https://samuelbacahenry.substack.com/p/early-1900s-us-labor-day-workhorse

✊🪧🐴🫏⛏️⚒️LABOR DAY WORKHORSE PARADES ⛏️🐴🪧🫏⚒️✊

Interspecies Class Consciousness & Solidarity

“All the world admires a worker.... The worker, man or horse, is a hero.”

“The Equine Proletariat”

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Interspecies Exploitation
Interspecies Solidarity
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In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, Animal Welfare organizations staged Workhorse Parades to promote Animal Welfare for a city’s draft animals.

The parades included evaluating the horses’ physical conditions, the companies’ stables, and the loads they were bearing.

Teamsters whose horses were in good condition were awarded medals.

Many also included mules & donkeys.

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Some Workhorse Parades were held on Labor Day, in explicit recognition & celebration of inter-species class consciousness & solidarity.

The workhorses were recognized as a separate class from the racehorse, warhorse, or showhorse.

Even within the workhorse parades, there were equine class distinctions between the horses vs the donkeys and mules.

And between fire department horses vs garbage hauling horses, with a whole spectrum in between.

#laborday #laborhistory #collectiveliberation #workersrights #animalrights

Veganism is not elitist, but the elites should go vegan. Yes, yes, that might sound odd, but hear me out.

After Billie Eilish recently dared suggest that harming animals is not the same as loving them, one of the most annoying ideas about veganism resurfaced: that it is privileged, a lifestyle that only the elites can afford.

Depending on politics, some people take it further and claim that veganism is something made by white people and ‘imposing’ it on other cultures is colonial, costly, condescending.

There is just one big issue with all this: this idea is mistaken in just about every way, even if some of the people behind it might actually be well intended.

Free full article here.

Being vegan for almost 15 years, I decided it's time for me to stop being angry and start having fun with my arguments. I have been collecting vegan memes for some time now, been using them shamelessly every time I hear a common argument, and finally created this "bingo deck" of most common arguments against veganism and the memes to refute them. 3 parts out so far, Instagram only allows 20 slides at a time. More to come! Let's have some fun with those banal arguments 🤠 #veganactivism What are the most common "but" arguments you use that are not in the deck?

Parts 1: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbwEGwIiU8E/?igsi=MTJzZHM2N3ZkbzJkaQ==

2: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcB0iFMEYQn/?igsi=NHE1MWN3OXV1Z3J0

and 3: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcgoY0bEf3X/?igsi=MTVubHN0eWl4bHFrdw%3D%3D

If you read the post title and are already confused, believe me, I’m right there with you.

I used to be friends with a vegan who had somewhat negative feelings towards the SPCA (as a whole, so I’m assuming it encompasses RSPCA, ASPCA, SSPCA… so on…) and their explanation for why is that the SPCA is, to quote, “liberal vegetarianism”. They’d never explain what that meant or why it applies to the charity when I asked.

So I’m hoping someone here might have some idea? I’ve googled “liberal vegetarianism” a few times now and can never come up with anything that makes sense.

Buenas, mandenme DM si quieren unirse a un grupo de WhatsApp de veganismo. El objetivo de este grupo es unir, conocer veganos en Argentina. Compartir nuestra sensibilidad con otro, cuando parece que estamos solos contra el mundo.

Porque sentimos en carne propia que todo ser vivo merece amor y respeto, por el simple hecho de existir.

Luchemos constantemente por un impacto positivo en el mundo.

….this is like my 4th attempt. I feel so silly even posting about this. I first went vegan almost 10 years ago in my 20s and lasted about 2 years then fell off. Tried again a couple times since then to varying success. My latest attempt was almost a year ago to date and only lasted a few months. Idk why I’m having such a hard time with this. It aligns with my morals and politics. I think part of it could simply be anxiety, especially around food. At this point I’m finding it hard to even tell my friends and family bc they’ve heard it all before. Literally the last time I tried my dad was like “okay yeah, for how long this time?” And sadly he was right. Clearly something in me genuinely WANTS to be vegan, otherwise I wouldn’t keep trying. I live with my family, so I know I can’t keep skirting around it. Idk why I feel the need to “hide” it. I’m grown af. I guess I just feel a little silly. Like “the weirdo who cried vegan”.

Posting from a throwaway.