I feel like a very important part of one's journey to veganism is realising that it is not really about you. All the animals you've never seen deserve to live. The lives of all the ones that have inconvenienced you are important just like ours. The animals you're afraid of or disgusted by don't deserve to die.
We are not the ones who decide whose life is worth living, non-human or human. We aren't here to decide others' purposes or meanings.
We should all realise, know and remember that.
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while im here begging for vegan advices, could you guys also help me figure out tofu?
i mean, how do you spice it so it tastes good? whats your fav ways to prepare it? cuz ive been trying mixing up different spices but it either tastes weird or its just not it
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Bit late I know but I just want to say it was my 1 year veganniversary a few days ago, haven't regretted it once💪🏻🌱
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It's interesting how many of those who care about how non-human animals are talked about don't do it for the animals themselves.
In their eyes, the aggressive word choices could hurt the perceived owners of these animals.
Obviously, most non-human animals do not understand the words we are using or how their meaning subtly differs from others. Some of them do hear the possible aggression of the voices speaking or associate certain tones or words with actions.
This does not mean they understand the meaning of these words. You could teach a dog that it means going outside when you say the word "sofa", and they could start wagging their tails when you call them stupid, if you do it with the right tone.
But the reality is, that how we as humans talk about animals does affect the way we see them. If non-human animals are "them" or "it", they are easier to objectify than if, when talking about all animals, we include ourselves and do not assign the animals the pronoun typically given to objects, or if they are seen as the property of people, something to be "owned".
Of course the effect isn't 1:1. If I call the leopard gecko I care for stupid affectionately once, I won't start thinking that they were, as a species, unintelligent.
But when we stop for a moment and examine all the moments where we actually, even if often unknowingly, make a decision about how we describe non-human animals and our relationship to them, we begin to see how often that happens.
In personal use, our words can shape our own personal views of non-human animals differently, depending on the (moral) value we give these words. Someone who sees ugliness as a moral failing or a justification to make their lives harder or even to deny their inherent worth and right to live than someone who sees it as neutral or even adorable.
The objectification of non-human animals is a quite obvious issue in our daily lives, even if invisible to many.
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“you are the universe experiencing itself.”
it took me a while to figure out what the definite meaning of this sentence was. then i realised that it has different definitions for every soul, as we are always connected, no matter our paths or life purposes.
energy is energy, and you, the universe, will never end.
isn’t that fascinating.
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