Because the meat dairy egg and fishing industries have everybody completely brainwashed and conditioned to believe that harming animals is "normal"

This is what so many fights over our food system boil down to. The correct answer: We have to boost yields *AND* Reduce environmental harm *AND* Eat less meat *AND* Waste less food

Please release me. Let me go.. 🙏🏼 help us by ✍🏼 Petition t.co/9Yr2CtMQ41 10 years. #FreeBunaka now enduring freezing winters locked in a cell, alone for 16 hours a day #Armenia 🙏🏼GIVE HIM BEDDING AvinyanTigran.bsky.social His crime? Being an 🐘to exploit for cash. Cher has asked for his release 👇🏽

Please take a moment to sign this well-written petition laying out the steps to send Edmonton’s lone elephant Lucy to accredited sanctuary in the US. It is past time to let her retire in an appropriate habitat with elephant companions. #YEG #TAFL 🇨🇦🐘🇺🇸 www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/4...

If you won't go vegan for the animals, maybe at least end your use of dairy for your own safety?

If we don’t act now, we could lose it all! All my nature-loving friends: please send this letter to get Bill C-73 for the Nature Accountability Act passed before there’s an election! act.naturecanada.ca/page/161854/...

Duma an African bull elephant who was previously captive for four decades in a circus and then a zoo. The EMS Foundation and Shambala Private Game Reserve with the assistance of their colleagues Four Paws International, We Wild Africa, Conservation Solutions and Provet evacuated him to freedom.

Two more elephants will soon be moving from zoos in Argentina to @globalelephants.bsky.social Elephant Sanctuary Brazil! Please support them today #GivingTuesday and your gift will be matched: globalelephants.org/2024-giving-...

At the beginning of 2024, throughout the world, over 320 members of the press had been arrested and locked behind bars. Charges ranged from espionage to “extremism.” These false, egregious charges are invariably politically motivated. In Vladimir Putin’s police state, journalists are jailed,…

I’m just thinking about the people who told be they didn’t like Trump’s behavior but he brings in the best people. It’s be hilarious if weren’t so fucking serious.

ALL animals deserve respect and dignity 🐷❤️ Choose compassion - be vegan & get active. 🌿 #GoVegan

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

Interesting to see people making thanksgiving jokes with that clip of Joaquin doing joker, you know, considering he feels the same way as I do about this day (stolen lives, stolen land) not to mention the 8 million turkeys that have their lives taken just to be tossed into a dumpster.

Celebrate and rejoice with me. The buffalo population is slowly coming back. 🪶🦬

Global Sanctuary for Elephants @globalelephants will be making a BIG announcement on Giving Tuesday! What will it be? I don't know but I'm sure it will be something wonderful for captive elephants.

In 2023, Canadians donated $53M on #GivingTuesday to charities (source shorturl.at/DgUXd). Sadly, a portion of that paid for cruel animal experiments bc orgs like Canadian Cancer Society and Heart & Stroke Foundation fund animal testing. This year give only to humane charities www.humanecharities.ca

Of course there's nothing "awesome" about it. Poor Jet will be doomed to a life on a couple of acres of land, and that's if he doesn't get EEHV, as his mother has TWICE. Breeding is irresponsible in a zoo with that often-fatal disease, but here we are

Helping captive elephants to a better life: Give them as much “room to roam” as possible, diverse temperate habitat, species-appropriate companions, and autonomy, autonomy, autonomy. They will heal themselves and each other.

"The study, instead, showed that even so-called “incomplete” plant-based protein can stimulate muscle growth in the same way as meat." Rough times for the meat and dairy industries when they cannot even properly skew the findings in their self-funded studies.

P.s. chickens are reared in vast numbers in terrible conditions, whichever country you care to think about. More than 85% are reared in factory farms. Billions of them suffer unimaginably every year. The numbers keep rising. You should stop eating chickens and eggs.

“[Starmer] insists to critics’ scepticism — that [net zero] can be achieved without big changes to consumer behaviour, such as reducing flights or eating less meat.” - this cowardly fantasy is infuriating.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

“Compared to self-driving cars, and just about any other mobility mode, e-bikes have flourished…If 2023’s trendline continues, the humble e-bike, not the flashy self-driving car, will be poised to reconfigure American transportation.” — @davidzipper.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...

Trump is going to line his pockets by giving tarrif exemptions to those corporations willing to pay him to play his game called "more for me, if not fuck you" Calling it crony capitalism is being kind.

climate change is a definitive case against immigration restrictions. you don't survive late 21st century climate changes without frictionless international nomadism where people can adjust living arrangements and supply chains along the most habitable areas.

Regardless of the party in power, we’ve been gearing up to fight these useless, wasteful and massively destructive border walls in Arizona for years. We won’t allow them to sacrifice our beautiful border region and its endangered wildlife to further their political agenda of fear and division.

Fascists know they need amplification, that's why they keep bitching about echo chambers. If we aren't facilitating the spreading of their message, that's an obvious problem, but it's a THEM problem. I give not one fuck worrying whether I've gotten a daily dose of vitamin Nazi.

Bird flu case may suggest a new mutation making the H5N1 transmissable between humans. Another child case meanwhile has surfaced in the Bay Area. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

That includes anyone who comes up with: - 'mmmm bacon' - 'but plants have feelings too' - 'lions tho' and more of those #bingo comments on #vegan posts 👋

Captive in freezing #Edmonton since 1977, isn't it time for #yegzoo to #FreeLucy?

Big peer-reviewed study published today: "USA-Mexico border wall impedes wildlife movement." Researchers found an 86% reduction in wildlife crossings where walls were built and a 100% reduction crossings of large animals like mountain lions, deer & bears. READ: www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

What Trump’s Re-election Could Mean for Animals www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/s...

Spain's constitutional court upholds the national law recognizing that the saltwater lagoon, Mar Menor, has rights to protection, conservation and restoration, among others. elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

“The law is unlikely to swiftly abandon the archaic notion of human ownership over nonhuman animals. But we believe the law does implicitly recognize a right to rescue escaped animals, at least those who are lucky enough to make it on their own steam.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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This wasn’t me, I swear. But I kinda’ wish it were…

As word comes from the Edinburgh Zoo that a red panda baby named Roxie has died from stress after city fireworks, I'm sharing here a piece I wrote earlier this year for Anthropology News called Ten Things About Human Silence Around Animals. 🧪🌿 #anthropology #animals #naturewriting

I highly, highly recommend this newsletter from rbhubbell.bsky.social. It's a daily reflection on the news that's realistic & hopeful + opportunities for bits of activism. And always ends w/ a photo of the cosmos for much needed perspective. #resistance roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...

We are in big trouble, folks. At this point, I don't think we can stop collapse, or "fix" climate change/overshoot. What we might be able to do is soften the landing, allow for the survival of a few more species if we actively try to cause less harm on our way out. #ConsumeLess #GoVegan

Baby is a lone elephant living in a closed zoo in Brazil. She has an active court case, with a real chance of transfer to @globalelephants.bsky.social Elephant Sanctuary Brazil. Judges there often look to public opinion, so we can help by signing this petition: www.change.org/p/liberdade-...

I just finished "Rat Trap" by Pandora Pound and can't recommend it enough! If you're interested in the history of #animaltesting, its epic failures in medical #research and how modern tech is superior to animal models, it's a must-read. Science background not req'd. Engaging and eye-opening read!

This is promising; been looking for more AR folks on here. Torture porn not welcome, tho, so please...

Does the 🌎 know about LUCY she’s known as the coldest loneliest 🐘 in the 🌎 in the worst zoo Edmonton Valley Zoo 🇨🇦 You would think 🇨🇦 would be kind and relocate Lucy to sanctuary wouldn’t you. So 🇨🇦 why are you not being KIND 2/1 vets said she could travel 🧳 #JustinTrudeau @theglobeandmail.com

#abpoli #elephants deserve better