sonofapritch:

anticapitalist:

stfucarnists:

anticapitalist:

stfucarnists:

Respecting others’ choices is the last resort of the timid idealist.

(submitted by ryanoverton)

Oh wow. stfucarnists exists?

Do you really expect everyone to be vegan given food deserts, class privilege and social differences?

Fuck that.

Damn right this blog exists. As long as bloodmouths exist, so will angry vegans.

Are we really going back to this bullshit cop out again? So because there might be some impoverished person who doesn’t have any current knowledge on veganism, that means you are now allowed to use that as a reason for why you’re personally not vegan?

I’m vegetarian. I’m not vegan because the last time I went vegan for 2 days, I passed out. I’m already really underweight. I value my health.

Yes, food deserts exists as do class and social differences. Do these things erase the responsibility of the individual to not push their problems off on those less fortunate than themselves? Abso-fuckin-lutely not.

Basically:

“Pull yourself up from your bootstraps and go vegan”

lolno.

You bring up class differences and privileges among humans while completely ignoring the fact that any human has a considerable amount of privilege over every non-human animal regardless of their circumstances.

>Human privilege

Da fuck?

Humans have ‘privilege’ therefore they should die/suffer while trying to not eat meat or animal products?

What about the privileges of every human being, in that we will never have to worry about being systematically bred and exploited all of our lives simply for our flesh or our milk or eggs like all non-humans are? Or what about the privilege we have which allows us to be seen by most people of the world as being automatically deserving of rights? What about the privilege humans have where we are seen as more worthy of life and happiness than every other sentient life form, simply because we were born human? You can’t fight for the rights of humans while ignoring the plight of all of those with even less power and rights than humans. It’s all the same fight.

Because we have ‘privilege’ (lol), it’s not okay for us to eat other animals, but it is fine for other animals to be omnivores or carnivores, as needed by their diet.

Humans have dietary needs, just like all other animals. We can’t ignore our food requirements in the name of some abstract privilege.

And let’s be real here. What’s your reason for not being vegan? Because you think one person’s circumstances might excuse them from ethical consideration of those without voices, that means you shouldn’t have to use your brain and consider how your choices affect others? Ignoring the fact that you excusing someone from veganism is downright speciesism, let’s just take a look at what you’re really saying. “Well, I think so and so may not be able to go vegan, so that means now I should say no one has to go vegan and I can therefore say that no one should give their actions ethical consideration.” Do you not see how fucking ridiculous that is?

I’m arguing against militant veganism because it ignores people’s circumstances.

Here you are, trying to push your lifestyle onto everyone else, without considering people’s situations, and you are calling ME ridiculous.

I explained why I’m not vegan above. Though I plan on going vegan in college. But not because of your ‘human privilege’ bullshit, but because I care about the environment.

Yeah, just go ahead and fight against a system that oppresses humans, while fully supporting a system that exploits and oppresses billions of other sentient beings who are just as capable of suffering, and expect to not get called out on the utter hypocrisy of that. Makes perfect sense.

- quoilecanard

Veganism is a boycott. Like all other boycotts, it operates within capitalist hegemony. If you want real change, dish capitalism altogether. Change within the system doesn’t do shit. Especially if you are marginalizing the plights of others.

If you think “fundamental psycho-biological differences” = “privilege,” you’re a fucking idiot. If I followed that logic to its conclusion then every animal would be privileged by virtue of the fact that it was different from another animal. Difference is not privilege; difference is Being, yes, but not privilege. Don’t be ridiculous.

Reblogging because “bloodmouths” caused root beer to come out my nose. Cool story, bro.

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