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osobigbear:

waitful:

african-fairy:

bruce-will-i-is:

vegan-because-fuck-you:

We call one a tragedy and the other industry. But it looks the same to me.

Can you use a different analogy, I’m pretty sure equating human lives to that of a pig is a bit offensive. Like I get your point and I like it, but come on you wouldn’t show this tow holocaust survivor

dude nah

fuck vegans and veg heads who support this im done with yall

why dont you go live in the wild with the animals if you are so equal?

@OP: 

I am so confused here! You see I am a conscious black individual here, I actively try and fight against racism, sexism and homophobia, but also for animal rights. I see a lot of people who fight for equality of groups they don’t even belong to, but the moment you bring up animals it’s like, WHELP! SORRY BRO TOUGH LUCK! 

It is not about being a vegetarian or a vegan. Personally I eat meat (on occasion) but i try and stay conscious about about the places that abuse the animals and feed them drugs, beat them, put them in small cramped cages. All of this you can find on the inter webs and i proceed to not give those people my money.

As far as I am concerned we all have human privilege. We never EVER have to experience HALF the shit we AND YES I MEAN WEEEEEEE.. put animals through. Their lives literally equate to nothing in the eyes of the mass majority of the world. That is wrong! We can kill entire species and don’t give it a second thought. THAT IS WRONG. we can keep them in cages for the entirety of their lives and never think about the type of pain we are causing them for our own ends. THAT IS WRONG.

If you fight for any type of equality than it would be down right hypocritical to not at least acknowledge the plight of animals. 

Now I am not perfect, having human privilege and all I still unknowingly support the indifference we hold towards animals, but admitting that how they are treated by us is atrocious and not supporting the establishments that treat animals as if they are so inferior they can’t feel pain, I am in some small way making a tiny difference in the quality of their lives. 

And to the person who was offended that human life was being equated to a pigs, you miss the point. Unless you are religious in some way a pigs life is just as valuable as a humans life. It is the arrogance of humans to believe because we are highly intelligent our lives are then more important. Our intelligence literally only helps humans. If it is used to help animals it is to undo some fucked up shit we did to them in the first place. We also should not use that self important mind-set as justification to oppress! murder! animals. We need to treat life with more respect.

Again I am not perfect and I have a long way to go when it comes to animal rights, but fuck..at least admit to the arrogance of believing that our heart beats are special little snow flakes in comparison to the rest of life on earth.

if you’re really going to throw trump cards on the table in order to justify the comparison of the holocaust to animal cruelty, then allow me to pull out my deck.

i am an african american vegan who majors in jewish studies. my area of concentration just so happens to be the interwar period preceeding world war II and the holocaust itself. 

comparing human life to pigs is not the same thing as comparing the holocaust to the suffering of pigs at the hands of the meat industry. the latter compares the pain, suffering, inter-generational trauma, erasure and destruction of millions of people to the suffering of pigs caught in the hands of the factory farming process. and to do what, to point out how unpopular the cause of animal rights is amongst humans? to point out how humans have human privilege?

SEVERELY ASININE AND INSENSITIVE COMPARISONS LIKE THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY NOBODY TAKES ANIMAL RIGHTS SERIOUSLY. BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU DARE TAKE TRAUMATIC POINTS IN HISTORY THAT THE WORLD HAS YET TO RECOVER FROM AND HAVE THE GAUL AND THE AUDACITY TO LIKEN IT TO ANIMAL SUFFERING. 

NEWSFLASH, PSA, RED LIGHT/GREEN LIGHT AKA LISTEN UP SIMPLE HEAUXS:  you can have a substantial dialogue about the discourse of animal rights in this country which is thoughtful, well reasoned, and actually addresses food consumption, agriculture, domestication, and the need for food justice WITHOUT throwing the painful histories of others under the bus. it is possible to talk about how American food culture, production, and access is a reflection of our ill treatment of each other, considering in this day and age if you don’t grow your own food you have to be pretty fucking wealthy to get a non-GMO, organically grown tomato which didn’t abuse human labourers in the process. that same argument can be tied into the inaccessbility many have to alternative methods of healing that stem from their indigenous cultures as a result of the means of access being too damn high. or my favorite, you can talk about how the importation of certain foods results in the destruction of local food systems around the globe. all those and many more serve as examples of man’s general inhumanity towards one another, which can be tied to our treatment of animals. 

you call yourself conscious? no so called conscious man would sip the kool aid of white veganism which gladly swims in racism and classicism while maintaining a complete and utter disregard for the trauma experienced by human beings throughout history.

and the irony of this whole original post: it takes somebody with a total disregard for humanity to use an example of man’s inhumanity to each other in order to draw comparisons between animal suffering and human genocide.  

Are we really comparing Jewish people…. to pigs? That is wrong on so many levels… It isn’t just disrespecting them as people, but it is disrespecting their religious views.

dailyfatspiration:

Please remember this. 

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-prettywiththelightsoff:

thefatgrackle:

-prettywiththelightsoff:

Not gonna lie, the increasingly prominent Fat acceptance fad is undeniably detrimental to humanity as we know it. The movement aims to build a society in which people of every size are accepted with dignity and equality in all aspects of life.
Now, lettuce be reality here. What logic is there in promoting such a lifestyle that has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia, costing tax-payers in excess of $56 billion per year? Moreover, what sense would any healthy, self-respecting person have to accept and dignify individuals who’re contributing to, and promoting, such manifestations of gluttony and weakness? Fucking none.Inb4 boohooing fatties -.-

Because treating all humans with a common respect and dignity is simply out of the question….

Zzzzz. By that logic, murderers, rapists and paedophiles deserve the same respect as any other human on this planet. Strong argument -.- 

http://thefatgrackle.tumblr.com/post/20823830235/why-should-anyone-extend-any-more-than-a-basic-level

corinnajune:

“It’s flawed at best to assume that you can know without a doubt (as fat haters and health moralists tend to present their arguments) how a person eats, what their fitness level is etc by simply how they look. It’s a rarity in my experience that people will level the same accusations at people who aren’t visibly fat. It’s a rarity in my experience that anyone ever harasses a visibly thin looking person to ‘put down the fork’ or ‘put down the cupcakes’. When it comes to food, foods that cause you some degree of harm in the long run will do it for everyone not just fat people. That said, I do not believe that food choices are moral imperatives. If you want to align your food choices with your own personal morality that is just fine with me, however being that my morals are not your morals don’t badger me to do the same…”

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- Shannon Barber in THIS POST

thefatgrackle:

bloodforthebloodg0d:

glitterpotato:

LOL THEY DONT MAKE FAT BALLERINAS

OKAY

THERES A WHOLE BALLET CALLED THE “FAT BALLET”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

:;))

I love me some fat ballerinas!!!

I made a rage comic to honor this occasion.

Gustav Klimt (x)

I love Klimt! This photo-set neglected to include my favorite piece, which is hanging in my bedroom. It is called The Three Ages of Woman.

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dianoetic:

I think people are scared of body positive people, especially fat women. It makes everything they’ve ever known and been taught about beauty a lie. If we didn’t shame fat women, how would we feel better about ourselves? What would we laugh at during romantic comedies or cartoon shows? How could we force them to have to buy more expensive clothes because straight sized stores don’t have anything over a size 12? How would diet companies make their money? What would we call other women we hate? How could we sleep at night without the “ideal goal” of bodily perfection on the horizon (if only I could stop eating carbs/count calories/go to the gym etc. etc.)?

We are taught to hate our bodies, mold them to “perfection”, be a cookie cutter size, shape, and weight. I see an endless cycle of mothers, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers who project this onto younger girls— “no one will marry you if you’re fat” “why can’t you be like your thin sister?” “you need to be on this diet to be pretty” and so forth. “Fat” is considered one of the worst things you can be called, as a woman. We are taught that fat =/= sexy and that lessens our worth as women. We are taught to cover rolls, hide fat arms, avoid this material, avoid that color, get rock hard abs before bikini season— why? Why?

Because loving ourselves makes other self conscious people uncomfortable. I have seen so many posts on tumblr of “I’m a little chubby myself and I worry about this obese person’s health. HAES is making people unhealthy!” No, it doesn’t. It gives women courage to love themselves, despite all the negativity we receive. If a person you don’t know has high blood pressure or diabetes, why does it matter to you? It doesn’t. Thin people can have these diseases, too (omg shock!!!) Self conscious people just want to shame fat people into losing weight without looking like assholes.

Well, guess what? We’re on to you. Your faux health concern does nothing to hide your scorn. “Healthy = beautiful” is ableist and gross and wrong. Before you pass judgment on someone— anyone— take a good look at yourself. Look deep inside. Maybe body positivity is something that will help you.

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darth-kedavra:

anhistoriclove:

prossibly:

sleepydumpling:

thefatgrackle:

I am so pissed off right now. My favorite local health food store just posted this picture on facebook with the comment, “Just sayin’!” AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

Answer it with “Go fuck yourself.  Just sayin’!”

fuck that noise

Fuck this shit, I eat all of that and am somewhere in between those two pictures.

Oh boo fucking hoo.

Eat well, have a healthy weight.

Eat poorly, become overweight - maybe not now, but the more crap you eat, the faster your metabolism will crash.

Don’t get all butthurt over seeing the truth.

Just sayin’.

This photo does not accurately represent the truth. This picture perpetuates the belief that skinny people are healthy, which isn’t true. 

There are healthy fat people and unhealthy skinny people and a myriad of other states of being in between. It doesn’t matter what makes people fat or skinny. People have a right to live their lives as they want. I do believe, however, that it is wrong for a business who professes to be pro-health to promote such crap ideology…