Comments | cyybergod: dairy and rape; or, why i adopted a vegan lifestyle.

cyybergod

dairy and rape; or, why i adopted a vegan lifestyle.

May 31, 2010 11:51

"For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities." (Derrick Jensen, "The Culture of Make-Believe ( Read more... )

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cyybergod May 31 2010, 19:18:19 UTC

I think there's the social side, too, though. Anyone with the internet can learn that dairy is obtained through systematic sexual assault of non-human animals...but the fact that people choose to ignore that reality of dairy is, to me, very telling.

misledyouth00 May 31 2010, 22:30:49 UTC

(I think we met off veganpeople but) This is absolutely disgusting. Have you read The Politics of Meat? This reminds me of that, but rather than just direct people to read a book an entire book they probably won't agree with, I can just direct people here. Well done!

zeroenthusiasm June 1 2010, 18:59:03 UTC

I'm really glad that you posted this and I'm even more glad you've decided to adopt a vegan lifestyle, Julie.

This entry makes me hear "Feminists, Don't Have a Cow" by Punch in my head, too, haha.

Oh, and because you're so articulate and this is so concise, I'm probably going to reblog this through my LiveJournal and Tumblr. Is that cool?

cyybergod June 1 2010, 19:35:29 UTC

Thanks for the words, Dave.

And of course you may, just please give credit.

zeroenthusiasm June 2 2010, 19:53:23 UTC

Of course I will credit you!

leirza July 17 2010, 12:46:44 UTC

hey i came across your journal from the vegan community and i really liked this article! so much that i actually linked it in my own vegan blog http://thatsthebreaks.wordpress.com/

(under the title "not a loner or a rebel")

i hope you dont mind!

cyybergod July 22 2010, 17:02:05 UTC

Hey there! Thanks for reposting, I'm glad you found it worthy of sharing.

juuuuuuuliiiiiiieeeeee cureforhumanity November 5 2010, 12:58:14 UTC

How the fuck are you doing?! Great post, by the way; very insightful. I'm not a vegan, but that isn't an option for me right now (when your options are eat what we cook or starve, most consider the latter to be a bit harsh) but its certainly made me aware of some things I had no idea about before. So many unfortunate practices in the corporate food industry. Anyway the past few years have been absurd. We should catch up. Add?

Re: juuuuuuuliiiiiiieeeeee cyybergod November 9 2010, 14:45:19 UTC

totally :) i'm doing well, pal. how are you?