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Pregnant people are subjected to a high degree of social judgement as well as scrutiny and control from the government and the medical establishment. It’s easy for a pregnant person’s partner to exploit them using their low-control status.

Going from not-pregnant to pregnant is a major step down in social autonomy. Pregnancy can also cause temporary or permanent physical disabilities.

Because I have no uterus, I can be certain I will never become pregnant. Pregnancy cannot befall me by accident, my intimate partner cannot wait for me to get pregnant to trap me, a rapist cannot make me pregnant to force me off my medications.

Also like…what do they feed the cell culture? You can give cows minimally-processed grains and soybeans because they have a complex digestive tract to grind up, dissolve, purify and extract nutrients for themselves, and then a circulatory system to send those nutrients to every muscle cell more-or-less perfectly. If you’re growing only muscle cells, those cells still need all the same nutrients, only now you need to do all the work of the digestive tract and circulatory system. You’re creating extra work, with extra waste, that’s still gonna be dependent on cheap grains+soybeans. It’s the same problems I have with “vertical farms” growing lettuce in artificial lights and irrigation.

Ideally, you appreciate the cow not as a “protein producing unit” that can be replaced by muscle cells in a petri dish, but as a whole animal. Its hoofprints in the soil help improve the way water flows over the landscape (imprinting), its grazing improves nutrient cycling in pastures and grasslands, its manure provides fertility to gardens or is burned as fuel where trees need to be conserved. If you’re smart about designing systems, the natural behaviors and instincts of cows (or any grazing animal–ideally buffalo in “North America”) can become beneficial and act to improve the world around them.

start being comfortable posting Black people's words in your blogs, the same way you'll reblog posts about transness, gayness, disability, because these specific topics can affect you

Noelle’s little habit of bringing her hands to her mouth is so cute :3

And then when she subconsciously does it again while holding a flashlight and accidentally shines the light on her face. >.<