altonzm:

problackgirl:

There’s a vegan debate on my Twitter timeline so here’s a question for tumblr. What do you think of vegans, veganism and the meat industry?

while I believe that there is a lot of vegan rhetoric which is irritating and ham-fisted at best and racist/misogynistic at worst (i.e. evoking slavery/the holocaust when talking about factory farming and so on, equating human women with cows, assuming that vegan diets are universally accessible or medically wise etc. etc.), I also think there are a lot of people who use the figure of the Annoying Vegan as a way of eliding the imo correct arguments that meat and dairy industries are 1) unnecessarily cruel to animals and 2) are an unbelievably disproportionate contributor to net CO2 emissions

I think it is honestly laughable to suggest that the level of meat and dairy consumption per capita in the wealthiest countries of the world can be sustained/ is good for public health/ should be aspired to, and I think a lot of people’s knee-jerk hostility towards veganism has more to do with their own moral discomfort than it does with genuine principle

I am not a vegan but my personal perspective on animal rights and meat-eating comes from a rural economic rights perspective; I believe that industrialised meat and dairy industries are catastrophic for independent farmers wherever they entrench themselves, and I believe that it’s dangerous for food sources to become more and more beholden to corporate ownership in fewer hands, bc I believe it leads to commercially-driven artificial famine (i.e. at the moment we’re in a massive global food surplus but famine still occurs, which means we have no issue with productivity but a major issue with profit-driven distribution)

I think that vegans in the wealthiest countries of the world by and large have terrible priorities, understand veganism in terms of individualist moral righteousness rather than in the context of the history of agricultural capitalism, and are largely useless for organising vs what I see as the biggest issues w/ corporate agriculture having grown up relatively rurally and seen its impact first hand (albeit in a wealthy country where independent farmers have myriad more options than others do)

I have no foundational moral objection to the basic process of animal rearing and slaughter for food

Aries: Jennifer, age 43, an alcoholic who lets her kids run wild but still shows up to school functions so it looks like she’s trying

Taurus: Ramona, age 37, a stay at home mom obsessed with interior decorating who spends over $20,000 a year at Homegoods.

Gemini: Lyn, age 38, a confident mom who flirts with married men even though she herself is married and posts too much on social media

Cancer: Pat, age 41, a loving mom who already has six kids but wants to push for one more because she loves the whole process of raising a child

Leo: Stella, age 36, a “younger” mom who is an ex Broadway star and likes to tell stories about her “dazzling” experiences on the stage and rant about how her kids are sure to follow

Virgo: Courtney, age 45, a traditional mom who doesn’t let her kids dye their hair and thinks college is the most important thing ever

Libra: Katherine, age 42, a gossiper who is obsessed with high school reunions and going to parties and socializing

Scorpio: Kelly, age 39, a widow who is doing her best to provide for the kids but is grief stricken since losing her husband

Sagittarius: Georgina, age 38, a firecracker mom who brings everyone on road trips across the country and likes to skydive

Capricorn: Susan, age 42, a self proclaimed “tiger mom” who pushes her kids to learn instruments and achieve perfect grades so they can show the world their potential

Aquarius: Harriet, age 37, an artist who keeps to herself and doesn’t really show up at PTA meetings because everybody there is boring

Pisces: Christina, age 40, a super lenient mom who won’t get mad at her kids for drinking or anything like that but rather try to understand why they did it and try to help

fartgallery:

fight me in space. me standing on my asteroid. you standing on your asteroid. every 600 million years when their orbits just barely intersect we attempt to smack each other