I am against animal agriculture for the same reason I am against sexism, racism, ableism, classism and homophobia.

The circumstances of a creatures birth does not dictate what it is “meant for”, every one deserves to live happy, healthily and with dignity, but some simply want to live.

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  • trapped in an abusive relationship with four kids and looking for a steady income. The day she graduated vocational nursing school, she took the kids and left their father.

    Sage couldn’t afford the drug tests at $300 a month or a fine of $3,140. She dropped out. She surrendered her vocational nursing license in 2019

    So because a single mom with 4 kids couldn’t pay an extra $300 a month, she now doesn’t have a job? I won’t do apologetics for a DUI, she fucked up, but that sort of finical burden doesn’t make her less likely to repeat DUI and now we have financially destabilized her entire family. Seems like we only made a bad situation worse.






  • My wife and I each 100%'d Talos 2 and it was abundantly amazing. It had been years since either of us completed 1 but the way the story is structured you hear about the events of the first game in detail pretty regularly. I’m trying to be vague for spoilers. And of course I’m not trying to talk out of replaying 1, but just know you don’t have to, understand 2, and in my opinion it might be a touch tedious to do them back to back.

    Both fantastic games tho that started a lot of good conversations between us.




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    Just to present the other side of hoeny veganism, I don’t consume any out of ethical consistency. Without question beekeepers do far less damage to their animals than cows, pig or chicken ranchers since those end in slaughter. But it’s still a product produced by an animal for a specific purpose in its life cycle. While slaughtering a pig for pork is murder, taking a hives honey is theft. Beekeepers replace it with a sugar water mix instead but as I understand the research that slurry misses many of the core nutrients bees put in to their honey.

    If someone took food off my plate to replace with a less nutritional and tasty substitute I’d be pissed, so I see no reason to do it to bees. Besides, agavae is cheap, healthier and tastes near identical. Since a readily available susbistute exists, I don’t even miss or care about honey.

    I would never say someone who eats honey isn’t vegan, but it is a matter of polite disagreement among the community.


  • Well I appreciate and have nothing but love for ya. For what it’s worth, I don’t feel ashamed of being vegan, quite the opposite since I literally have a V tattoo. With hindsight I can see that I overread and overthrought this exchange. But in my experience, it’s rare to have veganism brought up outside vegan communities as a positive thing so I tend to go defensive.

    I’m an immigrant in Germany and I’d be pretty upset if someone responded to me speaking German and said “found the Americanz"

    I understand completely, and I’m sorry that’s a reality for you to worry about. I actually have a whole vector that’s very different but also very simmiliar to this. As a trans woman, “found the X” is occasionally applied a by shitty folk if/when I talk about gender online, and several time in real life public areas. At a certain point, I know logically it’s immposible to win everyone over and I need to find serenity despite it all, but it often feels like no matter how much grace you can extend to someone who wishes to harass before it just becomes easier to assume everyone is harassing so.

    But this is all on me. Thank you for this exchange, I’m sorry if it caused you stress and it’s my fault for initially assuming the worst of you. Context is almost always the biggest factor and i should’ve paid more attention to the kind hearted context you’ve displayed here.

    Although, since I have you… xan I ask you a totally random tangent? Is Germany as vegan friendly as I hear? I know multiple vegan folk that rave about the regions restaurants and just sorta curious if you’d agree. ☺️



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    Well sure, I could tell and appreciate your friendly tone. But you also went out of your way to specify it, because frankly no vegan appreciates that response. It’s a thought terminating cliche that is functionally used to dismiss.

    I am doing my best be playful about it’s overuse, but in truth it’s born out of frustration. Started using this handle about 3-4 years ago when I was tired of getting heavily down voted while “found the vegan” response was unanimously upvoted. The implication being “Yeah but do you care what a vegan thinks?”.

    Fundamentally, you’re right tho. Black salt isn’t common and its more of a if ya know, ya know situation. I just disagree that saying something other vegans would recognize is inherently unfair bait for non-vegans. I’m not preaching or pushing veganism, just existing as one.



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    It’s not even bait, y’all just predictable with the same exact phrase every time. I mean… you’re not even the first person today. If I can beat everyone to the punch before ya finish thinking it, then is it still fun to say?

    Idk. Feels like a Chuck Norris joke at this point.