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There are many animals that society has labeled as “stupid” or “pests” when they are anything but. Rats, pigeons, squirrels, and crows are four of the top ten smartest animals. So why are they known as disease agents rather than little geniuses?
1⃣ Rats have very developed senses of hearing, smell, touch—through their long whiskers—and taste. Although they have a reputation of carrying diseases, they’re less likely than dogs or cats to transmit parasites and viruses. They’re actually quite clean, spending several hours every day grooming themselves and each other. They are very social and affectionate animals, and love being in the company of their own species or humans. They take care of the injured and sick rats in their group. Because they’re so smart—they can find shortcuts, loopholes and escape routes in laboratory experiments—rats are widely used—and abused—in research.
2⃣ Pigeons can identify themselves in a mirror, be taught to perform a sequence of movements and discriminate subtle differences between two objects can recognize hundreds of images even after several years have passed— not bad for a “pest”
3⃣ Most squirrels display an impressive array of tricks and strategies that help them survive. They’ve adapted to living alongside humans, eating out of bird-feeders, flower gardens and whatever food might be lying around. They are also able to store food for leaner times, and then find their hidden morsels many months later. They may also pretend to hide food in order to confuse potential thieves, which researchers believe shows an advanced level of cunning and intellect.
4⃣ Crows living in urban areas are known to gather nuts from trees and then place them in the street for passing cars to crack open the shells. Then, after waiting patiently for the light to change, they return to the street to retrieve their nutty snack. Crows also communicate in elaborate population-specific dialects and play games and tricks on one another.
Smart little guys aren’t they? Speciesism sucks #vegansofig
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Average price of ground beef per pound: $3.66
Average price of beef roasts per pound: $4.48
Average price of beef steaks (any type): $6.21
Average price of short ribs (any source) per pound: $4.66
Average price of chicken breast per pound: $3.17
Average price of ham (any type, excluding canned) per lb: $2.58
Average price of pork chops per pound: $3.49
Average price of bacon per pound: $4.53
Average price of bologna per pound: $2.86
Average price of eggs per dozen: $1.82
Average price of milk per half gallon: $3.87
Average price of American processed cheese per pound: $4.25Average price of apples (any type) per pound: $1.36
Average price of bananas per pound: $0.50
Average price of oranges per pound: $1.24
Average price of strawberries per pound: $2.45
Average price of onions (any type) per pound: $0.93
Average price of potatoes (any type) per pound: $0.80
Average price of broccoli (any type) per pound: $0.96
Average price of cabbage per pound: $0.45
Average price of carrots (any type) per pound: $1.03
Average price of cauliflower per pound: $0.96
Average price of eggplant per pound: $1.43
Average price of green beans per pound: $0.98
Average price of collard greens per pound: $0.92
Average price of kale per pound: $0.79
Average price of mustard greens per pound: $0.79
Average price of lettuce (any type) per pound: $1.24 (per head it’s $1.03)
Average price of portobella mushrooms per package: $2.82
Average price of baby spinach per 10 oz package: $2.08
Average price of zucchini per pound: $1.18
Average price of tomatoes per pound: $1.12
Average price of dried beans (any type, all sizes) per pound: $1.45
Average price of uncooked white rice per pound: $0.69
Average price of tofu per pound: $2.00
Average price of non-dairy milk per half gallon: $3.73
Average price of Daiya cheese per package: $4.00(All prices are from 2012 and are sourced from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the USDA. All fruit and vegetable prices are from today’s issue of the USDA’s National Fruit and Vegetable Report, which is issued weekly.)
What this list of prices does not address is the cost of animal products vs. non-animal food sources. If you are eating bacon, you are eating a pig that spent its short life suffering in a metal stall too small to allow the animal to turn around, only to have its throat slit and body processed so you could satiate your hunger for a few hours. If you are drinking milk, you are drinking the food of a newborn calf that was murdered after being stolen from its mother, who was repeatedly impregnated so her productivity level would be high, and whose short life will be taken from her as soon her body collapses from exhaustion. If you are eating eggs, you are eating the menstrual cycle of a chicken that had the tip of her beak painfully burnt off and was more likely than not stuffed into a tiny cage with several other chickens who have less space to themselves than a sheet of paper and are forced to overexert their bodies into higher production levels, only to be sent to the slaughterhouse when she is no longer useful.
So tell me, what is the price of a lifetime of suffering and a violent death? How much is that worth to you?
The main thing, I think, with the privileged point, is that vegetables and shit are not available to everyone. And not every omnivore is going to whole foods and getting beef there, a lot of them are single parents who have to stop by mcdonalds because they’re working two jobs.
HOWEVER. A lot of omnivores who use the “veganism is privileged” argument have the means to be vegan, they are just using other peoples suffering as a platform for their own guilt.
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“This stunning sculpture by Liu Qiang is an accurate depiction of humanity’s use of, and utter dependence on other animals and, in particular, the savage and bizarre habit of consuming the breast milk from mothers of other species—milk that these mothers have produced for their own babies, babies that we forced them to become pregnant with only to kill shortly after birth so that we can take the bereft mother’s milk, milk that we drink as though we were the children that we murdered.”
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“It all comes down to pain and suffering, not intelligence, not strength, not social class or civil right. Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. We are all animals of this planet, we are all creatures, and non-human animals experience sensations just like we do….Like us, first and foremost, they are earthlings.” —
Earthlings
this is hands down my favorite quote from that entire documentary.
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“Pain is pain, conveyed by nerves to the brain, and there are other nerves than those of intelligence. Nerves such as sight, smell, touch, and hearing, and in some animals, these nerves are much more highly developed than in man.” — Earthlings (via sociologicallyimaginative)
Call Beckman Coulter at their World Headquarters at (714)-993-5321 between the hour of 12pm and 1pm PDT. Ask to talk to Bob Hurley, Allison Blackwell, Jeff Linton, Clair O’Donovan or any of the other people on the executive management team. Ask them to drop HLS and remember to be polite and feel free to dial *67 before you dial to block your number. Please share this event with your friends. The animals imprisoned inside of HLS need your voice!
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um have you folks been holding out on me because I haven’t been invited to any of these god-mocking infant-sacrificing devil worshipping ceremonies wow rude muchVEGANS: Modern Day Witches!
Witches have learned a lot since the days of the Puritans. They’ve learned that if they show their hideous faces in public, it won’t just be their warts we burn off. So, they’ve had to go undercover in their efforts to recruit the weak-willed to the service of their master in Hell. To induce these naïve innocents to join their filthy cult, they have been forced to come up with a politically correct justification for their association. They have had to conceal the real purpose of their late-night meetings, when they cast spells on the vulnerable, brew hideous potions, and sacrifice infants to the devil. They have had to come up with a modern message that will be attractive to the weak-kneed while not raising the ire of True Christians™ that much. That message is called “vegetarianism.” Today’s witches are called “vegans.”
One needn’t look any further than Christ’s words to see that so-called “vegans” are nothing more than sorcerers and demons, mocking God while spitting on His Son’s final supper. They know God loves meat and has ordered us to eat as much of it as we can. So they poke fun at the Lord with slogans like “Meat is murder” and by insisting their members abstain from consuming anything that comes from an animal. Jesus warned us about these diabolical cretins
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/sermons/vegans.html
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Im just going to leave this here…
^^ seriously I wanna spit in Jesus’ soup
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mattgorman asked: I stayed on your page for at least a couple minutes because I was really hoping I could get some camel meat from somewhere. Now I now there are at least two dead camels so I'll start looking now.
