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chiraag, 1 day ago

@br00t4c Ah yes, blame the big bad Chinese for...exploiting the penchant for businesses to cut costs by offshoring industry.

WTF is this article.

chiraag, 5 days ago

Even if you're not vegan, I think it's safe to say that we can all agree that the conditions around factory farming are abhorrent: livestock living in their own feces, pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones, and fundamentally only as useful as their product (meat, dairy, or eggs). But these horrific practices stem from an attitude towards animals: they are factories to produce what we want and which we can "optimize" however we see fit.

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chiraag, 5 days ago

Even free-range chickens and grass-fed cows are only as useful as their products, right? Though it may technically be more humane than the baseline, the fundamental attitude hasn't shifted. They're still viewed as factories, albeit ones we should take better care of.

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chiraag, 5 days ago

Tackling that attitude is uncomfortable, I'm not going to lie. I grew up vegetarian and was told the lie that the dairy industry doesn't hurt the cow. No matter the fact that male calves are culled immediately because they're "useless" (there's that attitude again!) or that the cows are living in squalid conditions. Let's ignore the fact that sometimes the milking machines malfunction and the udders start bleeding. No, we're not harming any cows!

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chiraag, 5 days ago

The fact of the matter is that as soon as cow's milk became a commodity, cows became factories. Need more milk? Let's forcibly impregnate our cows. Male calf? Useless. Female calf? Let it have the minimum amount of milk (every drop it drinks is a drop we can't sell) and impregnate it as soon as we can (needs to start generating revenue). The egg industry isn't much better.

If this is uncomfortable for you, good! It's okay to be uncomfortable.

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chiraag, 5 days ago

It is okay to be uncomfortable with the attitudes and choices that go into that glass of milk. It means you actually care about animals. So act on it.

Don't look away just because it's uncomfortable. Don't willingly blind yourself to the suffering that goes into that milk, yogurt, cheese, eggs, and meat.

We willingly exploit mothers of others species because the product "tastes good".

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chiraag, 5 days ago

This mother's day, make a choice to stop exploiting animal mothers. Their suffering isn't worth all the delicious food in the world.

I want to end this by saying that I know the transition is tough. Once I decided I would go vegan, it took me almost 5-6 years to actually do it. I made sure I wasn't losing anything nutritionally (main concern).

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chiraag, 5 days ago

I could no longer eat my favorite dessert (gulab jamun), at least not in restaurants. I could no longer eat naan (they add milk to it), at least not in restaurants. Most desserts are off-limits for me (I gave up egg almost immediately, so that one has been true for a long time for me), even at other people's houses (and I don't feel good mentioning it unless it's just us coming over).

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chiraag, 5 days ago

But it's worth it. The fact that I'm not exploiting other animals feels good, and realizing how many products have animal exploitation built in (and how embedded it is in so many cultures) has been eye-opening.

It can definitely feel very hard, but keeping the reasons in mind can make it easier. Finding a community (IRL or online) can make it easier.

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chiraag, 5 days ago

In summary: Go Vegan!

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(go read the rest of the thread if you got here by the group or hashtag)

#Vegan @vegan

chiraag, 20 hours ago

@opethminded @Free_Press Yes, Hamas has to go. No, bombing the everloving fuck out of all of Palestine and killing tons of civilians will not achieve that and only breeds resentment.

You cannot bomb Hamas out of existence because it rose to prominence due to perceived neglect of Palestinian rights by the previous ruling party. Want Hamas out? Agitate for ending Israeli apartheid.

chiraag, 10 days ago

@nervous_jessica Oh man, this is so cool! My mom loves puzzles (esp with unique-shaped pieces), so this was perfect for Mother's Day!

chiraag, 11 days ago

@ben Random question, but how did you generate a signal.me link?

chiraag, 12 days ago

@hanse_mina I'm always slightly skeptical of intelligence officials, mostly b/c they have a bad habit (at least here in the US) of using threats (real and imagined) to justify expanding police powers and surveillance.

chiraag, 13 days ago

@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore Down the rabbit hole!

chiraag, 14 days ago

@angyt @vegan @wfpb @vegancooking We had it with saag tofu. Channa saag would be great too!

chiraag, 20 days ago

@OwenTyme @bookstodon Nice to see Smashwords has decent revenue sharing! Or is just that there are fewer middlemen?

chiraag, 20 days ago

@OwenTyme @bookstodon Yeah, I like Smashwords for the DRM-free reason (it was one of the first places I started buying ebooks once I got a Kobo Libra).

chiraag, 22 days ago

@ArtSmart Nah. People are fed up with backing a genocide. We don't need TikTok propaganda to tell us what we can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. We don't need propaganda to know that Genocide Joe has stood by Bibi the Butcher and provided him the weapons to massacre Palestinians.

Not everything has to connect back to a Russian or Chinese conspiracy. Sometimes awful people are held accountable for doing awful things.

chiraag, 22 days ago

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