living ur life buddy. Im a meat eater and always will be. I dont drink milk nor do i buy from big pharma. I eat wild game these days

Be very careful john 👍”

John: “I never said anything baout you eating meat, I just asked if you had a seen the video of the company you’re promoting beating baby calfs.”]