What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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People who are violently opposed to animal abuse but have zero problems with meat

knitmeapony:

thegreenwolf:

peacetreetea:

veganprobs:

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To all of the self proclaimed “animal activists” who eat meat

I support free-range, humanely slaughtered meat. I am an obligate omnivore. I get sick on even the best-balanced vegetarian diet.

Furthermore, veg diets are not without their flaws. Most grains and vegetables are grown via monoculture, which is horrible for the plants, and the soil they’re grown on. Most are not organically grown, which means lots of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Plus no matter how they’re grown, when the crops are harvested, many small animals die in the machinery used for the harvesting. This is to say nothing of the wildlife that starve because their habitats were destroyed for these monoculture fields, and the bees that went away because the fields lay fallow for most of the year and there wasn’t enough for them to eat (seriously, watch “Queen of the Sun" sometime—it’s on Netflix right now if you have it). 

This is not to say that we shouldn’t fight factory farming and sustainable grazing (as opposed to “corn fed everything"). But as with so many complicated issues, there’s more than just the black and white, hardline, “this is right, this is wrong" viewpoint.

If you eat vegetarian and don’t think about the endlessly abused migrant workers who picked your food,  the corporations that grossly injure people, animals, the environment, hell, whole governments to make a buck… if you think ‘no animals were harmed in the making of this corn-based food product’, I have no time for you.

Bolding the above for truth. Unless you’re eating exclusively foods you grew yourself in your back garden or are able to buy everything direct from an ethical source, which not everyone is able to do,  then chances are that someone, somewhere along the line is getting hurt. Migrant workers are treated just as badly as, if not worse than, farm animals, by big corporations and local suppliers both. If you care about the abuse of animals, but not the abuse of people? Then we have a problem.

(via knitmeapony)

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