acti-veg:
People working in slaughterhouses are at a far higher chance of being perpetrators of domestic violence due to trauma, desensitisation and the normalisation of violence, compared with the general population. They are also much more likely than average to have problems with alcohol abuse and with mental health issues like PTSD from working under extremely stressful conditions. Unfortunately these are most often poor immigrants with no other choice. These are the same slaughterhouses who process animals regardless of whether they are factory farmed, free range, organic or grass fed.
If you find the suffering of animals so easy to dismiss; how about humans?
It’s not a secret that salughterhouse jobs in the US are some of the most dangerous, poorly paid and unsanitary jobs in the nation. No one wants to buy clothing made in sweatshops in Cambodia, or ipods made with parts manufactured at a tenth their cost in China, or buy coffee that isn’t fair trade and people do their best to avoid these products…but most people won’t bother to even ACKNOWLEDGE that the chicken they eat 3, 4, 5 days a week is being processed under grueling working conditions in an industry that is a majority black women. Why are we drawing the line in our own country where we potentially have the POWER to change things?
From ‘farm’, to slaughterhouse, to processing plant to plate, this industry is harsh and cruel and damaging to human beings.
Veganism is just as much about human suffering as it is animal.
thenightlifebeforemingus:
Taylor Swift has dated 14 boys in the last 4 years. If not for the sheer number of boys, this might be unremarkable. But dear reader, look closer: what is 14 divided by 4? 3 and a half. Every year, Taylor Swift dates 3 and a half boys. Where are the other halves, Taylor? It just doesn’t add up.