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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 12d

Vegans can sometimes get a bit emotional & angry.

Just like non-vegans get emotional & angry if they see a crush video or their neighbour kicks a puppy.

Default humans laugh at the vegans but join the outrage about the puppy 🐶

Yet we have more in common than you might think.

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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 11d

And nearly all (~90%) of the nutritional value of that 70-80% is destroyed because of feed conversion ratios.

Animal agriculture destroys way more food than it creates. And the land use 🤯

Which is why… ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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Sentientism @sentientism.bsky.social · 9d

A wonderful way to honour Jane Goodall’s life is to care about all sentient animals, like she did, rather than just some of them.

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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 7d

Many people are brutally, self-servingly selective in their recollections of Jane Goodall’s message to humanity.

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Sentientism @sentientism.bsky.social · 23h

Why doesn’t the word #senticide exist?

Maybe it should?

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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 7h

Oh they don’t want that sort of transparency.

They only want the sort of “transparency” that means coconut milk can’t be called milk and a veggie burger can’t be called a burger.

So many politicians have been bought by the big animal ag industry.

Culturally bought, if not with cash 💰

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I have hashtagged Marineland several times over the last 2 days, yet not one shows up in a search. Same with other keyword searches I’ve tried.
How do SM sites get away with these suppression tactics?

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 7h

That’s fine, as long as we don’t in any way mention the preceding intrinsic violence, mutilations, sexual violations to forcibly impregnate, familial separation, confinement, denial of subjective needs & final betrayal in the form of a brutal death at a fraction of an individual’s potential age.

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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 @europarl.europa.eu insists that meat must now be called “flesh with faeces” and cows’ milk must now be called “mammalian gland secretions with pus.”

Finally, some clarity for consumers about what they’re feeding their children 🥰 😋

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 11h

If we scrape the surface, we cannot fail to see how violent, how indefensible, how gratuitously despotic our ideology is. Those who then choose to continue to participate & defend it are choosing to be violent despots. There upon they rescind the right to claim to be decent or civilised.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 3d

A system built on the supremacist notion that living beings are property and their bodies a resource to exploit is irredeemably unjust and can't be reformed. Rooting it out is the only solution.

A group of cows with numbered ear tags, crowded together in an industrial farm are looking directly at the camera.

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filmnathan @filmnathan.bsky.social · 5d

While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

@defendourjuries.bsky.social

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 2d

🐬 A sustainable & humane commercial fishing industry is a greenwashed fantasy. If you truly care about our oceans in crisis - walk the walk and learn to live vegan 🙏🏻⚖️ #BiodiversityCollapse

Lotta @lotta20241113.bsky.social · 3d

Dolphin bycatch Spain

youtu.be/wHI919b1SYs?...

#SeaShepherdFrance

#Dolphins
#Cetaceans

Dolphin Bycatch Spain – Briser le silence

YouTube video by Sea Shepherd France - Officiel

youtu.be

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 3d

It bears repeating

Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, but if people actually cared about animal welfare they’d stop eating, wearing and using them for entertainment or any other purpose.

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 11h

Who do you think controls the narrative? We who are subjected to gratuitous violence & a brutal death at a fraction of our potential age? Or those who stand to gain from our cruel abuse?
Who do you listen to? Victims or abusers?

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photograph of the widened, terrified eye of a young cow individual. Viewed through a gap in the side of a slaughterhouse truck

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion".

This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 1d

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Claiming to be horrified by cruelty whilst simultaneously participating in the gratuitous cruelty inflicted upon hundreds of billions of sentient individuals for your nonessential ends is the height of hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.

A young chicken individual looks out from the tiny metal barred cage where they are imprisoned with countless others in a darkened farm building.

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 1d

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You scream cruelty if someone is unkind to one animal, but because you wish to benefit from cruelty inflicted on a gargantuan scale upon us, you about face & condone the cruelty, oxymoronically claim it’s humane & defend it to the last.

We are #OneBillionScreams
@polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photograph of the head of a young chicken individual, cruelly incarcerated in a tiny metal barred cage in a darkened farm building.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 2d

Parents always say ‘if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?’

Yet those same parents will use others as an excuse when it comes to our unnecessary, outdated & barbaric use of animals, because everyone else is still doing it, right? 😟

#OneBillionScreams #WakeUp

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 2d

You prefer to see yourselves as doing nothing evil, nothing out of the ordinary, just behaving innocuously like everyone else. Yet simultaneously you subject us to gratuitous violence, mutilation & brutal massacres. You are perpetrators of atrocities.

We are #OneBillionScreams

Several one week old male calves hang upside down from their back legs on a conveyor in an Australian slaughterhouse, bleeding out after having had their throats slashed. The tiled walls are spattered with spilled infant blood.

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[Redacted] @vegandroid.bsky.social · 2d

This industry has to go

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 2d

In 2023, activists placed hidden cameras in a Tasmanian slaughterhouse and captured the handling and brutal killing of thousands of week old calves, many who were pushed, thrown, beaten and even killed while fully conscious

www.farmtransparency.org/campaigns/en...

End dairy slaughter

Dairy's deadly secrets Newborn calves, dragged from their mothers as they cry out in fear and pain. Mother cows running after a trailer, unable to keep up as their baby disappears from view. The m...

www.farmtransparency.org

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 2d

In 2023, activists placed hidden cameras in a Tasmanian slaughterhouse and captured the handling and brutal killing of thousands of week old calves, many who were pushed, thrown, beaten and even killed while fully conscious

www.farmtransparency.org/campaigns/en...

End dairy slaughter

Dairy's deadly secrets Newborn calves, dragged from their mothers as they cry out in fear and pain. Mother cows running after a trailer, unable to keep up as their baby disappears from view. The m...

www.farmtransparency.org

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 2d

You prefer to see yourselves as doing nothing evil, nothing out of the ordinary, just behaving innocuously like everyone else. Yet simultaneously you subject us to gratuitous violence, mutilation & brutal massacres. You are perpetrators of atrocities.

We are #OneBillionScreams

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 2d

The #fear of this little calf who has been forever separated from their now grieving mother is palpable 😔

Please, if you haven’t already, ditch dairy. No human being needs the sustenance made for precious little calves like the one below.

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 3d

Because you want the dead flesh of our murdered bodies or other end products of our violent abuse, & because such gratuitous cruelty is normalised in your society, on that shitty basis alone you decide it’s okay. You ignore the only significant perspective- ours.

We are #OneBillionScreams

A young male calf who has been separated from his mother and denied her love, protection and sustenance, looks through the metal bars of the tiny prison where he is incarcerated on a dairy farm.

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 3d

Because you want the dead flesh of our murdered bodies or other end products of our violent abuse, & because such gratuitous cruelty is normalised in your society, on that shitty basis alone you decide it’s okay. You ignore the only significant perspective- ours.

We are #OneBillionScreams

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GaⓋen Kind. 🌱 🌱 🌱 @gavenkind.bsky.social · 5d

People who support the animal agriculture industry by buying their products are supporting this and paying for it to happen. Those people need to overcome their cognitive dissonance and live their values. Don’t pay others to do what you wouldn’t do yourself. Live #vegan with a clear conscience.

Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 5d

Daily, several people block me on this platform. It seems that a huge percentage of people are unwilling, too cowardly & too hypocritical to acknowledge or face the indefensible violence & egregious cruelty that they cause. I guess we can’t expect better from those who prey upon the vulnerable.

A young male cow individual is being strung upside down by a back leg as a slaughterhouse worker slashes his throat with a knife.

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