This needs Peter Murphy
Yeah…. I feel weird reaching out to people, to make a connection. I always do something feel weird as though I proliferate my lack of self confidence. Fuck Skype. Maybe I am meant to be sectioned and isolated to this area.
Zoned
I have an awesome story about tonight. You know those movie Moments? Well, yeah. I had one. I was leaving my favorite bar/dive I heard some Joy Division (interzone) being played in an unrehearsed manner next door. (The place I poked my head into is a space being utilized for a recording studio/jam spot. I decided To try and sing along by popping my head in and say “Yeah looking for some friends of mine”. I rapidly shut the door because I realized I saw someone I did not want to see. Everything just seems to be in place. Hhahaha I was looking for some friends of mine and then I quickly had to get out.
La Cosecha / The Harvest (2011)
“Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. The Harvest / La Cosecha profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida’s tomato fields to follow the harvest and provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of these children who struggle to dream while working 12 – 14 hours a day, 7 days a week to feed America.”
just goes to show you that not consuming animals does not mean you are supporting a system that is cruelty free
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THANK YOU
SHIT
But you are more cruelty free since PoC often work shit conditions to provide the grain and food the animals must eat as well, and then also work shit conditions to actually work with the animals and prepare the meat.
So vegan is as cruelty free as you’re gonna get, and vegans still have the moral high ground here.
or you could get off your fucking vegan ass high horse and start buying and demanding better wages for vegetable pickers you piece of shit
We just happen to do so while also not participating in the harm caused by the animal agriculture industry, which as it so happens on the human scale, disproportionately negatively affects black and brown people.
So let’s not pretend that a person pointing out the problems within the plant agriculture industry and worker’s rights as some kind of means of “disproving” that veganism is in fact a lifestyle that causes significantly less harm actually gives a damn about the workers. Rather, they’re pulling a “See, see, your PLANT eating is bad for people! Veganism is racist! You don’t care about people at all!” You conveniently fucking forget that 80% of the grain, corn, soy, and cereal crops grown in the world, the land and water for which are stolen mostly from poorer, underprivileged countries and communities while they starve, are fed to farmed animals so more privileged people can then eat them.
So let’s keep some fucking perspective here.
Today we honor Vandana Shiva, because as the corporate oligarchy continues to destroy our planet, it is clear that we need more leadership like hers:
- Video of Vandana Shiva on Bill Moyers’ show back in July.
- Here is a list of additional quotes by Vandana Shiva.
- This is Vandana Shiva in February @ ISFIT 2013: Changing Norms.
- This is Vandana Shiva @ Rio2012.
- This is Vandana Shiva talking about the capitalist patriarchy in March 2013 on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
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