Which means they’re vegan. (No confectioner’s glaze, either.) I AM SO EXCITED FOR MY CONSUMPTION OF SUGARY JUNK FOOD.
Check the ingredients of any skittles you pick up, though, because all the old packets still have gelatin (and I don’t know if the special flavors have been changed).
(via veganstraightedgefuckyou)
I’ve been thinking about getting this shirt to remind me why I quit smoking.
Oddly, it was easy to quit when I finally realized that supporting these companies went against everything I stood for.
It’s more than animal rights… it’s another story of the rich white men targeting minorities, targeting the LGBT community, targeting the lower class, enforcing gender roles, preying on low self-esteem.
Every time I tried to quit for my physical health I couldn’t do it. I guess my beliefs are stronger than my body.
This is why smoking is not hip and ironic.
Dear high school hipsters with the ‘Local First’ stickers that harass me for being vegan:
Until our food system becomes more transparent, there is one thing you can do to shrink the carbon footprint of your dinner: Take the meat off your plate. No matter how you slice it, it takes more energy to bring meat, as opposed to plants, to the table. It takes 6 pounds of grain to make a pound of chicken and 10 to 16 pounds to make a pound of beef. That difference translates into big differences in inputs. It requires 2,400 liters of water to make a burger and only 13 liters to grow a tomato. A majority of the water in the American West goes toward the production of pigs, chickens and cattle.
The average American eats 273 pounds of meat a year. Give up red meat once a week and you’ll save as much energy as if the only food miles in your diet were the distance to the nearest truck farmer.
If you want to make a statement, ride your bike to the farmer’s market. If you want to reduce greenhouse gases, become a vegetarian.
(full article by James E. McWilliams for Forbes Magazine)
Brad, I’m staying vegetarian. At the moment, I have considered veganism, and the pure and simple truth is that I love my dairy. Until I find good enough substitutes that please my taste buds I will continue as normal buying dairy products that are both organic and locally produced if not in Idaho, in Oregon. I think just being conscious of the fact that milk and cheese and yogurt have to come from SOMEWHERE and trying to reduce the distance AND the conditions of the farms that the animals live in is good enough for me. Sorry, cows need to be milked. Why not consume what they must have taken from them? I have said before and I will say again, if I could have the cow and milk it myself and feed it and pet it and make it happy I would. But unfortunately my apartment isn’t big enough for a cat AND a cow. :)
Now criticize my view. I know you’re going to. If not Mikey will.
Cows do need to be milked, but not by humans. Why do cows produce milk? To feed calves. The dairy industry force-impregnates (read: rapes) cows and takes away their babies. The male calves are raised as veal (read: killed for food), and the female calves are raised to the same fate as their mothers (read: raped and killed).
Organic and local also say nothing about the conditions that these animals live in, unless you personally visit the farm and see for yourself. There are organic feedlots (aka CAFOs, aka factory farms).
Plain and simple, in my opinion: cow milk is not human food. It is baby cow food. Humans are the only species that 1) consume milk beyond infancy and 2) consume milk of another species.
I could go on with why dairy is bad for you in terms of health reasons, but I’m sure everyone is sick of my Tumblr vegan rants. I just feel like I have to jump in where people are misinformed.
So glad I went vegan. I’m actually still learning reasons to be glad of it, such as some of the above.
Edit: As a vegan, I also try and eat local foods. :P It helps that Oberlin is in the middle of farmland and I eat in OSCA (Oberlin Student Cooperative Association) which prioritizes buying local food products.
Vegan marshmallow bunnies :3
