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seitanpancake: rosesakurax: oliviatheelf: I never even knew...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:47:38 -0400

rosesakurax:

oliviatheelf:

I never even knew this and I’ve fed bread to ducks multiple times! D: Definitely reblog this so everyone knows!

Ive tried telling this to my mom and she wont believe me…

who would have thought all those nice old folks at the lake are actually killing ducks, i knew it was a shitty thing to do because it fosters a dependency but this…

marciellesmusings: sowouldfinnick: inspirationbyinvitation: Ma...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:59:13 -0400

marciellesmusings:

sowouldfinnick:

inspirationbyinvitation:

Male feminists

Why the fuck doesn’t this have eight million notes? Get it together, tumblr.

Signal Boost!!!

geekwithsandwich: scinerds: We really don’t know why monarch...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:07:46 -0400

geekwithsandwich:

scinerds:

We really don’t know why monarch butterflies are disappearing:

This is horrific. We’ve lost over 80% of the butterflies.

The waning of our monarchs has lead to the inevitable speculations as to the cause. Which is fair enough. But I’d like to point out the ideas are just speculation.

No one really knows why Monarchs are declining, or why 2012-13 is such a bad year.

Lacking the proper experiments to determine how various factors affect the butterflies, and lacking solid data about their milkweed food sources, assigning causes to the phenomenon simply isn’t possible. The monarchs are disappearing. That’s all we can say with certainty.

Candidate causes abound, though.

The severe heat and drought of 2012 across much of the monarch’s summer range may have reduced the monarch’s host plants and stressed the remaining animals.

The extensive use of agricultural herbicides in conjunction with herbicide-resistant crops could be eliminating the monarch’s food supply, perhaps causing the gradual decline over the past 10 years.

The destruction of milkweed habitat for corn ethanol production, also a gradual new phenomenon in the past 10 years, could reduce the monarch’s food.

Read more: Full Article

If you want to help, here’s some things you can do:

- plant milkweed, as much as you can, everywhere you can, and encourage others to do the same, including encouraging your local government to plant butterfly gardens and use milkweed.

- protest any and all development of land that is currently good butterfly habitat.

- contact government members to petition for more money to go to butterfly conservation.

- donate to and volunteer for organizations that work to protect butterflies and their habitat.

rhamphotheca: World’s smallest dolphin to be extinct...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:07:20 -0400

rhamphotheca:

World’s smallest dolphin to be extinct ‘imminently’ as fishing nets reduce species to just 55 survivors

by Tamara Cohen

The world’s smallest and rarest dolphins are facing ‘imminent’ extinction with just 55 individuals left, conservationists have warned.

Maui’s dolphins – which are classified as critically endangered - have seen their numbers halve in the last seven years alone, as dozens have been caught in fishing nets. Only found on the west coast of New Zealand, there may be as little as 20 breeding females left, a new study has found.

Although part of the coast is protected from fishing, along most of it, trawling and vast fixed nets held in place by anchors have been blamed for killing the striking animals. The last corpse of a Maui dolphin – which grow to just 1.7 m long - was found last month.

Maui’s have a lifespan of around 20 years but only reach sexual maturity after around seven, and breed infrequently – around one calf every three years.

A new study carried out by University of Auckland, Oregon State University and the New Zealand Department of Conservation - using DNA samples - found the number of dolphins aged more than a year had plummeted from 111 when the last survey was carried out in 2004…

(read more: Daily Mail UK)

crowcrow: Legal documents in the United States only recognize...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:35:50 -0400

crowcrow:

Legal documents in the United States only recognize “male” and “female” as genders, leaving anyone who does not identify as one of these two genders with no option. Australia and New Zealand both allow an X in place of an M or an F on passports for this purpose, and the UK recognizes ‘Mx’ (pronounced “Mix”) as a gender-neutral title.

This petition asks the Obama administration to legally recognize genders outside of the male-female binary, and provide an option for these genders on all legal documents and records.

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SIGN AND SIGNAL BOOST to sign & signal boost THIS PETITION

infamousnfamous: it’s pretty fucked up that because of the “petition to make a death star” getting...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:11:11 -0400

infamousnfamous:

it’s pretty fucked up that because of the “petition to make a death star” getting so many signatures, whitehouse.gov will now only look at petitions with 100k signatures instead of 25k. way to turn a legit means of contacting the government and getting them to notice serious issues into a shitty fandom joke.

Totally, but also can’t help but feel like really, is it that hard to ignore the few prank petitions in order to get to the legit ones. It sounds like a bit of a cop out to me.

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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:17:28 -0400

Save the Cameroon Rainforest Stop the Herakles Farms’ project A US company is planning to...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:40:02 -0400

Save the Cameroon Rainforest

Stop the Herakles Farms’ project

A US company is planning to tear down a chunk of rainforest the size of 100,000 soccer fields for a palm oil project.

The area of forest is home to thousands of Cameroonian people who rely on it for subsistence farming; people who stand to lose thier land if the project goes ahead. Their peaceful attempts to stop the project have been met with threats, arrests, violence, and beatings.

The forest is also home to endangered wildlife like African forest elephants and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee subspecies.

It’s time for us to take up the fight.

Send an email to the CEO of Herakles Farms, demanding that the company drops its palm oil plans in Cameroon, committing to a ‘zero-deforestation’ policy.

kathleenturneroverdrive: I’ve been vegan for a year today. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:48:42 -0400

kathleenturneroverdrive:

I’ve been vegan for a year today. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

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theleekmafia: theveggiehatingvegan: Vegan Calcium...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:12:32 -0400

theleekmafia:

theveggiehatingvegan:

Vegan Calcium Sources

Forget about dairy!

xtvbx: Man this video was so fucking great until the fakeass...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:34:35 -0400

xtvbx:

Man this video was so fucking great until the fakeass Harlem Shake shit at the end

(IT’S JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DRESSED LIKE TOFU SINGING ABOUT VEGANISM IT’S AWESOME WATCH IT)

mennaoawad: “If I am to be a voice for animals, then how should...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:19:41 -0500

mennaoawad:

“If I am to be a voice for animals, then how should I speak? Am I to whisper, when they are screaming in pain? Am I to be calm, when they tremble in fear? Am I to shout for mercy, as their throats are being slit? Tell me how I need to speak, for you to grant them their freedom.”

- Davegan Raza

"If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:06:50 -0500

“

If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other, then skinning them alive to make collars to sell to their friends, you’d rush him to a psychiatrist.

But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.

”

- Dan Piraro (via ukkirah)

Everyone should go vegan.

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:53:19 -0500

thesimpleactofveganism: the-vegan-mothership: How could any...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:22 -0500

thesimpleactofveganism:

the-vegan-mothership:

How could any logical person be outraged that the dead corpse that he chose to consume, was from a different animal than expected!?
Horse meat can be consumed in the same manner that a cows flesh is, there is no added danger nor any considerable ecological damage.
A cow experiences emotions and feels pain no less than a horse,fish,turkey,chicken,cat… So whats all this fuss about???
This hypocritical outrage, about the horse meat that burger king and the UK retailers have been selling, just proves how perverted and disconnected our culture and moral outlook is and how little we choose to know about the origins of our butchered victims.
Also another sickening observation would be that, if they feel confident enough to connivingly sell, such a known taboo “product” what else are they hiding?

Amen!

st00pid-vegunz: kittens-to-porn: I’m the best kind of Vegan. No really. I dont give a shit what...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:55:35 -0500

st00pid-vegunz:

kittens-to-porn:

I’m the best kind of Vegan.

No really.

I dont give a shit what you eat.

Like your bacon? Eggs? BEEF?

Eat it in front of me, I dont care.

Why don’t I care? Because it’s your body, not mine. You make the calls about what goes into it and what comes out of it.

And vegans who try to make you feel like an ass for eating your double down should shut the fuck up because its none of their damn business what you eat.

Rational Vegan out, bitches.

st00pid-vegunz: “Mostly” vegan isn’t vegan.“Sort of vegan” isn’t vegan.“Vegan but I eat honey”...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:37:12 -0500

st00pid-vegunz:

“Mostly” vegan isn’t vegan.
“Sort of vegan” isn’t vegan.
“Vegan but I eat honey” isn’t vegan.
“Vegan but I buy and wear leather/fur/wool” isn’t vegan.
“Vegan except for the occasional egg” isn’t vegan.

Stop it.

vegansmustbestopped: spicy-mituna-roll: alterstorm: vegan-beca...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:23:03 -0500

vegansmustbestopped:

spicy-mituna-roll:

alterstorm:

vegan-because-fuck-you:

anothercoldnight:

baby-vegan:

infinitelymelissa:

vegan-because-fuck-you:

How emotionally disconnected people are from the billions of non human animals that are slaughtered each year sickens me. When it happens to a cat or dog it is abuse, but when it happens to a cow, chicken or pig it is just industry. Your cognitive dissonance is literally lethal.

It is easy to strip all resemblance of life from these animals when they are killed in slaughterhouses, dismembered by butchers, packaged then conveniently placed in the supermarket for you to purchase. Their suffering is kept out of sight to keep it out of your mind, but make no mistake:

Your food is a product of oppression.

Your food is a product of exploitation

Your food is a product of murder.

Your food was once their life.

And no, I will NEVER stop reminding you of this.

I respect your right to have these feelings and I respect your right to make the choice to be vegan.

Can’t you respect my choice to eat meat?

I’m not asking for you to endorse it or change your lifestyle, I just want you to respect my choice.

Don’t throw your beliefs in my face, I don’t do it to you.

You’re no better than people who force their religious views on others. Do you want to be self-righteous? Because I’d love to hear how veganism makes you better than me.

Demanding others to “respect your choice” when your choice infringes on the rights and well-being of other sentient beings is absolutely absurd and akin to serial killers, child molesters, and animal abusers also demanding respect for their choices. We will respect your choice when you respect their life.

Vegans do not push anything onto you. The act of killing others to eat their flesh is the ultimate form of pushing your beliefs onto others. Religious views are on the basis of faith. Reminding you that your meat is the product of a living, breathing, feeling animal that struggled, bled, and fought for his life is merely a fact.

I will never respect your wish to remain ignorant to the unbelievable pain and suffering your choices inflict.

You seem to think that the behavior of eating meat is some kind of choice and by doing so is abusing the animal’s rights? I’m sorry but since when the fuck did animals have a rights or moral system towards it’s prey? If a bear, lion, tiger or other sort of carnivore ate us would it be considered murder? would that animal be put on some sort of trial or be punished for violating out rights to not be eaten. No. Why? Because that is how nature works, animals eat each other (that includes humans) and just as any other meat eating animal hunts it’s prey we have too it’s just now we are much much more efficient in it.

I’ll “respect” an animals rights not to be eaten the day an animal respects mine.

Yes, look how efficient animal agriculture is. Aren’t human so smart and efficient? Let’s give our self a big pat on the back.

What an animal does out of survival does not justify what you do out of selfishness. A lion can not live on a plant based diet, you CAN.

And it’s because you have morals and the ability to distinguish right and wrong that you are obligated to act upon them and not contribute to unnecessary killing for the sake of taste.

Vegans, yeah, so peaceful, so elegant, so open minded, certainly they would never insult an omnivore or assume that we kill just because the meat tastes good

Still have yet to meet an agreeable vegan.

Why?

Because a polite vegan doesn’t tell you they’re a vegan, or if they do, it’s merely a passing comment or to answer a question.

How is this concept so difficult to understand.

You have no idea how many times I have thought the same thing. It’s like these people don’t get that meat-eaters have the freedom to eat what they want, and vegans have the freedom to shut up about it. That’s what freedom is all about. Change has never taken place when people have the nerve to actually bring it up.

They don’t understand that their ideas are something that has to be kept to themselves. The last thing this society needs is the idea of veganism being presented ad nauseum on billboards, commercials, newspaper ads, magazine ads, internet ads, etc….Only industries that are shameless in their ideas would so obnoxiously promote it, which in turn makes it mainstream, ergo, the normal perspective.

I’m just glad we live in a world where the right kind of ideas are being presented in our culture.

"It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:26:35 -0500

“It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature.”

- Dalai Lama

vegansmustbestopped: seitanpancake: and then we humanely...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:18:19 -0500

vegansmustbestopped:

seitanpancake:

and then we humanely impregnate the same mothers 4-5 times more on our humane rape racks, repeating the cycle until the mothers are “spent” which is when we humanely send them off to slaughter too making room for the next generation of milk and meat machines.

humane humans are great aren’t they?

I am sensing sarcasm, and I for one am not a fan of using such a tactic to prove such an obvious point.