Recent Photographs Part ..II

I don't really partake in it. I don't like commercial fishing. I know that the fishermen have to make a living but I wouldn't support that industry. It's almost impossible to determine if a fish was caught sustainably. Even if a restaurant or grocer claims to sell "sustainably" caught fish, the claim is not always true.

I also believe that if an organism has the capacity to suffer, then that capacity always outweighs the human need to either consume that animal or experience recreation at the expense of suffering. So fishing is out. It's a shame since I used to enjoy fishing as a child.

 

I've thought a lot about the subject recently, and it seems to me that eating beef every day is probably better in terms of the overall suffering of animals. If you have a reasonable portion of beef every day, you will eat less than one total animal in a year. If you replace that beef with grains, legumes, veggies, you're going to probably end up killing many more than one rodent in the process.

I'm a pescatarian, for what it's worth.

 

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100% spot on.

 

I'm not sure if that is true. Beef farming consumes more resources than any other food we eat. That includes space, water, and food for livestock (either corn or grass--mostly corn). Especially if you include the lives of animals that are displaced by the beef industry (deforestation, often in rainforests of South America) , the rodents that are killed by excess farming of corn for cow feed, and the various wildlife that are unable to consume the water that is polluted by many dairy farms.

The fact is that 99% of livestock is factory farmed. The casualties might be different if most people ate organic meat--but they simply don't.

 

Just a few facts about deforestation and meat production:

"In South America, almost 4 million hectares of forests are destroyed every year, 2.6 million of them in Brazil alone (to produce feed for meat animals). Although this is lower than in the 1990s, it is still far too high and can largely be blamed on heavily soy-dependent livestock farming."

"n the Amazon the cattle sector is the largest driver of rainforest destruction, accounting for 60 to 70 percent of deforestation,"

Rainforests are incredibly species dense. Even humans are displaced by tainted ground water, run-off from pesticides, the terrible odor of pig feces, etc.

 

..sigh, debating veganism and animal cruelty never goes anywhere..
some people get it, some people don't... I've been eating vegan for years and not going to waste my time debating my lifestyle in the photograph thread x_x

 

got my brand new(in box) 15inch laptop today, traded for a old quad i had that needed some work. no more using another keyboard to type. looks like this pic below......

 

my hair is looking pale, going to dye it purple soon when I'm not feeling so exhausted..Also, my cat loves me

 

wow that's a lot of chatting for a photo thread.
veal... sprouts= the same thing, both killed young for someone to eat

I don't know how someone can fool themselves into believing plants can't feel. Just because you can't watch it walk across a field or swim in the ocean doesn't mean it doesn't care if it lives or dies.
But back to a recent pic
I had halibut for dinner again

 

Grass is even discovered to talk to each other...each blade, so cannot walk on the grass anymore.....lol

 

Here is a pineapple plant that I started at the end of last summer from a store bought pineapple. My wife hates when I do this. She says it looks tacky. It's almost ready for a bigger, nice looking pot.

 

oh. for fucks sake. Of course vegans recognize that plants are living. People need to eat though. Choosing to eat the organism that doesn't bleed and cry in agony when being butchered seems to be the less cruel option. You're fooling yourself into believing that a plant is equal to an animal.

 

No way, the animal tastes way better.

 

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of all cat. this type is my fav.

 

A plant is equal to an animal. They both live, breath and reproduce.
I am no better than a plant. I don't have the ability to do what a plant does and a plant can't do what animals do. We are all equal and we all need each other.

 

tortie? meow. I like orange tabbies.

 

the last week it snowed, which was suppose to be a foot of snow.. was this..