I can’t wait for everything to be dead and cold and beautiful again.
Rikki. 23. Vegan, atheist, feminist, pseudo-gym rat, gamer, still in college.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
forest puppy
that’s a deer
its a forest puppy
He’s definitely a forest puppy. And he’s definitely going to be murdered by people like my family and my ex because guns and antlers and eating flesh and murica
Who gives a fuck how social an animal is or how smart an animal is. All animals deserve to live, regardless of how any animal “measures up” to humans’ standards. It is no better to exploit one animal than it is to exploit any other animal. We need to stop thinking the whole fucking world and everything and everyone in it revolves around us.
Wow, there’s 12.000 vegans on tumblr, who would’ve thought.
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Smartest People in History- Didn’t Eat Meat?!
Throughout history, some of the greatest minds to have walked this planet have chosen to refrain from eating meat.
Albert Einstein
George Bernard Shaw
Mahatma Gandhi
Leo Tolstoy
Voltaire
Plato
Nikolai Tesla
Leonardo DaVinci
Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Bronte
Benjamin Franklin
SocratesAnd many more!!
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - M. Gandhi
“Our task must be to free ourselves… By widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” - A. Einstein
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” -G. B. Shaw
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” - L. DaVinci“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” - L. Tolstoy
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” - L. Tolstoy
Think outside of the cultural norms.
Go vegan.
Absolutely excellent image (thanks to @whatthevegan).
I have (and do) put a lot of people off by my posts about ethical veganism, animal cruelty, and what we can do to make the world a better place. Socially, it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. It’s not about me saying that I’m a better person than you. It’s not even just about the animals. It’s about all of us.
Eating animals worsens world hunger.
We are currently growing enough food to feed 10 billion people. 82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries.
To produce one pound of meat, it takes the same amount of water as six months worth of showers. (2,500 gallons of water, on average.)
Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the combined exhaust from all transportation, and accounts for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane is 25-100 times more destructive than CO2 on a 20 year time frame, and has a global warming power 86 times that of CO2.
Livestock is responsible for 65% of all emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas 296x more destructive than carbon dioxide and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US. (This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US.)
A farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces the same amount of waste as a city of 411,000 people.
If you’re going to apologize to anyone for your “food” choices, apologize to the animals, their families, to yourself, and to your family. Not to the vegan you’re sharing your mealtime with.
You can see the sources for all these facts (and read more) on cowspiracy.com/facts. See also: Cowspiracy (the documentary), Forks Over Knives, Food, Inc., Vegucated, Earthlings
Ronda Rousey: Femininity in the form of muscles
By Kaitlyn Oberg
This past week, mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey has flooded the headlines for not only winning multiple entities, but also for her body positive remarks. Unfortunately, like many female celebrities, her rise to popularity in the media has been accompanied by critiques and criticism of her body.
Over the past few years, there has been an uptick in women using heavy strength training as a form of recreational exercise, especially with the popularity of the workout program Crossfit. We are now starting to see women venture into the heavy-weight rooms in the gym to go toe-to-toe with the men. But for the most part, women are still afraid to lift “too” heavy, lest they go to bed one night and wake up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Aside from it being impossible to “accidentally Arnold” without being on performance drugs, many women never even entertain the thought of lifting heavy weights, fearing the societal backlash that comes with being a more muscular woman. This fear is ingrained in us; We see our friends, our sisters, our mothers lifting weights and we caution them, “Don’t lift too heavy! You don’t want to look like a man!” It creates this terrible dissonance in which one wants to be healthy, strong, and feel good about themselves, but stops before they are personally satisfied with their fitness and aesthetic positions due to the small voice in the back of their head saying, “but what if someone makes fun of me?”
We need to remind ourselves that looks or exercise have absolutely nothing to do with femininity. Muscles have no gender! Rousey makes an excellent point: “There’s not a single muscle on my body that isn’t for a purpose.” Strong biceps, triceps, quads, and calves are not only to make the body look “ripped,” they allow one to live life to the best quality.
Rousey’s body doesn’t determine her masculinity or femininity because those are traits that are independent of how big her bundles of muscle fibers are. Like everything else, being strong is an independent choice that is Rousey’s alone to make. Her body is beautiful and feminine because she is strong, she is independent, and most importantly, she is proud of who she is and what she does.
About the author: Kaitlyn is a rising sophomore nursing major at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, with hopes to one day be a Public Health or Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. In her free time, you can find her wandering through Center City, watching Bob’s Burgers, or with her nose in a John Green novel.
Also by Kaitlyn:
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Kelly Clarkson Brushes Off Fat-Shamers
What Not to Say: Your Child in Recovery
Starting from Scratch: Temple University Activism
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