i’m so upset

“What the meat industry figured out is that you don’t need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable… Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That’s the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying…We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.”

like i have been vegan for 10 years. i am not a fucking idiot. i have not put 10 years of my life into this lifestyle on a whim because killing animals makes me sad. i have done my research. i make an effort to make ethical food choices where i can not just by cutting out animal products but in other areas as well. i buy secondhand clothes almost exclusively. my house is filled with thrifted furniture. we even thrift yarn for knitting and crochet projects when we can. i have well-researched, environmentally motivated, and yes moral reasons for avoiding leather and wool and honey. vegans are, i promise you, more likely than the average non-vegan to think about the source of our food and clothing and hair and skin products and cleaning products and make decisions about our purchases accordingly.