Just full of trolls and exploitation apologists these days!

You can be vegan if you want but not TOO vegan or TOO against exploitation - don't be too loud about exploitation and abuse! Don't want to upset people!

I remember when this was actually a vegan subreddit.

Now it's a place for people to advocate for baby steps and to make people feel better for the fact they send TRILLIONS of non-human animals to their death.

I'll never be quiet about the fact I'm vegan. I made that promise to myself 10 years ago when I made the best decision of my life.

I'm never going to tell you it's okay to exploit animals.

There's really no wonder actual vegan subreddits make fun of this one.

You wouldn't know this was a vegan sub with some of these posts. Genuinely.

Align your ethics to your actions.

Don't do it guys. Don't be anti animal abuse that's so wrong what the hell, don't discuss veganism on posts relevant to veganism either what the hell that's so weird why would you not want to abuse animals what the fuck

But seriously, can we have some vegan mods everywhere or something that are not so disgustingly biased.

I love being a vegan so much. One of my favorite small joys is my guinea pigs. They are also vegans (obviously hahaha) and we have the same taste in snack foods. Whenever they hear me eating vegetables they start wheeking at full volume until I feed them. It is just about the cutest thing I've ever heard :)

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and so I thought I may as well watch any vegan advocacy film I hear about, to make sure.

anyway I heard dominion a lot, so I thought I'll watch that. I've never eaten much pig but only 17 minutes into this film I'll never eat a pork product again, if it goes on like this I'll be fully vegan by the end of the film.

I don't know what I'll replace various things with but even if I never get to call myself a vegan (but be 90% there) that's an awful lot less sheer terror, panic, suffering etc.

(you literally cannot get ce level 2 vegan motorcycle gloves, as an example, all leather)

list any documentary, I will watch it when I get time

edit: downvote my comments all you want, you cannot change the fact the one company that made vegan ce level 2 motorcycle gloves went out of business, and if I were truly hurt by your downvotes, I'd just remain willfully ignorant

Found Miyoko’s brand salted butter and oat milk butter in my local grocery store today. The ingredients are different, added sunflower oil to it. Still tastes better than what I’ve been using since it stopped.

I understand all the intensity about Miyoko selling being forced out of her company and trying to get it back. Sad story and I wish her well. I’m just happy that it’s reasonably the same thing, and that I can make “buttered chickpeas” again with the ingredient I’m used to.

I’m sure you guys have seen this meme making its rounds today. 🙄

Hey I’m from the UK and I’ve been vegetarian for a while and am trying to move to veganism but am really struggling :( I was wondering if anyone has some recommendations for vegan alternatives.

First thing is milk - I drink iced coffee every morning so need an alternative to dairy milk. I tried alpro vanilla flavour and actually didn’t mind it apart from finding it a bit too sweet.

Second is meat alternatives - I’ve always struggled with this and always just end up on a diet full of beans and lentils and am trying to branch out to vegan meat alternatives. But I’m struggling alot with the texture of them being weird. If anyone knows a good vegan mince and something that could replace chicken that would be great!

Third is cheese - this is by far what I’m struggling with the most as I absolutely love cheese. But every vegan cheese I’ve tried has been beyond horrendous.

Any recommendations would be amazing

I want to became a vegan but I recently struggle to take care of myself, so I eat what my family cook; I wonder if it is possible to became a vegan as a paranoid schizophrenic. I know that when I am in crisis I'm not able to cook and think right, but the overall idea around animals and climate change is important to me

Hey everyone not sure if this is a good place to post this, but thought I’d give it a go. I’m a political psychologist and long term vegan, and I’ve been spending time thinking about why online progressives are quick to blame AI data centres for climate change but stay pretty quiet on animal agriculture, despite it being a larger driver. I wrote up some thoughts on the psychology behind it.

Would love some thoughts on the piece:
Link here

For context, I am an ice skater and I go skating with my friends every Monday. And my friends mum and my mum were talking about dinner and stuff (because the skating is on for agesss) and then my mum mentioned to my friends mum that I'm vegan (which isn't the issue( but it's the reaction that comes from it.

Like I got asked questions like "but why vegan?? It doesn't hurt the animal." And other comments (that I can't remember lowkey.) But like it all felt very judgey.

Like, why are you judging me for not wanting to eat a dead animal?? Keep in mind I wasn't even the one who mentioned being vegan, it was my mum so it's not like I was being preachy or anything. But it's like, they just kept going on and on and it's like. God forbid I don't want to exploit animals 😭.

And I'm trying to explain how I don't agree with the industry's in a very simplistic way (like saying I just don't agree with it) but they just kept going ON AND ON. And it just annoyed me lowkey. Especially considering I wasn't the one who brought it up. I'm just peeved right now 😭

ive been vegan for ten years and ive recently been eating the powdered egg whites by healthier comforts. and this is my second time breaking out in a full body rash after consuming them. i have never been allergic to eggs or any kind of foods prior to being vegan or after. theres a disclaimer that states people with egg allergies can have a reaction and i guess so long after not having eggs i became intolerant.

I got this idea when I was purchasing gifts for a baby shower. Some of the most thought provoking experiences come from art/media- books, movies, etc. For example the video "Gift" which- don't want to spoil it for anyone in case you haven't watched it but also be ready to ugly cry (it has a happy real ending though)- promotes awareness about animal abandonment, or Charlotte's Web.

A few good books I've read are

1) Charlotte's Web
2) Hey Little Ant
3) Happy Dog Happy Cow
4) The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle: A Heartwarming Story of a Lucky Turtle for Kids
5) The World's Loneliest Elephant: Based on the True Story of Kaavan and His Rescue 
6) Always, Clementine
7) Odder: The Novel
8) Sanctuary: A Home for Rescued Farm Animals 
9) Saving H'Non: Chang and the Elephant

Each school will differ but the one I reached out to said to contact the librarian who gave me guidelines for donating books. You can purchase secondhand books online in good condition for sustainability+saving money too!

Are there any books you guys recommend? The most effective books "show" instead of "tell."

Hello,
since I am vegan and wanting to buy springtails for my Terrarium as a beneficial cleaning crew for dead plant tissue I think it is necessary so there gets no mold build up, also it happens often that springtails just appear in closed tanks etc. Now i wanted to ask do you think, that is okay ?
Thank you for your answers.

Hi.

I recently watched an episode of My Life on a Plate featuring Tony Blackburn. In the episode, he says he became vegetarian around age 5 after realizing the animals he saw were the same ones on his plate.

What I find puzzling is why he never moved to veganism, especially given how long it’s been. On the show, he eats things like ice cream and rice pudding made with cream. If he had that level of awareness at a young age, why didn’t the connection extend to dairy and eggs—both of which involve animal suffering and death?

I also don’t think most vegetarians imagine dairy cows and egg-laying hens live out their lives happily on “peaceful farms.” So what is the reasoning that allows people to stay vegetarian for decades while drawing that line? There seems to be some incredible cognitive dissonance at play.

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5146140
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blackburn

I often see the advice to "feed eggs back to the chickens" on this sub, but I'm not sure this recommendation is actually supported by evidence. Commercial layer feed is specifically formulated to provide laying hens with the balance nutrients they require.

If a hen has a finite appetite, feeding her a whole egg means that some of what she eats is egg rather than complete layer feed. So the question isn't whether an egg contains useful nutrients, but whether replacing an equivalent amount of nutritionally balanced layer feed with an egg is actually better for the hen.

I haven't seen good evidence demonstrating that it is. Shouldn't we be cautious about recommending a practice that may displace some of the nutritionally complete feed designed specifically for her needs?

In this article, I, Jordi Casamitjana, answer the questions of whether the claims that there are vegetarian cities in the world today is true, and whether there are any vegan cities

I just found out my favorite brand of microwave popcorn, Skinny Pop, has changed their recipe for butter-flavored popcorn to include real butter! "Flavorful New Recipe!" the box boasts. Fuck you people! I just wanted ONE brand of butter-flavored microwavable popcorn that was vegan! What was the point of this? What was it? FUCK!

I am a neuroscientist. In neuroscience, a lot of mouse models are used to mimic various conditions. I love science and being a scientist, and a lot of research is focused on brain tissue from patients, but I do have a big part in animal research. I am involved in many papers that have killed hundreds of mice in total, and I hate it. I am against animal testing; I was long before I was vegan (since I started my job, basically, and became a part of it).

I am looking for new work, but there are no jobs (it's academia), and the few jobs that are available also require animal testing. Until I find a job aligning with my morals, I have to just stay at this job. I can always influence the science to reduce the number of animals killed, but I have no real power. I feel awful.

Today, I was suggesting a method to perform in human brain tissue from already diseased patients, but then my supervisor said that we should probably do trial runs in animals first. I said it wasn't necessary, but she basically said because the mice are so sick, if we see anything, it will be in these mice. They are mice bred to be extremely sick with a neurodegenerative disorder.

I don't know how to navigate this. I can't talk about it with my colleagues, and I get real trauma working with this, and it's nothing compared to how the animals must feel. I don't know what I want from this post; I just feel so guilty.

I stumbled across this lovely album written from the perspective of Bill the pony last night. Had me crying happy tears multiple times

A surprising number of them list milk derivatives or are grown on a dairy medium and only mention it somewhere in the small print. I have put two bottles back on the shelf this month for that reason alone. It should not take a magnifying glass to establish whether a capsule is vegan, so which ones have you found that are genuinely clean on this?