Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
On the plus side, meat consumption will decrease.
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Remember non vegans, your lust for meat and the resulting impact on the climate will eventually force you to stop eating meat. You played yourselves.
FYI: This ☝️. This is why people don’t like vegans. It has nothing to do with your dietary choices or choosing to not use or consume products derived from animals - seriously, no one gives a shit; you do you. It has everything to do with the militantly self-righteous, condescending, preachy, holier-than-thou attitude, the constant proselytizing, and the demonizing/name-calling/general shitty behavior that comes with the former.
Sincerely,
A vegetarian who doesn’t make it my whole personality
Edit: Every single direct reply to this has further illustrated the point I was making. Maybe instead of being preachy and condescending, you just lead by good example. If people see and want what you have they’ll follow. Otherwise, you’re just shooting your own cause in the foot with your abominable behavior.
bohoo stop blaming our consumer habits that are destroying the planet
This 🙌
People hold strong, defensive opinions about all kinds of things, funny how you don’t react this way to those too.
It’s pure carnism defense mechanisms in action. If you ever wonder how MAGA supporters can be so detached from reality, remember you’re doing the same thing.
The truly self-righteous position is thinking you have a right to their bodies.
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Isn’t similarly militant and self-righteous when someone feels this way about trans rights or abolishing slavery?
Nooooo. I have to reduce veganism to a dietary preference instead of a rights movement so it’s easier to dismiss it because a vegan was annoying or whatever one time!
comparing slaves and trans people to animals is gross.
Why?
it’s how people justify slavery
But my point is that animals should not be treated “like animals” either. They should be included in the social contract and afforded a basic minimum of respect and autonomy, not enslaved and exploited.
treating animals like animals is absolutely appropriate
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Vegans got some weird insults, I tell ya.
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Quite ironic to read this during the war in Ukraine. /j
What’s the connection between the two?
FYI: This ☝️. This is why people don’t like the lgbtq+ movement. It has nothing to do with who you’re attracted to or what gender you feel you are and has everything to do with the militantly self-righteous, condescending, preachy, holier-than-thou attitude you run around with.
Sincerely,
A gay guy who doesn’t make it my whole personality
As a queer person I’ve read plenty of comments like these. It’s a common fallacious argument against liberatory movements that people who perpetuate the status quo use to defend their indifference to injustice by deflecting blame onto the people who call out their complicity. If you see veganism not as a lifestyle but as a movement for the libration of animals everything clicks.
Good thing I don’t care what carnists (including vegetarians) think of me 🤷🏻♀️
Not everyone can afford to be vegan yknow?
So why don’t you get off your high horse privileged ass and consider that this vegetarian person is obviously trying to mitigate some damage by not eating meat.
Found the pick-me vegetarian.
This is what we call a negative feedback loop. More CO2 emissions->more ticks->more meat allergy->less demand for cattle->less CO2 emissions
“drill baby drill”
(Based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based )
That sucks :( i hope not too many people get bitten
Oh boy! Prepare for conspiracy theorys of BIG VEGAN creating ticks in labs to make Americans turn gay.
There’s a ton of these where I live. Probably the most common tick, actually. They are extremely aggressive, especially in the fall. The larva is so small you can’t even tell they’re not a fleck of dirt until they move. So many of them can get on you at once I describe it as a “plume” of ticks.
Trimming trails doesn’t seem to prevent them from crawling across open ground climb on. I wouldn’t know it if I was allergic to mammal meat, but I’ve heard people having reactions to gelatin pill capsules and other sneaky things.
It sucks, but the alternative is I don’t experience the outdoors, so it’s just something to deal with and plan for. All my clothing is treated with permethrin. I’m basically in “tick mode” any time I’m walking around except in the dead of winter.
Climate activists should be air-dropping these over population centers like those radioactive screw worm flies
Good. Create a real libertarian party. Divy up the lunatics.
