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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What corporation would you want gone COMPELTELY?
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    2 months ago

    Tyson.

    Iirc, largest meat supplier. Which means they are a huge catalyst to the industry that literally profits on death and misery more than any other.

    Their products are corpses, their human workers are in the industry with the highest rate of PTSD from their jobs, and by simply existing they’re helping create superviruses by fostering cramped sheds of half-dead animals that can barely move sleeping on their own shit and being kept alive just long enough to slaughter, using powerful antibiotics that will become useless a lot faster than if we used those antibiotics to protect humans instead of giving the perfect environment for viruses to adapt to and overcome them.

    Fuck the whole animal agriculture industry, and extra fuck the biggest corps behind them.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the hardest thing you had to come to terms with?
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    3 months ago

    That I was being complacent to support animal cruelty just because I liked egg salad and cream cheese.

    I was vegetarian for 7 years. I thought that only obvious things like meat and leather involved animal cruelty.

    I was very wrong. And when people showed me I was wrong, I took a good while to process it. “But the cow needs to be alive for milk. But the chicken needs to be alive for eggs. Surely it’s not THAT bad”.

    It’s a lot worse than that bad. Once it fully got through my skull just what kind of cruel practices were involved, not by choice l, but by industry NECESSITY, with the animal products that felt safe, I broke down crying while I was trying to reconcile the fact that I was letting my taste buds drive me to support terrible things.

    I did finally quit. These days I don’t really miss much, food wise. And life lesson wise, it helps enable me to be a less unethical consumer. A store/product is involved with something morally terrible, like donating a lot of money to fascism? Welp, bye! No more money for you from me!