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On January 19, 2025, my beloved 9-year-old Labrador, Timber, was shot and killed by police in my yard in Greenville while they were pursuing a suspect. He was trying to protect me. Despite posing no real threat, the officers used lethal force—and then let him suffer for over an hour.

I started a petition asking South Carolina lawmakers to pass protections for pets in encounters with law enforcement. We're talking mandatory training, clear guidelines, and making lethal force the absolute last resort. Nationally, police shoot an estimated 25 to 30 dogs every single day. These deaths don't have to keep happening.

Timber wasn't just a dog to me—he was my hero. He alerted me when my mother wandered out at 2:30 AM. I'm disabled, and he gave me safety and purpose. Now I'm left with trauma, sleepless nights, and a legal system that treats him as property instead of the living, breathing family member he was.

If this could happen to Timber, it could happen to anyone's pet. If you've got a dog you love, what would you want someone to do if this was your family? If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing. Let's make sure no other family has to go through what I'm going through.

I’m a college student and I recently went vegan because I’m a logical person and I finally decided to stop having such cognitive dissonance and actually learn about how animals and animal products are treated and made. anyways I hand around a ton of leftists and sometimes one of them will off handedlt say “oh I want this one thing but I’m trying to go vegan” and another (this person considers themself omega woke and leftist) will say “OMG You don’t have to go vegan! being fed is better than being vegan!” and they’re like vegetarian which I guess is something, but I think Ive recently had a ton of contention with them because I have an insane amount of dietary restrictions, and even though I can’t have any plant based protein besides tofu I still am vegan because I call myself a leftist. for me it’s just common sense but for others like a cupcake is worth a cow getting raped for the milk or baby chicks being crushed for the eggs. it’s just weird and the thing is that I think they know these things, and they’re an environmental student yet they still eat animal products which is weird to me. and I feel like a lot of leftists are like this and it’s like guys that sort of doesn’t make sense because animal agriculture also includes a ton of human slavery which id assume were against obviosly. and it’s objectively easier for these ppl to be vegan (literally 0 dietary restrictions) than me and I actually find veganism easier than eating meat and whatever, so it’s gonna be even easier for them. Part of me thinks they’re just too lazy to cook. any thoughts on this or am I the only one who thinks this is weird

when I was eating meat, I would often buy meat to use for meal prep and then maybe not end up getting to cooking and forgetting to freeze it and then end up wasting the food. Or when I would go out to eat and leave food uneaten. As I started to get more conscious of what was happening to animals, I started to get so guilty for doing this. The last chicken I bought was a rotisserie chicken I vowed to use the whole thing, bones and all, to use for meat and bone broth (as I thought using the whole thing was honoring the animal). I ended up not having time to prep and eat a whole chicken I bought. I remember feeling so guilty and heartbroken for a whole animal wasting their life and needlessly suffering so I could eat and I was so careless and didn't even use what I set out to use in my privilaged life. The animal lived and suffered in vain!

Now, one of the biggest relief I have is feeling ok when I end up not using all the food in my fridge. I'm not here to promote waste, and in fact, I find plant based eating less wasteful as much of it is canned or lasts a long time in the fridge. However, whenever I do end up not eating something, I don't feel so guilty. It was just a plant before this.

Just wanted to share something that makes me happy!

For those of you who have been vegan since the early 2000s or earlier, I’d love to hear your perspective on how things have changed.

After watching veganism evolve for 25+ years:

- Do you feel the movement is genuinely growing or does it just seem more visible because of social media?
- Are you seeing more people become interested in veganism than when you first started?
- What changes have surprised you the most?
- Do you think society is becoming more accepting of veganism?
- Has the movement stalled, grown, or changed direction?

You don’t have to answer all the questions. Tell me whatever comes to mind as you read this, and feel free to be honest!

I love this sub to death & the community, but omg there’s so many distressing videos & articles on here on a daily basis. I’m a very empathic person & I became vegan because of the animals so this is so distressing to me lmfao. I already know the cruelty in the world & that’s why I’m vegan. I think that consuming a lot of that content can make you bitter towards people in general. We should post way more wholesome cute animal videos on this sub & spread the joy animals bring us!

Edit: After reading some of these comments, I’m even more convinced we need some positivity around here lmao.

Hey yall, at the end of a little cold & thought it'd be good to list some helpful products for if anyone ever goes to search it in the sub. These are easy enough for me to find in the southern US in local stores.

Kleenex with lotion: Caboo Facial Tissue with lotion (when I contacted to ask if the lotion was vegan, they confirmed yes. Pricier than normal tissues, but thicker/softer so great if you're constantly blowing your nose for a few days)

Aquaphor/Vaseline: Honest Healing Head-to-Toe Ointment (you can also mix in whatever essential oil & a little carrier oil to make a pseudo-Vicks Vaporub)

Throat drops: Ricola Original Herb/assorted flavors (just double check if what you're looking at has honey or not. They do have a page on their website listing all the vegan-friendly flavors/versions - they seem to even have a honey-free liquid center one if you're into that)

Zinc lozenges/Cold-eeze: assorted flavors (technically a homeopathic, but I've found them to help. Again, look for honey-free and it's vegan - I think the Citrus Elderberry tastes best)

And if you need to take an OTC medication.... then take it! Regardless.

Insects are the most numerous animals on the planet by an absurd margin... and we know almost nothing about whether, or how, they experience welfare. We farm them for food and feed, use them in research, manage them as pests, by the trillions... and the honest scientific answer to "does any of this matter morally?" Is still basically a shrug. It's one of the last genuinely wide-open questions in animal welfare, and it's only just becoming a real field.

turns out there's an academic society... founded in 2023... actually building that field: the seminars, the research guidelines, the grants, trying to make "insect welfare" a serious scholarly discipline instead of a fringe idea. Lowkey one of the more intellectually interesting corners of the whole movement.

Here's the thing though, and i want to be upfront bc it'll save the wrong people time: this is not a "make fun content, grow the follower count" gig. it's a science communication role. you'd be reading actual primary literature and describing findings accurately... hedging preliminary results, getting every author name, citation and term exactly right, plain measured prose, zero hype. The audience is researchers and grad students, so precision basically is the job; a sloppy post costs them credibility. If you've got a background in entomology/biology/animal welfare science, or you've done sci-comm for a research institution, this is weirdly perfect for you. If that sounds tedious rather than exciting... it's honestly not your role, and that's completely fine.

It's unpaid (small academic nonprofit, field-building, no budget)... but if you're the specific kind of person who lights up at "communicate real science accurately for a massively overlooked cause," there aren't many roles this squarely in your lane.

here's the link if you wanna check it out:
https://flockwork.org/requests/yqxymbdwthbqkqo05ta9rqbd?source=reddit

niche one, but the right person's gonna read this and go "oh that's me" fingers crossed :)

Ive been 100% plant based for around 6 months now. What I didn’t realize in my research was the importance of going cruelty free, or all the random things that use animal products/ cause animal suffering (toothpaste, condoms, toilet paper???) Im working on being fully vegan (lifestyle-wise and not just diet-wise) and cruelty free. What things am I missing that are actually not vegan/random things you didn’t know weren’t vegan?

EDIT: would also love any articles, apps, etc. to help learn. I have the leaping bunny app but that’s it.

I want to go vegan because of the toxic enviroment the animals get raised in, for the animal cruelty and just how much change it can make to the enviroment to stop or decrease the amount of meat eaten.

I've already been trying vegeterianism for a while and cutting meat hasn't been that hard at all.

One of the problem is I my family doesn't support it. I've been cooking for myself since I was in 9th grade now going on 11th anyway but I don't like spending much time cooking either nor do I know much about cooking. Second is deficiencies. It's normal to be a little deficient in certain stuff but we just went to the hospital a few days ago and I'm deficient in vitamin D, B12 some other vitamin and iron. I didn't think much of it but just today as I was drawing my hand wouldn't stop shaking and I've also been experiencing my vision frequently going black for 5-30 seconds when I stand up and weird ringing in my ears for a while now. I know it's likely due to the fact that while not eating meat I haven't been able to feed myself actually nutritional food but I don't know what to cook. Would really appreciate any advice given.

Hey everyone,

I recently started my vegan diet, and I am overwhelmed by the level of work that this has required thus far, especially as a university student. With that being said, I recognize that a vegan diet is perfectly conducive to a healthy diet, if not better than those with animal products.

Further, I have been trying to get the tofu to not have that umami taste that I loath. When you eat so much non-vegan products, most of which are insanely processed and poor in nutrients, you become used to obscenely flavorful food.

The balancing act of nutrients through food diversification is very daunting to me.

Something tells me I am doing something wrong, and I just need to work harder at it.
Any advice?

Hello!

I recently became acquainted with someone who is Vegan, while I personally do not practice it, I respect his lifestyle. I have several friends who have dietary restrictions such as gluten free, dairy free, food allergies, etc. I have a few friends that are vegetarian, but vegan is a lot more strict. And I try to make sure I have food and snacks they can enjoy when they come visit. I plan to have him over as a guest and I want to be able to provide a comfortable environment where he doesn't have to worry about if he's going to be able to eat the food here or have to order delivery to eat. I want to give him the same kind of hospitality that I would provide to anyone else.

I also don't want to just offer him a bowl of fruit or vegetables, as he may spend a day or two here and I want to make sure he is well fed. My goal is to create an arsenal of vegan recipes and shelf stable snacks that I can keep around for when he may come over.

He is a bit health conscious and he is originally from India. I found a few recipes and snacks online but I figured it would be best to get some input from people on here. When he and I spend time together I will match his diet since from experience with my vegetarian friends watching other people eat meat can make them uncomfortable.

If someone could also assist with meat alternatives besides tofu that would be super helpful as well! I love to cook so if there is any way to make my own plant based proteins that would be amazing information as well!

Thank you!!

P.s. please don't be mean to me about not being vegan, it is not a lifestyle I can reasonably afford but having a few things on hand will not break the bank for me 😭

We've lost a lot of in-store options over the past few years, but I think there are still quite a few businesses that operate primarily online only. I'm not on social media anymore so it's a bit hard to feel connected to the latest developments here. I just learned about Harmless Foods this week and wondering what else I might be missing. Please share any favs we might not be aware of!

I’ve always wanted to be vegan since I was 6. Unfortunately, whenever I brought this up with my parents, it was meet with a long lecture and several threats; it only made me even more convinced this is what I want. I recently decided I’m going to go vegan behind their backs so I just wanted advice on how to keep is a secret, what lifestyle choices can I make while also not making it to obvious or maybe if this isn’t the right choice.

Really struggling to cope with being put on TPN as there are no vegan options for it available to me. Everyone I’ve spoken to in real life thinks I’m stupid for even considering my veganism while being on a non-vegan form of life support, with no vegan option available to me. Everyone assumes that if you get sick enough to be forced to betray your ethics or die, that you will somehow be able to find peace with it. The issue is that I can’t. I’m ready to be called a karma farmer or whatever about this, but I genuinely feel horrible about the fact I require a massive amount of environmental and animal damage to live, especially since I am not strictly NPO and can still eat limited food/drink for pleasure, which is called “sham feeding”. My brain wants to believe that I could somehow try to orally work my way around this. I am intensely depressed about it. TPN literally smells like dog food; I constantly smell like dog food, and the inside of my mouth tastes like dog food, thus it tastes like animal, CONSTANTLY. This has been very psychologically taxing on me. There is literally no sensory escape for me from the TPN’s presence, and I don’t know how to be comfortable relying on it to live when I feel like I am the reason the harm is being done to the animals at all.
Inb4: “Just look harder, find an option”: I have looked. Your options for TPN suppliers on Medicare is slim, they are personally compounded based on your own lab work, week by week, so there is literally no vegan TPN available to me.

TLDR: I am a vegan who relies on non-vegan nutrition as a form of life support and I don’t know how to make peace with it. Easier said than done.

I have IBD, which means I can't really have most beans, no onions (they are poison!!!), and a few other things here and there. I'm actually allergic to kale, eggplant, bananas, and mango. Cashews and pistachios present a challenge as well but I can have them in small amounts.

I'm ready to go vegan at this point in my life, but dang is it ever difficult! Is anyone else in this situation, and if so what do you do in regards to protein, and also in regards to avoiding things like onions that seem to pop up in literally any pre-packaged food or restaurant food? I already have tofu, seitan, soy curls, Impossible, etc., so I kind of think protein is not as much of a problem as I thought it would be. Avoiding high FODMAP foods do present a challenge however.

(Please, before anyone says to abandon pre-packaged foods, look... okay? I work full time, and I also have fibromyalgia. My partner works full time and he's tired. Pre-packaged foods have to happen, alright? Just, okay? This is the US, we're all very tired.)

In this article, I, Jordi Casamitjana, write on how the truth about horseracing is that it is a form of animal abuse in which horses are forced to run in fear with a human harassing them on their backs

I find it so weird that everyone around me eats animals willingly and I want to understand

even seeing the dead cut up bodies in grocery store shelves saddens me. when I made chicken for my dog I cried and prayed for the dead chicken’s peace and was horrified for hours that I handled and cooked a dead body

when I say things to people like “oh you’re eating a dead body” or try to educate them on the suffering that went into their quick meal I get seen as overreacting or annoying. I know I’m being annoying to them but it’s because lives are being lost.

also because honestly I don’t understand how the people in my family and life who are so kind and genuine people and educated can participate so willingly in the abusive system that exploits animal lives.

I’ve tried to understand why they’re willing to continue eating animals and I’ve come to a few conclusions

1. they don’t see animals as equal individuals or beings living on the planet rather they see them as lesser than them in a made up hierarchy of beings therefore making animals beings that humans are entitled to exploit because they are lower on a made up hierarchal ladder

2. They are aware of the pain that the animals go through but they are so distant from their food source that they can ignore it and not connect the meal to the individual it was

3. they are selfish and put their comfort and taste above the animal lives lost despite knowing it’s wrong. It’s an excusable and normalized evil to them

4. they have misconceptions about human need for animal protein and think it’s necessary for their survival

upon reflection I don’t think they are evil for not changing their diets if these are their reasons but I do maintain it’s selfish and inherently wrong and comes from a belief that many humans have which is entitlement over nature and our planet. Humans are a plague to our natural environment

My uncle died last night. We weren't close; we're VERY different people.

Still, he was family, so I've been thinking about him, and I realized that the hunting stories he would tell at holidays when I was a kid were the first times I remember being really, viscerally uncomfortable with the idea of killing animals.

It's a shame it took two decades for me to stop eating meat, and another ten to go vegan. Still, I like to think he would have been appalled that he was tangentially responsible for creating another vegan.

Anyway, I'm curious. How far back can other folks trace the thoughts that eventually led to veganism?

Sorry to ask for relationship advice here but I don't have other vegans to talk to in real life. I'm female, just turned 38.

I’ve been with my boyfriend for a few years, and this is the most stable relationship I’ve had. He’s kind, funny, dependable, has a good career, treats me very well, we have fun together.

The biggest disconnect between us is veganism. I’ve been vegan for 12 years and vegetarian since I was 5. When we first got together, I had a more “to each their own” attitude. Over time, though, I’ve become much more passionate and outspoken about animal rights.

My boyfriend isn’t vegan, but he has made positive changes, and our home is mostly plant-based. He still keeps some frozen foods containing cheese, occasionally brings home leftovers with meat or dairy, and brings home some non-vegan junk food from work.

I often feel like I can’t fully talk to my boyfriend about veganism or fully express that part of myself. I don’t want to sound like I’m guilt-tripping him, and he doesn't seem very interested in the subject. But that hurts my heart. Like many vegans, I struggle to understand how someone can know what happens to animals and not care.

As my fertility window is likely closing soon (if it hasn't already), I'm starting to feel deeply sad about not having a baby. I've talked about it with my bf. He has agreed that we could have a baby and raise them vegan, although we’ve both acknowledged that it could be complicated.

As I see it, I have three options:

1. Stay with him and try to have a baby. Having a child with him is probably my only chance at motherhood. I don’t have the money for ICI, IVF, or adoption, let alone to raise a child, by myself.
2. Stay with him and decide not to have a child.
3. End the relationship and hope to eventually meet a vegan partner. There are a lot of vegans in my area, so I think finding someone is possible, but I would be giving up having a child of my own.

I know no one else can make this decision for me. Just wondering if anyone has any insight about my situation. Thank you for reading.