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veganzeus:

Please support Afro-Vegan cookbook rather than Thug Kitchen.  Here’s why:

Bryant Terry is a chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Bryant’s fourth book, Afro Vegan was published by Ten Speed Press/Random House April 2014. Just 2 months after publication, Afro-Vegan was named by Amazon as one of the best cookbooks of 2014. In December it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work category.

If you want a taste of culture-rich, ethnic and truly vegan food, (Thug Kitchen uses honey in some recipes), without the culture appropriation and perpetuation of negative and racist stereotypes about an entire community, consider getting Afro-Vegan.”  ~  Hugo Dominguez

http://www.amazon.com/Afro-Vegan-Farm-Fresh-African-Caribbean-Southern/dp/1607745313

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.

professor-remus:

welpwomp:

marauders-fanfilm:

Ben Wessels as Remus Lupin in The Gathering Storm: A Marauders Fan Film!

We Only Have 8 Days Left To Raise The Money Needed For Pickups! We can’t do this without your help! Please check out our Indiegogo, and help us finish the film!

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Guys look, it’s my wretched mug!

Seriously though, help us out. This isn’t a help if you can, this is a PLEASE HELP NOW. Everyone can help, because everyone can speead the word about this. We can’t do it without you. In addition to spreading the word, if you CAN sacrifice even FIVE DOLLARS, please please PLEASE do. If everyone just gives a little, we’ll reach our goal in no time.

This film is going to be amazing. Help us spread the word, donate if you can, and let’s finish this thing.

You all have Remus Lupin feelings- watch Ben Wessels bring them to heartbreaking life! Donate to The Gathering Storm so we can finish this amazing film.

Reblog if you’re a meat eater, yet still opposed to factory farming.

weirdbardthesojourner:

burningonyx:

Even if you can’t afford free-range meat. Because that shit is expensive.

I do not believe this. 

Basically, reblog if you know that supporting animal cruelty is wrong but you will continue to do it because you’re that selfish? 

YES, free-range is expensive but you know who it really helps? Hint: It doesn’t help the animals. It’s just paying a company for their unrelenting efforts to dupe you into thinking doing a wrong thing a less wrong way makes it right. The animals are still murdered by human hands and at human convenience, so all that this stupid label does is appease the vestiges of your moribund conscience into thinking the animal whose death you were directly responsible for suffered less and that that somehow justifies the blatant disregard for life that you and the company possess. 

If you’re opposed to factory farming, hmm, here’s an idea: STOP SUPPORTING IT WITH YOUR MONEY! Violence is violence, regardless of the victim. You are still paying for violence in “free-range” meat. 

So, basically, stop consuming their bodies or be an unabashed supporter of violence and abuse. There is no wishy-washy stance of being opposed to it but still supporting it with your money.

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