Humans are physiologically omnivores. Not herbivores. Not frugivores. We evolved with cooking and tool use allowing us to not have to use teeth and claws, but we are omnivores.
Dogs and cats should not be vegan. Not even if they can technically “survive”.
Farmers can love their animals and eat them. Anyone can love animals and eat them. People are complex, their perspectives are complex, their feelings are complex. Eating meat does not mean someone is void of compassion. If you go around claiming this you’re wrong. Every time I see this I roll my eyes and stop listening because I absolutely love my cows.
Exposè videos and animal rights websites are not reputable sources. They’re highly manipulative, often staged, and they severely anthromorphosize animals. Many of their points are false. Things are never that bad or dramatic. The most reputable sources are from actual scientific studies, vets, and people in the field. Not everyone involved with farm animals professionally is a liar.
Cowspiracy is false. Only 9% of US ghg emissions come from agriculture, and the majority of those emissions are from nitrous oxide from fertilizers for plants. I think 18% is from livestock. Sustainable animal agriculture is both possible and necessary. Around the world energy is the worst culprit. Agriculture apparently accounts for 24% including deforestation, crops, and animals but not including carbon sequestering.
Animals are not cognitively the same as people. They do not need to be treated the same.
Most farmers aren’t breaking even let alone making a profit and have to work outside the farm. They do the work because they enjoy it.
Animals are fed mostly leftovers from the biofuel and food industries. Many of the crops grown for them are the crops grown for you. They aren’t stealing feed from people’s mouths. The environmental harm caused by plant ag is on you too, and in some situations it’s more harmful than animal ag.
what good is a piano full of Actual For Real Bees if they don’t even know how to play
Transcribed (paragraph breaks are where the video cuts):
“You know, life is normal, I just have to very cautiously move Brianna’s many swords, because there are bees coming out of the piano upon which she stores them!
Okay, the axes are my fault, so, I guess I have to take some of the blame here.
The longbow’s mine, but I’m not taking credit for this: [the camera pans to a staff topped with a carved wolf’s head]
You know, just the Piano Bees, so… Not a big deal. We’re just- we’re not worried about it, we’re just not worried abou-”
with some bugs it really does feel less like the larval stage is the ‘baby’ stage and more like its the ‘normal’ stage and the bug’s final form is just their extra special final form they use to fuck
I was actually distraught as a child when I found out that an antlion was “just” a “larva” to something else but later I learned that they spend two to three entire years that way and the adult only lives for a couple of months.
Butterflies are also shorter lived than caterpillars; we can think of them more as the caterpillar dispersal system.
We also always hear about how “mayflies only live a few days” but that ignores the fact that they, too, spend years as aquatic nymphs.
same for dobsonflies, which live for maybe a week as adults, but for years as enormous highly predatory aquatic larvae called hellgrammites.
except with dobsonflies, all forms feel a bit extra. If they were pokemon they would be some late generation multi-form legendary
Pretty, graceful adult dragonflies live only for like seven months, but beforehand they spend five years as this
aquatic predatory incarnation of bullshit, which hunts other aquatic insects and even small fish with its big fucking xenomorph mouthparts.
Cicadas spend up to 17 years underground before emerging for a week of Screaming In Trees and mating to produce more weird underground crawlies.
Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet
sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix
Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh
Adapt. Survive.
this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world
Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the
Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a “feature” that
allowed handsets to detect when their screens had been swapped (even
when they’d been swapped for an original, Apple-manufactured screen) and
refuse to function until they got an official Apple unlock code.
Now, this system has come to the MacBook Pros and Imac Pros, thanks to
the “T2 security chip” which will render systems nonfunctional after
replacing the keyboard, screen, case, or other components, until the a
proprietary Apple “configuration tool” is used to unlock the system.
Apple does not tell its customers that the computers it sells are
designed to punish them for opting to get their property repaired by
independent technicians; the details of the T2 came from a leaked
service manual.
Shit like this is why we are supposed to keep businesses on a leash of government regulation but half of ya think that’s too mean and unfair to the livelihoods of trazilluonaires
have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!
who wouldn’t see this and then look deeply into their own emotional playing field to see what improvements could be made purely inspired by the vulnerable earth. this is the face of all literal gods
That’s actually called the Overview Effect– something experienced by some astronauts that makes them see that “from space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative”.
“biological sex is a social construct” doesn’t mean “chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, and genitalia don’t exist”. it means “these exist, but assigning roles, labels, and expectations to certain combinations of these characteristics is a social construct, and an unnecessary and pointless (actually harmful) one at that”.
Nobody is denying biology, transphobes are denying autonomy.
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