TheFrogKnows

Vegan for Total Liberation. Cease fire and free Palestine 🇵🇸

[TheFrogKnows @TheFrogKnows]

Vegans, PLEASE don't scroll past. Heartstone, the only dedicated Irish sanctuary for cows, is going under. After being evicted from their land, they are in a new location that is not suitable for either the animals or their human to live through winter. https://t.co/mkzENiXWhx

[NO HOSTS NO MASTERS 🏴& @the_corvidae]

twitter apparently not familiar with the concept of being pro-abortion and anti-eugenics at the same time

[@Sentientism @sentientism]

@sgodofsk Racists and casteists and sexists and ableists think just like this too.

Dogmatism is so convenient. Much easier than thinking.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[S. Prabhu Ⓥ @Sharzard5]

I can excuse the mass torture and slaughter of animals but I draw the line at cultural insensitivity

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Truly disturbing that the American Veterinary Medical Association (@AVMAvets) is lobbying Congress to keep pigs in tiny crates.

Welfare scientist Donald Broom said it's "much worse than severely beating an animal."

Seems like a clear violation of the veterinarian's oath.

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

I've been thinking more about *time* when I think about animal cruelty. Usually I've thought about severity of pain but this meme really drives home the time element. These animals are in a lot of pain *and* are bored, which slows down time. And they have no distracting stimuli.

[roshan @rhymewithocean]

it’s the same rhetorical move as “100 companies produce 70% of ghg emissions.” in both cases we are expected to simply ignore that people are in fact consuming what those producers produce and refuse to reckon with what would happen to our consumption patterns if that changed

[ｊａｍｉｅ Ⓥ @pressxtosplode]

Vegans are quite literally organising against capitalism and challenging those systems by not partaking in them, while pushing for change via the kind of protest, outreach and direct action that significantly affects these industries.

What are these people smoking, holy shit

[nichard @meatymcsorley]

logging in to twitter the everything app to see the same 4 arguments against veganism for 11 consecutive years

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

Fishing is a sadistic subculture that celebrates violence. Study fishing videos and you can see how people can get sucked into increasingly depraved content and platforms let you post it all. It should be seen as a school shooter pipeline like any other kind of animal torture.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

1,000-year-old trees get turned into furniture.

Meanwhile, 100-year-old buildings are protected as "historically important."

Old growth trees support thousands of species over their lifetime, insects, birds, fungi, and entire ecosystems that younger trees simply can't match.

They’re living cathedrals.

We protect what we value. It’s time we started valuing these ancient giants the same way we value old buildings.

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Why the silence on this @networkrail? In the face of increasing public anger? These birds will have travelled around 14,000 miles when they return to their nesting holes - only to find them blocked up. Nature is increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, forced to fit around our sprawling network of transport and housing and commerce. Please act NOW to rectify your thoughtless actions!

https://t.co/E8PFLTCUcH

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

Emperor penguins are now officially endangered, in part by the collapse of krill.

Norwegian trawlers are besieging Antarctica, trawling through whale pods to steal krill for fish farming.

The Bandero chased them from Antarctica & is now being blacklisted by all Southern ports.

[Tiffany ⚢ Woman4Women @Woman4W]

From humans to cows to chickens to fish, there is something utterly heartbreaking about the horrors and indignities humans inflict on female creatures in order to profit off of their fertility. 💔

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

A grim milestone: More than 200 million chickens, hens, and turkeys have died in the 2022-2026 bird flu outbreak. Most were killed by being roasted alive-sealing off air vents & letting the birds slowly die of heatstroke over hours. Here's what it looks like (in a lab setting):

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture all but finished a decades long, cruel bipartisan project: Speeding up the kill lines at America's slaughterhouses. The draft rules have received almost no media attn but will impact hundreds of millions of workers & animals.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

If we found microscopic life on Mars the media would go ballistic with excitement
Yet here on Earth species after species the likes of which we will never see again are on the verge on extinction and all we get from the media is
deadly silence

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

Remember: The mutation from mild, low pathogenicity in wild birds to this deadly virus is a result of intensive poultry production—it's our fault.

But how often is this mentioned in any report about bird flu?
If we ignore this, how do we prevent future disasters?

Source: https://t.co/9kKmUiHj4j

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

🌎

There are many things worse than death
As this whale knew all too well.

Long weeks of unimaginable suffering with gear embedded in his flesh, unable to feed, sharks swirling.
Utterly exhausted. No hope of escape.

Do you know why?
They changed fishing lines in the 1990s to be far more lethal, and they refuse to deploy measures to mitigate harm
(Ropes with breaking strength ≤7.56 kN (1700 lbsf) could reduce life-threatening entanglements by at least 72%).
That's the fishing industry. Negligent. Unconcerned. Subsidized ecocide.

Below: Division. One of the rarest whale species on Earth.
His life had barely begun. He was 4. He'd been entangled four times in his short life. He was already starving here on Dec. 4, but would suffer over seven more weeks as they couldn't free him.

[Kate Brown @KateKadisha]

Please help this #vegan sanctuary in Ireland. I’ve donated again today. They are ind desperate need of funds to save their animals!!!!! Please donate and spread the word if you can. Thank you #animals #Ireland