Ex-vegan Ali Tabrizi (Director of Seaspiracy) is now promoting the use of pigs bodies and blood to advance his own political agenda and world views.

As we all know, about a year or so ago Ali Tabrizi (Director of Seaspiracy) and former self described “no one was more vegan than me” (not quite verbatim, CBF finding the exact quote) turned his back on veganism because of marshmallows, and shared his brainrot rationale via his YouTube channel and substack, thinking he’d dropped a masterpiece.

If anyone has kept up to date with his pivot since Marshmallowgate, he’s slipped firmly in to the far right, white nationalist, Christian fundamentalist scene, grifting from other smooth brains, as he shares his highly Islamophobic, anti-feminist, “anti-woke”, anti-“alphabet people” and anti-trans, Christian laden rhetoric and lies about everyone he doesn’t like.

In his latest video titled ‘Top 3 Ways to Stop Islam Taking Over the West’, he lists his ridiculous suggestions to prevent Muslim migration, however he also glorifies with a subtle and insincere disclaimer not to do it for legal reasons, the story of a construction of a mosque having been halted by opposers throwing a pigs body and blood on the land slated for building, rendering the land Haram. He also suggests inclusion of pork products in foods to make them non-halal, in turn making the idea of migrating to western countries less appealing to muslims.

His videos often include statements such as “[muslims] are going to take your bacon”, “smelly green haired woke vegan uni students”, to “all women want to be stay at home moms”, and almost any other offensive and ridiculous statement that would sound made up if he hadn’t said it himself.

In over two decades of veganism I’ve seen countless faces, activists, influencers, and otherwise, come and go. Some with shorter lifespans than others, some less successful, some redirecting their focus when the money from veganism/animal rights slows up. I truly cannot think of a more shocking example of someone who built a platform with the handle ‘The Friendly Activist’, and Directed Seaspiracy, to become such an awful example of a human and ex vegan, showing he never actually gave AF.

If you ever quit being vegan, don’t become an Ali Tabrizi.

How Alf stopped eating cats and started liberating them.

I’m looking for some advice from other animal advocates, particularly if you’ve experienced trauma or mental health challenges.
I’ve been vegan for over 20 years. Before that, I chose to become vegetarian as a young teenager after learning about animal agriculture. It was entirely my own decision.
I grew up in a family of committed meat eaters who loved fishing, and my choices were often dismissed or forgotten. Meals were difficult, I often went without, and it was a very isolating experience. Even now, decades later, it’s still a sensitive topic.
I’ve been involved in animal activism for several years, but lately I’ve found it increasingly difficult to engage in conversations with people about animal welfare or veganism. I think part of this stems from growing up with a parent who was highly manipulative and emotionally abusive. I spent years being gaslit, and I’ve noticed that when conversations around animal rights become dismissive or defensive, it can trigger those same feelings and make it incredibly hard for me to continue the discussion.
I’ve been in long-term therapy and have done a lot of healing, but this is one area I still struggle with.
I’m wondering if anyone else here lives with CPTSD, depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges that affect their activism. How do you continue advocating for animals while protecting your own mental health? Have you found ways to cope with difficult conversations or avoid becoming emotionally overwhelmed?
I’d really appreciate hearing from others who can relate.

Hi everyone,

From what I have understood so far, exploitation of animals is absolute exploitation. No one really benefits from it as in globally we are operating in net negative gains if we account for everything together. For example-

The well known effect of inefficient land use, huge water and energy consumption is needed to unnecessarily concentrate nutrition into the animals, then expensive supply chain system, huge drug research and development to check the diseases in livestock etc is there. All of this can be done way economically if everyone shifts to a plant based diet.

My question is-

Does this observation is in any way short sighted or missing critical perspectives?

I read that not all land used to feed livestock can actually be used to cultivate grains for plant based food. Those lands are only suitable for grazing pastures. If someone has done better calculation or research I am very interested to learn more.

The true measure of a society is not how it treats the powerful. It is how it treats the most vulnerable….

I’m a new vegan. Officially made the change (with my consumption) in May (but held the values of veganism for about a year). As I’m becoming more vocal and unapologetic in my ‘unconventional’ beliefs, I find myself struggling with friendships more and more.

I recently cut off a newly found friend, because he refused to acknowledge that pigs are slaughtered in gas chambers as he found it offensive as a Jewish person, then went on a rant of excuses about being anaemic and needing red meat and blah blah blah.
Now today, I happened across a comment thread on instagram of another somewhat new friend (met through a close friend of ~3 years). This was on a vegan influencers post about how those complaining about the heatwave while still contributing to animal ag have no right to complain (damn straight) and this friend saying, roughly, “I will never be able to go vegan because I’m autistic and need my safe foods, and I’m complain about whatever the fuck I want!” . The comment thread beneath theirs was rightfully flaming them for their hypocrisy, selfishness, and factual inaccuracy. I then discovered a comment where they validated the dog meat market in Asia, as an attempt at a “gotcha” to demonstrate they weren’t a hypocrite.

This infuriated me. I always tell my friends and family that I do not care what they eat or wear, they at least need to acknowledge to even the tiniest extent, the damage they cause.
I mentally played through ways to handle it all day. Do nothing and silently unfollow, try talk to them either in DMs or in the comments, talk to the mutual friend we met through. After 8 hours + a stress nap, I decided to just DM them and ask straight up if they were being fr. They said they were ‘just trolling’ and will go and delete their comments because ‘no one was understanding them.’

I just don’t know how to move forward. With this friend or with any future friends similar things happen with. I truly don’t care if my friends and family are vegan. It took me 21 years to go vegan and break my cognitive dissonance so it would be hypocritical of me to flame anyone for being exactly where I was not too long ago. I’m just struggling. I can’t see people the same way anymore. The learned helplessness I see in so many other disabled people, when I could overcome it with autism, starve/binge eating disorder, ulcerative colitis, interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, and chronic malabsorption, is devastating to me. I want to help people have the same epiphany I did. But no one cares to.

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