Vic Asouzu
@vicasouzu.bsky.social
Each day I ask: what does it mean to be free, and to succeed, without breaking our bond with life or our reverence for it?
Exactly. That’s what awareness does. It changes what feels acceptable.
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Exactly. That’s what awareness does. It changes what feels acceptable.
The deeper question isn’t about logistics.
It’s about why we keep bringing lives into existence
that were never meant to be lived fully in the first place.
It’s about why we keep bringing lives into existence
that were never meant to be lived fully in the first place.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The deeper question isn’t about logistics.
It’s about why we keep bringing lives into existence
that were never meant to be lived fully in the first place.
It’s about why we keep bringing lives into existence
that were never meant to be lived fully in the first place.
When demand for violence fades, nothing collapses.
Fewer animals are brought into existence.
The numbers decline quietly, generation by generation.
Fewer animals are brought into existence.
The numbers decline quietly, generation by generation.
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When demand for violence fades, nothing collapses.
Fewer animals are brought into existence.
The numbers decline quietly, generation by generation.
Fewer animals are brought into existence.
The numbers decline quietly, generation by generation.
They don’t.
Animals don’t overpopulate.
Overpopulation is something we create when we decide their lives are commodities.
Animals don’t overpopulate.
Overpopulation is something we create when we decide their lives are commodities.
December 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
They don’t.
Animals don’t overpopulate.
Overpopulation is something we create when we decide their lives are commodities.
Animals don’t overpopulate.
Overpopulation is something we create when we decide their lives are commodities.
And each of us is carrying a story like that
until we choose to face it.
until we choose to face it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And each of us is carrying a story like that
until we choose to face it.
until we choose to face it.
Violence doesn’t begin with the act.
It begins with the story that made the act imaginable.
It begins with the story that made the act imaginable.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Violence doesn’t begin with the act.
It begins with the story that made the act imaginable.
It begins with the story that made the act imaginable.
You can see it in the suffering we justify.
In the harm we walk past without looking.
In the moments when empathy rises
and we push it down because we were taught to.
In the harm we walk past without looking.
In the moments when empathy rises
and we push it down because we were taught to.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
You can see it in the suffering we justify.
In the harm we walk past without looking.
In the moments when empathy rises
and we push it down because we were taught to.
In the harm we walk past without looking.
In the moments when empathy rises
and we push it down because we were taught to.
Here’s the truth we resist.
The same beliefs that eventually push a few people to the edge
also shape the small, ordinary choices the rest of us make every day.
The same beliefs that eventually push a few people to the edge
also shape the small, ordinary choices the rest of us make every day.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Here’s the truth we resist.
The same beliefs that eventually push a few people to the edge
also shape the small, ordinary choices the rest of us make every day.
The same beliefs that eventually push a few people to the edge
also shape the small, ordinary choices the rest of us make every day.
Narratives that seed hate and quietly place some lives above others.
Those that turn another’s pain into background noise.
And the ones that teach us to look straight at suffering and feel nothing at all.
Those that turn another’s pain into background noise.
And the ones that teach us to look straight at suffering and feel nothing at all.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Narratives that seed hate and quietly place some lives above others.
Those that turn another’s pain into background noise.
And the ones that teach us to look straight at suffering and feel nothing at all.
Those that turn another’s pain into background noise.
And the ones that teach us to look straight at suffering and feel nothing at all.
Every act of violence begins as an idea someone learned to accept.
December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Every act of violence begins as an idea someone learned to accept.
We talk about these tragedies as if they appear out of nowhere.
They don’t.
They grow quietly inside the things we were taught to believe without ever questioning them.
They don’t.
They grow quietly inside the things we were taught to believe without ever questioning them.
December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We talk about these tragedies as if they appear out of nowhere.
They don’t.
They grow quietly inside the things we were taught to believe without ever questioning them.
They don’t.
They grow quietly inside the things we were taught to believe without ever questioning them.
And when those stories carry even a trace of dehumanisation
it only takes the wrong mind
in the wrong moment
for that trace to turn into violence.
it only takes the wrong mind
in the wrong moment
for that trace to turn into violence.
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And when those stories carry even a trace of dehumanisation
it only takes the wrong mind
in the wrong moment
for that trace to turn into violence.
it only takes the wrong mind
in the wrong moment
for that trace to turn into violence.
Using beings who cannot fight back doesn’t make you strong.
It only reveals that dominance is the only strength your position has left.
Real strength is the ability to protect life when you have the power to take it.
It only reveals that dominance is the only strength your position has left.
Real strength is the ability to protect life when you have the power to take it.
December 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Using beings who cannot fight back doesn’t make you strong.
It only reveals that dominance is the only strength your position has left.
Real strength is the ability to protect life when you have the power to take it.
It only reveals that dominance is the only strength your position has left.
Real strength is the ability to protect life when you have the power to take it.
And when someone says “nobody cares,” they’re not describing reality.
They’re describing the worldview their choices require.
They’re describing the worldview their choices require.
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And when someone says “nobody cares,” they’re not describing reality.
They’re describing the worldview their choices require.
They’re describing the worldview their choices require.
Even if you raise an animal, feed them, care for them, let them roam freely, and kill them quickly, it still doesn’t change the only truth that matters:
they did not want to die.
they did not want to die.
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Even if you raise an animal, feed them, care for them, let them roam freely, and kill them quickly, it still doesn’t change the only truth that matters:
they did not want to die.
they did not want to die.
But “apex predator” isn’t a moral argument.
It’s just a description of power.
And power has never been a reliable guide for what is right.
It describes what we can do, not what we should do.
It’s just a description of power.
And power has never been a reliable guide for what is right.
It describes what we can do, not what we should do.
December 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
But “apex predator” isn’t a moral argument.
It’s just a description of power.
And power has never been a reliable guide for what is right.
It describes what we can do, not what we should do.
It’s just a description of power.
And power has never been a reliable guide for what is right.
It describes what we can do, not what we should do.
Once that recognition lands, it’s irreversible.
You don’t go back from compassion.
By calling yourself an ex-vegan, you revealed that it was never about the ethics for you.
The moral awakening simply never happened.
You don’t go back from compassion.
By calling yourself an ex-vegan, you revealed that it was never about the ethics for you.
The moral awakening simply never happened.
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Once that recognition lands, it’s irreversible.
You don’t go back from compassion.
By calling yourself an ex-vegan, you revealed that it was never about the ethics for you.
The moral awakening simply never happened.
You don’t go back from compassion.
By calling yourself an ex-vegan, you revealed that it was never about the ethics for you.
The moral awakening simply never happened.
Because veganism isn’t a diet.
It’s the refusal to make unnecessary harm feel normal.
Plant-based food is just the consequence of that stance.
It’s the refusal to make unnecessary harm feel normal.
Plant-based food is just the consequence of that stance.
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Because veganism isn’t a diet.
It’s the refusal to make unnecessary harm feel normal.
Plant-based food is just the consequence of that stance.
It’s the refusal to make unnecessary harm feel normal.
Plant-based food is just the consequence of that stance.
Most people who say they “left veganism” never left an ethic.
They left a diet.
They were never living the moral stance, just the menu.
So what they returned to wasn’t freedom.
It was habit.
They left a diet.
They were never living the moral stance, just the menu.
So what they returned to wasn’t freedom.
It was habit.
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Most people who say they “left veganism” never left an ethic.
They left a diet.
They were never living the moral stance, just the menu.
So what they returned to wasn’t freedom.
It was habit.
They left a diet.
They were never living the moral stance, just the menu.
So what they returned to wasn’t freedom.
It was habit.
You can stop eating plants.
You can start eating animals again.
But you can’t unsee another being’s suffering once you’ve actually let yourself see it.
You can start eating animals again.
But you can’t unsee another being’s suffering once you’ve actually let yourself see it.
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You can stop eating plants.
You can start eating animals again.
But you can’t unsee another being’s suffering once you’ve actually let yourself see it.
You can start eating animals again.
But you can’t unsee another being’s suffering once you’ve actually let yourself see it.
Sherry, thank you. ❤️
That really means a lot.
I’m just trying to put words to what so many of us already feel.
And if this movement grows, it will be because people like you keep carrying the flame.
That really means a lot.
I’m just trying to put words to what so many of us already feel.
And if this movement grows, it will be because people like you keep carrying the flame.
December 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sherry, thank you. ❤️
That really means a lot.
I’m just trying to put words to what so many of us already feel.
And if this movement grows, it will be because people like you keep carrying the flame.
That really means a lot.
I’m just trying to put words to what so many of us already feel.
And if this movement grows, it will be because people like you keep carrying the flame.