This is a sign sitting right by the grill area in my apartment complex in Dallas! It makes me so happy to think that everyone going to grill a steak sees this!
Totally awesome that this is up there, but while most of these are top-notch, I sort of take issue with 7 & 8. I think there are better ways those could be worded and combined.
21st May 2012
Reblogged From hailleythevegan
Notes: 706
(Source: thecaffeinatedvegan)
- 1) Animal products are unnecessary.
- 2) What you eat is a learned habit.
- 3) Much healthier to avoid meat and dairy products.
- 4) Much more environmentally friendly to eat a vegan diet.
- 5) Feed more people on a plant diet than animal based one.
- 6) Using animals is incredibly cruel. Why force any pain?
- 7) Religion/ spiritual reasons “Thou shalt not kill.”
- 8) Saves money….
- 9) Reduces National debt.
- 10) Vegan food tastes great!
Via VeganWolf
Why You Should Use A Reusable Grocery Bag
It seems like more and more supermarkets have discontinued plastic bags, switched to paper-only shopping bags, and have set up discount incentives for customers to bring their own reusable bag. That’s because we’re finally discovering the inconvenient truth about plastic bags: They’re rarely recycled. They’re made from petroleum oil. And they’re an enormous harm to our environment.
If you’ve made the switch to reusable grocery bags, then applaud yourself for being environmentally aware. But if you’re still using plastic bags, read the facts below and consider making the switch. Our world deserves to be treated better. If you’d like to recycle all your old plastic bags, find a recycling center here. By the way, paper grocery bags are just as bad as plastic bags.
- Plastic bags take anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to decompose.
- Only 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled in the United States. The rest end up in landfills, the ocean, or some other place in the environment. There’s actually a giant garbage heap made mostly of plastic floating in the ocean that’s twice the size of the United States.
- It’s estimated that 1 million birds and thousands of turtles and other sea animals die each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags.
- More than 10 percent of washed-up debris polluting the U.S. coastline is made up of plastic bags.
- It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the estimated 100 billion plastic bags Americans use each year.
- The petroleum used to produce 14 plastic bags can drive a car one mile.
I don’t know about you, but this convinced me!
(Source: lovelydisguise)
Earlier this month, we told you about how our beloved Clif Bars are being shady about disclosing where they source their cocoa. We hope it’s not from child slaves, but we don’t KNOW, you know?Since then, some of our awesome readers have sent them inquiring emails, and reported back.*…
Again, this is why I’m petitioning to get them to remove the palm oil from their products, because I’m sure it’s not sustainably sourced. It says nothing about their palm oil anywhere, and they’re so roundabout. Best to just get rid of it! Please sign, and tell CLIF to boycott palm oil.
Alright guys, let’s approach CLIF with this. At 2,000 signatures, someone is going to win all these excellent vegan goods.
My petition to get CLIF & Company to boycott palm oil successfully reached the 700 mark due to my last giveaway, and I’ll say it again,IF I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SNACKS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BY GOLLY I WILL GIVE YOU SNACKS.
I tried to keep it as unisex as possible, but hey—I am a girl. Here’s what the lucky person who helps me save the world will get:
- An EcoTools Brush Set
- 30 mini PB&J Larabars
- Smith’s Minted Rose Lip Balm (totally awesome and not at all “girly”)
- 1-2-3 Gluten-Free Yellow Cake Mix
- Dorset Cereals Cranberry, Cherry, & Almond Muesli
- Valor Dark Chocolate Bar with Almonds
- A KOALACORE Clothing Accessory Pack, generously donated by my good friend Ricky Sanchez. 10% of their company profit goes to the ASPCA! #weareallanimals
And then a few little odds n’ ends from me as well :)This is a Rafflecopter giveaway, so here’s what you must do:Because Tumblr is too lame to support the widget’s HTML,
go here to enter the giveaway. You can go back every day to get points.
(Source: earth-song)
Alright guys, let’s approach CLIF with this. At 2,000 signatures, someone is going to win all these excellent vegan goods.
My petition to get CLIF & Company to boycott palm oil successfully reached the 700 mark due to my last giveaway, and I’ll say it again,IF I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SNACKS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BY GOLLY I WILL GIVE YOU SNACKS.
I tried to keep it as unisex as possible, but hey—I am a girl. Here’s what the lucky person who helps me save the world will get:
- An EcoTools Brush Set
- 30 mini PB&J Larabars
- Smith’s Minted Rose Lip Balm (totally awesome and not at all “girly”)
- 1-2-3 Gluten-Free Yellow Cake Mix
- Dorset Cereals Cranberry, Cherry, & Almond Muesli
- Valor Dark Chocolate Bar with Almonds
- A KOALACORE Clothing Accessory Pack, generously donated by my good friend Ricky Sanchez. 10% of their company profit goes to the ASPCA! #weareallanimals
And then a few little odds n’ ends from me as well :)This is a Rafflecopter giveaway, so here’s what you must do:Because Tumblr is too lame to support the widget’s HTML,
go here to enter the giveaway. You can go back every day to get points.
Alright guys, let’s approach CLIF with this. At 2,000 signatures, someone is going to win all these excellent vegan goods.
My petition to get CLIF & Company to boycott palm oil successfully reached the 700 mark due to my last giveaway, and I’ll say it again,IF I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SNACKS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BY GOLLY I WILL GIVE YOU SNACKS.
I tried to keep it as unisex as possible, but hey—I am a girl. Here’s what the lucky person who helps me save the world will get:
- An EcoTools Brush Set
- 30 mini PB&J Larabars
- Smith’s Minted Rose Lip Balm (totally awesome and not at all “girly”)
- 1-2-3 Gluten-Free Yellow Cake Mix
- Dorset Cereals Cranberry, Cherry, & Almond Muesli
- Valor Dark Chocolate Bar with Almonds
- A KOALACORE Clothing Accessory Pack, generously donated by my good friend Ricky Sanchez. 10% of their company profit goes to the ASPCA! #weareallanimals
And then a few little odds n’ ends from me as well :)This is a Rafflecopter giveaway, so here’s what you must do:Because Tumblr is too lame to support the widget’s HTML,
go here to enter the giveaway. You can go back every day to get points.
Alright guys, let’s approach CLIF with this. At 2,000 signatures, someone is going to win all these excellent vegan goods.
My petition to get CLIF & Company to boycott palm oil successfully reached the 700 mark due to my last giveaway, and I’ll say it again,IF I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SNACKS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BY GOLLY I WILL GIVE YOU SNACKS.
I tried to keep it as unisex as possible, but hey—I am a girl. Here’s what the lucky person who helps me save the world will get:
- An EcoTools Brush Set
- 30 mini PB&J Larabars
- Smith’s Minted Rose Lip Balm (totally awesome and not at all “girly”)
- 1-2-3 Gluten-Free Yellow Cake Mix
- Dorset Cereals Cranberry, Cherry, & Almond Muesli
- Valor Dark Chocolate Bar with Almonds
- A KOALACORE Clothing Accessory Pack, generously donated by my good friend Ricky Sanchez. 10% of their company profit goes to the ASPCA! #weareallanimals
And then a few little odds n’ ends from me as well :)This is a Rafflecopter giveaway, so here’s what you must do:Because Tumblr is too lame to support the widget’s HTML,
go here to enter the giveaway. You can go back every day to get points.
America alone consumes about 72,767,123 lbs of beef a day, give or take.
It takes (at the absolute minimum, by estimates from the beef industry) 441 gallons of water to produce a lb of beef.
If America only stopped eating beef, we would save roundabout 32,090,301,243 gallons of…
I am vegan.
I am a vegan human.
This means I am considered a freak by 99 % of my species,
because I consider replaceable meals, yes, replaceable food items (such as the dead bodies, menstruation products and body fluids of other species) less important than not only 55 billions of lives each year, globally, but also less important than 1 single life.
If you are a member of a vegan, extra-terrestrial society whose language I could learn and whose planet I could live on, please come and adopt me.
I really don’t understand my own species and I often find myself doubting my blood relationship with many of them.
Dear Universe, please speed up human evolution.
Make humanity a species I can be proud of
or take me to another planet.
- kalani rhei (via veganisastart)
If only I wasn’t so afraid of aliens… - VSB
You may call me Jacqui :)
Probably the most helpful: Will There Be Enough?
The World Food Supply: Damage Done by Cattle-Raising
Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet?
Hunger, Duty, and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Humans
Dairy Farming and Cattle Ranching; Consequences on Human and Environmental Health
A Sustainability Assessment of UBC Food Services’ Beef Food Products
Hopefully this posts this time, and hopefully these help you out.
