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Post by passingtime on Nov 20, 2019 18:05:58 GMT
i was thrilled to hear about 'Greggs' vegan sausage roll' & Mc Donalds new 'vegetarian Happy Meal' becoming available this yr- 2019 ........'Go Reality !!!' [ about bloody time! ....imo] My grown-up daughter 'pushed' for us to go vegan autumn last year, and we had a few months of eating solely 'vegan' food & it was 'ok' ....... i had longed to be a vegan for several yrs, but never felt i had the capacity to do so previously. Been vegetarian for many years, i first explored vegetarianism when my son was very young [approx. 3 yrs old] i introduced vegetarian hotdogs to our diet & we never ate the animal product ones again[as a family] I ate vegetarian for a few yrs. & it suited me, but later i found the 'urge' to binge eat on meat products that were in our family fridge. Over the last several yrs. i have found that if any other members of my family unit were living in our family home & were eating meat, then i too, at times needed to eat it [despite 'thoroughly' NOT wanting to] The 'body smell' is different on a vegan diet, as opposed to a vegetarian diet, as there seems to be no 'sweet,cheesy' smell from dairy products I had my first 'Vegan Sausage Roll' the other day. I did not like it at all.. did feel slightly sick after eating it. What I do like is Linda McCartney's Vegetarian Mozzarella Burgers. They are lovely.. but not vegan. I like eggs, cheese and milk too much. Hate dairy farming, love the fruits of their labour. Poor cows. We could still enjoy their produce more humanely and not on an industrial scale, if we all lived on farms and owned our own cows. Would never kill one for meat but am not sure if they lactate sufficiently when not with calf. I certainly wouldn't want metal clamped on my udders and milked all day, or have my calves taken away from me. There must be a more humane way of being a dairy farmer. Shame about the vegan sausage roll. My daughter cannot tolerate 'cow's milk' very well, so she is the 'push' behind us becoming more vegan with our diet. I actually prefer the vegan types of milk now to cow's milk, though it did take me some time to reach this preference. More and more different types of vegan foods are becoming readily available to buy and so over the past several months we have been enjoying exploring all these new and different vegan food products. We are finding that taste-wise vegan food is improving with it's new products all the time. Very appreciative & happy about this
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 19:35:56 GMT
I think it would be a case of training yourself to like vegan food. I don't know if I will ever manage a fully vegan diet. But am enjoying the vegetarian mozzarella burgers so that is something.
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Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2019 16:24:23 GMT
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Post by passingtime on Dec 1, 2019 10:17:04 GMT
Haven't read the link, just commenting on the title really, yea i have been 'working on / with' my issues about ' animals being inhumanely kept & then brutally slaughtered so their flesh can be eaten' .............. and for the moment i am 'by-passing' it through 'holding the intention' that animal Lab-flesh will be 'grown' for 'Meat-eaters' to consume& the breeding, inhumane keeping & then untimely slaughter of 'conscious beings' can end.
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2019 18:26:54 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2020 12:31:09 GMT
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Post by passingtime on Jan 9, 2020 7:19:22 GMT
GRO 2 chocolate cupcakes My daughter shopped at our local co-op yesterday & brought home these vegan choc. cupcakes... ... they were 'real_good' xxx
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2020 10:53:19 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2020 10:44:15 GMT
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Post by sheravega on Apr 18, 2020 16:45:42 GMT
I honestly have health problems that require me to eat meat. Not to offend or change anyones life style. I just can feel my body getting real sick if I don't eat it. I have tried plant based substitues. Nuts like Almonds have helped me alot. But I still get undeniable cravings for red meat and feel just terrible untill I eat it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2020 16:52:17 GMT
I honestly have health problems that require me to eat meat. Not to offend or change anyones life style. I just can feel my body getting real sick if I don't eat it. I have tried plant based substitues. Nuts like Almonds have helped me alot. But I still get undeniable cravings for red meat and feel just terrible untill I eat it. I support people eating what works for them. Eating is very personal.
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Post by naominash3 on Jun 23, 2020 6:38:46 GMT
I honestly have health problems that require me to eat meat. Not to offend or change anyones life style. I just can feel my body getting real sick if I don't eat it. I have tried plant based substitues. Nuts like Almonds have helped me alot. But I still get undeniable cravings for red meat and feel just terrible untill I eat it. I support people eating what works for them. Eating is very personal. I used to think I didn't have the Self-control to go vegan. But there is more to life than having dead flesh to eat. So I could go vegan. Especially in countries like India or Turkey.
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2020 10:02:10 GMT
The No. 1 Reason Humans Abuse Animals BY SOFO ARCHON
"The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said that “men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”
I don’t fully agree with this statement, but I can understand why he made it.
Think about it: More than 70 billion land animals are killed by humans each year. Yes, you read it right: SEVENTY BILLION. This includes:
2,000,000+ dogs 4,000,000+ horses 500,000,000+ sheep 1,000,000,000+ pigs 2,000,000,000+ ducks 60,000,000,000+ chickens
I’m not talking about animals that are killed indirectly by human activity, such as plastic pollution and habitat destruction. No, I’m talking about animals that are directly killed by the very hands of people.
Some of those animals are killed soon after they’re born, such as male chicks who’re ground up alive or are thrown away into trash bags and left to slowly suffocate (if you’re wondering why, that’s because they are considered useless by the egg industry). Others are abused for their entire lives, such as female cows who’re forcibly impregnated year after year, have their babies stolen from them right after birth and are constantly exploited for their milk until they have their throats slit.
Last Sunday the Yulin Dog Meat Festival started in China once again. During that festival, people celebrate by killing and eating about 10,000 dogs in only a few days’ time. And a couple of months ago, in my country Greece people celebrated Easter by killing and eating hundreds of thousands of lambs.
People celebrate by abusing animals and depriving them of their lives. Can you fathom how perverted that is?
Schopenhauer is right in saying that animals are the tormented souls of the earth. But, unlike Schopenhauer, I don’t see humans as devils. Rather, I see them merely as victims — victims of their social conditioning, which is to blame for treating animals in such an inhumane way.
You see, since we were born most of us have been conditioned by our culture to believe that animals are inferior to us, and that their value consists only of what they can offer us — primarily their flesh and byproducts such as milk, eggs or their skin. They don’t possess inherent value, and our purpose is to dominate and exploit them.
This notion or myth of human supremacy prevails in our civilization, and goes back thousands of years. Open the Bible, a text claimed by over 2 billion of people to be the written word of God, and you’ll find this line: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth”. Or open the texts of the celebrated scientists of the Enlightenment and you’ll find similar views. For example, the English philosopher Francis Bacon suggested that we should torture nature in order to reveal her secrets. And Descartes, the renowned French philosopher and mathematician, saw animals as insentient machines, and didn’t hesitate to nail his wife’s dog to a board and chop it open while it was still alive.
Nature is seen as separate and inferior to humans. This view is so ingrained in our minds that we feel no empathy for nature, and find no problem abusing it or treating it with disrespect. Is it any wonder, then, that most people around the world are exploiting and killing animals by the billions? Or that scientists still torture them for their research purposes, as if they’re nothing but objects to be used as a means to our own ends? Not at all.
When some people feel superior to others, they tend to believe that they have the right to oppress them. That’s why the Nazis hunted down the Jews — they considered themselves to be the superior race, the Aryan one, which was destined to take over the world. Or why men, believing that they are the superior sex, have been controlling and repressing women for millennia. Or why so many white people are still bigoted against black people; racist attitudes arise only when we perceive another’s race to be inferior to ours.
To end oppression, we need to stop dividing people or species into “superior” and “inferior”. Lately, there’s a lot of discussion going on about a lot of important social injustice issues. That’s because more and more people wake up and realize that regardless of their race or sex all humans deserve equal rights. But the most neglected and by far the biggest (and arguably the oldest) injustice in existence has been the one performed against animals. It is an injustice that nearly everyone — whether black or white, male or female, gay or straight, Christian or Muslim, capitalist or communist — takes part in. This collective attitude towards animals is reflected by the fact that animals are not fully protected by law, which makes it legal for anyone to kill and otherwise harm them by “farming” them. Animals are merely seen as products — hence they are labelled as “livestock” and are categorized according to commercial types of meat.
Of course, as any zoologist would tell you, animals are sentient, conscious beings who can experience emotions like fear, joy, sadness and love. They are beings who avoid pain and desire to live happy and free, pretty much like you and I do. So, why are we stealing their freedom? Why do we find it alright to derive pleasure from killing and eating them? It’s because of the myth of human supremacy that underlies all animal exploitation, oppression and abuse.
Can you pierce through that myth and see that it’s nothing but a lie?"
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2021 11:12:36 GMT
GIVEN RECENT INNOVATIONS, MAYBE WE DON’T NEED TO EAT OR USE ANIMALS AT ALLBy Matt Johnson, DesMoines Register. March 2, 2021 | CREATE! popularresistance.org/given-recent-innovations-maybe-we-dont-need-to-eat-or-use-animals-at-all/Factory Farming Model Incorporates Abuses, So We Need To Adopt Something Radically New. I’m currently facing a felony prosecution in Wright County after exposing Iowa Select Farms killing thousands of pigs via “ventilation shutdown,” which involves shutting down a building’s vents as heat and steam are pumped in. The practice was so egregious that employees at the company sought the support of Direct Action Everywhere, the animal rights group I organize with, in exposing and ultimately stopping it. As recently reported by the Intercept, a high-level executive at the company was fired for raising his concerns, and FBI agents were called in to try to flip a whistleblower into becoming an informant against us. It’s all part of a long-term pattern: government support for an abusive and environmentally destructive industry, even to the point of intimidating and silencing its critics. Concerned citizens, including Iowa Select Farms’ own employees, are willing to risk serious personal and professional consequences to shine some much-needed light on abuses to workers, animals, and the environment. Even Iowa Select’s normal practices in stocking pigs at its facilities create hazards in terms of air and water pollution, in addition to animal welfare. Employees who seek changes within the company are often punished. Their complaints to the Department of Natural Resources have been brushed off without even a pretense about taking enforcement action. This is not surprising because Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Iowa Select Farms owners Jeff and Deb Hansen. Documents we obtained through open records act requests show an uncomfortably close relationship between the governor and these industry executives, including her willingness to immediately drop other responsibilities to the people of Iowa when Iowa Select had a concern. But even employees were shocked when Reynolds seemingly wasn’t bothered by ventilation shutdown — a practice widely decried as barbaric even within the agricultural industry. Then two weeks after our exposé was released, she signed a new “ag-gag” statute into law, which criminalizes undercover videography in animal agriculture facilities. Iowa Select Farms implemented ventilation shutdown following widespread slaughterhouse shutdowns due to COVID-19 outbreaks, creating a backup of pigs in the supply chain. Our heartbreaking video and audio captured pigs shrieking in nonstop terror for well over an hour. But while national media reported on our findings, Reynolds and her administration ignored the issue, calling our work “disgusting” and falsely claiming that outsiders were “kicking our farmers while they are down.” In fact, I am an Iowa native whose family members are involved in animal agriculture. And the whistle-blowers we work with are the very farmers that Reynolds claims we were targeting. Reynolds was supporting corporate Big Ag, not farmers, in allowing a brutal industrial practice. This systemic misconduct extends well beyond the borders of my home state. Despite its record, animal agriculture is minimally regulated: Animal cruelty laws often exempt farmed animals, and there are no federal animal welfare laws at all for over 95% of animals we use for food. The industry also receives tens of billions of dollars annually in federal subsidies via the farm bill, plus billions more in COVID-19-related subsidies over the past year, including reimbursement for mass killings such as ventilation shutdown. These abuses are appalling to any reasonable person — across political party affiliations, living in all parts of this country, and even among this industry’s own employees. So why do such injustices persist? The common intuition that we need only to clean up specific instances of abuse is comforting, but exposé after exposé of industry misconduct demonstrates that such a belief simply doesn’t map onto reality. It’s the very business model of factory farming — which accounts for 99% of animals used for food in the US — that is founded upon a fundamental lack of respect for animals, our planet, and the people in local communities. Animals’ desire to behave naturally and not suffer, not to mention local communities’ concerns about pollution and disease, are ignored in a laser-focused pursuit of profit. We must dig deeper, then, and fundamentally question a system that makes something as horrifying as ventilation shutdown even possible. The flaw lies not in isolated incidents of individuals acting reprehensibly, but in a society (and industry) that treats living, feeling individuals as mere commodities to exploit for profit. Maybe, in a country and in an era of incredible ingenuity and innovation — with lab-grown “clean meats,” vertical farming, and the like — we don’t need to eat or use animals at all. Matt Johnson is an investigator with the grassroots animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere. The Cresco native has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa and served in the Iowa Army National Guard from 2009 to 2015 before moving to California to follow his passion for animal advocacy.
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Post by passingtime on Jul 10, 2021 11:26:41 GMT
Favourite vegan 'non' meat products
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