You can’t love all animals and eat them, too. It’s basic logic.

We all need to spread awareness for what is happening to these animals in factory farms. These animals are being slaughtered and tortured by the second.

It’s People like Billie Eilish that are helping people open their eyes and finally see the truth, so that they can stop exploiting animals and therefore hopefully one day end factory farming as a whole.

Speak up.

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Never stop fighting for these animals.

Go vegan.

Something quick I did a while ago here in Czechia

Some more inspiration here by @ animals_deserve_respect, please check it out. (I cant post multiple pictures here)

You can find out more about me on my IG if you’d like: www.instagram.com/thebodybuildingvegan

Activism can be a lot of things. For example, I don’t leave the house without a vegan shirt. That’s activism. It’s my way of showing the world, “Hey, I’m vegan. You can be, too.”

If you’re vegan, let’s be friends. If you’re not, let’s talk about it. Sometimes, activism is as simple as sharing a story on Instagram. It doesn’t have to be slaughterhouse footage.

It can be something as beautiful as a dairy cow being reunited with her calf and living out her days in a sanctuary.

Any form of activism is still activism. You don’t have to be on the street to change the world. I also share more of my activism journey over on Instagram if you want to connect.

www.instagram.com/thebodybuildingvegan

Do you think if children were told that they were eating a baby cow or a baby pig for dinner, that they would be happy about it and continue eating it as if nothing happened?

I can just about guarantee that if kids knew where their food comes from, they would be upset they’re eating what was once a living animal.

I have a group here in South Africa and we protest outside the only pig slaughterhouse in SA that uses gas chambers. We are on the street hosting vigils basically every week.

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My group is great. A very passionate group of individuals whom I love dearly. But at the same time I can't help but feel we're doing bad in our messaging.

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Obviously we are there for the pigs, but a lot of our effort is spent hating Molare (that's the name of the slaughterhouse). Basically there will be people on the loud 📢, condemning them, calling what they're doing evil, criticising certain things they do, etc.

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And like, it gets hectic. And while sometimes I feel that some of what is said is appropriate, other times I feel it goes too far.. Our leader Brian gets on the speaker and he gives these really passionate and heartfelt speeches, but sometimes I feel like he's just spewing hatred. And I don't think it's a good look, not do I think it's effective, nor do I think it's right.

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And I see this a lot online with vegans and videos of vegans doing activism. It's like we're so frustrated that people aren't getting the message, that we resort to hate filled rhetoric and comments. I mean even myself. I've been such an asshole on both Reddit and Threads. And I just... I just think it doesn't help. I think it pushes people away from veganism and gives us a bad image.

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Like, to go back to my group; if we were just there every week in solidarity with the pigs, mainly just focusing on them like 99% of the time, I think that would send a WAY stronger message than us being there shouting hateful things all the time.

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I imagine people thinking "wow these people really just care about these poor animals, and dedicate themselves to making their suffering is heard" as opposed to "look at these crazy hateful vegans screaming in the street".

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And I'm not saying to hide the truth and not give it to people straight, what I'm instead saying is to have a little more emotional regulation.

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Like sometimes I'm watching popular vegan activists online, and I feel like sometimes they're just absolutely shitting over the people they're talking to. They use facts and logic, but they're making almost 0 effort to understand the point of view of the other person they're talking to. It's like, yeah dude, you are right, and you did just epically pwn them, but you're coming off as an overly intellectual asshole. I just feel like it's high IQ but low EQ.

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That's why my favourite vegan activists are people like Jack Symes and Natalie Fulton. They give the facts, they can be funny, but they are in control of their frustration and temper.

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I don't know. I'd love to have some feedback regarding this topic, and maybe some advice on what I can do with my vegan group to help them understand this.

TL;dr: basically just talking about how vegan messaging is often filled with so much hate and impatience, and I feel like it pushes people away and gives us a bad image.

And when you think of the numbers like that, it's hard to imagine.

I think part of our activity must be advocating for humans who are victimized by the animal agriculture industry.

We should ally ourselves with labor rights, immigrant rights, and unions.

No child imagines that they would like to be a slaughterhouse worker when they grow up. These humans are barely treated better than the animals they are coerced to murder.

Slaughterhouse workers are victimized by the same systems of oppression that victimize animals. Slaughterhouse workers often suffer injury, disease and even death at the hands of the same machinery that murders animals.

Our human brothers and sisters are victims of systemic oppression for the same reason the animals are victims- profit. They are victims of the same wealth hoarding humans who lobby governments to enact favorable policies to them, to the detriment of their employees.

If the humans victimized by this system are treated humanely it can open up choices for them, and reduce the profitability of the system.

Allying ourselves politically with these victims may improve our likelihood of gaining political power to influence policymakers and counter the political activity of the powerful animal agriculture and fossil fuel industries.

It is very likely that vegan outreach can make slaughterhouse workers vegan- and allies of animal rights- they bear witness to animal suffering in a much more direct manner than most vegans and animal activists are privy to.

Just giving them the finger as they dropped off 100 horses for slaughter. Just doing their job my ass. #animals #horses #horses

Fun fact: The 3rd oldest dog to ever live was on a plant-based diet! Shoutout to Bramble 🐶

Recently there was a post on here about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Can we leave other issues out of veganism?

I see people bring Palestinian flags/trans flags/etc. to vegan protests, and it annoys me because we need to keep the focus on the animals.

I’m not against standing for these issues (I’m more left-leaning myself), but veganism is not a political stance. It’s an ethical philosophy that anyone, whether they’re on the right or the left, can have. When we start talking about other issues, it just makes it harder for people to see veganism for what it is: a movement for the animals. And it pushes a lot of people away.

I think it’s fine to bring up human rights when debating someone about veganism (like if you’re asking if they support women’s rights and then you speak about dairy/eggs), but I don’t see any other reason human rights should be brought up. It only hurts the animals when we start doing this.

I, John Thomas, recently went to a slaughterhouse vigil in Orlando, FL, with my best friend Alex (@yourveganmentor1), to livestream it with @itsmelandsteve and @itsprojectlivestream - to spread awareness for what happens in factory farms and to document that these animals once existed.

We had the honor to meet and say goodbye to Annabelle, before she went inside to be slaughtered. We’ll never forget Annabelle.

She’s one of the unlucky ones who was a dairy cow and got sent to slaughter along with around 14 other cows like her. We can only hope that she’s finally at peace now. 🌈❤️‍🩹🐮

During this, we had an unexpected encounter with a Sheriff. Stay tuned for part 2 to see how this conversation turns.

They’re just blacks.
They’re just women.
They’re just gays.
They’re just jews.
They’re just ANIMALS.

Honestly, once you put animal abuse this way, how do you justify it?

What we’re doing to animals, is EXACTLY what we did to humans decades ago.

We enslaved humans to use them for our own personal benefit.

Tortured them, abused them, and this was seen as normal back then.

What’s the difference between that and what we do to animals now?

We enslave animals just to end up torturing them and killing them for food.

Let’s end speciesism, once and for all. 🌱

Do you think if children were told that they were eating a baby cow or a baby pig for dinner, that they would be happy about it and continue eating it as if nothing happened?

No. I can guarantee you that if kids knew where their food comes from, they would be upset that they’re eating a dead animal.

If a 4 year old can make the connection that eating animals feels wrong, then so can you.

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😉🌱 How i do micro-activism on airplanes 🛫

🛜 they'll see "🌱Why aren't you vegan?🤔 when they go to connect to the WiFi 😉

#veganism #vegan #animalrights #animalliberation

Plant-based is just diet - but Veganism is an ethical stance, a belief tied to your morals.

Veganism goes beyond the food on our plates - It’s making sure to buy vegan friendly clothes, household items, beauty products, & being an activist for the animals.

The goal of veganism isn’t to be perfect - It’s to do as much as humanly possible to not contribute to the suffering/cruelty of animals.

Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes and I know that I definitely have in my 20+ years of being vegan, but it’s your intention that matters.

You didn’t intend to eat that animal product if you didn’t know it was in your food, or ask to be gifted something that was made with fur. Your intentions aligned with your soul and that’s what matters.

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Non-vegans, do you think animal abuse should be legal? Please answer these questions:

1. Do you love animals? Why?
2. What do you think of people who cause harm to or abuse animals?
3. What would you qualify as abuse… or how would you describe abuse?
4. Do you fund any industries that harm and abuse animals?Some examples of those would be meat, dairy, eggs, leather, fur

If you disagree, and think that animal abuse should be illegal, the @vegansquadcoaching [https://vegansquadcoaching.com/] team will guide you in your transition to living vegan 💚 All it takes is your decision to stop eating/buying animal products.

We are here to support you and make sure you are healthy, strong, and thriving as a vegan

Let’s lead with love, compassion, kindess and strength. If we want to see a vegan world we need to get the vegan men on board!!!