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No plant-based diet bullshit or promotion of plant-based capitalism. Veganism isn't about you, it's about historical materialist anti-speciesism, anti-racist animalization, and animal liberation. Ethical vegans only.
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Resources

Animal liberation and direct action

Animal Liberation Press (ALF)
Wiki on Ethical Veganism
Wiki on the Animal Liberation Front
Wiki on Total Liberation
Different approaches to AL direct action
Earth First! manual and tactics
Support prisoners of conscience: Vegan Prisoners Support Group (UK)
If someone tells you to put some paint on your hands, tag some buildings and then go turn yourself into the police - your "rebellion" is a fucking op

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(Cw: discussion of the consumption of animals) These might be a strange questions but I am curious to hear y'alls thoughts (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/vegan@hexbear.net

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How does veganism propose we handle invasive species? Murder is the least ideal option but I know that in many cases this is considered best practice. Is it okay to eat an invasive species if they "have to" be killed anyway or is it preferable to leave their nutrients in the ecosystem they have invaded? These invasive species are usually our fault and would do far more harm to animals as a whole if left alone but does that give us the right to murder them?

I also have another question about hunting. I grew up in the American south where hunting deer is very common. I was always told that the hunt was necessary because if we did not reduce their population it would grow until it became unsustainable. At which point they would starve and do significant harm to the native ecosystem. How true is all this?

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[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

humans have wiped out virtually all of their natural predators to protect live stock. So in an ideal world where we weren't subjecting huge numbers of animals to industrial agriculture those predator species would be reintroduced to the environment.

I pointed this out to a guy who supported deer hunting and his response was "but those predators would be a threat to my dogs." I pointed out that if keeping a pet safe in a certain place requires annihilating the surrounding ecosystem, then maybe that pet shouldn't be kept there. He went on to accuse me of not caring about poor rural people ("so they should just have to be lonely?") and I was just like, get a cat or a gerbil or a cricket or literally anything else that can stay indoors and doesn't require a Rimworld-esque wildlife killing spree to keep safe.